skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Autotranslation of the instructions:

> Notes about the game:

> Click on a cannon to change its settings and fire.

> Click on the bullets, powder kegs or money bags to get to the market.

> Press the ESC key for general settings.

> For more details see the instructions.

> Ballerburg SDL is free software and can be distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3. Further information is available on the Ballerburg SDL main page.
I don't get this obsession with 0-click everything. It is really annoying when you don't want to install everything to your main hard drive. I have all my models downloaded, organized, and ready-to-go but apps won't even ask for that, instead it presumes I am an idiot and downloads it (again!) for me.

At least Makeayo asks where my models are now. It's obnoxious that I have to use symlinks for comfy/automatic....

All they need to do is ask me where my stuff is on first run, and an area in the config to update that setting. Not so hard!
All of the above as well as couches of those I’ve met along the way. I can work anywhere with clear view of the sky.
I read it as: each core is 30% faster, each chip has 50% more cores, and each chip has 75% more memory bandwidth.

But you’re right it is ambiguous.
I'm guessing you sell ESC systems.
Under the electronic stuff the third gen honda fit is basically the same as my 95 honda del sol.
I have a 2006 Toyota Sienna that's approaching 300k miles and a 2001 Mercedes that's got about 220k miles. That's almost the top and bottom of the list and IMHO it's all about regular maintenance. I have a 2008 Honda FIT with under 100k and it constantly needs something.
A transistor has only one base that controls the output. It’d be like a brain cell with only one input and one output. A typical brain cell can have thousands of inputs and many outputs. The best GPUs are still many orders of magnitude less complex than the human brain.

However I think we are getting somewhere. We’re getting to the point where artificial neural networks can rival the complexity of simple invertebrates.
This is definitely true, but PHP is a special nightmare of a beast. I think overall PHP is underrated, and is a much better language and platform than people give credit, but damn two weeks without updating dependencies in PHP is rolling the dice. Keeping up with all of the cve's is a significant chunk of a full-time job.
Building a business around online ads is a race to the bottom as the younger generation does not buy what they're advertised but instead what's advertised by people they follow. Ad revenue was never enough for twitter, and people acting like they were doing any better under previous management are uninformed at best.

The userbase will exist (growing or otherwise) so long as the platform does. They don't care whether its profitable or not. If he wants to turn X into another wechat/wepay for US or a Line competitor for Japan, then ad revenue is a low priority.
Here's an example of a decline in living that persisted in the long-term, although it was a long time ago:

Britain experienced an economic collapse in the early 5th century AD after the Roman Empire left. Economic activity and urban life decided, and buildings were abandoned. Their supply chain was suddenly much more limited, and localized to specific areas, whereas before, the Roman Empire had allowed them to trade with other countries more. Their standard of living didn't really change for the next few centuries. I won't compare beyond that.
Is Euler Ancestral recommended for this? I thought the Ancestral samplers added noise to every step, preventing convergence.
Huh.

When I first saw it (in about 1996?), I flipped through it and decided they were trolling. I put it down and have never read more than the X section.
Before Elon took over Twitter child porn and human trafficking was running rampant all across Twitter, you can do the Google search yourself to read up on it. Advertisers sure didn't care about that. I think there are many reasons to not like Elon, but I'm glad he is not giving in to this attack. Pure politics as usual.
This is something I like about in Laravel:

$schedule->call(new DeleteRecentUsers)->daily();

$schedule->job(new Heartbeat)->everyFiveMinutes();

$schedule->exec('node /home/forge/script.js')->lastDayOfMonth('15:00');

$schedule->command('foo')
->weekdays()
->hourly()
->timezone('America/Chicago')
->between('8:00', '17:00');

$schedule->command('emails:send')
->hourly()
->days([Schedule::SUNDAY, Schedule::WEDNESDAY]);

https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/scheduling
I haven’t heard about CPUs failing that often, though. Usually it’s some other part of the server that dies, like the motherboard. In that light, the grandparent’s question is still valid — normally these servers that “died” would be torn apart and the non-broken parts refurbished and resold on the aftermarket.

Is AWS doing that?
It’s hard to measure productivity in a non-gameable way at scale no matter where people are. Manipulative social climbers excel at faking productivity in person.
Really it just depends. Depends on who made it what it it is where it is etc.
Show HN: Garden of AI – Proof of Concept General AI
A benefit that's entirely unnecessary, just like DeFi
This sounded interesting, so looked it up, some more details in https://www.vanmag.com/city/people/vancouver-taxi-driver-wor...

It looks like it wasn't the 1+M km version that they bought back, but the chap was an early adopter of Prius in that taxi role, and they bought back (exchanged?) his first one from 2001:

> For those working on the next generation Prius 2004 model, Grant’s taxi held invaluable information about wear and tear.They struck a deal: Grant sent his 2001 model back to Japan for testing and had a brand new 2003 model delivered.

Still excellent story, and good on him!
Amazon sucks. I worked there years ago and it was terrible.

AWS is over priced garbage and Prime offers nothing of value.

Bezos was smart to cash out when he did.
Absolute rubbish. People are allowed to make purchasing decisions based on any criteria they want.
Telling the Jewish CEO of the company that pulled ads over antisemitic remarks to go fuck himself on live TV is not a gamer moment and it completely negates what was obviously a BS apology.
WFH lets you escape crazy high real estate markets. Asking people to RTO in the Bay Area or Seattle should come with a much higher salary to make up for the gigantic housing cost difference.

Even further-out suburbs and small towns near those places can be half the cost or less, not to mention going to the Midwest or the inland West like loads of people have done.
It's novel and amusing, much like 4chan is novel and amusing.
Sandstorm is an app platform that lets you install various apps within it, but doesn't have a lot of built-in functionality. Nextcloud is more of an all-in-one-kit solution, though it does also have an app store.

It would not really make sense to put Nextcloud inside a Sandstorm app because it is too bulky, but you would need a suite of other Sandstorm apps to do what Nextcloud does.

Very different approaches to a similar thing. Upsides and downsides to each approach.
I feel the same way. I found Legends: Arceus to be quite good.
Do we have any more insight into why he was fired in the first place?
I think one of my greatest professional gifts, especially since getting into tech, has been that I'm naturally personable and can get along well with pretty much anyone. It doesn't have to - and usually doesn't - get into personal stuff. I'm just sorta jokey and lighthearted while still getting my shit done. It has only been a benefit to me, personally and professionally.

I can't see how making people more comfortable talking to and collaborating with you could really be a negative, but everyone has different priorities I suppose.
When I worked in a neuroscience lab (although I'm certainly no neuroscientist and this was decades ago, so grain of salt), the "aha" moment for me came when the researchers told me that neurons are not like electrical circuits, in that meaningful signals don't flow through them like electrical signals through a wire. Processing is about patterns of electrochemical flow throughout large neural masses.

My PI said that a still faulty, but better, analogy is that processing in a neural mass is more akin to the ringing of a bell. It's about waves flowing through a medium.
Is the new board going to fix the product? It seems completely nerfed at present.
People seek attention, so they cling to these serious and popular topics to ride their coattails and get some exposure, reality be dammed for many of them. For most, including me, it's difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, so I can't blame them for laying low.
What's with the language detection on this site?

I've set my browser languages to "English (US)" first, and "Dutch" second. Instead of showing me the English-language version of the site, I get an absolutely atrocious auto-translation into Dutch instead (barely intelligible; way worse than Google Translate would produce).

Why are you even looking at my language preferences if you don't respect my preference, of getting English first? And maybe don't do secondary languages if you haven't done a tiny bit of quality assurance on the translation?
So was all the speculation about Adam D'Angelo being the evil Poe mastermind just conjecture? Or is it true and Sam needs Adam for some dark alliance? Has the true backstory ever come out? Surely someone out of 770 people knows.
Avoiding using a mouse whenever possible helps prevent injury
I mean this is just that same format but wrapped in a JavaScript method call, so I don’t see a huge difference.
Rejected Rejection [2006]
No hacking required.

A passive receiver outside a wall can sense reflections passing through the wall, from the transmitter inside. Applies to neighbors and adversaries.

Imagine Streetview sensing cars, capturing not only home exteriors, but interiors.
On Pneumatic Tires
Any advantages over established "independent" package managers for Linux, like Homebrew?
So even if you maintain strict board control, the money people can still kick you out. Incredible!
Okay! I'm still kinda new here, what exactly are you looking for? You could also reach out on twitter and we could talk more specifically
> So a senior is not a senior if they are not proficient at Git?

In my opinion (for whatever that's worth!), no (although I would say VCS in general, not git specifically). I personally consider being able to properly version control your code to be a critical skill when it comes to development - regardless of your place on the stack. YMMV.

> FWIW, I don't value titles like "senior" and never took them to be meaningful.

I don't necessarily disagree with regard to the current state of the industry, however as a proponent of development having more professional standards I still believe that we should be attempting to find some common ground on the standards of proficiency and mentorship.
I'm Appalled by What I Learned About Recycling. But We Can Fix It
I have a couple of '71 VWs and you can fix almost anything on the with toothpicks and Scotch tape. They just run because they're so simple ... You can actually count the wires in the harness and read the color codes! Thing thing that drives me nuts are the mechanical voltage regulator - they are finicky and today's hardened solid state devices near them in every way.
We lost a few of hives but not to cold. My father loved taking care of the bees. He would purposefully set aside a few hectors/acres near the hives to plant Buckwheat, Alfalfa, etc so they wouldn't have to work so hard or fly to far. They loved him back and treated him with kindness, he rarely got stung and would sit among them in his shorts and undershirt smoking his cigarettes relaxing. It was where he could just go and get away from everyone knowing no one would bother him there :)). Me on the other hand was a different story...hehehe
> Stick that file on a USB stick and stash it in a drawer as insurance against a future apocalypse. You’ll never be without a language model ever again.

<3
Apple Is Doing Its Part to End Green Bubble Shaming. It's Our Turn
Depending on employer, it's not easy to have never used Windows or Mac

True, but all I needed to use Windows at work was one dedicated app. (And actually that app was purely UCSD Pascal under the hood, but running as a guest under Windows.)

At home, I thankfully used my AT&T UNIX, then my Novell Unixware, and finally my Solaris I and II, before I switched to Linux in 2001.

In the mid-90s I thought I would look at this 'new-fangled, best thing since sliced bread' thing called Windows 3.1. I was disgusted at how primitive and useless it was compared to my normal Unixware desktop of the time.

I actually bought my wife a PowerBook in 2005. But I was horrified to discover that Apple is really no different to Microsoft.
Uncovered EA patent would use AI to replace professional voice actors
Separate divisions barely collaborating is not the case at Tesla either (or SpaceX). One of their mantras is "everybody is a chief engineer." They're all supposed to know enough about everything so they don't design parts that make trouble for other parts of the car, or for manufacturing. It's the reason they moved the new production line for the next-gen vehicle to Austin, so the engineers would be there for it.

I don't think it's that unusual for companies to collaborate with each other on projects. And some of the sharing happens by default when you just encourage employees to migrate between the companies and take their knowledge with them.
Adam’s potential conflict of interest running Quora and Poe
So looks like ilya is out
Sam Altman:

I recognize that during this process some questions were raised about Adam’s potential conflict of interest running Quora and Poe while being on the OpenAI Board. For the record, I want to state that Adam has always been very clear with me and the Board about the potential conflict and doing whatever he needed to do (recusing himself when appropriate and even offering to leave the Board if we ever thought it was necessary) to appropriately manage this situation and to avoid conflicted decision-making. Quora is a large customer of OpenAI and we found it helpful to have customer representation on our Board. We expect that if OpenAI is as successful as we hope it will touch many parts of the economy and have complex relationships with many other entities in the world, resulting in various potential conflicts of interest. The way we plan to deal with this is with full disclosure and leaving decisions about how to manage situations like these up to the Board. [1]

The best interests of the company and the mission always come first. It is clear that there were real misunderstandings between me and members of the board. For my part, it is incredibly important to learn from this experience and apply those learnings as we move forward as a company. I welcome the board’s independent review of all recent events. I am thankful to Helen and Tasha for their contributions to the strength of OpenAI. [2]

[1] - https://twitter.com/sama/status/1730032994474475554
[2] - https://twitter.com/sama/status/1730033079975366839
Induced demand is not a useful concept
Because you didn't precede it with anything nicer.
Sure but there's still plenty of time to see if those histories will be the fawning sycophancy required by the totalitarian regimes he openly advocates for, the story of a brilliant businessman who was batshit insane (a la Ford) or the humorous tale of a fool who lucked into a few $billion and then squandered it all on an empire of trash.
The board could have stayed, they (and OpenAI) just had to bear with the consequences (i.e. all the employees leave).

There are no board that can prevent employees from leaving, nor should there.
Electricity, water, gas, trash collection, internet, cell phone, Playstation Network.
It's definitely just about number of countries. It's a reasonable choice for a game in isolation but also it would be a lot more complicated to find distances of a path that only passes through a list of countries (including convex countries, enclaves, etc).

By doing raw number of countries it only needs to know the abstract connectivity of countries for a classic path through a graph. It happens that under that metric Kuwait is never useful for a path since it only borders two countries which also border each other directly.
>> "The userbase will exist (growing or otherwise) so long as the platform does."

Won't be long at this rate if he can't find another way to cover that debt service. He even acknowledges this.
Runs nice and smooth for me on Firefox
Plastic Archeology
Technically no, but when 90% of their employees threatened to quit, they would just be the board of nothing.
I think the whole OpenAI team being determined to follow Sam was crucial in all this, and is not something that’s easy to control.

Having said that, as there’s obviously a lot of money involved for all OpenAI employees (Microsoft offered very generous packages if they jumped ship), it can be said that money in the end is what people care a lot about.
If you're referring to the SMT=1 part it means not more than 1 hardware threads will be assigned to a hardware core at a time, not that the processes are single thread.

If you're referring to the general performance of single thread apps between the two yes.
Agreed. It was a time where the computer did all the important stuff of fuel trim, timing etc. but none of the bullshit. 2005-2010 was peak ICE. And the parts are dirt cheap!
IIRC, any comparison using a nan must fail (return false) according to the IEEE spec.
Getting fired and rehired throughout five days of history-making corporate incompetence, and Sam's letter is just telling everyone how great they are. Ha.
Sorry, but that's not correct. The fully-enabled M3 Pro has one more P-core. It's 5p+6e vs 6p+6e.
> AMD had a system which had a tool to do conversion a while back but I recall them not supporting it seriously.

They are supporting it seriously now. It is being actively developed and improved.

https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIPIFY
Yeah but that’s just one example. As much as I like to imagine myself as a practical driver who might want to do performance driving or whatever, in reality I like all the creature comforts of a modern car.
I'm learning French. The word for "work" in French is travailler, which is similar to its Spanish counterpart, trabajar. Both words stem from the Latin word "tripalium" which translates to "torture" or "torture device."

So maybe what's old is new again?
Is anyone feeling more comfortable about relying on OpenAI as a customer after this announcement?
It's also interesting to look back on how people have analogized the functioning of the brain. Before computers, it was analogized as internal combustion engines. Before that, as the belt-and-pully power distribution that was used with water wheels.
You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.
I think the question is more, will there be a country somewhere that emerges as an AI/robotic super power.

You shouldn't just be worried of your own government here.

And the other issue is, why would the post-revolt government/businesses abandon AI/robotics?

The truth is, this won't happen over night. People will have less work over time, be paid less and less, the gap between classes will grow bigger, etc.

I guess another way to put it, take a country like India with lots of unemployment and high corruption, I don't think if they had guns they'd all revolt. You have to believe there's a point to revolting, an alternative that's better and worth the risk.
That doesn't equate to having 'customer representation' that equates to 'Quora representation'. Customers are represented by a voice-of-the-customer board where many customers, large and small can be represented who then vote for a representative to the board. The board of the non-profit having a for-profit customer (and a large one at that) as a board member makes zero sense, that's just one more end-run around 'the mission' for whatever that was ever worth.

The kind of bullshit that comes out during times like this is more than a little bit annoying, it's clear that if there is a conflict of interest it should be addressed in a far more direct way and whitewashes like this raise more questions than they answer. Such as: what was Adam's real role during all of this and how does it related to his future role at the board, as well as how much cover was negotiated to allow Adam to stay on as token sign of continuity.
Not even slightly. I wouldn't touch a human-safety-critical system like that if you paid me twice what I'm currently making. No, I just would really like it if people didn't die in car accidents, I think that modern controls theory is Really Neat, and I'm entirely willing to evangelize for modern safety technology when it has the potential to prevent ONE THIRD of all deaths in automotive accidents in the US.
For the typical desktop user, windows drivers. This includes things like anti cheat in games. For the typical HN desktop user it should be good though.
There was a tweet that from an engineer at OpenAI that they're working on the problem that ChatGPT has become too "lazy" - generating text that contains a lot of placeholders and expecting people to fill in much more themselves. As for the general brain damage from RLHF and the political bias, no word still.
Not sure if I had the same issues but my situation was resolved by cleaning my lightning port and using a quality cable.
> People choose their phones for various reasons, including features like screen size, camera quality and battery life. While budget may be a factor, a green bubble is not a strong indicator of a person’s income or social status.

The author makes this argument and claims that not all rich people use iPhones, and not all Android phones are cheap, but ultimately isn't this a stereotype because it is largely true, in many circles?

Sure, among the tech elite it's somewhat less true, since Android lets you tinker. But in mainstream America, I'd be surprised if there weren't a sizable correlation between income level or wealth and iPhone ownership.

We still shouldn't be elitist about it, but it's understandable when someone makes assumptions about a dating prospect because he or she has an Android phone. It won't always be a correct assumption, but much of the time it will be.
Ty for pointing this out. Massive, massive, corporate governance loss.
"This included PII, entire poems, “cryptographically-random identifiers” like Bitcoin addresses, passages from copyrighted scientific research papers, website addresses, and much more."

https://www.404media.co/google-researchers-attack-convinces-...
Interestingly i also do not use it and still prefer CLI, while the rest of intellij is my daily driver.

It almost seems like, i have a model of git in my head and these GUIs have another model in mind. And it does not match.
Not the "money people", but the extremely bad way they removed Altman, I think.

It made it easy to sway employees to Altman's favor and pressure the board.

If the employees were not cohesive on Altman's side, he probably wouldn't be back...
If you did that, you could just sort the pieces into stacks at the bottom until you had 3 of them. You'd have to come up with a gimmick to prevent people from being able to do that indefinitely.

Something like making the play area too narrow to stick every type of piece side by side at once. Or having the 3 pieces turn into a random piece. That sort of thing.
Don't think there's an update from last week after Altman returned, right?
I’m absolutely not a car guy, and Mazdas are my perfect car :D We’ve got a 2008 mazda3 that is still running perfectly that we’re hoping to replace with a slightly larger CX-30 or PHEV equivalent once they sort out that product line.

They really do seem to just be super reliable and are taking over the “I’m not a car person” market.
Not unless you need more storage, or more RAM...