skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(The following comment agrees with you, it is not intended as an argument against what you’re saying):

Technically being able to contain the content and actually being able to boot the game from the disc (after transferring to the console hard drive) are two separate things. Even without counting Day 1/Day 0 patches. Some games refuse to run without downloading additional content that isn’t on the disc, others require talking to a server even if you’ve just downloaded the latest updates, others. A patch to fix bugs and add content is one thing, refusing to play entirely is another.
fully hackable. they give you for shell access over USB, and it has exposed io ports for custom accessories. they encourage you to play around with the firmware and expand its capabilities how're you want, it is part of the product design and intention
I'm responding to a comment that mentions batteries and talking about personal experience, for a home solution... This is relevant as a lot of solar uses private roofs.

In the UK, you could sell all your unused excess roof solar energy back to the grid. But this is at a wildly reduced rate - fractions of the cost you would pay for electricity. So you would then need batteries to store the energy... But then you incur the drawbacks of these (high maintaince costs).

With all these personal solar solutions, with batteries, panels etc being bought and provided by the consumer, it seems an obvious point to me that quite a lot of electric infrastructure is moving to the private domain, with discounted electricity then being sold back to the public utilities.
I made a custom GPT to help me get through a hard breakup
The explanation is pretty simple; she’s a coward and seeking closure by unburdening herself without doing the hard thing and being fully transparent about what happened.

If you helped build someone’s reputation by not bothering to verify their work and just taking credit for your involvement with them, you have an uncomfortable but undeniable responsibility to be just as strident in getting out the truth.
https://www.google.com/search?q=elephant+paints+a+picture&tb...
I came up with this alias for xargs, I find it quite handy,

# f# like |> pipelining, example `echo "~/.bashrc" |: vim _`
# sed here is removing the last newline of the output
alias ::='sed "$ s/\n$//" | xargs -I_ --'

Usage example, where `_` is a marker `::` (xargs) uses to swap in the pipe'd value

sudo docker ps -a | skip 1 | col 1 |:: sudo docker rm _

skip, col are other aliases/functions,

function col {
eval "awk '{ print \$$1 }'"
}

function skip {
tail -n +$(($1 + 1))
}

function take {
head -n $1
}
eval printf? um.... is your name little bobby tables by any chance?
Was it academic culture though?
I don't think they'd have needed a model for why it happens to see the obvious correlation between using things used by a sick person and getting sick. It'd be compatible with the older idea of a "miasma" spreading the disease.
well, there ARE some very interesting tricks back in the old days on both the application and hardware side to help out with these exact problems (for one thing, this is exactly how a SpriteAtlas as a data structure is utilized. Why waste time uploading a dozen sprites that usually render in a predictable way when you can upload one big image and sample parts of the image?).

But in terms of today, yes. You can certainly brute force render 99% of anything from 15+ years ago on modest commercial hardware (i.e. not even gaming PCs) by drawing and re-drawing a scene.
>Speaking for myself, software engineering is something I do because I have bills to pay. Programming is something I started doing because it’s fun.

Same for me. While I strive to do stuff fast, in a way that is easy to maintain, modify and extend for work, see the big picture, take the right time of shortcuts, understand business and customers, there is not were the fun is.

I enjoy the time when I am alone with the PC, far from user stories and scrums.

I love to program, to convince the PC to do the trick I tell it to do. What I enjoy also is CS, algorithms, data structures, abstract thinking.
It's the result of 30 years of OOP and design patterns. When your brain gets infected with them you start looking for ways to spread the infection.
The whole point of the presentation alluded to in the article was so that the researchers could present evidence for this point. But because the guardian is clickbait garbage, they were sure not to include the details. Probably they knew that the chorus of people on social media repeating this meme would drive engagement.
Usually from GC. Anthony Sottile has a nice explanatory video: https://youtu.be/sdmcCQ7Em04?si=9PObAJixALFiZ9vd
They should be training on ferret:

>> We introduce Ferret, a new Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) capable of understanding spatial referring of any shape or granularity within an image and accurately grounding open-vocabulary descriptions. To unify referring and grounding in the LLM paradigm, Ferret employs a novel and powerful hybrid region representation that integrates discrete coordinates and continuous features jointly to represent a region in the image. To extract the continuous features of versatile regions, we propose a spatial-aware visual sampler, adept at handling varying sparsity across different shapes. Consequently, Ferret can accept diverse region inputs, such as points, bounding boxes, and free-form shapes. To bolster the desired capability of Ferret, we curate GRIT, a comprehensive refer-and-ground instruction tuning dataset including 1.1M samples that contain rich hierarchical spatial knowledge, with 95K hard negative data to promote model robustness. The resulting model not only achieves superior performance in classical referring and grounding tasks, but also greatly outperforms existing MLLMs in region-based and localization-demanded multimodal chatting. Our evaluations also reveal a significantly improved capability of describing image details and a remarkable alleviation in object hallucination.

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Whereby, I surmise This will make Drone-based AI image context for behavior extremely powerful - especially when aspects of that MLLM handling for spatial-sitrep extremely precise for autonomous movement, then ultimately for decision making WRT interacting with humans (positive interactions and negative interactions).

Is it just me, or doesnt this MLLM seem particularly useful for flying objects with vision?

however the more that I think about it, it seems like reservoirs can be applied to more than just "situational reactionary "dejaVu" which is what I think they are getting at (think LUCY where she ODs on a neurotropic and suddenly knows martial arts) (Also, lucy is a remake of Lawnmower Man if you hadnt noticed.

but i like the idea of reservoirs as an ability to know which gpt agent can work well together to solve to an outcome based on the weaving of other GPTs together to have a tapestry with similar relationships.

Forgot, wanted to add

https://imgur.com/gallery/bRCfnFv

The logo for the new DHS' 'Department of Entangled Agent Technologies and Humanity'

:-)
I still remember going to Brent Cross shopping center in London when I was 12 years old and buying “your computer”. It felt like magic!
I used it for private pilot training and it is very helpful, and it's also less expensive than paying for hourly instructor or flight time. You'll still have to cough up money for actual hours, but MSFS is a great tool similar to visualization. You get what you put in.
(cont)

I also quite like,

function mkcd {
command mkdir -p "$1" && \
command cd "$1" && \
pwd
}

I'm thinking of writing one for git clone, `git clonecd` or something, to cd into a cloned directory. Note that having an executable named `git-foo` in your $PATH lets you call it like a git subcommand, `git foo`
Sounds like you are justifying cannibalism
Mixtral, CogAgent/CogVLM, Emu-2, tinyllama, phi-2, Bark, xtts, exllamav2 are a handful of other interesting projects that come to mind.
>Not all hackers are overly obsessed with the most efficient Big O and various low level (sorry pun intended) details.

A NAND gate is low level. Big O is just theory that anyone should know if he's worth something as a programmer.
We're on Hacker News. Do you go to a fitness community and say "I wish every gym bro would put down a dumbell and pick up a book?"

But if you're curious, I hike, am learning Japanese, and want to eventually clean up and pick back up my saxophone once I can get the money to get it fixed. Tech is a big but not the only part of my life.
Rscss: Styling CSS without losing your sanity
The Wii was a bit of a special case for how incredibly janky it was to be trying to present a system shell without it being actually backed by a proper OS/hypervisor arrangement like the other platforms of its generation. That it was able to do paid digital games at all is kind of miraculous.
Your original point was that breeding animals and shooting them was incredibly depraved behavior that should make anyone with a conscience sick.

I don’t agree- I think there are ways that raising animals for meat can be an ethical choice. I offered up my own experience of living closely with my animals, relating to them with respect while still using them for meat and fiber.

We are in agreement on the horrors of modern industrial farming. I’m not making any kind of argument in support of factory farming, because I DO find it morally abhorrent.

I hoped by sharing my own experience with my animals, I could add some nuance to the conversation. I now see that that’s unlikely.
I've got something, if you look at my comment on this page,

sudo docker ps -a | skip 1 | col 1 |:: sudo docker rm _

Makes it look more like a functional language pipeline
Complicated is worse, not better. IMHO as end user.

Hardware has gotten better. Much, much better.

But I still like to use old software. Because I find it's the only way I can appreciate the new hardware. New software is far too unilaterally manipulative and exploitive of both the user and the user's hardware resources, often for ridiculous, unnecessary purposes such as data collection, surveillance and advertising services.
> “Crypto is super legitimate, bro.”

It’s really not. I’m so tired of people being surprised by articles like this. Scams like this and ransomware would simply not exist without cryptocurrency, and that’s enough for me to eschew their use entirely.

There is literally no legitimate excuse for cryptocurrency, and I don’t think there ever was.
The spammer will leave a permanent negative balance, which will leave bandwidth and other providers out that money with little chance of recouping it from the scammers who will just abandon the account and start a new one...
I understand where meat comes from. That's why I've been vegan since the age of 14.
It seems pretty likely to me that working a physical job late in life is correlated with lower income and wealth, which we know correlates to worse health outcomes. I would hope the study would control for that, but it's not clear from the article.
>This site selects for people who have made computers their entire life

isn't it the other way around? The site allows anyone to post on nearly any topic, but the longest standing audience veers tech. there still is quite a few topics on medicine, transportation, economics, and politics as well.
The tooth extraction skill is fundamental if you are a dentist. You learn it in school. Knowing how to market and sell that skill is valuable but you can learn it while working.

CS I learned in school, engineering I learned while working.
Seems like the obligation falls on developers and studios. It’s Capcom’s responsibility to keep Street Fighter X Tekken working because Capcom is the seller. Fortunately the community usually warns buyers about abandonware and you can always get a refund.
My comment wasn’t specific to furries.

But the harm in this case would probably be reinforcing infantile behavior and escapism.
https://nitter.net/TechEmails/status/1443263744906305543

Context:

> High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against several Silicon Valley companies for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

> The defendants were high-technology companies Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, each of which was headquartered in Silicon Valley, in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California.

> The civil suit was filed by five plaintiffs. It accused the tech companies of collusion between 2005 and 2009 to refrain from recruiting each other's employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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A strange sentiment for someone who's wasting time heckling articles on HN.

Of course nobody said don't go outside or pursue non tech interests.
Painting cast iron

Pro tip if you are going to paint a cast iron block, after degreasing/cleaning, hit the surface with a blowtorch to drive out moisture from the porous surface. THEN apply a primer, THEN paint with a brush. You're only going to do this once, do it right. Do not do what this guy did which was SPRAY paint a block holding on to a lot of moisture. This is exactly how you end up with cracking/flaking paint 2-3 years after a completed build.
Optical Telegraph
It has been quite common to believe that all the personal property of any dead person was unsafe or unclean to use, and so was often burned or buried with them. This was observed, for example, in northern California tribes in historical times. Sometimes it only applied to weapons.

It doesn't depend on a belief in the afterlife. What archaeologists call "ritual" need have nothing to do with religion. Washing your car and mowing the lawn are American suburban rituals. Halloween, Christmas, and birthday celebrations are ritual. We also have ribbon-cuttings and graduations. When I was growing up we "pledged allegiance" to the US flag.
> At the very least, I want the agency to keep a hold on the update for $N days.

What is the difference between this and "No Deploy Fridays"?
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find that hacking is going on in here!
Happy lives… that’s not the case for most meat you buy in the $1 bonus packs in the supermarket. Those animals get tortured every day of their short and miserable lives. You have seen different but stimulating meat consumption while those factories exist is wrong imho as that will only grow as a result. But it is not fixable because there is no space to grow meat for all humans this way in a free range way, so better stop eating it at all (until it comes from labs or space or whatever).

So visit one of the horror pig farms and see how the bacon tastes after that I would say. In my view only actual psychopaths can eat it after seeing that.
This should at the very least have a 2021 - ignoring the fact that even in 2021 it was referencing information from a trial that happened in 2015.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...
>Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Rights to a photography done in 1851? Come on!
Cave paintings of mutilated hands could be a Stone Age sign language
Why no way to stop them? Couldn't he have reported it to the university? Sounds like he was complicit if he knew and did nothing.
Nintendo has been getting greedy in recent years with the paid rereleases and HD ports.

However they had a terrific track record on backcompat for years in the handheld space. GB -> GBC -> GBA -> DS -> 3DS, every one supporting at least one generation back's physical media. Nintendo understands the value of the Switch library and I think would be very cautious to release successor hardware that didn't play the existing titles.
The same thing happened to our Tesla Model X a few years back. Tesla even wanted us to pay $200 flat fee to fix the problem they created and that we couldn’t opt out off. I may have used impolite language until they waived that. And that’s not even addressing the massive time sink it was.
or Atom
We do just that at Flexor!

We've built what we call an Unstructured Data Transformation Layer. Think about it like an assembly line from raw text to tables in your data warehouse.

We don't use Llamaindex, we have our own (proprietary) piece of tech that does this. We can and have been outputting gold-standard tables on top of a lot of different types of context (legal docs, call transcripts, customer reviews, chat logs, emails, blog posts, social media posts, etc...) and looking to expand to more interesting domains soon.

If anyone wants to hear more hit me up at tom [at] flexor [dot] ai (does this still work or are scrapers smart enough nowadays to just grep for this too lol)
Not all food comes from killed animals, though
And the email itself was from 2007
That would explain the "stencil" images, but not the "print" images, which the article says exist. This other article says digits are missing only for stencil images (in European cave art) and posits that folding digits was some sort of code: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734300-900-cave-pai... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38769396
I disagree with you about restaurants, there aren’t really any secret ingredients etc…
The main difference is skill, not many people have the skills to actually replicate a tiramisu as good as that specific famous shop. But someone who is really skilled absolutely can
> If I buy a game I should be able to launch it and redownload it.

unfortunately, this is not the right for which you paid, despite the fact that it is what people believe when they click purchase.

That's why i condone piracy. It enables preservation, regardless of the choice of the copyright owner.

That's why i would always want to make an offline backup of whatever i buy. It's hard to do sometimes, and the onus being on me to do it is a failing of the consumer protection laws that did not evolve with digital purchases.
I know. This practice of having two user accounts sucks.
How can curiosity be motivation? There are so far apart in terms of definition and the way people perceive.

What's your definition of motivation? Asking out of curiosity (pun intended).
I don't know how else to say it, this is a really bad idea.

It's spam. If you scale this up, the few IRC servers that currently accept this type of behaviour will start blocking it.

You might as well be trying to use blog comment sections as k/v stores.
Chickens are very affectionate though. They love to be patted, will run through the field with you, and sit down when they want you to take them to the coop to be locked in for the night (there's many foxes and marters where we live, and no matter how much you try, eventually your free range chickens will be taken by them).
I think by idiots they mean the org collectively
Imagine getting fired from Google by Steve Jobs.
Unix had (has!) excellent manual page (man ls for those who don't know). I had a similar experience learning SunOS in the early 90s like this.
Croquet: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming
I honestly don't see a difference between programmer and software engineer. The one I see a difference with is "coder"
Previous discussion submitted by the same person:

Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699873 - September 2021 (205 comments)
For git aliases you should definitely checkout alises[1] you can define in your global git config, ~/.gitconfig, and the fact git will let you define custom subcommand if you create a `git-foo` executable in your PATH, for example, create a executable shell file called, `git-foo` somewhere in your PATH and you can run it like `git foo`.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases
(2021) or even (2007)

The exact tweet discussed heavily here (submitted by same user):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699873

The Verge wrote an article in 2012 discussed heavily here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817
Interesting. The harm that a doctor can do is very serious though. Who are the unlucky shlubs who get the bad end of the distribution?
I came here to say essentially that. The most I saw was "after adjustment," but it wasn't clear what that was exactly, and socioeconomic factors are such a large and obvious explanation they needed to address it clearly. Even if the referenced studies do, not bringing it up in this article is a red flag.
And all phones in sci-fi movies are big transparent rectangles! What's up with that???

Maybe it's meant to be scathing social commentary on the ultimate destination of today's mobile phone trends in terrible user interface design and terrible privacy. But probably not.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-SF-shows-depict-future-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/g5w1ph/the_...
Their user hostility is a little ridiculous, though. I think Japan's galapagos syndrome comes into play a bit.

Transferring your ACNH save was a nightmare before their cloud service came out, if I remember.
# Complete g like git
compdef g=git

That's brilliant.
Gallery of AI Generated Architectures
Does the owner get compensation for this bug? For example, if you need a rent a car for the day, will Ford reimburse the cost? If no, can you sue in small claims court?
Also if you're playing on Linux a lot of those older games run perfectly through WINE, better than they run on modern Windows.
Ok, we've changed the title to a more representative heading from the article. Thanks!
> In that spirit, I offer the following alternative challenge: Create a web search engine.

Yea, no thanks.

If I'm going to work on something in my spare time, I am going to work on something that I am interested in and find fun. I generally loathe the dirty work often involved in software engineering and debugging all of these dependencies all the time. It's exhausting. Doing things from scratch puts me in charge.

And I mean, creating a search engine is the ultimate "not invented here" project. I'd just pay for and use Google, Bing, or whatever else API to do things for me. So it doesn't even make sense in the context of your objections.
i imagine gRPC is less plaintext friendly, which might be one of the reasons why it's less popular as public apis tend to be as agnostic and easy to start with as possible.

Tho i think it's just a cultural, rather than a technical blockage. REST just has more mindshare, and web developers (who make up the majority of devs using public apis) are pushing JSON based REST as the default.
I mentioned this in another comment, but checkout git's builtin support for aliases, defined in ~/.gitconfig [1]

And git lets you define custom subcommand if you just create a file like `git-foo` in your $PATH, and then you can run it like `git foo`

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases
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> But GP is completely correct that all of the fun, magical projects in the OP article are antithetical to the profession.

I guess I was emphasizing GP's point. The profession is the problem. Not the subject matter. I love computers.
Fun fact: The original Pong had no CPU and had all the logic built into the hardware
if you're looking for an easier way to build p2p applications, you might be interested in the Socket runtime (https://github.com/socketsupply/socket)
A web app makes it cross platform. If you have a homelab, deploy it only once for every client.

And PDFtk doesn’t do annotations afaik which is a huge pain point on Linux (at least for me) because there are no applications that I know of to easily do things that are trivial on OSX like adding text or hand drawn signatures to PDFs. Masterpdf can do it but with a watermark and some limitations.

Maybe it doesn’t suit your particular use case but I wouldn’t say pdftk can replace this project.