skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if this is satire, but one of the "rules that are always true, until they aren't" in game design is that realism isn't fun (https://www.gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-says-games-dont-need-...)

Games bend over backwards in a million ways not to be realistic even when they seem realistic: from silently helping your odds, to intentionally breaking physics (see: coyote running in platformers), to helping your movement align with enemies.

Even the most realistic games with human locomotion almost all rely unrealistic ankle-breaking acceleration changes for your character because you'd feel like you were piloting a bowl of soup otherwise.

The reason we don't have full agentic NPCs right now isn't a technical limitation: it just wouldn't be fun.

Usually you're the hero going against impossible odds with NPCs, in the real world you'd just die.

Games like GTA constantly have NPCs saying outlandish but comical quips at a rate that far surpasses real life.

Hard coded NPC behaviors in games often become the defining features of those games

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There's nothing wrong with realizing that outside of very narrow context like simulator physics, people generally don't seek out realism in our entertainment. People want a certain degree of escapism that relies on breaking the rules a little, or in the case of NPCs a lot.
Not sure how federation is going to increase the trustworthiness.
The Tik Tok Ban
Globalisation is good, as long as it works for the West. Globalisation is bad and should be prevented when globalisation doesn't work for the West.
It's mostly centered around cost. Fuel (of all types) is so cheap in the US that efficiency was not an ultra high priority for most people. Ironically, the US has now gotten extremely competent at drilling for natural gas and the price is going to stay pretty much fixed where it is for the next 50+ years. Most of the waste from the early days has also been reduced and funneled into new petrochemical production processes that used to be reliant on oil.

If you are going to stay in one place for a long time, renewable solutions to problems like hot water and residential electricity are worth the investment, but with the migratory nature of the US worker, it's often cheaper for a household to pay for fuel for 5~ years rather than invest in a renewable solution that they will never reap the monetary benefits from.

From what I've experienced since moving from the US to Europe in 2022, it's a lot more common for people to stay in the same houses for an extended period of time. Especially here where I live in the Netherlands, you can commute to work almost anywhere in the country in about 2 hours by car. This allows people to keep the family home.
Ask HN: Apple removed macOS ability to disassociate Wi-Fi from CLI
The magic incantation for disassociating from Wi-Fi, i.e., for Ethernet/Wi-Fi toggling, no longer works.

sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -z

Results in the output:

WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
For diagnosing Wi-Fi related issues, use the Wireless Diagnostics app or wdutil command line tool.

But nothing happens. So there appears to be no replacement for CLI-based Wi-Fi disassociation.

Anyone have a solution for Sonoma 14.1 arm by chance?

I've submitted a radar, but no one's ever going to read it and the functionality has already been broken pointlessly.

See also:

- https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/748161
No need to make your own generator.

But being able to inspect (theoretically even audit) the source, building (if necessary) and running it locally in some container/sandbox without network connection would be minimum reqirements for me.
Imagine the effort, creativity and commitment they’ve put with the rope on two spools, just to let the watcher better understand how they were transmitting the images.

Why even this simple thing seems unthinkable nowadays?
Exactly: earth+moon but no sun mentioned + ymd => year and day are solar things, month is a division of year and a multiple of day that already has little to do with cosmic things as a unit except that when grouped it lines up with seasons which is also a sun thing - equinoxes and solstices.

If we remove everything cosmic then we might as well do away entirely with ymd terms. kilosec, megasec, or whatever.

But! Removing the sun makes it immediately extremely impractical for scheduling: to schedule anything you'd have to constantly refer to an almanac - however rough - of the sun's position as, being completely removed from the sun and the biological constraints of circadian rhythm, time tracking will inevitably drift and offset to the point that it's impossible to reliably ensure actual people will be available for an appointment in 10ksec or 20Msec - whatever these secs are - in any intuitive or sensible manner that maps to the way biological beings fundamentally function, both at the solar day level (very fundamentally so) and the solar year level (less perceptible than day-level but still fundamental).

I mean, if I ask you what were you doing at 1610403576 unixsec or are you available at 1810403572 unixsec it is impossible to answer if you're even going to be sleeping well into the night without looking a sec-sun table (an almanac) up. The fact that unixsec as a duration is our current sec is immaterial - it could be anything so it might just as well be that one - as we just decided we're entirely removing the sun from the equation and defining secs in terms of fractional days would run against that. "well, I'll be sleeping" is the most common "not available" situation that we all share for ~1/3 of a day, everyday. Not exactly a corner case.

Consider that shops would not even be able to have "opening hours / days" signs on their door! Or dropping kids at school, setting an alarm clock, planning a trip to arrive at dinner... There's so much implicit scheduling around us that we're fixated on the comparatively small times where we have to open a calendar app (and even smaller when we have to cross timezones but that's not the topic of this specific thread). "I'm using a calendar already so everything might just as well be in the calendar" just doesn't stand up to the real world.

Since it's so impractical it follows that the only reasonable base unit of measure is not an arbitrary second† but the sun-bound day. The same argument can be run down for the four-beat-seasoned solar year, which allows us to intuitively grasp and anticipate so many things and organise as a civilisation - even when technology fails on us - that we take them for granted. And then, from that, we end up with a calendar shaped one way or another like the French Republican one.

† Even that could be challenged as our hearts beat at a rough ~1 beat/s at rest so there's a deeply grokked biological sense of time for us tied to that duration: 20s kind of resonates and that duration can be felt. Make the second half or twice and it's lost.
> ... "on the path to becoming the standard platform for everything 3D."

For a great many purposes it's already there, and for what little that Blender isn't capable of in that space, there's always things like the Godot Engine, which happens to be a rather Blender-friendly game engine. If I remember correctly, there's a couple few other open source game engines that also go out of their way to support Blender as a part of the workflow, but Godot is the one I'm currently learning / somewhat familiar with.
++1

me too
Research malpractice prolonged the Vietnam War
> it ends up limiting Americans' access to information

it is not a right to have unlimited access to any and all information.

It is only a constitutional violation (by the gov't) to _prevent_ an american citizen from any speech. It would not be a violation to legislatively ban a company, unless that company was the only place you could make speeches, and thus resulting in the outcome where there's defacto speech repression.

However, such a company ban, if it werent due a violation, would erode the trust in the US financial system. Because if the US decides they can just divest you without you violating any current known laws, it will make foreign investment in the US more difficult.
Society should see this as a success. Private companies see the value of AI research and are accelerating it by hiring the top people.

This is what you want in an academic field... to no longer have it confined to academic research.
We need more people like you. Thank you.
How to embrace asynchronous communication for remote work
You're just running into the fact that people often spurt jargon as a shorthand because they're trying to quickly get a point across to other people who have encountered the same jargon before. Everyone in the industry knows that it takes a long time to actually learn anything non-trivial to a deep level, and everyone knows that everyone has their strengths and weaknesses.

So, I see (and remember) how it seems forbidding, but I also see that you're being too hard on yourself, relative to what anyone will ever actually expect you to know. You will pick stuff up and make things happen when you need to. Until then, just ride the waves of jargon with slow inscrutable nodding.

If you're after specifics, I found I understood bridging a bit better after I decided to build a router from scratch. My router at home is just a linux box with a 4-port NIC (network interface card), and the ports on the card are bridged to make it easier to route and firewall them. I had to use a bridge, so I learned the command to make a bridge, suddenly I'm the bridging expert because no one else dogfoods this kind of crap, get it?
American Airlines Boeing flight makes emergency landing over mechanical issue
IIRC the couriers were invulnerable, making the strategy even stronger as you couldn't kill them to stop the flow of consumables.

Also, according to this Q&A post on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/bf49yk) the consumable purchasing logic was scripted, not learned.
>The solution is simple - any user interfaceable computing device expected to be sold to a minor must be child locked by default. [...]

Kids aren't heading to the local Apple Store for their iphones. They're getting them from their parents. Parental controls exist today. The problem is the lack of willingness from parents to monitor their kids' behavior, not the fact that you can buy an unrestricted communications device without photo id.
I say if hype is getting competent engineers and scientists a lot of money, this bodes well for a post bubble time when they are cut loose and decide to invest their skills and money into new ventures.
Our mission statement is in the first blog post we ever published about the company. https://bsky.social/about/blog/2-7-2022-overview

"Our mission is to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation."
Breakout inside Google Calendar, an LLM inside Excel... What's next, a VR environment using Slack?
For a few years, my single mom had to raise me and we did not spend a lot of time together as she worked during the day and only came home at night, but from what i can remember, she has been a good parent always and i was the one who would have tantrums and meltdowns sometimes. i don't remember being neglected.

i can definitely relate with the last sentence haha, but you seem to have overcome it, how?

Also, i peeked around at your profile (sorry!) and see, this is what terrifies me. You have been coding since a young age, have worked in so many cool positions, even created your own software products. I on the other hand, first learned about programming when i was 14-15 and even tried learning it a bit before stopping idk why thinking i will learn later and instead daydreaming about making millions lmao. but i never was actually able to learn it, not just programming, basically anything people learn as they grow. My parents are still supportive and that makes it even worse since i did shit despite a good environment. There is this sense of doom that has taken over me and i don't know what to do.
Thank you so much for doing these videos, I learned a lot today. You have a talent for teaching! If you don't mind me asking, what is your background?
Ask HN: Storage pricing: GB or GiB
I am designing a pricing page for our cloud hosting thing. DevOps suggested to use Gibibyte (GiB) instead of Gigabyte (GB) annotation. Binary calculation (GiB) is used under the hood (I believe). I think the actual difference is marginal.

But I wonder if we are doing anyone a favor by presenting it as GiB. Most hosting vendors use the classical metric annotation today:

- DigitalOcean: GiB
- Google Cloud: GB
- Vultr: GB
- Hetzner: GB
- AWS: GB
- macOS: GB

I see this has been asked before in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13658889
That's what the CSS Vision Impairment Module is for, which can query the user's medical record to adjust the font size and colors :-)
There's https://www.cadsketcher.com/ addon for Blender. Blender isn't really a CAD program, but apparently it's got enough 3D functionality that it's possible to do CAD in it. Would need to hear from someone more familiar with CAD than I to know whether it's really viable yet or not. Blender's excellent for everything I've personally needed to do in 3D thus far though. (Mostly models / animations for use in game engines.)
If you don't care about watermarks, you can try out Resolume for free indefinitely.
This is going to make text very large whenever somebody with an ultrawide monitor decides to maximize their browser window.
I like who OpenAI claimed they were not under MS control lol
I'm sorry, but aren't web sites already federated? I don't understand what the technical contribution is here. If we wanted to build a federated network of wikis (do we?), then links to articles are just links and identity is provided by OpenID Connect.

What have I misunderstood?

> Instead of individual, centralized websites there will be an interconnected network of encyclopedias. This means the same topic can be treated in completely different ways. For example geology.wiki/article/Mountain may be completely different different from poetry.wiki/article/Mountain. There can be Ibis instances strictly focused on a particular topic with a high quality standard, and others covering many areas in layman’s terms. Others may document fictional universes from television series or videogames. If one instance is badly moderated or presents manipulated information, an alternative can easily be created. Yet all of them will be interconnected, and users can read and edit without leaving their home website.

This is absurd. You are describing WWW, except for the "without leaving their home website" bit, but I don't know why that feature is so important to you. You can just replace that by "without leaving their home browser of choice".
I meant online interactions in general even with a pseudonym.

You mentioned using a VPN and a pseudonym but my point about data mining and computing power is that it seems quite easy and more accessible than ever to use techniques like Stylometry to link data points together and track your activity across platforms. And this is just using publicly accessible data.

I'm not concerned about my profile per say but it seems many parties are weaponizing the data shared on internet to their advantage, and I don't want to feed the beast(s).

Tbh, I'm not sure how to piece my thoughts together yet but the idea of being more of a lurker online
sounds more appealing as time passes.
Strictly necessary? Maybe not. I wrote that before URIAL [1][2]. I actually haven't tried URIAL in GPT2 small but I need to give it a whirl. Might be too small a model to work?

Even if URIAL works with GPT2 small, the really small context length in the Excel file as currently implemented will make it hard to leverage. I've considered a more flexible implementation to support a longer context length (e.g. using Macros to build the layout of the sheet) but have prioritized the teaching videos first.

[1] https://allenai.github.io/re-align/index.html
[2] Summary https://twitter.com/intuitmachine/status/1732089266883141856
Yes, that's the approach I take, but in that case, the problem is that Playwright with Chrome plugin + our own bag of scripts for detecting spinners etc, is faster AND more accurate than these AI attempts. These RPA things with LLMs would only work in case they can actually venture out alone and Get Shit Done. If I have to sit and wait and reprompt, I might as well just get the Playwright script which will work actually every time.

But I know it's early days! There is a reason I test ALL of these every few months.
From the article:

> "The seat movement caused the nose down" angle of the aircraft, the publication said, citing another anonymous source who added the possibility of an electrical short was also under review.

Sounds like it may or may not be a short, but the fact that it might be possible is what I find concerning.
"For a start, Epson insists that it must only be run from batteries"

I don't think that's correct. I had one handed down to me in the early nineties. Afair (well, it's a long time), I operated it w/o batteries at all.
OPA and its derivative projects really brought the idea of decoupled authorization as a viable option. It is a very powerful tool which can be applied to many layers of the architecture - from Kubernetes Admission Controllers being based on it through to network level authorization and up the full stack.

One area that is a constrained and narrow use case is around the actual application level permissions - eg what a user can do inside of your service. Having hand-rolled this in various companies - and the inevitable rebuilds that were required as requirements change such as adding a new, product packaging updates etc - you do end up with a complex web of logic - ether in your codebase or as Rego.

For these application level permissions - where the requirements really come from the product/business rather than engineering - I always felt there could be a simpler way of defining this rules. Policies needed to be in a format a business user could understand, and enforcing them needs to be extremely responsive as checks are in the blocking path of every request - and this needs to work at large scale - all whilst making every decision auditable to tick all the regulatory and compliance needs around access controls.

To this effect we begun working on Cerbos[0] a few years ago which initially targets that one specific use case - models policy in simple YAML [1] (love it or hate it!) and takes a stateless approach meaning it is infinitely scalable with none of the headache of synchronizing information about your users or resources to the authZ layer, also critically generates that single audit log of decisions.

Disclaimer: I work on the team that builds and maintains Cerbos[2].

[0] https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos

[1] https://play.cerbos.dev/p/XhkOi82fFKk3YW60e2c806Yvm0trKEje

[2] https://cerbos.dev
BigSurAI makes AI Sales Agents super accessible to retailers/brands, $6.9M raise
Yes. PEX is a specific type, and general term for, modern polyethylene supply tubing. Both materials and labor costs are around half of residential copper. Unless you have a really specific reason new plumbing is going to be PEX supply and PVC/ABS waste. PEX service lifetime is in the 30-50 year range, copper is 50-100 depending on wall thickness.
> The sand itself will also be sustainably sourced – it’ll consist of crushed soapstone, which is a manufacturing byproduct of another local industry.

The requirement is not really construction grade sand but any substance with a largish thermal mass. Sand/dirt/crushed rock, etc. whatever you have right on your doorstep. There have been plenty of prototypes using such various materials as thermal mass.

All you need is a big container, some insulation to keep the heat in and lots of mass in whatever form. And some pipes to get heat in and out via e.g. water. The bigger the container, the smaller its surface area is relative to its volume. So these things can be quite efficient. If you make them large enough, you can store enough energy in the summer to last for months during the winter.

Here's a story about a Dutch retiree who built a prototype using basalt as the thermal mass in his backyard: https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2020/03/08/cesar-seasonal...

Claimed performance:

Storage volume: 200-250 kWh/m3

Storage cost: 2 cent/kWh

Storage leak: 80% energy still present after 6 months
Now all the complexity of Java and .NET application servers, with YAML spaghetti, and distributed systems infrastructure configuration.

Progress is wonderfull! /s
It is basically Java and .NET application servers with YAML and extra complexity.
> Exactly what their opponents were afraid they had the power to do.

They notified their users that their elected representatives were fast tracking a bill targeted at the service they were using. Negotiated in secret because those representatives knew it would be enormously unpopular with their constituents.
A case of missing bytes: bruteforcing your way through Jenkins' CVE-2024-23897
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_typing#Metabolic_t...

'''
"Metabolic therapy", including administration of laetrile, was promoted for cancer patients by John Richardson in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, until his arrest for violating the California Cancer Law and revocation of his license by the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance.[4]

...

"...retrospective reviews of the Gerson, Kelley, and Contreras metabolic therapies show no evidence of efficacy."[5]

'''
I thought of sharing this with my employer because:

- It will be a genuine speedup for our developer team (which I am part of)

- I will get valuable feedback from my target audience

Any elaboration of why this is a terrible idea, if I can manage to properly separate the borders between my project and my employer?
Grimoire companion – browser extension for Grimoire bookmark manager is here
You ignore hygiene and wealth that rised up significantly over the world during last century. All polio cases today are in countries where it is not common or even possible to wash hands regularly.

It wonders me why we are able to give them milion doses of vaccines but there is not same attitude with drinking water?
Depends on the system. With only one clock source, and no analog input, everything except for user input and disk access time would be completely deterministic.

Not an Apple II expert, but the original IBM PC used a single 14.318MHz crystal to derive every other clock.
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Kubermatic KubeLB
Announced today. TL;DR: Run your loadbalancers in a single place, let other (workload-)clusters push their configs through KubeLB to the loadbalancer-cluster, which loadbalances onto the workload-clusters.

Announcement post: https://www.kubermatic.com/blog/introducing-kubelb/
People mistake GitHub for a source control system, when it is actually a social network for developers.