skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, BG3 was unusually good because Larian is an independent studio that was able to self fund BG3 and take many years on its development without publisher interference and rushing. It's an example of a great game, but not a typical example of an AAA game.

Most AAA games these days are regurgitated sequels with a ton of micro transactions, etc (see any shooter), very limited choices (Diablo 4), season passes, etc. Many of them get poor reviews from gamers and they would often embargo reviews before release too just to drive up pre-order sales.

All this is to say... if you like BG3, you'll usually find that kind of love in indie games these days and not AAAs. What the AAAs give you is typically good graphics and UI polish (but not always), usually at the expense of gameplay, player choice, and writing quality. Starfield, for example, came out the same time as BG3 and was a terrible, soulless game.
Well they have a history of repeating the entire history of mistakes that the rest of the auto industry has gone through over the last several decades. For example, GM went through the same attempts to automating everything in the factory that Tesla did in 2018/19....but in the 1970s/80s GM ended up ripping out all their robots and you would see a sea of them in the parking lot flying over the factories.

At the same time the thinking of experienced engineers has calcified in a way that prevents the attempt of risky behavior that could lead to long term success. For example, the mega castings were something proposed to automakers since the 90s but no one wanted to take the risk to try it because of politics. You risk shutting down your entire tool and die factory and dealing with the fall out of that and if it didn't work out you were hosed.

The result of plowing through the top engineering students every year is that they repeat these mistakes on speed run but they also seem to extract nuggets of gold that the "experienced" engineers don't see or have been beaten down into not seeing.

Since there seems to be an infinite amount of top students that still want to work at his companies I don't know if he will have trouble with personnel any time soon.
It's rampant on eBay where there are copied titles/licenses being sold and what appear to be copied physical media too. And eBay doesn't do anything about it.

Examples of illicit digital copies:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255484863277

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235408586759

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255314441552

https://www.ebay.com/itm/233710824066
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Similar story with Sears. Bought by a real estate investor who didn't care about running the stores that much...
Presentation is close to entertainment business, a whole domain in itself. Takes time to master the craft but you can take inspiration from parody bits like "Every BBC series about the universe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOA5vnUt00c
Might seem obvious, but “don’t try to express everything one diagram” is some of the best advice I could give.

I like the idea of breaking down by Viewpoints and Perspectives, from the book Software Systems Architecture.

https://www.viewpoints-and-perspectives.info/
This particular implementation yes, but at the same time it's mostly for landscapes (or maybe scenes), but you don't need to use this kind of LOD stuff for the things you want to animate.
This algorithm produces biased result with probability 1/2^(32-bitwidth(N)). Using 64 or 128 random bits can make the bias practically undetectable. Comprehensive overview of the approach can be found here: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/39143
Right now it seems close to zero.
Microsoft to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI services in Malaysia
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I'm giving the course away for free now, it's just an intro course, takes 100 hours to complete and really focuses on problem solving. Great for non-technical people (I had young and a little bit old, like 45 year olds take it and do well). I'll just be glad if people make use of it.

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It's astounding that a vision model can do this.

When it comes to the fact that this is possible at all following various geolocation and OSINT accounts has had a quite sobering effect on me quite some times me ago.

I would like to point out josemonkey particularly, because he really explains the process very well. By and large I think it is first and foremost a fairly tedious task, but doesn't require any access to special services or special skills. Of course the vision model could change the tedious part.

Overall I think what the OSINT people do and what the vision model from the article simplifies is entertaining, but ultimately not super relevant, because reality is more like xkcd 538[1].

Most people have a device on them that in some way reveals their location more or less accurately. Location data in the grand scheme of things is a commodity for quite some time already.

While I think it is worth fighting that, I guess pragmatically we should all live under the assumption that our location is public information.

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/
Sponge cities changing way we handle rain
For me to regain faith in the review process I need to actually see some semblance of the review process working.

So far, instead, I've seen:

- Banning social media posting so that only big tech and collusion positing can happen to "protect the little guy"
- Undoing the ban to lots of complaints
- Instituting a no LLM policy with no teeth and no method to actually verify
- Instituting a high school track to get those rich kids in sooner

Until I see such changes like "we're going to focus on review quality" I'm going to continue thinking it is a scam. They get paid by my tax dollars, by private companies, and I volunteer time, for what...? Something a LLM could have actually done better? I'm seeing great papers from big (and small) labs get turned down while terrible papers are getting accepted. Collusion rings go unpunished. And methods get more and more convoluted as everyone tries to game the system.

You think of all people, we, ML, would understand reward hacking. But until we admit it, we can't solve it. And if we can't solve it here, how the hell are we going to convince anyone we're going to create safe AGI?
Very interesting! How this data was acquired?
Just to be clear, ssh agent forwarding is disabled by default and enabling it is always a hazard when connecting to machines that others also have access to.

Not at all specific to this.
I have given up on the Jetson nano, support is absolutely atrocious with the latest image being Ubuntu 18.04. If you want to learn CUDA, rather do it on the desktop with any cheap GPU, or get an Orin nano if you really want to go that route. That said, I expect the Orin nano support to go the same route.
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It passes the wife test with certain add-ons. The good thing is once you configure it on PC with add-ons, settings persist over TV, mobile and Mac apps.
Only used by a few hundred millions persons daily to receive their push notifications: https://xmpp.org/uses/gaming/

And also a few hundred millions gamers worldwide: https://xmpp.org/uses/social/

Ah I almost forgot the tiny market of a few other millions persons using it for chatting: https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/

But other than that yes XMPP is pretty dead.
NASA has IRED for resistence training on ISS. IIRC regiment was ~1xBW squats/deadlift for 3x10s in space every few days. Upper body was even more "normie" strength requirements. I think the routine included many hours of resistence training in general with very conservative weights to maintain mass and avoid injury at all costs.
The Miss Manners approach to dating served me well:

All dates have three elements: food, entertainment, and affection. A first date should have plenty of entertainment and only a hint of affection. At some point, the affection becomes the entertainment, but under no circumstances may the food be omitted.
We will be closing down the TensorFlow Certificate exam
This'll definitely have a chilling effect for future witnesses, which is likely what they paid for.
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Pay the core team to work on Immich full-time
Let us keep full autonomy about the project’s direction and leadership
Continue to license Immich under AGPL
Keep Immich’s development direction with no paywalled features
Keep Immich “built for the people” (no ads, data mining/selling, or alternative motives)
Provide us with financial, technical, legal, and administrative support

These are tall promises so lets hope they keep their word
Something I don't understand is why private equity would destroy a business they themselves own.

It doesn't make any sense - they paid billions for Red Lobster, they made some money, they could make even more by having a viable business.

If this were a publicly owned company I could understand outrage, but it's privately owned, the owner presumably isn't interested in losing money. What's his motivation for taking these steps that are "obviously" bad?
Shrimp - the cockroaches of the ocean.

I never eat the stuff including lobster (non allergic) but one time I was relocated to Germany to help ship a new software release (English technical documentation) and was invited to a meal with my colleagues and his family.

Out comes a big bowl of shrimp for everybody with the skins and feet and antlers on - think we had a language misunderstanding.

Not wanting to offend and send it back - did not even know how to disassemble it - ate a few and back at the hotel you know what happened :).
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It also states: "Moving from attention economy to ethical design"

That could mean the engagement should not be used as metric at all, but lets see, for now it is just a plenary session.

It seems fairly obvious that some companies cannot regulate themselves properly and then lawmakers step in.
A worth mention, thanks!
This is indeed scary as hell. Tried it with a photo of the beach that could be any (sub)tropical beach in the world. Tt guesses Egypt and placed the marker about 100km away from the actual location.
never said that.

just that his vision was garbage, and everyone knows. but he stood by it. and nobody was putting the same energy he was to either offer better or stop it (rejecting bad ideas also take energy. see gnome deep dive into garbage as another example)

Linux is mostly made from scraps (eg Bluetooth and wifi entire stacks) or misguided but funded things. the age of scratching own itch is mostly gone
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Boeing is currently 2-0 with whistleblowers.

I wonder if you could give someone MRSA intentionally. Is that even possible?
It actually isn't the first time he has done it. In fact the last time he did it, we ended up with what is the current Starlink.
Isn't the survival rate of us all technically zero anyway?
Sure. And Russia controls the time signals, so no need to jam it, just send phony time signals. Mine can do GPS + Glonass or GPS + Galileo. Just set it to Galileo or BeiDou.
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People, who really care about facts would not trust AI as reliable source.

How AI can observe events in real life?
I'm sorry to hear that too. I really wish there was something that could be done. I imagine a lot of graduate students are in complicated situations because of this.

As for alternatives: I don't see why we don't just push to OpenReview and call it a day. We can link our code, it has revisions, and people can comment and review. I don't see what the advantage of having 1-3 referees who don't want to read my paper and have no interest in it but have strong incentives to reject it is any meaningful signal of value. I'll take arxiv over their opinions.
An inevitable conclusion of extreme corporate profiteering and reckless and absurd inequality: a populace too poor to afford to pay into the consumption Pyramid Scheme. The skewed, power-law like distribution is now more lopsided than the Gilded Age. Even American millionaires (not billionaires) are asking to be taxed more because "Who wants to live in a poor country?", but have seen little traction because the billionaires' lobbyists have regulatory- and legislative-capture of the political class.
Try hyperscript. It’s like HyperTalk for the web. Pairs w htmx.

See https://hyperscript.org/
only in it's a rewrite of the concepts from inetd but using dbus and abused for local services.

which is a big part, but not the one most people complains about.

the actual UX is very much windows like.
Offering your public key only allows them to identify the key and prove you have it. There is no security concern in sending this to an untrusted server.

Agent forwarding is a whole other beast.
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Everyone has slowly been trying to be the boeing of everything for 50 years now and we're starting to feel it.
> But other software is also hypothetically insecure.

This is not my point.
Shouldn’t it attract more attention from prosecution? It is clear who is behind all this (some of Boeing top managers), so they must interrogate them all about double kill.
The insect farmers turning to AI to help lower costs
Sam Salehpour is not dead yet, is he?
Or just heavily stomp a non-critical and non-beneficial industry that has a heavily negative impact on the attention span of young people.

Today we see that ad companies never get enough, so they need very strong corsets for conduct.
you fondly reminisced about a wonderful meal?
I like OR too and I wish we would just post to there instead. It has everything we need, and I see no value from the venues. No one wants to act in good faith and they have every incentive not to.

And I gotta say, I'm not going to put up a fight much longer. As soon as I get out of my PhD I intend to just post to OR.
most literature makes distinctions on blue, red lights for sleep impact. they just named it artificial night light, even included the moon there.
I just don't get how anyone can go past the idea that maybe it required freak N amount of specific chemical reactions to happen in a row for the first lifeform and without knowing N the odds could just simply be anything. It seems as if people seem to assume that odds of first life form occuring are high and basically just a matter of time, which doesn't make sense to me.
Hmm, I did not think about it this way. Personally, I have no problem asking to use the bathroom.

The problem happens in places like NYC, where a sit-down restaurant with less than 9 seats is not legally required to have a bathroom. Or in SF where the TJ's next to my apartment has had an "out of order" bathroom forever. Or if you have IBS (5-10% of Americans) and need to use the bathroom right away, all of a sudden.

This is not typically as much of a problem outside of major cities though, more of a nice to have in that case.
Yeah, I get what they are saying and there's no reason to believe that.

The die is an analogy for our decision making. They are implicitly claiming that randomness must come in an order and that simply isn't how randomness works or even halfway decent pseudo randomness.

Any system whether it be a die, a person, or an llm doesn't have to know about its previous random choices to make random choices that follow some distribution going forward presuming it's actually capable of randomness.
That's pretty much how branching on GPUs already works.
Can we place blame on the people who sell their firms to private equity firms?
McKinsey strikes again
As often I’m impressed by the quality of all of this. The amount of thinking that went into this, this excellent written blog post. I love the Go blog.
You don't understand human psychology, nor few simple facts per se.

I choose how I behave in various situations. I know I am way above average driver with most kms driven in real wheel drive bmw, keep my distances, do defensive driving etc. I pick scenarios, I choose how I do the 'battles'. If somebody else does something stupid and 'unique', I trust myself way way more than some 'ai' being in beta test, its not just reaction time but experience, massive amount of anticipation where I see bad drivers and I overtake them before they do something stupid etc.

Maybe its emotional, but I am highly logical person and don't let emotions interfere with decisions much. Still, no. I kept saying "in 10 years" but this goalpost is basically moving as time moves, so I understood its in "maybe in my retirement" category and stopped expecting mass adoption earlier.

Surprise me world, I would love that. But I am being realistic, not bullish just because it would be so nice to have robo cars and taxis.
It is crazy that mobile devices have some fucked up ad ID. An operating system you can trust would shield you from receiving any ad in everyway possible and treat it as the malware that it is.
Some of them admit of that and arguably the products would have happened even without sci fi. In some cases these are just marketing stories. I don't ever consume sci fi and I have been able to come up with ideas that someone might have seen in sci fi.
I'm not sure what there is to believe. Srid started relitigating his impending suspension over the moderation teams head when it became clear that his values do not align with the moderators (or, if I can say that, most decent people that don't see left-wing conspiracies everywhere, casually go on about gender ideology destroying the west and perpetuate covid denial - so also likely the modified CoC of Nix). That is the worst way to go about challenging authority you don't like if you don't want bridges to burn.
Very good alternative, thanks for sharing
My wonderfully privatised NHS England (52,000 private services so far mascquerading as NHS services).

Personalised medicine, according to the NHS seems to be genome based medicine:

Here you go from NHS England:

I like the fewer side effects sales technique. For me this is about collecting an entire populations DNA and using that to assess whether an indivual is likely to become ill. All managed and run by AI.

PERSONALISED MEDICINE:

Imagine being able to get a faster diagnosis of a condition based on your unique situation, be given personalised treatments based on what would be most effective for you and experience fewer, if any, side effects….or even move away from simply managing an illness once you are sick to promoting health by predicting certain conditions and preventing them developing in the first place.

This is the basis for personalised medicine and by understanding the role our DNA plays in our health, it can help us transform how we think about our healthcare and help us deliver the four Ps:

Prediction and Prevention of disease

More Precise diagnoses

Personalised and targeted interventions

A more Participatory role for patients

By combining and analysing information about our genome, with other clinical and diagnostic information, patterns can be identified that can help to determine our individual risk of developing disease; detect illness earlier and determine the most effective interventions to help improve our health; be they medicines, lifestyle choices, or even simple changes in diet.

This can help us move away from simply managing an illness and instead focusing on promoting health.
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I have this exact problem. Will check this out.
Ah.

FYI, I have a whole series of unpublished chapters about the (very messy) history of science. I decided to take this different approach because I thought it would be a more effective way of reaching my target audience.

> Science as a human enterprise has flourished best without anyone putting boxes on what does and what doesn't consitute science.

That's not true. There is one box you cannot get out of without destroying the process: any hypothesis that is inconsistent with experiment must be rejected (and as a corollary to that, unfalsifiable hypotheses must be rejected). But yeah, beyond that pretty much anything goes.
Yes, but we all hope for later zero, not for sooner or sudden zero:)
Calling on Team @Authy: If like me you're gutted about the "End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop Apps, Effective March 19, 2024". Just relax and install BlueStacks Android emulator for Windows on your desktop. Then install Authy, & you have a crude but effective workaround.

I posted the above on Twitter in February.
Does your code work? Did you train it? Any graphs?

>Of course, if my code doesn't work, it doesn't mean theirs doesn't.

But, _does_ it work?
XMPP dev and XSF member here.

I'm using XMPP for chatting of course, but also for blogging (my blog is XMPP based), A/V calls, events organization, file sharing, photo albums sharing, as a remote (with ad-hoc command, I've even built an specific UI to control MPRIS supporting player). I'm building an agenda, a forum, a generic list tool (TODO, shopping list), and other stuff.

I'm using Snikket to host a small server for family and friends, with accompanying mobile clients.

I've also built an XMPP <=> ActivityPub gateway (soon to be released, but dev version is already available), so my blog is accessible from any AP supporting client, and I can access the AP ecosystem (including events as seen in Mobilizon).

There is Slidge IM if you wanna talk to legacy network such as Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord, Mattermost, Steam, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Matrix, VoIP.ms.

There is Biboumi if you wanna talk to IRC.

There are old and new email gateways on the work (I'll be working on one myself).

XMPP is used in many fields (from healthcare to games), you can have an idea at https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/ but I have the feeling that this list is not up-to-date and is incomplete. I think that it's used in Fornite for instance.

So yeah, we may not be the best for marketing, and we not have as much resources as we should, but XMPP is still well alive and kicking!

edit: Fornite is actually mentioned at https://xmpp.org/uses/gaming/ .
Wait until you hear about Thames Water and Maquarrie in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/10/as-thames-w...