skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because as I've said above, the state of the agent determines what choice it will make. The state of the agent is determined by outside stimuli just like everything else. This conversation here is a great example why I consider the idea of free will to be mostly a religious concept and a thought-trap.

Like I said before the more interesting questions are about the interaction of a system with the rest of the world such as what brought the system to a state that it makes a certain choice, what are the dynamics of that state, how might that state change based on different stimuli, can we nail down what exactly is going on in all the relevant parts of the system at a given time etc and if not how close can we get.
I think this is missing something. I'd propose as an alternate - a game is fair if players of equal ability have the same chance of winning. This allows for fair but asymmetric games.
This is the major problem that neither political party seems to have anything to say about (let alone a viable plan to deal with it). The party that gets serious about the housing affordability crisis could do very well, but for whatever reason they don't seem to want to focus on this issue.

I was just looking at the reddit for our town yesterday and a guy with a family was posting about how they had been forced out of their rental house recently due to a sale and are now living in motels while trying to find a rental they could afford and qualify for (he'd had an eviction years ago and that was on his record). He said that that having to live in a motel was quickly draining their funds. Seems like this family is just about to be homeless and this is becoming more and more common for middle class people now given the level of rents.
I have to say I don't actually care or know very much about the merger, but the fact remains that there were other possible outcomes than the merger going through as it did. If regulators had blocked the merger, one of those would have happened instead. AFAICT there is no way to refute this argument. Possible futures at that point in time were are F_1 through F_n. If we had eliminated F_1, we would instead have F_2 through F_n. Maybe F_2 through F_n all entail a complete collapse of the US and world economy, or maybe they would have better outcomes. I don't know, but one of them WOULD have happened.
But for this algorithm, you need to know the total length ("m") to set the threshold for the register purges.

Does it still work if you update m as you go?
But refuting them doesn't matter, because they just parrot the original line anyway.
> finding a place with no fire/building code inspection

How does one find these areas?
I always wondered who is behind these attacks, they don't seem targeted since they do them on random ips.

I did a bunch of Devops a few years ago on a Startup, and whenever i started a new AWS EC2 instance, i started getting request for Wordpress files, and other common CMS files.
So it's not the codes that are the actual issue, but the bureaucracy?
Totally off topic but I'll be driving there later this afternoon. Hoping it's as beautiful as last time!
>Shitty companies will ask you esoteric details like this that aren't relevant to your job, in which case you should avoid them anyway.

I sure do wish I had the luxury to do that. How the times have changed so quickly.

That's pretty much why I detest the leetcode stuff that pops up even in games interviews. I'm going to be digging into decades old poorly documented legacy code to provide custom tooling for a studio's workflow. Why the hell do I need to know how to make NxN Bingo solver in Log(N) time on the fly? I guess if you gave me 20 minutes to refresh myself on dynamic progamming I could do it, but I made the "mistake" of studdying Unreal Engine/C++ trivia instead (which I've also had on other interviews), as well as real questions like what impacts and tasks I was doing at other studios.

But it's a circus out there and I just have to put on the makeup. I'm preparing long term to not have to deal with this, but I just need another 3 years or so minimum to stabilize myself and prepare my plans.
This is very exciting. I don’t have any GPU background, but I have been worrying a lot about CUDA cementating itself in the ecosystem. Here devs don’t need CUDA directly which would help decoupling the ecosystem from cynical mega corps, always good! Anyway enough politics..

Tried to see what the language is like beyond hello world and found the guide[1]. It looks like a Python and quacks like a Haskell? For instance, variables are immutable, and tree-like divide and conquer data structures/algorithms are promoted for getting good results. That makes sense I guess! I’m not surprised to see a functional core, but I’m surprised to see the pythonic frontend, not that it matters much. I must say I highly doubt that it will make it much easier for Python devs to learn Bend though, although I don’t know if that’s the goal.

What are some challenges in programming with these kind of restrictions in practice? Also, is there good FFI options?

[1]: https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/bend/blob/main/GUIDE.md
One of the closing sentences is

> In hindsight, we should have load-tested our staging app with the new router.

When I go to the homepage, it says that

> Judoscale is a dedicated autoscaler for Heroku, Render, and AWS, because scaling is too important to be an afterthought.

There are so many things I would like to write about the overall state of today's software landscape, but rather I will just leave it to your imagination.
It might not have completely negated the need to print off all of that money, but it would have negated a good deal of it. The alternative would have been to have backed the checks with pre-existing money. That would have meant having a sane tax policy and a lack of military adventures in the United States over the last 30 years.

The lack of housing supply happened because some geeked-up bankers 15-20 years ago decided to gamble the nation's economy on its ability to pay for mortgage rates that had gone out of their teaser rates. That destroyed the residential construction industry. We never caught up, because catching up means that the people responsible for the whole mess to begin with would have faced real financial consequences. The fact that building codes and zoning laws are what they are doesn't help, but it all comes back to money, and remember, there's a reason those zoning laws and building codes were there to begin with.
Agree with this sentiment plus the Department of State 7th Floor Group to be more specific
OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks
The most bizar thing in Europe to me is that many countries are straight up tax havens, no capital gains taxes, but then tax labor so highly.

It's a wonder to me, and I feel like many europeans don't even realize. In US, the commonwealth is funded by the rich. In Europe, by everybody else.
> 1. If you just give people money to pay for childcare or whatever, but there's not enough labor, then all that happens is that the price gets bid up higher.

All of these countries have universal childcare starting at 12-18 months with over 90% attendance. I think point 2 is worth investigating, it could be a truly ludicrous number though for all I know.
Me and all my cousins lost our native language. It's common for kids.

> But just as they are good language learners, children are good language forgetters. Linguists generally agree that a language acquired in early childhood tends to have greater emotional resonance for its speaker. But a child who stops speaking a language before age 12 can completely lose it. For those who stop speaking a language in childhood, that language can erode — so much so that when they try to relearn it, they seem to have few, if any, advantages, Schmid says, compared with people learning that language from scratch.
Apparently constructed in 1929. You think those wireless people would have been more careful when they reappropriated the name.
Quoting from the article:

"A significant part of the problem was figuring out exactly what distortion Escher had used to blow up the centre of the picture; firstly because we wanted to "undistort" the picture in order to be able to copy the townscape, and secondly so that we could transform our final photograph into something that looked like Escher's print."

...

"Our eventual solution was to take a number of separate shots, zooming in on distinct parts of the model, and glue them together as a mosaic panorama. The image above was constructed in this way from 16 images. The final Escher transformation was implemented in a custom C program that I hacked together."
Cool bot. I'm guessing there most be some advantages to having a system that climbs the wall instead of descends from a line to justify the extra complexity.
lol this is absurd. NO wonder people are turning to crypto or meme stocks for gambling. casinos are the most rigged of all
> only tracks X/Y coordinates of player(s)/monsters.

It does, otherwise Lost Souls and Cacodemons wouldn't able to fly.
Has anyone ever met one of these mythical “Apple fans”? I have a lot of people in my circle that are repeat apple customers for all the obvious reasons, but they are in no way “fans”, just repeat customers.
> 32

You didn't have a spouse or kid well before the covid/inflation boogeyman, as did all of your peers.
Very good read (I read the transcript rather than watch)

> 60 percent of the cost of building a home goes to permits

Is an incredible indictment of our system
D Language:

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you're less likely to die from a fentanyl shot that you know the exact concentration of, than injecting adulterated white powder with nothing to base the dosage on.
Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date
I don't know about your state, but when I was unemployed earlier this year, we qualified for Medicaid. We are financially independent except for the house so if it were paid off, that would be my plan for the kids. Certainly makes me less worried about taking time off to start a business or something .. the state would immediately cover my kids and my wife and I would be four hundred a year or something

Because you'd make no income you qualify for a lot of benefits.
This reminds me of a hacker news comment that blew my mind - basically "I" am really my genetic code, and this particular body "I" am in is just another computer that the code has been moved to, because the old one is scheduled to be decommissioned. So I am really just the latest instance of a program that has been running continuously since the first DNA/RNA molecules started to replicate.
Wondering if this approach could I found myself be applied to CFD (computational flow dynamics) methods to reduce the total volume of data points while still getting approximately close to the correct final answer?
Honest question, is this a paid advertisement article?
Some of the most fun I had in games was finding unbalanced mechanisms that gave me more power than intended. Diablo 2 had a ton of that. Later versions were too balanced for their own good. Of course this is not a sustainable state so the move to seasons in v4 is a good compromise to let some of the imbalance come through, but with a predictable sunset window.
I think this is often called balance. It is a good measure but very difficult to measure, particularly for asymmetric games as players might have different levels of ability when playing on different sides.
The array decay is probably the worst mistake C made, and was unfortunately carried over to C++. Fortunately, it is fixable:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
Thank you Jan for your work and your courage to act and speak candidly about these important topics.

Open question to HN: to your knowledge/experience which AGI-building companies or projects have a culture most closely aligned with keeping safety, security, privacy, etc. as high a priority as “winning the race” on this new frontier land-grab? I’d love to find and support those teams over the teams that spend more time focused on getting investment and marketshare.
Same chance each game or over time?
The live specimens at the London Zoo’s Penguin Pond “provoked a range of anthropomorphic media analogies, including soldiers on parade, ‘Dominicans in feathers,’ and ‘self-conscious chorus girls.’”

Okay, but if you ask what particular kind of person a penguin resembles, isn't "guy in a tuxedo" way ahead of all other answers combined?
The pro and con are the same. The pro is when you charge enough for healthy profit and good nights of sleep. The con is when you don't.

So in the beginning it doesn't matter. Maybe later it will, The only way to know is to pick one and see what happens.

Success and failure will be determined by the quality of your customers and the scale of your knucklehead mistakes. Your sales contract is rounding error. At Good luck.
Or you know, there's this crazy idea, every country or city can just invest into affordable housing and make it so that you can actually get some place to live, even if you're in poverty.

In practice it's just reasonable, it works in places like Vienna, it doesn't have to be luxurious housing, but it should be relatively ok, cheap to maintain, but also safe to live, with enough space to have children.

Why can't we regulate and subsidize such fundamental stuff? Everyone needs some place to live, some food, some water, some way to move, some basic services and utilities.

What's the reason that some wealthiest countries in the world can't provide even bare minimum for most people? It's only greed of the wealthy. It's too expensive for them to treat us all as humans, with some empathy. They prefer to keep things as it is, so about 2000 people controls about 90% of all capital.
You're right, but let’s be honest, most of “spray painting” is just tagging. Even as a kid I found big spray painted murals “cool”, but thought tagged places as “ran down”. I met a guy a few years ago who told stories about spray painting large murals in underpasses, but gave up when others started to tag over his creations.

I obviously don’t have a solution to this, but it’s hard to argue how spray painting is net good even for kids.
Doom isn’t a simulation so changing a constant isn’t really an example of anything.

It’s just screwing with some routines.

Thats why most of the changes are unplayable.
You can live in a car, but you can't drive a house :)
bills won't help you. What will help is education. With education each one can decide with quality. But you don't want the people to be educated, right? thats the whole problem. only that.
> also drove the 'room over room' technology which was groundbreaking at the time.

Descent did this in 1994.
Great article. I used to be into charting a lot and ran a charting product at a famous firm. Would love to see the thoughts of the author on other charts like radar and treemap. :) Great read.
> Corporations arent buying housing in the vast midwest for this exact reason

Except they are buying lots of housing. Even in nothingsville-small-city Midwest, we're experiencing exploding housing prices, despite no real barriers to construction at all.
I remember a Descent PVP level that was a big room with a corridor that came off of one end and went to the other by looping back through the main room but was not visible inside of the main room. Was a bit of a mindbender in a game that already stretched the players spatial awareness.
Unfortunately there is no mac support. I‘d love to see something as powerful as Meshroom running on my mac.
Reminder: You're replying to a comment about graffiti potentially covering something that's supposed to be transparent.
Is it though? An honest question?
I wear a mechanical watch and I love it for a few reasons.

First and foremost, I like how it looks. It's jewelry.

I also love that it's a little self-powered machine that captures energy from me living my life and stores it in a little spring. When I hold it very close to my ear and listen carefully, I hear the 4 Hz ding-ding-ding-ding-ding sound that can calm me down almost instantly when I'm feeling a lot of anxiety. If I don't want to hold my wrist to my ear, just watching the second hand moving around the dial has a similar effect.

I feels alive, it's an engineering marvel, a work of art, and useful.

I also have a digital watch I wear for similar reasons. It lacks the kinetic qualities of the mechanical version, but it too is beautiful, a technical marvel (to me), and useful.
Technically, everything can be used to kill.

You can stuff toilet paper into someones mouth until they choke to death on it.

Should we regulate the sale of toilet paper to prevent potential murders?
How have you calculated that price for 1Gbps? I'm looking at the numbers and it seems like the cheapest 1 Gpbs connection would be $70/mo?
Even specifying something like a RAL number is not enough. E.g. powder coatings with the same spec from different manufacturers or even from different lots from the same manufacturer can look noticeably different if placed next to each other. So in order to get a perfect match you need to coat your stuff from one batch of powder coating.
If you work through the TLA+ tutorial[1] it will help you get a good idea of the benefits and limitations of verification.

[1] https://learntla.com/
So... this is relevant if you think AGI superintelligence is a thing, and not so clearly relevant otherwise?
He's convinced that AGI is an eventuality.

His call for preparation makes it sound like it's near.
> do not need to have a language on the server process them like PHP making calls to a MySQL database.

Yes, that's what I said.

> If you download a static site and then clicked Save from the browser, you could then open the saved HTML content and it appear exactly as it did from calling the URL.

I don't really follow this. You could do that for literally any website, not just static sites.
Here's a take I did on the same thing where I create "stereo plots" (the cross eyed 3D thing): https://blog.k2h.se/post/stereo-plotting-in-r/ . Quite fascinating
+1 to Sveltekit. It’s a secret weapon for solo devs. I like to pair it with Pocketbase, Supabase, or Cloudflare KV.
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> What do you think a defense against this would even look like? To attempt to do so sounds almost absurd because it’s just such a remote possibility.

Stronger constitutional limits. For example, pardons should not be a thing that could be done unilaterally. Ideally, they shouldn't be a thing at all.

At the same time, the Constitution needs to be a bit more malleable. The Amendment process is notoriously hard, and the US Senate structure is uniquely unamendable.
People forget, finances for Millennials weren't great pre-COVID either. Lots of student debt taken on by a generation who were told they'd be absolutely nothing unless they got, at the very least, a bachelor's degree.

COVID just made things much, much worse.
ER docs working at Ascension hospitals
Aside that's a good example of why ownership is good and so why homes instead of apartments are good as well and as a corollary why WFH for all eligible jobs should be even mandatory by default with derogation only for proven reasons (yes, WFH means also the possibility to work outside big cities for many who do not WFH, thank to the mere spread mass of humans WFH produce)...
Unfortunately, where I live, more and more people have dogs. It's now a risky proposition to live in an apartment in a closed city block, because it's almost guaranteed that someone will leave a dog barking outside for hours.
Pantone.
Apple will find the sexual content and push for its removal. Not just the stuff on the front page, but anything that gets surfaced within a reasonable browsing session (that includes popular items, keywords etc.)

And it's not just Apple, payment processors also have strong opinions.

In general, sexual/erotic stuff has become a really hard thing to keep allowing in mainstream platforms.
I for one found the 'how is this possible' video near the bottom of the page to be unhelpful:

- surely for `3 x 3 = 9`, there is some concept of primitive operations?

- I get that replacement of patterns in a graph can be done in parallel, but (a) identifying when a rewrite rule should apply and (b) communicating the state of the updated graph to worker threads and (c) organizing worker threads to agree on which does each task all take some effort. When is this more work than the original computation (as in the 3x3 example)?
Thanks for this breakdown, I was too tired to protest but I completely agree with your interdiction.
I agree that "Man pretending to be woman, vs real woman" is just an example, used to introduce the question in the form of a party game between humans. I see the "something" it is replaced by as "Machine pretending to be human, vs real human".

I don't see indication that the machine must pretend to be human in addition to some other characteristic of the second player. I think the reason you see others as having "generalized it down" is that your interpretation is not apparent in the text.

> the more specific the identity, the more the real person will be able to reveal themselves, and the more difficulty the imposter will have impersonating them.

Definitely makes for a more difficult problem (arbitrarily difficult, even) and a potentially interesting extension.

Currently to me it doesn't seem as insightful as Turing's original proposal - there's no more inherent human benchmark of 50%, for instance, since humans can also be bad at impersonating some specific characteristic.
define sustainable - I mean, do non-growing businesses seem allowed to exist these days?
Ada and Pascal are both languages which allow multiple consecutive parameters with the same type and also use `name: type` syntax. I agree, even when using Ada/Pascal with colons its difficult to mentally parse.
> In Magic Realm you can spend 20 seconds failing four search rolls in a roll trying to find a treasure, then wait an hour to try again. In my game last week I aced the search roll on the first try and pulled two treasures from a three treasure stack on the next two rolls. (The odds of this were under a quarter of a percent, not quite one in a thousand but nice). Did I win? No. Did I remember that? Yes.

I think I can pretty unambiguously state that I don't want to play a game that has a 1-in-1000 chance of being "memorable" and otherwise sucks to play, and that's kind of what Magic Realm sounds like in this description.

I suspect TFA has missed its own point. It sounds like they want games to have opportunities for absurdity. That is not a goal at at odds with having typical gameplay be roughly fair. A game designed around making "good stories" out of absurd power imbalances sounds not fun, so will people even play it? If they do, and you get a good story out of it, did all the other players go home and say, "That game sucks and that player is a jerk."?