skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Devil Daggers" has an action on release scheme, you play as a floating hand that shoots daggers with two firing modes, a "shotgun" like dagger blast, and a "stream" of individual daggers. The first, which you activate by clicking then quickly releasing, does a lot of damage, but suffers from a cool-down. the latter, which you get by holding for a certain amount of time, is good if you need constant damage.

Interestingly, the game programmed this behavior by moving the position of the hand. When you press LMB, your hand begins traveling forward. If it reaches a certain position, it will start the dagger stream. If you let go before it gets to that spot, it activates the "shotgun" and teleports the hand backward to naturally introduce a cool-down, returning to the neutral position after some time.

People figured out that, because holding the mouse down moves the hand forward, if you shotgun then re-hold the mouse button, your shotgun cool-down is much lower. Most runs will do this because it allows you to do the most damage in the quickest time, but initially learning it is really strange because you don't expect the action to be on release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNrCdNFAYW4
Limiting to one halt does easily shave off a few bits.

Looking at the state transitions:

12 * log2(3+1) is 24 bits

log2(12) + 11 * log2(3) is only 21.02 bits

And since the specific output symbol and movement direction of the halting state don't matter, that's another few bits you can throw away.

So that gets you down to 54.02 bits before you even consider factoring out symmetries.
Thank you wushi! Looking forward to your feedback after trying it out!
Another plus one from me. I don’t have the same workplace policies, but even for personal use I’d prefer a ‘plain’ monitor.
Using demolished concrete rubble in roads is pretty much the lowest form of recycling possible. Up-cycling it so you can make new cement and ultimately new concrete which can be used structurally at a huge carbon advantage is far more valuable - most certainly from a carbon perspective and likely from a financial one as well.
okay, now I'm very interested.
I don't think Maxwell's equations are going anywhere anytime soon.
I just watched that video. I feel bad for the kid. Even in the absolute best case scenario, Ukraine wins and he has to live the rest of his life with nightmares of all the people he killed. I know this isn't exactly productive discourse but God, war is incredibly bleak.
This doesn't scratch the employer itch, but I think you could use an android VNC viewer app and then run a VNC server targeting a small vertical monitor attached to your workstation.

I imagine pulling up the document that I want to read, putting it on the correct monitor, and then grabbing the tablet and taking it to my hammock for some heads down reading time.
Just lift the seat with your foot if you don't want to touch it.

And (at least in the mens room) leave the seat up unless you need it, and if you use it, put it up when you're done. That keeps it clean for the next person.
Except the story isn't false? They wanted her voice, they got her voice*, they did marketing around her voice, but it's not her voice, she didn't want to give them her voice.

Notice how the only asterisk there is "it's technically not her voice, it's just someone who they picked because she sounded just like her"
That’s an interesting thought. Just order your fast food through Gemini, or schedule your car repair or book a hotel directly through gemini without going to a different website.

I haven’t even considered that.
I had heavily pondered investing in Nvidia in 2014 when I thought deep learning was really becoming interesting (90+% of my other investments are in index funds) in some sense, I had some expert knowledge of the field. However, I thought that margins would compress because AMD, Intel, and perhaps other firms would get involved... Boy was I wrong.
»I did the same thing «with my» » style»
Came here to ask this. Depending on the SoC, bringing up Linux via postmarketOS could be pretty easy.
I'd argue you are both right and wrong here. What are constructive ways to get people to join in the process. Telling them to do it doesn't work, so how do we influence them to increase that participation? I have a kid, telling him X, Y or Z is the fastest way to get him to avoid those solutions. The only thing I have found that works is to get the real world to tell him or to have his piers tell him. It sounds ridiculous but what about a reality tv show where the contestants try to rally their neighborhoods to effect the most positive change and along the way they show how they did it. A big part of throwing your hands up is not knowing where to put them.
At the end of the day, people make whatever choice they’re gonna make for how they spend their time

If they spend their time entertaining themselves, then they’re not going to spend their time shaping the world into what they think it should be

So the people who are going to shape it the way that they want it, are going to continue to do what they want and you’re gonna have to deal with that

So you can take it however you like, but the functional fact is that people are choosing not to spend their time shaping the environmental regulations, the types of social structures that are going to prevent these anthropogenic traps like we’re starting to see

So the only thing I would say is, great do whatever you gotta do but then don’t complain when things aren’t the way you want them at the macro scale and you’ve got testicles full of plastics, live in ongoing genocide, and have no clean drinking water

But don’t worry, there’s always Hans Rosling and his soothing balm of misleading statistics and folk “science” to make you feel like everything‘s going just fine
There's a WiFi standard for screen casting. No idea how it works. Support seems spotty, though steadily growing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast
With these companies crawling the internet, it’ll be a race to create content. Then reuse the models to generate more, new content for your website

It’ll be diminishing returns for visitors
I'd recommend giving grayscale mode a try not only during bedtime, but all the time! My Pixel has been set this way for a couple months and it has decreased my mindless phone usage by simply making the phone more boring overall, without any new device or major sacrifices.

I became concerned that I'd turn it off when I temporarily needed color and forget to turn it back on, so instead I used Tasker to listen for L-R shake action and make that temporarily disable grayscale mode for 20 secs (in case I specifically decide I want to look at color in a photo or disambiguate something from grayscale). Works decently well, I can explain the Tasker steps if anyone else is interested.
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines Redefined by Machine Learning
As the OEIS entry says:

> for any other busy beaver BB based on self-delimiting programs, there is a constant c such that a(c+n) >= BB(n)

This requires an information theoretic measure of program size, such as bits or bytes, whereas the TM-based BB measures in states. I don't believe there are additively tight bounds on how many states are needed to encode an arbitrary string of n bits.
I swear I saw a screenshot of Microsoft’s with ads inline. I couldn’t find it after.
Google is now getting more user data and feedback than any other LLM tool. Because Google's AI feature uses data from the web, this effectively becomes an information accuracy bug report for all of human knowledge. Teaching an LLM "truth" is extremely difficult, but getting lots of feedback is a big advantage.
> But that doesn't then mean that anyone who sounds somewhat like ScarJo (but certainly not identical) becomes retroactively unusable or makes it vocal impersonation.

yes. yes it does. That's what TFA is saying. Waits' case is exactly about this. They hired a singer to make a recording to sound like Waits. OpenAI hired a voice actress with a voice like Her to make their AI sound like Her. And then their CEO tweeted "her". It's that simple.
Doesn't ship to Australia :(

But checkout with Bitcoin Lightning :O
It's interesting that the model is not smart enough to understand satire.
Sure, things like blogs.

But if you need info for a movie or something, where will the data come from? Back to newspapers?
If you're drinking so much water that you urgently have to pee once an hour you might be over doing it. You can overhydrate. Your urine should be a light straw color. If it's totally clear you might be overhydrated. If it's darker yellow you are probably dehydrated.

On the plus side, it does force you to take the recommended breaks from sitting in front of a screen.
Yeah, it's pretty annoying.

I could happily live without animation, transparency, and rounded corners in my UI.

Not sure what new 'features' I couldn't live without. I don't use the background indexing/search stuff, I switch off Cortana, I try to stop as much of the background stuff as I can.

Perhaps there's some pressure from the underlying platform too - modern PCs seem to be more complicated than the ones we used to run XP on.
What part of "actor" in "voice actor" did you not understand? You don't hire an actor to play themselves generally. "SJ" was not playing herself in Her.
Affinity 2.5 adds key new tools and world-leading optimisation for Windows users
I used to think along these lines, then I had kids. I thought it was just appealing to kids, and then I realized they are just more obvious and transparent in what works.
> the eastern half of the country

For Missouri's sake, I hope they meant eastern seaboard :D
My thinking in these kinds of situations is "Seems like one more business that thinks they make too much money", with the obvious consequence of not coming back except under extreme duress (like, someone in the party really insists or they are the only place open.)

Is there no awareness in that industry - at any level - that some rules are an excellent way to lose business?

A local place has (well, had) an outstanding, unusual pizza. We were big fans and went often. Soon they started ignoring the ingredient ratio in their own recipe, then started ignoring the (paying) "extra X" options in the order. We started pointing out the problem, then pointing out the problem at the time of the order, then making sure the staff knew what it was we wanted when we ordered... then obviously gave up. Some places just aren't cut out for staying in business.
Nah, it's a gaming term that goes back to at least 2006 (first I'd seen it). When you're grinding 10 hours on some new raid in WoW it was common to say "brb bio" or "Everyone take a 5 min bio break" etc.
The model doesn't actually understand shit, satirical or otherwise.
Is Denmark named after Danes or are Danes named after Denmark.
Yeah sure, so people should not raise kids or have any leisure ever. OK.

I'll complain as much as I like, thank you very much, because your rhetoric does not work -- you are outraged and that's visible in your comments, which robs them of objectivity.

Paying taxes should lead to my interests being protected. That's the social contract. If that's not happening then history knows of many examples where the leaders were completely blind of the interests of their subjects and received a rough wake-up call (often lynching resulting in death even). It will happen again, it seems.

Also nobody thinks everything's going just fine. That's your faulty assumption. It's just that most of us haven't gotten to the point of starting to curse and grab a shotgun to make ourselves heard... yet.
Does anyone have any idea if the hurricanes will eventually hit the U.S. West Coast? Will climate change change the climate so much that the West Coast will eventually see hurricanes?
Where has anyone disputed "that they hired the actor that did the voice months before they contacted SJ"? Links preferred please.
And "England" - land of the Angles (whence is derived the Anglo- part of Anglo-Saxon).
It’s not actually normal e-ink, it’s a kind of LCD, that’s why they say e-paper and not e-ink

I think it’s like the kind of LCD you see on calculators and clocks and the original Game Boy, that doesn’t need a backlight to be visible but can have one
Yeah I also noticed that fluid intake reduced my food consumption. I was eating to get water.
Porsche has a similar solution for race tracks and remote press events. A 2.1 MWh trailer that can dispense power at 3.2 MW.

I think they are doing some clever things with solar to keep it charged (basically constant trickle charge with whatever they can generate), but the array might be pretty massive.

https://www.porsche.com/stories/mobility/how-does-a-mobile-c...
There's plenty of footage you can see of how the FPV drones are used.

> to evade detection and interception.

I was under the impression that the Reaper was typically used where US has air superiority. There is an international combat guy on Youtube who fought with the YPG in Rojava and has been hunted by that type of loitering drone, he said they are easy enough to hide from, but the main thing is that they are almost always around-- and eventually lead to complacency. To quote the IRA: "we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."
Every month of this sliding calendar has 31 days.
The point is that the 8 glasses of water a day thing is bullshit. I see people carrying giant jugs of water around all the time and people commenting on basically forcing this on themselves. Drink when you're thirsty. That's all you need to do.
I like how it references Reddit and Quora, the ultimate repositories of human knowledge.

"Trust me on this one, I got it from Quora."
OpenAI should have chosen Gilbert Gottfried for its voice.
This video essay about Bo Burnam was very interesting, and gave me a lot more context to his recent movie Inside. I enjoyed the movie a lot, but it had a lot more depth in the messaging than I even initially thought. I wasn't aware of a lot of his work prior, but he has been pretty consistent with his messaging throughout most of his career underlying the veil of humor.

He once said very clearly and seriously, "if you can live your life without an audience, do it."

I'm sure Tom experienced lots of the unfavorable aspects of the attention (and perhaps scrutiny) he garnered.

https://youtu.be/I89Lz7CdLuM
Mechanical energy absorbing efficiency discovered
> Policy tuning is one way to remove it, but there's some research on applying policies like "this text is a lie" during pretraining instead of trusting all of it equally.

Who's gonna vet all the training material?
Source: "Going Infinite" by Michael Lewis. Chapter 9.

> Gary never said when he would leave, or how he would leave—­which was an
issue, as the Bahamas had taken his passport. On Sunday night, without a further word to
anyone, he just slipped, unnoticed, out of the Orchid penthouse. The lawyer who spirited
him off arranged with US authorities to supply him with a second passport, so that they
might smuggle him back to the United States before the government of the Bahamas
knew what had happened.
Yep, I think it's better, FWIW.
I really like the walkthrough video. If I were in your target market I'd definitely try it.
I've been in the market for an e-ink tablet for a while, but was always turned off by the ghosting and low refresh rates. It's out of my price point right now, but if it gets cheaper for future generations, I'll definitely buy it!
Like this is literally the first step in the process.

You’re supposed to be able to go to your congressional representative and local councils for your specific input. They have a entire staff and they have a process to do this. I have regularly engaged with my elected congressional representatives and my local city Council members at every step along my life to lobby them for things I want.

When I was in high school, I lobbied the Webster, TX city Council to build a skate park because we didn’t have one in the 90s. Now there’s a Webster skate park

I was elected to the planning board for the city of Cheverly, Maryland where we took citizen input every month and then at our quarterly review meeting so that we could determine what kind of new development would happen in our town

I did all of this while raising three kids and having a full-time job, including getting up at night to change diapers and all of that and I even ran ultramarathons in there too, and started a business

The fact that you think that it takes some huge effort shows how broken our system is
Also, don't forget the ads!
The parent does mention there was nobody at the front to greet customers. Then nobody who considered fixing the situation.

Do you feel the problem (sorry, "norm") contributed to improve or lower the bottom line of that business? Do you feel this improved or hurt the likelyhood these customers will come back? Do you feel they were the only ones to have run into this problem?
Patience apparently
You might also like these: https://shop.boox.com/products/mira
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This is a great use case. If I were a famous actor, I would require them to take my voice and use AI to translate into another language. They will likely still need another voice actor to have the AI voice follow to get it right. But I would want my voice on every version.

Also, AI to change my lip movement so that it does not look dubbed.
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I have the remarkable and the main reason I don't use it and use an android tablet (with a normal screen) instead is because of the remarkable's bad software support; can't sync documents and notes securely (e2ee) using standard tooling.

Put money in supporting mainline linux distributions and I will buy this in a heartbeat. Many would.
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today's e-ink displays could provide some sort of color, can anyone tweak the color for coding friendly so we can use it in editor or terminal? Just 8 colors would be sufficient for most programming tasks.
Is this intended for use by providers or consumers/patients? Authorized providers can use TEFCA through a QHIN to query for treatment purpose of use, which is supported by all participants.

How does your service differ in practice from existing networks of networks like Health Gorilla and Particle Health?
I was on the Samsung Bixby team as part of Samsung Electronics / Samsung Research America and we did work with the various appliance teams. I've never noticed a difference between "companies" when I was working with the teams at the Korean HQ (and some of them also visited us in the bay area as well). Not sure if the appliance teams were part of Samsung Electronics or not.
I live a mile in elevation, if I wait till I am thirsty to drink, my hands turn to ash, my voice gets coarse, and my brain turns to mush. Not everyone has the same needs. Don’t worry about anyone else drinking too much water please.
I'd love one of these displays in my MNT Reform too. Another (tiny!) indie tech company :)
It sounds like they're calling it e-paper because it's a variable refresh reflective LCD, not e-ink.
Recent and related. Others?

Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433384 - May 2024 (60 comments)

Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40422136 - May 2024 (50 comments)

Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 with Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417703 - May 2024 (3 comments)

iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Resurface Deleted Photos on Wiped, Sold Devices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393913 - May 2024 (31 comments)

iOS 17.5 is allegedly resurfacing pictures that were deleted years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372867 - May 2024 (23 comments)

iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370078 - May 2024 (47 comments)
> You would have to try VERY hard to drink too much water.

On what do you base this claim? I think it's badly overstated. I'd say instead that it depends on circumstance. Seated in an air-conditioned office, you might be right. But if you are doing endurance athletics in a hot desert environment, it can be both easy and dangerous to drink too much plain water: https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/the-dangers-of-hyponatrem...
> hallucinated the answer

An LLM that's "hallucinating" is doing the exact same thing as an LLM that's generating "correct" output. =)
That may be true, but you specifically said "on this site" and now you're saying "this is not specific to this site". And no, the vast majority of people "try[ing] to pull them down" to Musk are doing it because he's an egotistical hypocritical whiny jackass.
Demystifying Kubernetes Observability with Generative AI and LLMs
x-cmd is a great CLI that I've been using recently, and it has significantly streamlined my workflow. x-cmd is very lightweight (no more than 1MB) and offers a range of interactive CLI tools. now there are more than 210 modules, more than 520 packages. Additionally, you can even combine the module functions with AI (openai, gemini,mistral...).

example: x wkp extract 'Apple M4' | @gemini 'Apple M4 release date'

Search for extract about Apple M4 on Wikipedia and parse it using Gemini AI

https://x-cmd.com/
And CodeBuild…
> Remote work is great, but it probably accelerated Google's culture decline.

Absolutely agree. A lot of the top talent bailed when they started demanding return to office. Google played the "if you don't X we will fire you" with a bunch of L7+ that ... surprise, could easily get jobs elsewhere or had enough GSUs to flat out retire.
I doubt it, that decision wouldn't be consistent with other rulings with regards to engineering work. Depending on the jurisdiction, the engineer (actual licensed engineer) stamps their seal of approval on the work and takes responsibility. Even if the software they used had a bug in it that caused ti to produce wrong answers, they are still responsible.
Completely is a wild overstatement of what OpenAI has done to Google. There was an article on hackernews a few weeks ago about the actual trends that showed GPT had barely scratched Google's share of traffic and that OpenAI was hemorrhaging users after the initial sign up.
On one hand I find it stupid to blame AI for this given that you get basically the same info card with AI disabled. On the other hand, the non-AI version properly shows where it found the info while the AI version just gives links to pages where other people ask the same question. This has been my fear of LLMs being used as more general search engines. They can't tell you which part of the training data the output came from.
I think it’s clear from context we are not talking about a desert endurance race. I would hope anyone engaged in such an endeavor would be working with a doctor to help set their own guidelines.
> US scrap metal companies were furiously selling scrap to Germany & Japan in 1939

In Herman Wouk's novel The Winds of War, an admiral, aboard an aircraft carrier near Pearl Harbor in 1940 or -41, groused to his officers that (paraphrasing from memory) "sooner or later the [Japanese] are going to come steaming over the horizon, burning Texaco oil and shooting pieces of old Buicks at us."
I bought mine, and this was before they were giving them to YouTubers. I've definitely seen those videos since then.
The desalination debate is always a little interesting for me - first, I’m curious what they’re pricing in as the lifetime of the plant, because I always hear the capital costs are too high, but that’s a function of total water produced, and second is that the demand for water is pretty friggin’ inelastic, and as a Californian, I’m pretty sure the supply is constrained. I’m convinced that at some point we’re going to be very, very sad that we talked ourselves out of building those plants.
What's the gain of -t if the extraction target is disposable?

Does -x have some side effect that -t would list for you?