skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still long for the day when we can have procedurally-generated stories and quests that are actually interesting to play through.

It's an interesting artistic and technical challenge to investigate, absolutely. I hope people work on it, and I'm sure they already are.

However, let me also offer a counterpoint with something much simpler: coffee.

It is possible to fully automate the process of making an espresso drink. You can buy cheap versions of these machines that will sit on your kitchen counter; the quality of the drinks so produced is not the highest, but I suspect it's entirely possible to build a machine that would actually make high-quality drinks, perhaps with even more precision than a human can.

Yet the opposite trend has prevailed over the last few decades. Not long ago, Americans drank drip coffee (hence the approximation thereof as the Americano). This is an easy process to make in large batches with minimal labor. It is almost fully automatic, without any "automation". And certainly this still exists all over the place. But we now also have coffee shops everywhere -- witness the explosion of Starbucks out of its home in Seattle -- where people, baristas, individually make espresso drinks for customers. This is immensely popular.

Why are tons of people now employed in this way, and why hasn't it been automated? Is it really just a matter of cost?

I don't think so.

I think the knowledge that another person took the trouble to do something for you is in fact part of the product. Consider the practice of drawing designs, like leaves or hearts, in the milk foam. This is entirely unnecessary, from a taste perspective. If you put a lid on it, as is commonly done, you will not even see it. But it carries a message -- that somebody gave enough of a damn to do it.

(We could then analyze how this phenomenon gets watered down and eventually destroys itself when it tries to turn itself into a mass-produced fast-food franchise staffed by underpaid/exploited proletarians, but that would take this post in another direction.)

My point is, I think something similar happens in video games. The very knowledge that another person was involved is important. You are receiving communication from this person. It does something to synchronize, partially, your mind with theirs. And this is a thing we appreciate. If there's no person on the other end, why should we care?

This general phenomenon of paradoxiciality can be a bad thing. It can "feel like" socializing, without producing the actual, real, thick social networks that give us rich lives. There can be an exploitative and even druglike dynamic. It isn't entirely a good class of phenomena.

But in small doses I think it's good, useful, important. I think it's a core part of what makes art valuable. And of course, it applies to games.

This is why, I believe, we will not fully automate the telling of stories, or the making of lattes. The person doing it is important.
“Just rely on another government’s strict regulations and illegally create a business around it so you can get a few durable items oh and stop complaining about government regulation.”
The only essential aspect this article doesn't answer: How much does it cost? All the rest is metadata. I would have preferred a clear table with vendors, prices and features. And less bla-bla.
The F-22 can also cruise at supersonic speeds without afterburners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercruise.
i use rsync from my itunes/music.app library to the smb synology drive that acts as my plexamp library. works very well :)
> It almost seemed like an intentional snub at Nvidia.

I don't think anybody can come up with better intentional snubs at Nvidia than the Nvidia itself.

When it comes to their older graphics hardware, their drivers just refuse to work with newer kernels. GPU was capable to draw windows and play videos for a decade, but then, after a kernel update, it doesn't even show 1024x768 "garbage". Just black screen.

So effectively, buying Nvidia to use with Linux equals to buying hardware with expiration date.
There is a possibility that this has been fixed in newer versions or it was just a problem for me in SublimeText3 on Linux. But it happened, more than once. Your second version above is the one that I believed caused me the issue. I still use ST, but have autosave plugins and save everything to cloud storage now just for peace of mind.
> 1. Entry level action: [...] (machines can do almost 100% of these tasks at this point)

Haha, not even close. That's true if you take it in a very specific industrial bubble, where you do not _expect/instruct_ people to raise at others capacities, depending on the situation they face. Which often enough breaks/stops the whole process.

> Most humans only act at the first level.

Very suspicious classist take. That's different than to say that everyone acts at various levels, depending on the context. Some experts are not capable of doing the most basic of cooking or house cleaning, for instance.

> We’re already well past the point that ChatGPT is a more coherent “thinker” than all but the top 1% of all humans.

[needs citation]. Especially since the tech leaders in the AI industry seem unable to not reduce the world to a small digital box. They would definitely grow up their thinking with some philosophy and humanities.

> So what is good enough?

The question is not "what is good enough?", it's "what/who is this good for?". That's the basic question for any tech or tool you design/build/have.

So far, but for being a compelling and funny toy, whether in text, image, video, sound generation/manipulation, I'm not seeing real world use-cases where I would trust/relate to it more than to something that a real person had done by themselves.

Because on one hand, it's not deterministic. And on the other, it's not accountable.
The article states that the CPU has a limit of 4 instructions per cycle, but the sum2 method issues 5 instructions per cycle. Presumably one of them (maybe the increment) is trivial enough to be executed as a fifth instruction.
> Accuracy Super Resolution

That would have been worth first checking with a native English speaker.
Low orbits clean themselves up relatively quickly though, and that’s where most of the newest satellites are going.

One of the Shuttle’s selling points was exactly this mission. Apparently it recovered a total of five satellites, three of which were research satellites launched specifically with the expectation of being recovered ahead of time. The other two were mis-launched into the wrong orbit because of a rocket failure. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/15094/what-satelli...
Meanwhile, humans are still having problems building usable web pages.
> Maybe that's true for your employer. But it's bold to generalize. Certainly not true for the company where I work. And a quite sad view.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a business person, so I have no idea what the correct fancy terms are for any of these things.)

If the company had to choose between survival thanks to firing someone ("recovery to positive" predicted after all legal unemployment stuff has been paid), vs loyalty keeping people on payroll risking bankruptcy[1] if the current trend continues, then I would expect them to choose fire-now-and-secure-survival, rather than don't-fire-because-i'm-sure-it-will-all-work-out-somehow-if-i-stay-loyal.

After all, as an employee, I would also choose assured survival (moving companies) over loyalty (staying in the same company) the second I realize staying at the current company isn't beneficial for me (i.e. what the company pays me vs cost of living, not enough for savings, too little time to spend with family, always way too tired, etc).

If your company would choose loyalty over being profitable, then that's interesting for sure. (EDIT: Though there's some companies that just run at a loss off the founder's savings, so it could be possible. I'm not denying your claims, just find them unusual.)

[1]: Either because company is already on negative profit ("debt"? no idea if that is the correct word), or because current profit isn't enough to please VC and risks losing their support which would then put them on a negative profit situation.
I would not say that I would assume that North Korea is being honest but what makes you think that his fellow travelers are being honest either?
We should seriously consider and question what peer review is.

Peer review is very obviously not essential for science, as the most astounding science, which gave us the modern era we all have come to enjoy, was done without peer review.

In fact, it's well worth reading about Robert Maxwell and his influence in birthing the scientific publishing industry (yes, strangely Ghislaine Maxwell's father) and the inception of peer review. And it's well worth asking how effective peer review is at encouraging scientific progress, how effective it is at producing gatekeepers, and how it incentivizes those gatekeepers. I'd suggest it's far better at the latter, and produces poor incentives.

But in today's discourse, peer review has become unquestionable and that should make us ask more questions.
If this were a manned launch, I would guess that unless the telemetry showed something very off, they would most likely have completed the full second stage burn. That would have left Dragon in a 190 x 205 km orbit, which is stable. If I understand correctly, SpaceX doesn't do orbit raising for Dragon by restarting the second stage engine (which is where the RUD happened on this Starlink launch), but rather uses Dragon's own thrusters to raise orbit. So most likely this would have been a successful flight.

On Starlink flights they don't have the margin to reach a full circular orbit on a single burn. It's more efficient to achieve an eliptical orbit initially, then coast and perform a second burn at apogee. It's that second burn that proved problematic this time.

Edit: having watched the videos, it would have been clear to SpaceX that they had an oxygen leak right from the start of the second stage burn. So I guess it depends on whether the pressures and flow rates within the engine looked OK. If the leak was external to the engine, then the main risk would be running of out LoX - engines really really don't like ingesting a gas bubble instead of liquid. If it looked like they were getting low on LoX, I'm sure they would have initiated one of the abort modes. Otherwise it's probably safer to continue to orbit. They do have cameras inside the tanks, in addition to all the telemetry - they have occasionally shown then on the livestream.
> What other resources is there?

Charge money to the content consumer? Of course, that will be unacceptable for companies that make money from ads…they will prefer the dystopia. It will also be bad for us humans when our income dwindles because the machines take our jobs…which this paper shows it’s just a matter of time.
https://www.earth.org.uk and other sites and email and NTP and DNS run from the off-grid-powered RPi3B in the kitchen cupboard below me.
> Ask any artist to explain how color works, and they’ll launch into a treatise about how the Three Primary Colors—red, blue, and yellow—form a color wheel

I don't think the author asked _any_ artists how color works before writing this line.
This isn't data for serving user needs, this is data for spying on users
plexamp (in combination with tailscale) works very well :)
Do you have a reference for this equivalency?
Wow, just when I was looking for a reason to fire up my old 1998 bondi blue iMac G3, this pops up. What a weird, wild, and specific project!
Both the Democrats and Republicans are (were?) neoliberal economically throughout most of the past few decades.

Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law in 1993, which was probably one of the most impactful neoliberal policies for average Americans.

Trump's America-first, high tariff, nationalistic/isolationist rhetoric is very anti-neoliberal.
Why Does Everyone Hate Haskell, Jazz, and Pure Math?
EEG is more useful for seizure detection, but figuring out the electrodes is the tough part
lol, you can be fired in a minute in Russia if you're not a CEO's son
Yeah, wouldn't it be great if every application I had open could read my entire screen and act as a key logger to collect all my passwords and personal information? Obviously, since I installed the app, that means I have to trust it completely, and not trusting it completely is just silly!
"How is that even beneficial"

Linking works by linkbacks and other factors, there are specific organizations that reverse engineer googles alogorithms and there's an entire industry dedicated to hacking who gets listed on the first 1-3 pages of googles search results. AKA you can pay an SEO company to tell you what you need to link to get your webpage/company to float up the list of google results when people google for certain keywords. You have to understand there is big money in exposure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/google-s-...

Just see what google pays to be on apples iphone, thats a tonne of money, and we can be certain the bean counters have run the numbers.
Eh, public companies the dynamics are different - the CEO rarely has the shareholders by the balls, it’s usually the other way around. Private Equity or private corps? Always been this way, albeit they’re usually a lot more careful about PR and CYA.

Howard Hughes did things like Musk though. It’s part of his brand. Anyone doing business with him that didn’t expect some kind of shenanigans if things changed was being willfully ignorant.

If he was poor and did things this way, he wouldn’t have leverage and it wouldn’t work. Same if he didn’t have the shareholders by the balls.

What works is what matters eh?

Or as they say, he’s not crazy - he’s eccentric. When/if he ends up poor, we can call him crazy again.

Long term, Karma/reputation wise, I would hope you are correct. It is often how it has worked in the US.

If you were in Russia in the 90’s and assumed that is how it worked going forward, you’d be in pretty bad shape though eh? Hopefully you’d only end up broke/bankrupt and not in a Gulag or thrown out a window.

At the point someone is writing commercial leases, the kid gloves have been off a long time ago, and it’s hard for anyone to shed any tears for the outcomes.
I think most advice here is bad for long term career. Yes, you should ask to be paid for what you are worth, you should walk away from toxic culture and avoid being exploited.

Having said that, you need to care, care about your work, your team. You must give it all you have and have the pride of having produced great outcome. You will learn and grow and have a great
network of people.

Don't do this for others. Do it for yourselves and your mental health, because the joy of having done your best will be more rewarding in the long term.
The Nintendo Switch is a glimpse into what iOS/Android gaming could have been if there weren't such an extreme race to the bottom in that market, modern phones run circles around the Switches decade-old processor but the Switch has real actual proper games and your far more powerful phone just has casinos pretending to be games.
Getting up close and personal with space junk
It's industry standard to enforce MFA for customers of such sensitive data though. There's always going to be weak links.
Well it's starting to feel like data privacy just doesn't exist anymore. I don't know why administrators for big customer databases even bother setting passwords these days.
Aside from the casino story (high value target that likely faces tons of attacks, therefore an expensive customer for CF), did something happen with them? I'm not aware of bad press around them in general
For some reason, the website is in German. I can't change the language.
_Can_, but does it routinely outside of training/deployment situations? Like if you're just moving one from one side of the US to the other, you're probably going subsonic.
The Twelve Foundations for a Good Life
There are multiple games that use LLMs, available in Steam.
realistically, running LEDs over 60C spells their death.
I've routinely seen 5730 alike LEDs overdriven by more than 40mA (not just few).
And earlier this year my ssn was on the dark web due to their leak (or vendor). One year of monitoring? No, I’m going to need it for life.

Security is not a concern. There is no real incentive to change the status quo. Make them pay for monitoring indefinitely .
Did you procure the servers directly from Dell or through a distribution partner?
There are many problems with how many people perceive peer-review process that I gathered from my interactions with non-academics.

1. They assume that peer-review means reproducing the paper.

This is not the case. It just means that it is a work that followed the scientific method and does not have serious and obvious problems (like being a complete non-sense). Well there is a quality curve for that of-course depending on the editors/journals and peer-reviewers

2. Academics have to do peer review as part of their jobs.

It is always surprising for them to know that peer review is a volunteer based work in vast majority of cases. It is even a burden for many people that affects their actual funded work. The publishing industry has one of the highest profit margin for a reason.

3. The peer review process is the same across fields.

There is no way that CERN papers will be treated the same and a neuroscience lab at an average research institution. Not because of one being better and higher quality but because of different fields and journals..etc.

4. Peer-review is an essential part to confirm the results.

In reality peer-review is a filter to help scientists navigate the sea of new papers in their fields. And by filter I mean filter the non-sense and the low quality research not the correct results. Something also about making sure that the methodology and results make sense.

Those points are usually what I see people discussing and forming opinion based on. Any solution for the current academic problems will not only need a regulation and new policies. The real need will be a change the structure of funding and how it is allocated (with an actual increase in budget). This is where many people will start to think that there are other priorities for a budget increase.

By actual I mean an increase that really do more than barely catching with the inflation rate.
Those two systems have 116 launches combined. If there was one failure tomorrow,
that would be a 99.1% success rate vs falcon now at 99.7%.
Eh, iirc the source of the hack was just regular stealers like Redline, not "the dark web".

It was actually Snowflakes fault.

The threat actors were able to find a test/demo account they could log into and from there they were able to access prod things they shouldnt have.
Are you suggesting that boyboy, an Australian youtube channel that posts about everything, is a North Korean propagandist? Or is it me?

Anything said about north Korea that is not absolutely bonkers is propaganda?
Why does one person have admin on all those repos?

Why is Python still running any classic access tokens?

Why is the access token EVER in the source code?

What other stuff is “running on their laptop”?

No pass!

People with access to the repos shouldn’t also have access to push bits to the world. It puts those people with that access in grave physical danger.

Edit, https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-07-08-incident-report-leake...

This token has been in the wild for 15 months! The JFrog post cannot say that disaster was averted because we do not know.
Actually 1deg is enough.
I'd say the blame lies halfway between AT&T and Snowflake. If you let your customers have poor security practices, and you have the power to ensure a heightened security level, you're also partly to blame...
// on the backs of the Reagan 80s boom //
chuckle if you were even alive back in 1990, you would remember that the economy was pretty bad--or at least, we thought it was pretty bad; our scale of just how bad "pretty bad" can get has expanded throughout this century.

Fun Fact: Ronald Reagan raised my taxes. Graduate student stipends did not used to be subject to federal taxation---and then they were. Just a bit more than $100 was taken out of my pay check. $100 is a lot of money, when you are only making $800 a month.

So yeah, Reagan gave tax cuts to one class of people, and paid for them by raising taxes on another class of people (as I recall, he started taxing me to 'fix social security.' I hear that fix is about to run out, and they'll need another one if it is to last through my retirement.). Forgive me if I don't look back on the Reagan years with a golden, warm, fuzzy glow of nostalgia.
Consider the alternative: richer people, the few of them, but your game, other people pirate your game.

Now instead, you find a way to get the amount of dollars a person can pay extracting cents from the people who used to pirate a game, and hundreds from those who have money.

It’s bad for the game, but great for the developers’ pocket.

EDIT: for example, Nintendo made 3.7B in 2023, King made 2.7B or so it seems. Nintendo is one of a kind, companies like King are a dime a dozen.
If you go to court and ask for compensation you would likely be asked to show harm. Could you?
> Why can’t ECR support this kind of parallel uploads? The “problem” is that it implements the OCI Distribution Spec…

I don't see any reason why ECR couldn't support parallel uploads as an optimization. Provide an alternative to `docker push` for those who care about speed that doesn't conform to the spec.
Yes, that’s because they get flagged and deleted. Otherwise I’d have given you a list. Plus, even if I linked to specific comments the same thing would happen with mine - downvoted, flagged. I spend probably 20% of my day on HN, I’m embarrassed to say it, but I find it fascinating. Including the dark arts.

Edit: I tested my theory on a particular topic and linked to a guardian piece today, and you will see that it has already been removed. The title was: “ Why did Delta Airlines tweet that the Palestinian flag is ‘terrifying’?”

Now, if you are a hawk of HN like myself, and reasonable in any capacity, you’d see there was an absolute conversation piece to be had in an airline publicly saying a flag was terrifying… so many avenues of discussion. But it was closed down. I knew it would get closed down because like I say, HN is open to dark arts abuse.

But regardless, that’s what we get. We cannot have our cake and eat it too. Yes, there are groups of the powerful looking to manipulate HN but it’s still a fantastic place which allows interesting conversation on other topics which don’t cross the toes of the powerful. I am fine with that. If you have an issue, can always make your own version!
“Brad Jones, chief information security officer at Snowflake, told CNN in a separate statement that the company has not found evidence this activity was “caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration or breach of Snowflake’s platform.” Jones said this has been verified by investigations by third-party cybersecurity experts at Mandiant and CrowdStroke.

AT&T said it launched an investigation, hired cybersecurity experts and took steps to close the “illegal access point.””

That's pretty rich: “it wasn't misconfigured, it was just illegally open, and now we're closing it”.
Just a quickie - I don't think your counts are correct. It say 3 letters / 7 photos on the main page, but it's 4/8 if you click through :-)

Good luck with the project!
I think there’s some truth to the notion that they’ve done this in markets and stores where they are more likely to have a problem with homelessness and non-paying customers. I’ve seen first hand how much time and energy some Starbucks employees have to put in to waking people up who are sleeping in the store, cleaning themselves in the bathrooms, or trying to bring in a cart full of their belongings. Goes without saying (in my opinion) that it’s sad and a failing of society, but it also has to be a real problem for Starbucks.
> Yuri's heart rate goes up for 10-15' until he calms down.

If heart rate is reliable enough indicator of seizures, perhaps a heart rate monitor could be used?