skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Canadian brain drain, it fundamentally affects the Canadian culture and economy by the constant loss of talent and aptitude. The gravitational pull of the U.S. is too powerful.

Context for others: If you are a Canadian scientist, there is a 16% chance <https://np.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/37lgxg/the_...> that you will move to the US. That's not "16% of all Canadian scientists that move out of the country move to the US". Let me repeat: *16% of all Canadian scientists move to the US.* They're also likely to be among the top Canadian scientists, too.

By comparison, 5% of all American scientists move to another country, of which 32% go to Canada, so about 1.6-1.7% total. Since the US has nine times more people, that means that in absolute numbers the 1.7% of American scientists is about equal to the 16% of Canadian scientists, but there is no reason to think that the 1.7% makes up the top tier of American scientists; why would the best move north of the border? In other words, the US is receiving the best of Canadian scientists in exchange for an equal number of its non-best.

>Even I studied at two elite US schools, which put me on a path to H-1B like my peers in grad school一 but I didn't pursue that for personal reasons.

And you, of course, know that not doing so made you unusual.

Context for others: The probable successor to Trudeau as Liberal party leader went to Harvard. Not for grad school, for undergrad. Put another way, she has never attended higher education in her home country. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrystia_Freeland> Trudeau's pedecessor as Liberal leader spent 30 years outside Canada, mostly in the US, before being lured back to lead the party. After failing to become PM he immediately left Canada again for the US. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ignatieff>
Disagree.

But it's not really feasible to argue since you need to be on such high level in the first place to honestly engage in 'is this player chesting' conversation. And it's on case-by-case basis
The government controls the supply of money, they don’t need anyone’s money they already have complete monetary power.

Taxes don’t fund the government. All of the money the government collects via taxes is written off in a spreadsheet and disappears. The government then creates money, however much money it wants to, in order to fund its activities.
It's very hard to respond to a comment like that, since there's no specifics, just a plain disagreement.

On my side, I would like to point that the today HN thread ([1]) that discusses a paper GameNGen ([2]) that runs Doom with diffusion models was trained on TPUs.

I don't see a dependency on NVIDIA there.

If there's a more specific rebuttal to my original statement, please, don't hesitate to state it.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375548

2. https://gamengen.github.io/

3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14837
> With enough computation, your neural net weights would converge to some very compressed latent representation of the source code of DOOM. Maybe smaller even than the source code itself? Someone in the field could probably correct me on that.

Neural nets are not guaranteed to converge to anything even remotely optimal, so no that isn't how it works. Also even though neural nets can approximate any function they usually can't do it in a time or space efficient manner, resulting in much larger programs than the human written code.
I've been using rerun for the past year or so instead of tensorboard/wandb/etc for logging my ML training runs. I really like being able to just throw enormous amounts of arbitrary data back to my own laptop without worrying about cloud storage!

I will say the (not so recent) API change to "components" and "archetypes" hasn't clicked for me yet. Obviously I could sit down and figure it out. But it would be a lot nicer if the API could just ingest whatever damn types I throw at it, rather than raising an error 20-minutes in because I wasn't polite enough. The old API felt basically magic.
Finally, the AI superoptimizing compiler.
This looks so great! Do you have any plans to expand to other languages? I'd love something like this for Swedish.
I’m big into competitive Call of Duty. On that game (and any other shooter that uses a controller), the biggest undetectable cheat is auto recoil adjust. People call it a “chronus” for the same reason people call it Kleenex. You download profiles for the gun you're using and it basically does the recoil pattern in reverse, turning every gun into a laser beam. It’s undetectable because it modifies inputs from a legit controller while appearing completely normal to the console/PC. No computer vision needed, and it’s destroying the integrity of the game.

In the future I kind of hope the handshake from controller<->console becomes a lot more robust, maybe working in a similar way to HDCP.
Umm, that’s a theory.
That's where the Jewish lasers from space come in..
Yes, the government would be better than some random billionaire at using that money
> one can imagine a near future where text prompts are enough to create a fun new game

Sit down and write down a text prompt for a "fun new game". You can start with something relatively simple like a Mario-like platformer.

By page 300, when you're about halfway through describing what you mean, you might understand why this is wishful thinking
There is a fog-of-war mechanic, called 'vision'. In the game discussed in the monitor article (League of Legends), what is shown on the minimap is restricted to what your team can see at that moment.

The monitor is akin to having an experienced coach watch you play live. Is that also cheating? I think it is.

I also think it's impossible to detect, unless the player suddenly becomes extremely much better at the game. That's the best they can do to catch cheaters at chess. But chess is orders of magnitude easier to monitor, because the game state and input are small and simple.

When I first read about the monitor I realized that for many types of games cheating will become unstoppable. Although sad, the bright side is that it drove me away from online gaming even more, to the benefit of my overall health.
Imagine that Ukraine used a US messaging system for military comms. The head of that company visits Serbia (a country friendly to Russia) and is arrested on some charges that you don't agree with. Will you debate the charges or the consequences for Ukraine?

Maybe it's because I live very close to Russia and most of the people here probably don't think about the war every day, but the strategic reality of this situation makes all these privacy arguments so trivial.

I need to see this happen to someone other than Durov to consider that it's not about the war. While it's only Durov then I really don't think he's discussing privacy issues with the French - they are discussing his access to Telegram's systems and his ability and willingness to give that to the allies of Ukraine. Likewise in Russia they are not discussing the privacy issues, they are trying to lock Durov out Telegram's systems and the military and intelligence services are working on alternative ways to communicate, and meanwhile the effectiveness on the battlefield of the Russian army is compromised.
Additionally, Durov being Russian may complicate things. Western intelligence may have information about him that cannot be released.
No, that's up on the first floor. The "unnecessary columns" were the ones in the foyer on the ground floor.
Just to be clear, are you saying that his claim

> Telegram uses the MTProto 2.0 Cloud algorithm for non-secret chats[1][2].

> In fact, it uses a split-key encryption system and the servers are all stored in multiple jurisdictions. So even Telegram employees can't decrypt the chats, because you'd need to compromise all the servers at the same time.

is false? If so can you cite a source? (The claim is just a summary of the FAQ https://www.telegram.org/faq#q-do-you-process-data-requests)
Competitive games are unlikely to reach the market share necessary for a competitive gaming tournament if their casual scene is inundated with cheaters. Only a tiny handful of games even have a viable competitive scene.
It’s great for web application backends. Switched to it after 10+ years of Python. Couldn’t be happier.

Binaries will be huge tho compared to Go. I’ve a few CLIs that I that I my customers need to use, I’m planning to rewrite them in Go for this reason.
Ah but according to this average, Zuckerberg is too young.
You can render all the scenarios in the world, but ultimately You have to tell the client which on is correct.

And this will always be simply too slow for fast paced games.

Unless ofcourse you send the confirmation to frames before its actually displayed, but that brings us to square one
So... https://websim.ai except over pixels instead of in your browser?
The Material Loss Review (linked below and elsewhere) provides details of the "pig butchering" scam, wire transfers to crypto platforms and mentions that $8-$12 million worth of crypto may be recoverable (but would not be enough to restore the bank's required capital).

https://oig.federalreserve.gov/reports/board-material-loss-r...
Every Canadian province except PEI trades more with the US and with the rest of Canada.

When Trump was elected the first time, super genius Canadians vowed to fight his trade policy by targeting American politicians in states that trade with Canada, threatening to cut them off. The only problem with that is that Canada is far more dependent on trade with the US than US states are with Canada. <https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8q9h8i/canadaus_tra...>
Then everything under the sun is part of engineering too, and now the word has lost any meaning.
There are thousands of games that mimic each other, and only a handful of them are any good.

What makes you think a mechanical "predict next frame based on existing games" will be any good?
Technology seems magical but that sense of magic might dissipate when better understood (although magnets and electricity still seem magical to me).

Nature seems magical and that sense of magic intensifies when better understood. I've yet to meet a biologist who can describe the fundamentals of life without some hint of magic (whether they see acknowledge it or not).
It doesn't even remember the state of the game you look at. Doors spawning right in front of you, particle effects turning into enemies mid flight etc, so just regular gen AI issues.

Edit: Can see this in the first 10 seconds of the first video under "Full Gameplay Videos", stairs turning to corridor turning to closed door for no reason without looking away.
If the data that the French government wanted was in plaintext they wouldn't need to use the $5 wrench. Also not sure why E2EE is the answer here, governments can pass laws as we have seen with the UK to water the encryption down.
Pushing as much down to the infra sounds like aws lambda and friends.
You basically upload a zip or container and say, “just run this business code somewhere, I don’t care”. OCI bundles are basically a two day door at this point, you can build them with many tools, and run them with many other tools.

It works great for stateless things, but not so great for stateful things. I guess this plays into state being persisted in object storage or DBs, this allows the application to be stateless.
A popular theory in neuroscience is that this is what the brain does:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...

It's called predictive coding. By trying to predict sensory stimuli, the brain creates a simplified model of the world, including common sense physics. Yann LeCun says that this is a major key to AGI. Another one is effective planning.

But while current predictive models (autoregressive LLMs) work well on text, they don't work well on video data, because of the large outcome space. In an LLM, text prediction boils down to a probability distribution over a few thousand possible next tokens, while there are several orders of magnitude more possible "next frames" in a video. Diffusion models work better on video data, but they are not inherently predictive like causal LLMs. Apparently this new Doom model made some progress on that front though.
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> This is wild, apparently this stuff is in the Debian repos now?

It's been there for several years now, hasn't it?
As Richard Dawkins theorized, would be more accurate and less LLM like :)
I think Microsoft is completely allergic to naming anything with a unique name or term; in fact, it's almost like they pick names that will be hardest to find with a google search.
Port knocking is a stupid concept. You're sending a password (or TOTP) in plaintext. Just send an UDP packet with the password in it, and be honest about it.

Just to prove a point, I made two port knockers using just an UDP packet in a few lines of bash. One uses OpenBSD's signify to sign unlock requests, and the other is on the server side just nftables config to check a static UDP packet, not even a binary.

https://github.com/ThomasHabets/udportknock/blob/master/gen-...
Modulating TCP SYN packets? Eyeroll.
Key: "predicts next frame, recreates classic Doom". A game that was analyzed and documented to death. And the training included uncountable runs of Doom.

A game engine lets you create a new game, not predict the next frame of an existing and copiously documented one.

This is not a game engine.

Creating a new good game? Good luck with that.
>What we do know is that NASA awarded contracts to both companies in 2010. Crew Dragon worked perfectly on their first crewed flight in 2020, and has taken astronauts to ISS half a dozen times.

More detail for others: SpaceX and Boeing each signed contracts as part of the Commercial Crew program for six operational manned missions. After SpaceX fulfilled its six, NASA awarded another contract for eight more. Meanwhile, in addition to Boeing being paid substantially much for its half of the program, the company received a $300 million special, uncontracted payment in 2016 (not disclosed until 2019) to further accelerate development.

The current Starliner flight in abeyance at ISS is a pre-operational manned test mission (SpaceX's equivalent was done in May 2020). In other words, Boeing has not yet begun its six operational missions!
i found a way of sleeping with my hand on the mouse that moves it slightly with the motion of my breathing so that teams
doesn't show me as away while i nap
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Wow! some of the distances from detectors to strike location are thousands of km. Now I am curious how it works. my guess is some sort of low frequency radio detector(long antenna?) and a good(gps disciplined?) timer. As the station integrator gets the reports it solves for what point could of generated this collection of time stamps.

Update: found the info page. It took me longer than it should have, but in my defense it was under the heading "cover your area"

https://www.blitzortung.org/en/cover_your_area.php

And here is a paper on the method used to integrate the reports.

https://wwlln.net/publications/dowden.toga.article.pdf
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You mean the level of debate where people take a candidate's word into account. Yes, what a silly thing to do.
This is exactly what someone who had a time machine would want us to think ;)
Not to argue any of your other points, except.. you could get a lot more than 3 tries with a rotating proxy or a botnet.
Could you also make it fully decentralized but require clients to come online within a deadline (1 day, week) or risk losing their local changes? This would also allowing trimming history but with loss of some functionality to sync.
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> Summing up: for the time being, if you run a social media company, or if you provide encrypted messaging services, which are accessible in France, and you’re based in the United States, get out of Europe.

If you make a mockery of the law enforcement's requests made within the scope of the local laws then yes, you should get out. Especially if you show your middle finger to the country you visit and hold citizenship of.

Durov has money to buy citizenships that allow him access to most of the world without needing to obtain a visa so I'm sure he has a well-paid legal team that proactively monitor the situation. He may have been informed of the legal noose tightening around his neck and chose to go to France for one reason--France does not extradite its citizens and he happens to hold French citizenship. This puts him out of the reach of other jurisdictions (e.g. the US) and he may be hoping for a deal and better food. We should wait for official information from the French authorities as well as for news of people connected to him and his businesses falling out of windows. The former will explain the latter.
That's exactly my point about it not being an engineering problem: you can't solve it with reactor design.

But it has been addressed with governance rules, in my country's power plant the guy responsible for safety is hierarchically independent from the guy responsible for running the plant so the later cannot command the former and let his hubris destroy the plant.
For all your bluster you didn't even share an example where client-distrust would be inadequate.
They obviously can within seconds, so it wouldn't be a result. Being able to generate gameplay that looks right even if it doesn't play right is one step.
I went looking for genuine flat earthers in the late 90s. There were far more people complaining about flat earthers than there were actual flat earthers. I could count the number of them I found on the fingers of one hand, and they seemed like they were probably mentally ill. Back then I would say they were mainly an urban legend: "did you know that some people still believe the earth is flat!" "in this day and age? How shocking!". Its mainly just an outrage-bait meme.

I'm convinced that almost all flat earthers, even the few "true believers" got their belief through reaction to the mainstream. Its not really a belief about the shape of the earth, its more a belief about how you can't trust the status quo. If everyone just stopped complaining about flat earthers, they'd all be gone within 20 years.
It's part of design, not part of engineering. The same way the UX of a website is not engineering.
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Because nuclear is not just about engineering?

TMI also wasn't mainly an engineering problem: it was the way the incident reaction guidelines where written and how crisis group was set up that was the largest cause, and as such there has been little engineering changes following TMI but a lot of organizational changes.
The release page doesn't make it very clear what Cosmic is and does.

The product page is better:

https://system76.com/cosmic

[EDIT]: also useful :

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cosmic+desktop+...
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Another American who knows nothing about things outside of the USA.
It's not only about being "good enough" but also about reliability and maintenance, new protocols and hardware may take time to mature while other solutions are already there. Ah, wait, Tesla doesn't care about those kind of things too much...
London Bridge?
I wish the project best of luck, though I feel that it is going to take them years in order to reach parity with KDE, which combined with Qt took decades to bring to its current feature set.
The man has four passports and I'm curious about how he got the French one... This is on his Wikipedia page:

"Durov was naturalized as a French citizen in August 2021, giving him European Union citizenship. Le Monde described the naturalisation as "mysterious", since Durov had not resided in France apart from brief visits. Le Monde suggested that Durov was naturalised via the rarely used "merit foreigner" procedure that is awarded directly by the French government to people viewed to have contributed exceptionally to France's international influence or international economic relations." [1]

Seems obvious that there is much more than meets the eye...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov
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Yeah, Europe is becoming more and more authoritarian and less and less demoractic.

The Netherlands, the host country of the ICC, in 2021 made a law that anyone that works in a job with an obligation to secrecy cannot be prosecuted for lying under oath in a court. They cited an example of a lawyer client confidenially. They did not however, talk about the fact that now everyone in government can lie under oath in court. This undermines the very functional principle of a court of law. Lovely for the ICC.

In addition, they created an organisation called the RIEC, with does not have a natural person as it's presentative, which under Dutch law means that it cannot be taken to court by anyone. The gave this organisation control over not just criminal investigations but "interventions", which have no definition and can be anything. They can do anything against anyone and not be held accountabile. And typically they do this through weak civilian proxies for further deniability.

There's a 6x part Dutch documentary where it shows that 9 innocent people were sent to jail on fabricated evidence. One committed suicide. The Dutch will not re-open this case and the responsible person (The former head of the organised crime unit in Arnhein) is not the president of the court of Maastricht. Not fired, promoted.

https://npo.nl/start/serie/de-villamoord/seizoen-2/de-leeuw-...

So the Netherlands has clearly loss a functional democracy.

It's the way all of Europe is going.
I don't think it will work. Nothing can prohibit users from desolder the stick and putting a microprocessor with DAC in place of them.

Actually, those kinds of mod is frequently performed by gamers, because lots of people wants to replace analogue potentiometer with hall-effect sensor with microprocessor, which provides much more durability compared to the Alps potentiometer stick. (and no one likes to play with a drifting Dualsense or Joy-Con)
I mean newspeak is definitely woke and pc, whether you like it or not.
no, it's exactly why people create fake words.
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Yes. An employee can impersonate a user by registering a device in their name and intercepting the confirmation code and then read all non secret chats and private groups of that user.

At least one employee must have the ability to intercept the code.

(Unless the user has 2fa enabled, but that is not the default configuration.)

There are probably easier ways if we knew more about how the administrate their infrastructure.
The problem is not really with the protocol or the file formats, though.

I gave this some thought in the past, and, since this is more of an artistic/crafting endavor than anything else I'd say we decide on some arbitrary rules (like "only monospace fonts, no external javascript, only static content", I don't know, I'm just spitballing here) and create our own certification to display at the top of the page (like the omnipresent top-right oblique ribbon of yesterdecade or, even better, the little badges we used at the turn of the century), then we make a central list where people can add their website.