skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried Microsoft's cloud gaming service to play some games on my Mac without having to buy a gaming PC. I had some lag issues, which I assume will get better with time, and also could have been due to some local network issues that my ISP fixed several months after I dropped the service. I know it can be a decent experience, as I had OnLive back when that was a thing and it worked pretty well a decade earlier.

Ultimately my issue was the lack of ownership, and much like with video streaming services, the seemingly random licensing agreements. Due to the lag, GTA V was one of the only games that I could play decently well. I had it years ago for PS4, but never finished it, so figured I'd jump back in. One week into playing, sorry, the game is gone, it might come back later. I find this unacceptable. For long games, or games I love and want to come back to again and again, I'm not willing to put up with that nonsense. I cancelled the service the same day that happened.

I've mostly been playing the Switch over the last 2 years due to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, but have about a dozen games. All of them were bought with physical media. I can trust the physical media will stick around, because I control it. When Nintendo shuts down an old eShop, people's favorite games could die with the hardware they happen to have it installed on. Those 2 Zelda games ended up ranking #1 and #2 as my favorite games of all time. I figure I will be able to buy a Switch in some form for a long time, but who knows how long they'll keep the servers up to download a new copy for a new (or new to me) console. If I was playing Zelda on a streaming service and had the rug pulled out from under me 200 hours in... nothing about that is good. The possibility of that would make me not want to start playing in the first place.

I don't like the trend away from physical media. As the article suggests, using game size, due to ever increasing realism, doesn't seem like it's going to be a great pitch for why it needs to go away. When we can fit 1TB on a microSD card, it seems like physical media can and should still exist, maybe just not on optical media. I also typically like playing single player games, so there is no practical reason to connect to the internet. With portable systems, like the Switch, internet requirements become a problem.
These would be great as workday wear (when not on Zoom.)

I started looking into computer glasses (short focal length) and quickly realized I’d need 2-3 pairs for all my work situations.

The daily charge could pay off if it reduces eye strain and perhaps even ends the workday sooner via quicker reading.

Would there be any pitfalls using these primarily to focus on screens of varying distances?
The classic rear-ending Waymo collision, from DMV reports, looks like this:

- AV approaches intersection where some obstacle blocks cross-street visibility.

- AV slowly enters intersection to get better visibility.

- AV detects cross traffic and stops quickly.

- Trailing human driver following too closely rear-ends AV.

Back when Google was testing in Mountain View, this was the most common accident. One particular intersection had a tree in the median strip, at a height that blocked the vehicle-top LIDAR, forcing a slow, careful entry to the intersection. At least two Google AVs were rear-ended there.

As the article says, there are no recorded incidents where a Waymo AV entered an intersection with legit cross-traffic and was hit. There's one where a human driver ran a red light, clearly not the fault of the AV.

One partial solution would be to have AVs flash their brake lights rapidly when they're in this may-brake-suddenly situation. That would warn humans to back off. AVs know when they're being tailgated.
No need to venture into personal attacks. If you can't productively contribute to this post then please refrain from commenting.
Focuwriter is great. Especially if you just want to write on a blank canvas without distractions. Great for long form, write from the head. My next favourite is Marktext, which I use more for manuals and such in non fullscreen mode. Obsidian for notes and lots of referential info. Qownnotes for snippets related to computing. Logseq for work related notes. If I would still have a Mac, add NValt based on notational velocity.
This is precisely the first thing I thought

If arguably the person with the highest IQ currently living, is impressed but still not fully satisfied that a computer doesn’t give Nobel prize winning mathematical reasoning I think that’s a massive metric itself

So what then should the first year maths PhD think? I believe Tao obliquely addresses this with his previous post with effectively “o1 is almost as good as a grad student”
Debt and GDP are measured in different units (dollars, and dollars per year) so talking about a "debt-to-GDP ratio of 100%" is misleading because it sounds like there's some kind of threshold there.

In fact a debt-to-GDP of 12 months or 14 months has no more special significance than the debt reaching 50 trillion dollars or your car reaching 100,000 miles.
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I got my doctor to write me a computer prescription. Half as strong as my regular glasses and single vision perfect for computer work and worthless for everything else.
Huh? If they didn’t exist I imagine it would be the other way around. Recyclers would pay companies to have stuff sent to them, because they could actually sell the parts to the highest bidder.

But in either case if the IT department/management actually wants to destroy the devices, no procedures from Apple will affect that decision.

Worst case they just call a shredding truck to their doorstep to shred them right there.
Scientists are migrating nearly extinct species to new locations
It’s a misnomer as there is the Chinese Renminbi, known as the yuan. The yen and yuan have similar/same symbol. So people confuse the two as Japanese Yen and Chinese Yen even though that isn’t remotely correct.

When you use just “yen” it should be always known as the Japanese currency. There should be no need for clarification.

The confusion maybe comes from misunderstanding of history as the yuan (yoo-ahn) and yen both can mean “round”, like a coin.
Right, Terrance was hoping it would have something new to think about it, some new perspective, right or wrong. GPTs have the ability to process insane amounts of information across all branches of math, science and art. This ability eclipses that of the most motivated intellectuals such as Terrance. It is thus a little disappointing that it was unable to find anything in its vast knowledgebase to apply a new lens to the problem.
Is it? How would anyone make money or fame out of it?

The way our scientific establishment works now is that you are rewarded for discovering things which fit into and shed new light on our existing web of understanding, not for things which are completely new and unconnected. I don't think this is entirely bad - science is useful because it's a densely connected web rather than a bag of unrelated facts. But it does mean that very little value is attached to observations of weird new things that don't fit in anywhere.

Back when I was a scientist, I was studying a known structure in the cytoskeleton. By chance, some of the cells I prepared went funny, and produced a radically different structure that I hadn't seen before, and couldn't find any mention of in the literature. I showed my supervisor, who basically said "so what?". On their own, this new structure was useless to a career scientist, because you can't say anything about what it is, what it does, why it's important, or how it connects to what anyone else is publishing about.

(It turned out this structure had been seen before, and published a few times, but still, nobody really knows what it's all about)
For the full thread, https://xcancel.com/SomeUnusualGame/status/18349462126104005...

For the repo (as linked in that thread), https://github.com/SomeUnusualGames/Tux-vs-Mutant-Window/
PREEMPT_RT, please!!
Most surprising thing about this article is discovering that 'mathstodon' exists and Terence is active on it!
> The way I have always looked at it is that want to “retire from _having_ to work” and promote myself to working on things that I _want_ to work on.

But this is exactly what retirement is!
> The Philippines has been slow to adopt electric vehicles,

That doesn't surprise me, anyone who has lived there knows how terrible the grid is. Brown-outs are a (frequent) fact of life, entire outages not uncommon. I've seen the Manila Airport lose power on multiple occasions while waiting to get on a flight.

What does surprise me is the slow adoption to solar power, my guess is that the grid isn't prepared for that either, and off-grid setups can be fairly expensive for many that need it most.
Alternatively, have an explosion containment pie dish ready.
Well you have to put it in perspective when the most brilliant medicinal chemists of all time have such an interesting track record across-the-board.

With all that talent and outstanding resources at their fingertips, there is a virtual guarantee that any one top chemist will achieve a certain number of blockbuster breakthroughs, even though it may take them a lifetime.

That number is zero.
Fair enough, it sounds like perhaps I misjudged your intent and I'm sorry to have implied any ignorance on your part. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Show HN: An open source project in Python to inspect databases through CLI fast
peepDB is a CLI tool designed for rapid database table inspection without writing SQL. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB, allowing users to view all tables or a specific table with simple commands. The tool securely stores connection details, provides output in formatted table or JSON format.
Here's an old paper that you will appreciate:

"Organizational disaster and organizational decay: the case of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration"

http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/schwartz/Org%20Decay%20at...
Unleashing the Power of Local LLMs
Anyone tried using GPT in conjunction with Doug Lenat's tools (AM or Eurisko)?
I just moved to SF a couple weeks ago. In city driving, I really like driving near Waymos as opposed to human cars. You quickly learn that the Waymos drive well and passively, which enables safe, assertive driving near them. Being able to condition on them not being aggressive and dumb (like some fraction of humans drivers, mostly young/male) makes driving easier.
These look incredible, and a huge improvement over bifocals or similar. Having lenses that automatically adjust to focus at the distance you're looking would be incredible, for people who need one diopter for distance vision and another (or none at all) for close-up vision.

I hope it's possible to improve the field of view to match ordinary glasses. I also wonder if it'd be possible to change different parts of the lens to have different focal points, or change fast enough to allow for the equivalent of foveated rendering, such that you could look around at different things in your field of view and have them all appear in focus.
Oh wow I just took a look and it’s really impressive. Adding more complexity to C++ does make it just that much more difficult for beginners though
Games are being held back by cultural stigma. At its core it's a new artistic medium, just like moving pictures (film) was back in the early 20th century. Imagination is the only limit here, but society at large still thinks "video games" are for kids. Perhaps if it was called interactive entertainment or something like that, people would be more likely to get into it.
Consciousness is required to experience, but it is not required to sense.
> this all feels like drama for its own sake

It’s broadcasting that Y Combinator is a founder friendly investor. That comes with costs, e.g. if LPs think YC would have doubled down on the next Neumann or Bankman-Fried, or that its leadership is going full Ackman. But it will work at the margins for deal-finding partners, particularly with young founders.

The hilarious part is this obviously wasn’t a message they trusted their partners to deliver. An army with precision weapons and intelligence doesn’t carpet bomb; YC is carpet bombing.
It does seem like an awful lot of risk to take on personally, without institutional cover. Mess with a cop and you’ll feel the full weight of the justice system, mess with this guy and… I guess he knows a lot of lawyers?

I feel like there was a lot left unsaid in this account, and rightfully so. There’s a conspicuous void in the shape of his recording techniques (or lack thereof), for example; ditto the specifics of the types of malfeasance he goes after.

And while I’m all for maintaining honest norms, it did sound a little bit like he was trying actively to bait his mark into producing fraudulent misrepresentations. That feels a little different from the conventional “whistleblower” notion, of a cog in the machine noticing something wrong and standing up for what’s right. Something a little closer to vigilantism.

But who knows. It’s cool that he was willing even to share this much visibility.
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I've known people to go back on vacations who probably shouldn't, but an outsider, weakly under the protection of a foreign country, who doesn't seem like they are going to get back into their old life is usually not a political priority.
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I suggest to install Gnuplot as a dependency, for plots.
I'm all for user choice, but at the same time, the reason I opt for a console is to not think about that kind of thing. I expect the developers made the game with the hardware in mind and optimized it to run well with the graphics provided.

The idea of a graphics vs performance mode feels like they needed to push the PS5 too hard to make the graphics good enough to justify a new console, but realistically, the hardware can't handle it.

The sales pitch of the PS5 Pro is that the choice no longer has to be made, which is how it should always be with a console, imo. If people want to tweak and tune to make their personal tradeoffs between graphics and speed, that always seemed like what the PC was for.

I was looking at getting a PS5 slim, but heart the Pro rumors, so I waited. After seeing the graphics vs performance toggle, I don't want the slim, but looking at the comparisons, I don't see enough of a difference in graphics where I want to pay more for the Pro... so I think I'm likely going to skip it all together, at least for now. Things might change when GTA6 comes out. That could make the choice more clear.
I don’t think it’s true that DNA actually encodes an entire organism. Leaving all discussion of epigenetics aside, the proteins produced from DNA can basically do anything, including modifying DNA. Maybe we could think of large portions of DNA as simply bindings to shared libraries (i.e, the proteins). Or like a package manifest and build script for life rather than the code itself
Is it not possible that there really was a John Alfred Tinniswood living in 1921 but the man who now claims to be him in 2024 is actually someone else who stole the original's identity when he died unrecorded?
I can see where you are coming from, and I've thought about similar ideas. But ultimately, I think this fails for separation-of-concern reasons. Describing the part is different from describing how to make the part. The same part might be sent to 3D printing for a non-functional fit prototype, sent to a prototyping machine shop to make 5 or so units on basic CNC machines that require 3 set-ups to complete it, and after a few design iterations scaled to production on a multi-spindle Swiss-style lathe that drops finished parts into the basket all night long, lights-out. Those are wildly different programs and work flows.

Something like you propose might be an interesting thing to explore for creating CAM posts. The actual Gcode that your API would emit is going to vary quite a lot even within super-similar machines -- a 3+1 axis job targeting a machine with a FANUC controller is going to be pretty different from the same job targeting a machine with a Heidenhain controller.
These aren't meant to provide imagery in motion. The point is to provide a view from the point where the ball lands...
Apple will charge more to swap your iPhone 16 Pro battery
So i have recently begun learning jewelry design using blender since there are a lot of videos on it out there but i have this sneaking suspicion i should be learning CAD instead... Thoughts?
Most compilers either use an "infinite registers" abstraction or a "no registers" abstraction in the layer that LLVM occupies. It is easy enough to translate from there to "16/32/64 registers."
Here are some problems I have with this article.

Sony claimed that their user base compromised on "graphics" for the smoother experience of the "Performance" mode, so I don't see how they missed the ball when they decided to launch a Pro model that helps tackle this user need. Even if it was an excuse and they would release it anyway.

The whole "Improved graphics" thing isn't just about "how nice a game looks compared to the previous generation", and I think people understand that. It's a common marketing expression for improving the game's visual experience, not only resolution and textures but also the number of things happening on the screen, smoothness (FPS), drawing distance, etc - which they addressed in their presentation video.

Now maybe we're reaching the point where marketing videos cannot display accurate improvements due to the limits of streaming, because a game experience in 30FPS vs 60FPS or 120FPS is vastly different. Even in a desktop environment, you can see it.

The thing is that we were used to having a new hardware look revision as well, with a different design or on a smaller form factor, consuming less power, which didn't happen this time around but that's ok I guess.

But the thing of "you should stop launching improved products because the games looked fine" is a bit silly. I think Sony serves their clients well, just like Nintendo does, they cater to different people.

The reality is that games are taking longer to develop, as they are more complex - let's not forget that Zelda BOTW was a Wii U game, and the Zelda TOK was released at the end of the Switch lifecycle.

Anyway, good for them to release the pro model. I won't be buying it because it's not a product for me.
With regard to your question about who or what is being insulted, Perhaps the first thing to note is that we are to others what they have observed of us, modified by what their theory of mind intuits from those observations. The former, and even more so the latter, are not all that reliable, though they are all we have to go on.
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Thinkpad L14 Gen 1, anybody care to take a guess?
Well, at least once actual explosive goes kaboom, it's gone. A battery in runoff is a fire hazard for much longer time.
I used this software over a decade ago. I loved it.
Funny. Server Uptime but the host isn’t reachable
We are well into diminishing returns territory with high resolution textures and 3D models, but most games are still using comparatively crude lighting technique. Raytraced lighting, when combined with the above high-fidelity game objects can produce startlingly realistic games today. Here is an example for a recent game called Bodycam:

https://youtu.be/0ol0kTteyo0?feature=shared

Even if you forgo the realistic textures and models, it still can produce some amazing results. Here is a clip of Quake using raytracing :

https://youtu.be/DYziPapZWDw?feature=shared

My point is, lighting is a force multiplier that we don't yet have in most mainstream games. But now with many modern graphics card providing support for it and technologies like Unreal's Lumen making it easier experiment with on the developer side, I am expecting this will be the primary area we will see games distinguish themselves in the "good graphics" category.
Ada Lovelace was coding in 1843.
$764 CAD so about the same as the Samsung (w/ eSIM) smartwatch I believe.
Thanks much. That was indeed my goal.
For informational content, maybe, but on a larger level it seems that nothing has value anymore. Makes me curious about what disappeared in people's mind. I don't think spotify replaces a set of LPs even though in terms of sound waves you can have the same amount of bits.
Blood test could diagnose ALS with up to 97 per cent accuracy
I tested Excel, and even early versions can calculate Rule 124.
Now I have loaded it down with rotating a right triangle in 1/n radians.
( The right triangle has sides e+1/Pi and Pi+1/e. )...

Maybe your spreadsheet will do better?
SDHC?
But there is something Japanese about making an art out of regular little mundane things. Or perhaps bringing an art to them.
I would suggest different colors than black and blue. I found myself not able to differentiate unless I tilted my laptop monitor away. I can't imagine that color blind users would have a better time. May I suggest red and black?
I’m scared now
I did not say your examples are untrue, no need to be so defensive. Believe what you wish but my example is true and works.
A willing but clumsy junior benefits tremendously from a well scoped task.
Check the Firefox video settings in about:config maybe?
The tying together of physical locations and audio book contents, or philosophical musings on a drive, are examples of those higher-order representations [0] the author references.

There is a sibling thread further down regarding the Buddhist take on phenomenology as a linear stream of discrete events. With sufficient practice it becomes possible to observe an individual sense datum - an instant of time in which I am hearing a bird chirp, followed by an instant of time in which I feel an itch on my head, followed by an instant of time in which I experience the thought of "what's for dinner," and so on. This is stepping down a "layer of abstraction," beneath higher-order representations of unity, to observe the lower-level discrete phenomena as they exist prior to the "post-processing" applied by our minds. After this post-processing step, the individual discrete points of "hearing," "itching," "thinking" are melded into the (ultimately illusory) unified experience of, for example, "sitting down for meditation next to an open window." This latter, post-processed view is ultimately an oversimplification, and investigation into the nature of such higher-order representations reveals their constituent parts.

It's this act of reflection and retrospection that unifies this stream of discrete sensory events into a cohesive whole and weaves the illusion of continuity out of a series of discrete points. Our phenomenological experience is like a pointillist painting viewed from afar; the astute observer with sufficient concentration to examine the painting more closely however can see that it is in fact a constellation of dots which our minds smear together into the higher-order (and illusory) representation of a continuous whole.

I recommend Daniel Ingram's "Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha" for a western, secularized take on this aspect of (Vipassana) Buddhism.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/
Idea as multiplier of execution is an idea I encountered at https://sive.rs/multiply
I feel like it's a common fallacy that if you can't remember something later, then you didn't consciously experience it. It's a very narrow view of consciousness, and leads to silly statements like "There are long gaps in your experience". Is someone with an inability to form memories just an automaton then? Their qualia are less qualiatic than your qualia?
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