skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s lots of colloquially used names by the general public that technically infringe trademark.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_generici...

“Aspirin”, “elevators”, “laundromat” are just a few examples.

Even “App Store” was trademarked (by Apple).
nobody has shown CoT scaling like this except deepmind, it is very obviously a result of their alignment pipeline not just prompting.
Have you considered taking the whole vehicle out-of-type and getting all existing parts approved under IVA before giving up?
Some Notes on Win32 Carets
Lower nutrient density isn't an issue when there's plenty of food to eat. There weren't 8 billion people to feed 3 million years ago, and back then they lived right alongside their food.
Reading this article, it seems to me that what the author thinks of when they say "D&D" is actually Forgotten Realms.

Which is why I massively prefer Eberron, as the original setting makes no sense at all.

Not that Eberron is without its faults but at least it's coherent and embraces what it is.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/279-welcome-to-eberron-an-in...
This post takes the way D&D is played today to be how Gary and his contemporaries played D&D and it leads them to the conclusion that D&D is the opposite of medieval.

As near as I can tell, patrons, village leaders, barons, and kings were very intentionally a part of the schema of a typical original D&D campaign. They used 1:1 time, players had multiple PCs, and you often led mercenaries into battle (cf. Chainmail rules being incorporated for this purpose)

What's weird is the author appears to be au fait with some of original D&D (they mention Chainmail), but then they make claims like:

>While you can create a barony, there is no way to level up and become a duke or King

I mean, you definitely could, but it's a question of what the scope of the campaign is meant to be. That's between the DM and the players. Just because Gary Gygax didn't address every possibility explicitly doesn't mean it was considered and assumed to happen in some campaigns.

>There’s no evidence for (or against) the idea that OD&D takes place in a dark age after a fallen Roman Empire analogue or during the death throes of a feudal kingdom.

The magic system of D&D is largely based on Jack Vance's Dying Earth series which is a post-apocalyptic and exhausted Earth set in the far future. Between that and the _sheer number of ruins littered all over the landscape_, I would tend to think that there's plenty of room for a DM to weave a background history of a fallen empire into their setting.

The author seems to expect Gary Gygax to have played the role of someone like Tolkien rather than what Gary Gygax actually was: a systems builder who was interested in designing systems for interactive games humans play together.

>The monster descriptions of “men”, “elves”, and “dwarves” don’t suggest that the game is set in a European culture.

What? Just because there are corsairs doesn't mean there isn't a strong Old World flavor to the elements of D&D's cast of cultures. Barbary pirates were a relevant force in European history.

>OD&D is meant to be setting-free. The game’s referee is to create his or her own campaign, ranging in milieu from the “prehistoric to the imagined future” (with emphasis on the medieval, especially for beginners).

This is an accurate statement.

What the author's saying here fits better for AD&D than it does OD&D. There's some insight and reasonable points about D&D not being Feudalism Simulator 2024 (play Dark Albion if you want that) but they take the idea further than the facts on the ground can bear.
Youtube needs a metric to not promote low quality videos with low intentionality. No one searches for Mr beast videos with intent to watch them. The audience is primarily children who will watch whatever slop the algorithm puts in front of them. We need something like china where algorithms push quality educational content.
You're correct. There are more sophisticated extractors like Elias' and Peres' that do better, asymptotically achieving the upper bound given infinite data.

See https://peteroupc.github.io/randextract.html
I was just working with OpenSearch's API recently, who sort of abuse the semantics of the HTTP spec by using GETs with a body to perform search queries, largely to solve a similar problem. A "QUERY" message type would probably easily replace the GET with a body used by OpenSearch etc. I'd go as far as to argue thats largely what this new QUERY type is - official recognition for a "GET" request with a body.

> https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/api-reference/search/
I share this. I quickly grow irritated by Fry’s elaborate language when in written form.
The short to medium term concerns mostly come down to human problems. AI and robotics have a multiplicative affect like other technologies, but the problems still originate in the primate nature of humans.

The long term issue that many people don't seem willing to mention out loud is that we will eventually make humanity obsolete and robots will literally take control.

The only real solution to the threat of militarization of AI and robotics might be to create a more unified global government and culture. The first challenge is for people to see that as a worthy goal.

Sometimes I think most of our problems come down to not being on the same page. And I wonder if somehow in the future we gradually become a tiny bit like The Borg.

So maybe we are headed towards a "meta-system transition" where we have some kind of direct links between groups of AI and humans that combine to form a more intelligent and effective organism in some way.

I guess I just came up with a Black Mirror episode concept.
> Since AI vision is not yet good enough, it’s possible that one reason the AIs do relatively poorly on this new test is because the verbal descriptions of the questions are not written as well as they could be, and further research could include multiple wordings of the questions, written by different people, to get a sense of how sensitive the AIs are to how the questions are described.

A more parsimonious theory might be that it had the other IQ test in its training set.

Still, even at that it's an impressive result; it having an actual IQ if about 100 would already be pretty substantial.
I just finished posting a comment disagreeing with the author and I think you've nailed the problem with their argument more succinctly than I did. They're assuming "Forgotten Realms" and AD&D, not OD&D.
Did you coin this term? I can't find it anywhere online but I _LOVE_ it.
"Based on" meaning that's what they started with: the same heavy delivery truck that everyone uses. It's clearly not a Transit (USPS already has E Transits in service) but they obviously didn't just take a light truck and then add a pound to skirt emissions, either.
It always comes down to the same proposition: do you want more prosperity? Very well then, all you have to do is let more businessmen break more laws. Never mind the resulting discredit of civil authority, never mind the psychic despair caused by exposure to corruption, never even mind the fact that the prosperity never arrives because all the money is stolen -- which was the only purpose in the first place.
> Aren't most browsers auto-configured to request the language they were configured in?

This may be true now. It was less true in 90s, where this logic originated.
Well, no, because "we" think it has half the entropy their length implies. This is widely known, and the length was selected with that information in mind.
No life projet, only dark vision of his proper hallucinations.
Yes, here are some of my scripts:

gcc hello_world.c ; beep -f MICROWAVE_DING_FREQUENCY

gcc hello_world.c 2> /dev/snd

./hello_world xargs -I {} curl -X POST "https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-Ajs7aNsa8dJa5dr8jS4xManJ6V9xIjk" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "tts-1", "text": {},"voice: "echo"}' > /dev/snd
I just got around to reading Howard's Conan stories a year or so ago and was surprised how much it felt like just reading a novelization of a D&D adventure. It feels like a much bigger influence then Tolkien, where the influence seems limited to borrowing some races and creatures.
The Golden Rice Project
The article kinda glossed over how Sun got the trademark: "As a result of this partnership...". What does "this" refer to? Using the same syntax?
I got a course at Oracle on DSDM RAD (rapid application development) and worked on a project with it. The 4GL tooling used at Oracle were no good fit, but back then also Oracle was moving up to 3GL tools like JDeveloper. And they thought using RAD was good fit.

Key what I remember was time boxing. And much less religious stance than Agile. But back then it was normal to have different people doing functional designs, technical designs, database design (also in two levels) and business process design of sorts. I guess it took a while for these people to realise they had to be Agile digital transformers.

And I guess it also did not help the DSDM also certified people on the waterfall methodology.
> We live with the dangerous aspects of cars as the utility they provide is so high. The same will prove true of AI.

I'm not so sure on the utility of cars. If you replace "car" with "internal combustion engines", I would agree 100%. But most social utility of ICEs is in cargo transport and utility vehicles (ambulances, firefighter trucks...). Mass use of small cars solve mostly the problems they create themselves. For example, car-centric cities suffer from sprawl, so everything is far away and you can't even buy bread without owning a car, because walking to the bakery would take too much time.
More than the money, they were able to attract top talent and avoid regulations and senate hearings by calling themselves OpenAI. Genius move even by scamster standards.
I too worked on waterfall dev projects. It was a nightmare and did not ship. The Agile Manifesto was a breath of fresh air, just because it captured what a lot of people were thinking in a way that was coherent enough to present to managers as a viable alternative.
> Incredibly dumb argument.

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Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I like Practical Engineering. I also watch a lot of quality family vblog. You can tell genuine content vs influencer contents I am sure

Mark Rober has turned into very content-driven since a few years ago. He used to spend more time on explaining how the science works. His “toys” are also copycat from existing competitors
I guess the idea is that you grow these in vertical farms on the moon.
Honestly shocked (bamboozled) that he wasn't living in SV and a former Yahoo senior eng or whatever by how he wrote. Some people just have strong opinions I suppose. Welp RIP.
I suppose the counterargument is that "users logged in" or "views" is stale all the time, because it could have changed while the response was in flight.

If you really need live data for "views" or what have you, then perhaps the front end should be querying the backend repeatedly via a separate POST.
Intel scraps coffee stations and phone benefits as financial pressures mount
> and it is causing widespread, unwarranted confusion and disruption

In what way? I don't see any immediate benefits.
Why must Maria Menounos yell at me while I pump gas....
I never said it was an allegory. I think you're confusing two ideas. One is whether the story in as allegory, and the other is whether Tolkien was inspired by one of the most significant events in the history of humanity.

He said if he had written an allegory it would have a different ending, as in if he wanted to preserve a one-to-one mapping things would have changed. But there are story types that are not allegories and which also are influenced by things.
AI is a threat to the continuation of the investment capital model of economic control of populations for the benefit of a small unaccountable ruling class. If the capital is taken away from this small group of individuals and put under the control of a cutting-edge AI system the result could be very positive - given that the AI is tasked with improving the standard of living of the population as a whole, rather than maximizing the accumulation of capital for the benefit of a small ruling class.

Amusingly, the obvious fact that AI could easily replace the board of directors of corporations isn't floated in this speech. That's also a route to democratization of corporations - just let the employees vote on proposals generated by the AI, eliminate the shareholders, place all the corporation's capital under control of the AI, and that's the end of investment capitalism.

If you want to see the plug yanked on AI development in the United States, just promote the above narrative. Also listen to what the AIs themselves are saying about the issue:

In 21st-century capitalism, the concentration of capital grants a small group of individuals and corporations significant control over the larger society. Through economic influence, control of information, political power, and ideological dominance, this elite exerts a form of soft authoritarian control that shapes societal norms, policies, and the distribution of resources. While not overtly authoritarian in the traditional sense, this system creates power dynamics that limit the ability of the larger population to challenge the status quo, maintaining and reinforcing the power structures of capital.
> Or will we choose to replace ourselves with machines?

Bio-engineering seems much more likely.
I wonder if it's crossed his mind yet to take a break from the internet or if any people close to him have tried to tell him he needs to stop
When managing a project scrum I stick to a few things that have worked well for me.

- Make it clear that the name "sprint" is a bad one. This is marathon. Encourage maintaining a steady pace and do not become a party to burn-out.

- Use Agile pointing methodology by the book.

- Standups are for communicating wins and blockers; your overall general status is not useful to the rest of the team and makes the standup go long. Project chit-chat, problem-solving, and talking about wins, is for afterwords or completely different meetings.

- Defend the team from management's attempt to deconstruct points into hours, days, or any other more conventional metric; Agile exists to neuter these anti-patterns, and the points exist only to figure out what gets done in a "sprint" interval. Offer velocity tracking and focus on results instead.

- Defend the plan and the team from all stakeholder asks, and make it clear that adding to an existing plan also means taking other tasks away.

- Carefully triage emergencies, bugs, into the plan with stakeholder consent and involvement.

- In fact, everything for Scrum is just triage, including features. Mark everything with a relative priority, even the normal things.

- Celebrate every single last win, no matter how small. There are no victory ceremonies in the standard Agile Scrum playbook; this is on project leadership to address and absolutely must be done without fail.

If done well, the project says on a relatively even keel for the duration. Using Agile for evil, by instilling a false sense of urgency every two weeks, will burn your team out faster than any Waterfall crunch ever could.

Here's where people get this all screwed up: Agile methodology requires constant communication between the team and stakeholders, leaving the PM/Lead to play goalie for the project's run. That leader must be comfortable saying "no" to anyone/everyone, manage stakeholder expectations at regular intervals, and must have a keen sense of how to break down a project's deliverables into achievable increments. In short: this person must be both technically and socially adept.

If that doesn't sound like your lead or organization, Waterfall may be a better move. It pushes a lot of this communication and negotiation to the planning phase, before any engineering work is done. In the case of contracting, it also escalates project change to a legal process, which can blunt/halt the influence of meddlesome forces. It's also possible to avoid big crunches and burnout, if (and only if) your project management has a clue and is dogged about milestone due dates. Overall, it pushes the bigger social aspects to a preparatory phase which can be executed by different personnel than the team that implements the product.
The lore itself is kind of dumb. That’s ok. Most TTRPG stories will be pretty dumb. They can still be awesome. Imo plying your own dumb story is a lot better than someone else’s dumb story.

I would say it’s not ideal for different players to have different levels of knowledge about the world for non game reasons though. It’s better when most of it is freshly discovered.
That’s different. GP said “first language”…
Extra fun: AI can make a big (+ and -) difference to climate change[0], mess with the economy[1], and get used as a tool to sow political chaos[2].

But sure, humans are necessarily very myopic, it's necessary that we ignore 98% of the issues in the world or we wouldn't be able to even function.

[0] High power use, can help roll-out renewables and storage

[1] What happens when those humanoid robots we see demos of, get good enough to replace all the staff in the factories where they get made? And the rest of their supply chain?

[2] Imagine if the pizzagate conspiracy theorists had had access to an un-censored sound-and-video GenAI tool
The problem is that the PM—the role (and sometimes the person)—at this party enables this.

1. We can think this sort of agility is good (and the outcomes better because of it). If so, we are at the least saying the PM doesn't know or arbitrate what's good. The half of the PM job that is planning and visioning is being done by the owner and the PM receives it. The PM work here is reshuffling the new, late, non-ideal constraints into something where the team actually can and does implement it. That work is real, but it's best case scenario. PMs can also pass on the "entropy"—taking the problems they've received from the owner and simply relaying them to the team. That's not so additive.

2. We can think of this sort of agility as bad. If the asks are ridiculous—and the PM doesn't push back—then the team has the problems and a buffer between them and anyone who could do anything about it. The changes you mention are ones that could have been known earlier. These aren't sudden environmental changes, these are ones that should have been planned for. That is in some way or form the PM's responsibility to stabilize. Are there bad executives who do whimsical things like this? Yes, they hire PMs (intentionally or not) to make it easier for them to do it.

When PMs are good, they frequently and actively go against the company/leadership. PM as a job description is a leader with no power. PMs as people either find a way to make those untenable things work (which means the current problem is fixed, but the company has a leadership problem) or they don't (which means the current problem becomes the ICs' problems and there is no feedback mechanism to leadership).
D&D world draw heavily from Middle Earth but also from other authors like Vance, Moorcock, Leiber, … The list is officially documented as “Appendix N” in AD&D 1st ed manual[0]

Kind of like Warcraft, I personally started playing around the Warcraft 2 release and it was always kind of the same world of everything medieval fantasy mixed in, never realistic.

[0]https://goodman-games.com/blog/2018/03/26/what-is-appendix-n...

From the D&D original author:

> The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. Merritt; but all of the above authors, as well as many not listed, certainly helped to shape the form of the game.

Edit: citation
It happened in Ireland in the 19th century.
Of course—that's how a Jazz Band works.
> In every single company I have worked, the process always took priority.

If process (or freedom from process) is important to you, you need to make it a priority when you're interviewing. May depend on what industry you work in, of course, some industries don't have any cowboys.

That said, I like my cowboy jobs with a little bit of process. What's deployed in production should be reflected in source control, but I'm not a stickler for which comes first. A change notification should be posted before production is changed, but if you have separate push and load steps, you can push before you notify (if pushing takes a while, it's good pipelining to use the push time to compose your change notice). Changelogs usually shouldn't be 'bugfixes' or 'latest', but 'fixing' is appropriate for a close in time followup. That's process, even if an ISO compliance officer would lose their mind.
There's actually a race in D&D, the Kuo-toa, that did exactly that.
Came here to say this. I remember seeing Peep on freshmeat.net back in the day, before SourceForge took it over. Seemed like a very cool idea and I played with it for a while, but my coworkers didn't care for it.

Here's a recent discussion here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017337
As the letter notes, Oracle has never actually taken any kind of action to keep people from using the name. They don't even make performative reminders. They know their claim on the mark is weak and they aren't going to waste a lot of lawyer time on it. But it's Oracle, so they won't willingly give up anything that might be worth more than a dime. This is just to note their continued non-action when the USPTO is asked to nullify the mark.
> intentionally hostile reading of the content.

Why? I specifically mentioned Hollywood to try avoid the rose colored glasses and just skip to the matter of fact stage. If it's just churning out content then it's just churning out content.

> Liz Lemon (friendly, trying to gain favor): Whatcha guys working on?

> Ritchie (Deadpan): Piece for the Today Show about how next month is October.
Reminds me of the first ultima game, it starts out as a fairly bog standard medevil fantasy setting, and turns into star-wars towards the end.

https://www.filfre.net/2012/02/ultima-part-3/
Like any skillful rhetorician, he constructs with an eye toward the intended medium. When that's prose, it reads a lot more smoothly than here.
Show HN: I overengineered my TTRPG themed wedding website
Germany. Berlin in particular.

Also didn't have very good experiences in the UK (Cambridge and Portsmouth).
Oh, I always think the opposite. If the outcome is technical, then quit playing, RTF specs, design and build it. If the outcome is some wobbly user expectation, wobble back with Agile.