skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is absolutely the YT algorithm. You can start them on decent stuff but if they follow the gradient they will end up in a gutter of absolute trash.

I feel like this experiment in rapid feedback optimization for engagement has yielded a truth about the human condition that ought to become one of those "laws": trash maximizes engagement.

It sounds pessimistic and awful but I think it's one of those things that makes sense in retrospect. Consider the following:

Let's say two people walk past you on the street. One of them says 'hi' and you have a brief light chat with them. The other smears themselves with peanut butter and starts clucking like a chicken and saluting Hitler. Which maximizes engagement?

This implies that any system that optimized for maximum engagement will converge on some kind of trash.

This is interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1bn8gfq/researcher...
I am glad he is calling out the C-levels for their propensity to lie and 'manage up'. This is a character trait that needs to be annihilated. We should not be filtering for what is effectively psychopathy.

I have watched so many amazing and sustainable products die because someone let the MBAs in. After sitting through so much of this crap dogma in my own business school classes, I would say the vast majority of what they/we are taught is actively harmful to most businesses.
I don't know what would've surely happened. It's easy to think well if they did this not that all the positives would remain they'd just be better. I think life is more complicated than that.

In general what I think is people make a pariah out of Germany and its energy choices, but this is mostly based on false data, which tells me enough. The debate is riddled with false data which lead to even worse conclusions. In the end the numbers are positive and that's all what's important for me. There are better candidates for criticism when looked at individually or even globally, what the individual strategies accomplish on a global scale. So when looked at globally, the German energy transition has accomplished a ton. E.g. the 600TW of solar this year never would've happened without it, which more than offsets the 10-15GW of nuclear they switched off, most of which was past its retirement age.
I still don't see it being much different from using language switches, especially when language semantics, ABI across versions, and standard library are part of the whole upgrade story.

Additionally I have my doubts how long this will scale when Rust has like 40 years of history behind it.
And here come the headlines about gas shortages in Florida. Many hours of idling to go <100mi, stranding cars along the highway. Meanwhile, EVs still charging just fine.
I read it fast and ignored all the words I didn't understand. You get in the zone. It was great.
What is "the Bible"? As many threads in this post have pointed out, the translator and translation have a huge impact on the final product.† Are you referring to ancient Hebrew? A version approved by the Catholic Church or is it something concocted by that German heretic? Something else?

† Sometimes with death sentences handed out for challenges to R̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ papal supremacy!
To anyone thinking about writing a game engine.

I've been cranking on a 2D engine for over 4 years and have put thousands of hours of work into it.

My summary:

If you want to write a game, just write a game. Don't start with your own engine since this will suck all your time and you'll end up spending 90% on engine and very little getting the game game done. Especially so in the beginning when you have no features and doing anything in the game requires engine work.

If you choose to create your own engine it's a compelling and fantastic domain where problems come in all shapes and sizes and you can and get to work with physics, maths, linear algebra, audio, rendering, graphics APIs, system level programming, most likely native programming AND scripting, game content, technical art etc.

But finally the real work is not the engine but the tooling and the editor around the engine.

If (when) you rely on free assets from (for example opengameart) you can expect no consistency. Not just the art style but just the technical part too, like your models are all inconsistent in shapes and sizes and axis, 2D content such as textures are by default without any meta data etc. So you really need to create a ton of tooling so that you can have sensible workflows and you can extract and consume the usable and interesting parts of any content package easily.

This inevitably leads to the concept of "editor" which easily comes with a ton of work by itself that has nothing to do with game or game engine per se. For example the concept of "Project", windows, resource management, basic editing functionality for creating content, undo/redo/ etc. A lot of this is not really related to the game or the engine in anyway but you really sort of "must have it" if you want to create something that is actually usable.

The feature creep is real! But once you get the over a lot of the boiler plate and you can actually use your own editor to stuff content into your own engine and have it running it's really a nice feeling even if nobody else cares!

On the technical side my advice is really to be able to do first principles type of thinking. It's of utmost importance to be able to break things apart into self contained features and pieces that the game can then combine to create bigger constructs.

If you can have your materials scroll textures vertically, when you combine that with shapes that are layered and place textures onto those shapes that scroll at various multiples of your "characters" speed then you've just created "parallax scrolling" essentially.

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https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator
If I run all the way to the right side of the screen past the enemy and shoot in any direction, the bullets immediately hit the enemy.
The book looks at that document as a sort of smoking gun, too. I think the simplest explanation is that Kulle didn't think the SS thing was a big deal, just a technicality he had to work around to get into the US, and that OPRF (our high school where he worked) didn't really know much about it either. It wasn't unusual for someone to have contemporaneous German documentation --- especially in Chicago, which was a hub for post-war immigration. Gross-Rosen in particular was not well known, even into the 1980s --- the centerpiece of the book is a sort of courtroom drama wherein Kulle's lawyer attempts to convince a judge that there wasn't much of anything untoward about the camp at all.

So the short answer is probably that nobody looked too carefully at Kulle's documentation when he signed on to a low-level janitor's job at a high school.
link from hindenburgresearch

https://hindenburgresearch.com/roblox/
Thanks, that's right, 2021 not 2023. Corrected.
IDE support (including code completion) for Ruby has been around for a while. RubyMine most notably, but AFAIK VSCode is pretty decent at it as well these days.
>IMO it feels a little late / weird / irrelevant

>scientific awards are more interesting when leading indicators

Peter Higgs waited 50 years, the Nobel is not a "leading indicator." If it was, it would be given out on the basis of the "hype cycle," which would not be very helpful to anybody.
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In gamedev there is simple rule: don't try to do any of that.

If it is text game needs to show to user then every version of the text that is needed is a translated text. Programmer will never know if context or locale will need word order changes or anything complicated. Just trust the translation team.

If text is coming from user - then change design until its not needed to 'convert'. There are major issues just to show user back what he entered! Because the font for editing and displayed text could be different. Not even mentioning RTL and other issues.

Once ppl learn about localization the questions like why a programming language does not do this 'simple text operation' are just a newcomer detector. :)
If there were any beauty to the White Sox’s season, it has been disfigured by their demand a new, publicly-financed stadium.
The cheapest DigitalOcean VM is about $4/month, or $48/year. I reckon, given current market trends, that if you were to offer someone, say, a $1200 one-time payment today to maintain that VM in perpetuity, you could probably get a pretty good deal. That kind of money invested into the stock market will handily outperform $48 / year even with a good amount of risk.

A perpetual trust of some sort would probably be the way to go, here.
I would agree.. But it took Computer Scientists to put neural networks on the map by getting them to scale. Basically by asking the question what happens if we turn it up to 11.

Statisticians would never have done that due to parsimony and something something Bayesian.

Engineers would never have done it, nor mathematicians either.

It took Computer Scientists because it is computation.
the nobel prize has the best branding and name brand recognition pop culture wise. I'm sure winning all these others means nearly as much to those communities.
This might be OK for a vacuum cleaner, but nobody in their right mind would choose cameras over LiDAR for important applications.
It's not the Nobel Prize in Fundamental Physics though, and maybe this is correcting a bias that has been present for too long. Just because something isn't quantum or astronomical doesn't mean it's not physics.

Physics is the study of the physical world, and learning, imagination, creativity, are all phenomena that we observe in the physical world but have only a primitive understanding of. It's a staggering advancement that we can now simulate key aspects of each.
Look up a guy called Pedro Aniceto - he’ll tell you so many stories of when those cards were current here (he used to courier them across town when he was a kid)
Its forcing employees to create value, when they really just want to collect compensation
Doesn't everything just get tweaked in whatever direction the back-propagation derivative says and proportionally to that "slope"? In other words, simply by having back-propagation system in effect there's never any question about which way to adjust the weights, right?
We are here to help lower that :-) . As we can push dedupe to the edge we can save on bandwidth as well. And hopefully make everyone upload and download faster.
Is Age Really a Factor in Tech?
Let me add RSA, Elliptic curves, Runge–Kutta, Finite element analysis, and Hamming codes to the list.

I would still consider CSP, Petri Nets, and Pi-Calculus mathematical enough to be wrapped under a mathematics price if they're influential enough. The first true computer scientists were mathematicians, and I still feel that much of the theoretical work in the field is closer to "mathematics useful for computers" than its separate field.

In the spirit of the nobel price, "mathematics with the greatest humanitarian impact" leaves plenty of room for the inclusion of influential pieces from theoretical computer science, especially as those prices within mathematics that do exist already include loads of mathematics that require computers to prove or solve.
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First, congrats on the library and thank you for sharing it!

1) A hint about potential prior art: F# (and/or C#?) have a first-class unit system (physical units I think), which sounds a bit similar to monetary calculations. However, physical unit are easier to model than monetary unit I think.

2) Currently, I am building something tangentially related in Rust: A backtester (test trading strategies on historical and/or simulated data) with focus on accuracy. So one thing I included already is that Assets (like etfs) are valued in a currency.

If I may be so bold: How would you approach these questions / where could I read more about that?
1) When simulating, can I always assume that the exchange will work? (For assets, that is not always the case, sometimes one has to wait a bit until there is a buyer, or there might not be a buyer at all)
2) Is there public domain data in exchange rates?
3) If I have to choose, which exchange rate should I pick? The lower one, higher? What would make the most sense in the context of trading etfs, stocks, options, crypto etc.?
4) How to approach rounding, is there a best practise?
5) I assume it is best to immediately substract taxes in every transaction, even if they are formally defined annually, right?
6) Would you model inflation? I currently plan to ignore it and present it at the very end: "Your portfolio has a final value of X.X ¥. Adjusted for inflation, that would be Y.Y ¥ today (2024-10-08)."
They are making a point about conflict, human nature, and that people don't get along. They are using a quote about it and attributing it to the source.

>“Can’t we all get along?” We couldn’t then, and we aren’t, now.

That doesn't mean they think they are a victim like Rodney King. That doesn't mean they think someone is like the cops.

I think the point is that conflict exists as part of the human experience. You can acknowledge that it exists and move forward. It isn't useful to dwell on what could have been.

Again, what do you think they were using the quote to say. Are they claiming to be a victim like RK? You seem to not like it, but have no clue what you think the implication is, which strikes me as wild. "I dont know what you are saying, but I dont like your meaning"
> Artiaga's record does come with a small asterisk since he used a version of the game that was modified to avoid the crashes that stopped Blue Scuti's historic run.

This is an important caveat - they patched the glitchy behavior and that made this impossible. In the unpatched game, this is not possible and the previous record likely will stand.
Let's put aside the ethical and legal implications of lying to disaster survivors, and calling your normal free trial month as "disaster relief", and enrolling people recovering from a disaster in a monthly auto-renewing service after a 1 month free trial ...

Actually, no, let's not put that aside. This is repulsive behavior.
That heavily depends on your usage. Most microcode security issues are local-only, so if your use case doesn't require the local execution of arbitrary executable code, all you lost is one extra security layer, which would become relevant only if other security layers (the ones which prevent arbitrary local code execution in the first place) fail.
Your average SPA UX is still broken pretty badly for tech that had over a decade to stabilize.
I probably prefer A Farewell to Arms. But Hemingway and Fitzgerald are pretty much textbook examples to me of accessible literary works.
One more: do you prefer the CDC technique over using the rowgroups as chunks (ie using knowledge of the file structure)? Is it worth it to build a parquet-specific diff?
I would also add that the actual Atlantic article does not seem to misrepresent or reference the OP at all https://archive.md/R9uqH.

Presented as is, no one did the OP dirty. This article is a bait-and-switch.
It seems like part of the motivation here is that it's possible to run many contemporary and planned very-big-science projects at all, since nobody's going to be sitting around analyzing centuries' worth of unvetted sensor data, but there are plenty of people prepared to spend a few years of their lives checking and massaging the regions of interest marked by a computer cluster.

The simplest cases will have been long enabled by simpler regressions and such, of course, but the more complex pattern recognition appears to be appreciated.
Well, it's possible to wait 50 years, and still NOT have realized the full impact of your work in society

Sometimes science/engineering turns out like that

e.g. I think Claude Shannon is like that -- his impact continues to rise, and he's viewed as more important after he died

He apparently never won a Turing Award or Nobel Prize, probably because there was and is no Nobel in computer science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Awards_and_hono...

So I guess I mean "drawing attention to something that would have not otherwise had attention", and based on the consensus of people working in the field
I've replaced batteries in a handful of newer smartphones. It's certainly more of a pain in the rear than on devices who's batteries were meant to be swappable, but it's still do-able. iFixit has parts, guides, and difficulty ratings for a lot of devices.

https://www.sustaphones.com/ has a list of Android devices with up-to-date community ROMs and iFixit battery replacement guides.
You are straight up making incorrect assumptions about something I participated in first hand. I don’t know why, but you’re simply wrong. Some people do care about pixel filtering, some people truly do not want a Gaussian, and some people can tell the difference, even if you can’t.

4K and 8k are horizontal resolutions by convention. Historically and before 4K existed, resolutions were referred to vertically, from 240i to 480p to 720p to 1080p. I haven’t heard 2k much and it’s confusing next to 1080p, but maybe some people prefer that. Either way your blanket claim that resolution is referred to by the horizontal size is false.

You haven’t corrected anything other than my dusty film processing terminology, which is extremely pedantic given you understood what I said, and you’re saying things that simply aren’t true.
I think they mitigated the extra memory/compute from this by using half the number of overall heads and doubling V and O. Without actually checking the math I think it should be equivalent in flops, not counting the extra (cheap) multiply by const and subtract.
I agree, you nailed it. Operators are something that feels like using the new shiny but are repeating well-trodden mistakes that are well-understand in languages ranging in age from C++ to Swift.
My comment was possibly too terse to make sense. Are we both referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks?
Why would it memorize some but not others if each contributes the same amount of information? E.g. the LAION dataset is about 240TB, while FLUX is about 10GB, so it could only memorize 0.00833333% of each image, not enough to reproduce it.
Ok, so what about a foreign "ally"? Considering fb and google are known to have been compromised by israeli intelligence I'm not really sure there is practically much difference. https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-former-israeli-spies-...

This seems like it is political and about removing chinese competition from american markets. The protecting American's privacy from foreign actors bit is pure rhetoric not likely to be applied to american companies in the same market even though there is similar exposure.
I think YouTube would also deserve condemnation for the same. Many of the most popular kids content on YouTube is such a toxic addictive brew
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The Higgs boson was first detected in 2012 and he won the Nobel the following year. Saying he waited 50 years for the prize is a bit disingenuous.
The idea that you need a story written by(or about) someone of your race&gender&orientation in order to connect to it is just wrong.

Do I need to be an 81 year old farmer or a playwright in order to understand Giles Cory's plight?

Do I need to be a woman, a puritan or a novelist in order to understand the trials of Hester Prynne?

Nor do I need to be a Frenchman to understand that people can change and that we should not hound them to the ends of the earth because they once committed crimes?

These stories and more are read to lay a foundation of understanding about the society that we live in and why/how we have the laws and morals that we do.

They also show how close we are to our past and how things would be if we regressed as well as letting us look at how we may want to extend these lessons into the laws and culture we create in the future.
Sorting by avg_karma only re-sorts the current list that is on-screen, it is not the actual sort of the entire community.
Report: Increasing antisemitic attacks from X/Twitter against Helene responders
It would double the size of the KV cache, which can be significant (multi-GB) at larger context sizes.
The Apple IIGs exists. I have one. I think it's going to make it to 50 no problem.
Its a grindset.
I mean, Tom Lehrer had a whole song about it and everything. It was on the radio quite a bit at the time.

Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,

A man whose allegiance

Is ruled by expedience.

Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown,

"Ha, Nazi, Schmazi, " says Wernher von Braun.

http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Humorous_Songs/Wernher-Von-...
Yes, the collision mechanism is incomplete, which is why I’m using the bullet position > 1200. Since you passed that threshold, any bullet will hit.

My next step is to work on collision and physics; maybe I’ll use something like Box2D.
Thank you! Disclaimer: as of recently I have funding but the approach will stay the same!
Those shaped charges weren’t envisioned coming from directly above, especially precisely dropped on the engine or on hatches, hence the drones are hitting spots with little to no armour compared to the front and sides.
I'm a long time Ruby/Rails web developer. I stick with it because it has worked well for me. It just keeps getting better every year.
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The most exemplary story was the killing of Herbert Kukurs. West Germany was about to apply a statute of limitations to war crimes, which would have emboldened Nazis to come out of the woodwork. To the Mossad found a Nazi and beat him to death.
I think all art is therapy, and many other things besides.
AI = A * I
VisiCalc, surely. Lotus 123, much like Excel, was just following in the footsteps of the original spreadsheet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
That's the second withdrawal from a second presence, requested by the Iraqi government after the rise of ISIL.

> The United States completed its prior withdrawal of troops in December 2011, concluding the Iraq War.[9] In June 2014, the United States formed Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) and re-intervened at the request of the Iraqi government due to the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

> On 9 December 2017, Iraq declared victory against ISIL, concluding the 2013–2017 War in Iraq and commencing the latest ISIL insurgency in Iraq.

Perhaps those troops should have been withdrawn for the second time in early 2018. Alas, it took place after messier circumstances.

> On 31 December 2019 through 1 January 2020, the United States Embassy in Baghdad was attacked in response to the airstrikes.[6] On 3 January 2020, the United States conducted an airstrike that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani and Kata'ib Hezbollah commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.[6] Iraq protested that the airstrike violated their sovereignty.[13]
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> In March 2020, the U.S.-led coalition, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR), began transferring control over a number of military installations back to Iraqi security forces, citing developments in the multi-year mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Or perhaps the second withdrawal has never actually completed.

> In February 2021, NATO announced it would expand its mission to train Iraqi forces in their fight against ISIL,[14] partially reversing the U.S.-led troop withdrawals. In April 2021, U.S. Central Command stated that there were no plans for a total withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, citing continued threats posed by the ISIL insurgency and Iran-backed militias.[3]
> Sonoma, Santa Clara, Solano and Napa Counties were not taken into the original district because planners did not perceive a need for commuter transit service from outlying areas.

In the first phase of the project. They definitely planned with them in mind:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4114498342/ (1956)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4080507945/ (1957)
The Physics of Racing [pdf]