skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was particularly thinking of the open access operators such as Grand Central and Lumo who think they have zero responsibility for passengers and that getting you to your destination is a nice-to-have

Train service was never amazing but has genuinely been getting worse through reduced staff and reduced empowerment of them
Anecdotally, it's not just the size of the cars that makes them dangerous, it's the driving style of the people that buy them. When I look at how people drive in my area (a smaller town in Canada), it's very often the people in the biggest trucks that are the ones tailgating, speeding, crossing double lines to pass on a dangerous section, etc etc. I've never understood this. If anything, driving such an enormous car would make me extra careful.
I think you're missing the most important point: these models need to be trained on something and that something is a fully developed, working game.

You're basically saying that game development would need to do the work twice: step 1: develop a fully functional game, step 2: spend ridiculous effort (in terms of time and compute) on training a model to emulate the game in a half-baked fashion.

It's a solution looking for a problem.
I think they should change '2.5B Users' by '2500000000 Users' in the title to get more clicks.
Dead project: "This repository has been archived by the owner on Oct 4, 2024. It is now read-only."
I can't see a clear conclusion, unfortunately. 'Further study required' as ever. It also seems that 'resilience' to the stress of caloric restriction is key to gaining most benefit but it's not clear exactly what resilience is, and whether it's manipulable.

From the article:

Weight loss and metabolic improvements do not explain the longevity benefits of severe dietary restrictions.

Cutting calories by 40% yielded the longest longevity bump, but intermittent fasting and less severe calorie restriction also increased average lifespan. The dieting mice also displayed favourable metabolic changes, such as reductions in body fat and blood sugar levels.

However, the effects of dietary restriction on metabolism and lifespan didn’t always change in lockstep. To the authors’ surprise, the mice that lost the most weight on a calorie-limited diet tended to die younger than did animals that lost relatively modest amounts.

This suggests that processes beyond simple metabolic regulation drive how the body responds to limited-calorie regimes. What mattered most for lengthening lifespan were traits related to immune health and red-blood-cell function. Also key was overall resilience [...] The most-resilient animals lost the least weight, maintained immune function and lived longer.

In one of the most comprehensive clinical trials of a low-calorie diet in healthy, non-obese individuals, researchers found that the intervention helped to dial down metabolic rates — a short-term effect thought to signal longer-term benefits for lifespan.

But the mouse data from Churchill’s team suggest that metabolic measurements might reflect ‘healthspan’ — the period of life spent free from chronic disease and disability — but that other metrics are needed to say whether such ‘anti-ageing’ strategies can truly extend life.
French has four base tenses and four compounding aspects.
CSGO model is only 1.5 gb & training took 12 days on a 4090

https://github.com/eloialonso/diamond/tree/csgo?tab=readme-o...
Yeah, it is the second and third paragraphs I was wondering about. I guess I’m not really 100% clear on what he meant by “forced,” I don’t see any instances there of the government actually forcing them out of print, right? It looks like the situation where nobody wants to publish or distribute that sort of stuff.
It seems extremely unlikely to me that ML models will ever run entire games. Nobody wants a game that's "entirely indistinguishable from reality" anyways. If they did, they would go outside.

I think it's possible specific engine components could be ML-driven in the future, like graphics or NPC interactions. This is already happening to a certain degree.

Now, I don't think it's impossible for an ML model to run an entire game. I just don't think making + running your game in a predictive ML model will ever be more effective than making a game the normal way.
This is 300M parameters model (1/1300th of the big llama-3) trained with 5M frames with 12 days of a GTX4090.

This is what a big tech company was doing in 2015.

The same stuff at industrial scale à la large LLMs would be absolutely mind blowing.
You found Turkish grammar easy compared to french? What was your first language?

It was really nice to not have to mess with too much of a case system, after Russian.
Nope. The 'why' in the title is misleading. They suspect some unknown factors but aren't sure what and whether they can be targeted for anti-ageing interventions.
The 49 euro ticket is a phenomenally good deal. Normal transit tickets vary per city, but for example in Berlin it's 3.50 per trip. So if you take transit twice a day for 7 days, you already recoup the cost of the Deutschland ticket, which lasts the entire month! This makes it good even for tourists who stay for ~a week.

At 59, it's 9 days of two trips to recoup the cost -- still very worth it for someone living in Germany, but a bit more borderline for a tourist.

Compare with eg Toronto's monthly pass, which is $156. A single trip is $3.35, which comes out to 24 two-trip days to recoup the cost of the card. That's almost exactly the number of business days in a month. And that card's only for Toronto!
If you're not bored with it yet, here's a Deep Dive (NotebookLM, generated podcast). I fed it the project page, the arXiv paper, the GitHub page, and the two twitter threads by the authors.

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/a240cb12-8ca1-41b4-ab... (7m59s)

As always, it's not actually much of a technical deep dive, but gives a quite decent overview of the pieces involved, and its applications.
With appropriate encryption between the two machines, the slate could even be a simple smartphone.

It doesn't matter whether the smartphone is internet-connected or not, as the slate's contents wouldn't be of any use without hacking one of the machines, and if you could do that, you wouldn't need to hack the slate in the first place.
This reads like a classic outrage-sentiment story, that has nothing to do with the actual subject - OnlyFans. Their stories are about:

* Abusive partners who burn money on addictions (OF, drugs, alcohol)

* Users who may know the OF (porn) creator in real life

* Superfan who stalks OF creator (influencer) on instagram, but continues to take $10k+ of their money

The only thing that can be blamed on OF is the ease with which both creators and users can exchange money. Not sure how to blame the rest of this common malaise on OF.
I don't think London was a particularly important city in the world in 1100AD
See https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/zig-is-a-windows-resource-co... for an example of using the Zig build system to cross-compile an existing Windows GUI program written in C from any supported host system.
"there is no understanding, only prediction"

I have no idea what this means.
The code was shared under a GPL license. If the license allows you to reuse, fork, etc, then it makes no sense to accuse you of "stealing".

Obviously there's more to it here as they've also taken over the plugin's reviews, users, etc, but the code is GPL.
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Yep. And they’ve gone 0-to-100 within days.

I think he has a fair point - I’d be totally comfortable with a standing expectation in a community like Wordpress for companies to pay their way (or be looked down on & excluded from taking part in community events).

But the expectations have to be a fair & transparent, and ideally communicated from the start, so people and companies can make informed choices about how they want to be involved. Not suddenly enforced with no lead time, with demands of money amounts seemingly made up on the spot, and “scorched earth” tactics when the demands aren’t met.

As a rule of thumb, bikes can start and stop fast. Cars should be more predictable on the roads. And trucks should accelerate and turn more slowly still.

If you’re big and powerful (government, standards body, maintainer of a huge opensource project, etc) you need to telegraph your moves and act slowly and predictably so other people can react to you. This is not how you do that.
The world model can still be rendered in very low res, and then the diffusion skin/remaster is applied.

And this would also be an exciting route to go at remastering old games. I‘d pay a lot to play NFS Porsche again, with photorealism. Or imagine Command & Conquer Red Alert, „rendered“ with such a model.
Real men write formulae by hand in their typewriter typed papers.
Yep, the fuzziness and opaqueness of ML models makes developing an entire game state inside one a non-starter in my opinion. You need precise rules, and you need to be able to iterate on those rules quickly, neither of which are feasible with our current understanding of ML models. Nobody wants a version of CS:GO where fundamental constants like weapon damage run on dream logic.

If ML has any place in games it's for specific subsystems which don't need absolute precision, NPC behaviour, character animation, refining the output of a renderer, that kind of thing.
It's important to consider the broader implications of prolonged delays. They delay the potential benefits that these advancements could bring to society, for example in improved global communications, access to more natural resources in extraterrestrial sites, and the acquisition of more scientific knowledge through massively greater space exploration.

The cumulative effect of these delays will undoubtedlu outweigh the incremental safety benefits they provide. Each 30 days delayed sets back progress that will help address global challenges or catalyze economic growth through new industries and technologies.

And really, there is almost no downside to weigh faster approvals against. The checks you mention are already there, in the form of the deterrent effect of the threat of fines and lawsuits if they screw up. The checks should not come from centralized gatekeepers holding up progress by massively slowing the rate of iteration/experimentation.

Billionaires played a major part in the expansion of railroads, factories and the telegraph network in the 19th century. They played a major role in the expansion of private automobiles, the passenger plane fleet, and telecommunication networks, and the explosion of everyday consumer products, in the 20th century.

It is absolutely no surprise that they're now playing a leading role in pushing rocket technology forward, and the fact that they are shouldn't be used an excuse for obviously excessive restrictions on this enormously promising technology.
It's a research paper. Not everything that comes out of research has an immediate real-world application in mind.

Games are just an accessible and easy to replicate context to work in, they're not an end goal or target application.

The research is about AI agents interacting with and creating world models. Such world models could just as well be alien environments - i.e. the kind of stuff an interstellar and even interplanetary probe would need to be able to do, as two-way communication over large distances is impractical.
It's more likely it was half a meter and he misspoke. Landing with half a centimeter accuracy seems highly improbable.
Sweden's list of country's cultural gaming treasure
> it's literally just an http client with a UI, better luck next time

This is the exact toxic dismissive attitude that leads to OSS software going the payment-gated route.
This is one of those things that would have been great to know before adopting Hugo. But alas.
I don't really understand the intuition on why this helps RL. The original game has a lot more detail, why can't it be used directly?
That one of Matts claims. Personally I suspect the actual trigger was WPE removing Automattic's affiliate key from WooCommerce and costing them $m/y of revenue.
All other things being equal, I didn't feel up to the task of learning a language that regularly omits all vowels in written form. But man, that calligraphy...
Brilliant idea, thanks. I thought my 2 hour walks were long (and beneficial). I need to try doubling that, then doubling that, then doubling that again.
For some high speed routes there’s a limit on how many carriages one attendant can supervise (maybe to ensure timely evacuation?) so a 12 carriage ICE train needs 3 attendants to fully operate.
Never thought about wanting it to work with incremental builds, so thanks for the idea. Added a jq one-line to do so in my script: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/scripts/commit/3f860728eb2ea6d46e4...
But it is in Azerbaijani (they also tend to makeshift the non finite verb suffix -ub as the perfective).
Bruno didn’t exist until ~2yrs ago and was created as a reactionary alternative to Postman’s changes. What did you use before that?
Considering this dispute already invoves trademrk confustion allegations I'd avoid the words "word" , "press" , WP" and "auto" and "matic" completely.
In the real world, you can't just boot up a copy of reality to play out strategies. You need an internal model.
Refuted by every Jewish grandmother ever.
How many tons of CO2 are in 1 degree of global temperature? This idea that removing “a lot” is somehow “helping” just seems hand-wavy to me. If the goal is “reduce temperatures,” then what precisely is the goal number? And then, how much CO2 equals that? And how much is the cost per degree to reduce and what is the cost per degree to not reduce?

There is a lot of “modeling” but has anyone actually proven “reducing 8000 tons of carbon reduces temperatures by n degrees?” And is it beneficial to lower temperatures? Are there benefits to higher temperatures that haven’t been quantified?

Just seems like the plan is “spend whatever it takes forever” — when whatever it takes isn’t even quantifiable. Basically investing without ever knowing the return on the investment.
LaTeX-based invoicing system? Okay, you got me curious.
In general, it has been shown time and time again that this approach fails for neural network based models.

If you can train a neural network that goes from a to b and a network that goes from b to c, you can usually replace that combination with a simpler network that goes from a to c directly.

This makes sense, as there might be information in a that we lose by a conversion to b. A single neural network will ensure that all relevant information from a that we need to generate c will be passed to the upper layers.
I think everything labeled 'miscompilation' could be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility, since triggering them always leads to an unusable/broken .res file. No clue how likely it is they'll be fixed, though.
I don't disagree with that, but the comment I've replied to said they were stealing "what they had previously provided". The stuff "provided" was code shared under a GPL license.

Maybe it's a technicality, but the code is open source and you can do whatever you want it it, provided that you respect the GPL license.

There's a lot to criticise Matt for here, but you can't accuse him of stealing GPL code. Like, that's one of the points of that license.
So would you convince a recovering alcoholic to drink then blame them when they do it?
Cursor-like programming on CodePen.io [video]
I loved ready player one. It's not a classic, but it's a fun movie. I think a lot of the hatred comes from the people who have read the book (I haven't).
Our attempts at resolving trademark issues with WPE predate our discovery of the attribution removal.
Interesting. For me it's not showing anything in the middle of the screen, just upper and lower stuff (like a ~header and ~footer).

Is that what you see?
Just tried it out, and no. It doesn't have any sort of "map" awareness. It's very much in the "recall/replay" category of "AI" where it seems to accurately recall stuff that is part of the training dataset, but as soon as you do something not in there (like walk into a wall), it completely freaks out and spits out gibberish. Plausible gibberish, but gibberish none the less.
It’s not really made for tourists from outside the country, you already have special tickets for people who visit for a short time. It’s for the local population. The price hike is from 49€/month to 58€/month next year. It’s the opposite of predatory IMHO, you have it on your mobile app in a few tap and can cancel easily
Just skimmed the article but my guess is that it’s a dream type experience where if you turned around 180 and walked the other direction it wouldn’t correspond to where you just came from. More like an infinite map.
You can crosstrain on reality.
I think PressWord sounds nice
It's called past inferential in linguistic terms (all non-past inferentials in Turkish are compound tenses, but the past inferential is a base tense).
I think the things to blame here are the design of Windows and the overall design of the air-gapped environment.

Yes, at the end of the day you're going to need to move stuff from non-air-gapped devices to air-gapped devices and vice-versa. You can assume the non-air-gapped devices are completely compromised. But why is the air-gapped device not configured to always show file extensions?

This is literally working because Windows is configured to hide common file extensions, and the attack relies on hiding a folder and replacing it with an executable with a folder icon and the same name +.exe.

If you're designing an airgapped system, this is literally the first thing you should be worried about after ensuring that the system is actually airgapped.

At least windows explorer should have been configured to show extensions (and some training delivered to ensure that the people using these systems have the diligence to notice unusual file extensions with familiar looking icons).

It would be even better if the file explorer was replaced with something less easy to fool. Something which does not load custom icons, never hides directories, and maybe even prevents access if the flash drive has indications of shenanigans (unusually named files, executables, hidden folders) which would indicate something weird was going on.

It's a good job that unlike with Stuxnet nobody plugged in a flash drive from the literal car park, but this is pretty poor on the part of the people designing/implementing the airgapped environment.
> Suggesting they're not contributing is disingenuous.

Where did I say they don't contribute? I said they don't contribute beyond their mouth

> You don't see the non-premium version of ACF as contributing?

It's a marketing strategy, first and foremost. If they didn't offer it, an alternative would come along and attract the crowd.

You know what's disingenuous? Claiming it's a contribution when you're doing it as marketing strategy or as part of sales funnel.

You can't cash a check twice.
NVIDIA's RTX Remix [1] suite of tools already does that. It doesn't require any model training or dozens of hours of pre-recorded gameplay either.

You can drop in low-res textures and have AI tools upscale them. Models can be replaced, as well as lighting and the best part: it's all under your control. You're not at the merci of obscure training material that might or might not result in a consistent look-and-feel. More knobs, more control, less compute required.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/rtx-remix/
It's more likely having a specific immediate use case - creating his videos - was more important. Usually creating something for some abstract future use(r) will lead to almost zero motivation, at least for me.
A Zen 5 core has four parallel AVX-512 execution units, so it should be able to execute 128 16-bit operations in parallel, or over 24k on 192 cores. However I think the 192-core processors use the compact variant core Zen 5c, and I'm not sure if Zen 5c is quite as capable as the full Zen 5 core.
Where are you getting this data from? Nicotine is an appetite suppressant but so is caffeine. I find it hard to believe that smoking alone is the reason for the difference.
It is used as a predictive model of the environment for model-based RL. I.e. agents can predict consequences of their actions.
I see where this is going.

The next step to create training data is a real human with a bodycam. There is only the need to connect the real body movement (step forward, turning left, etc) to typical keyboard and mouse game control events, to feed them into the model, too.

I think that is what the devs here are dreaming about.
There is huge potential in software for the education sector. Maybe you can spark your love for programming again by finding an idea that combines your love for music, gamedev, and teaching/education?
> How many mammals have babies that require basically continuous care for years before they can be remotely self sufficient?

All great apes. I'm not drawing conclusion based on other animals, anyway. I'm looking at humans. It's just interesting to note we're not alone amongst mammals when it comes to polygamy.
I get where they're coming from as excellence does require grinding - the idea of a 3 week bootcamp into mastery (of anything) is a pure sales pitch; on the flip side the grind's a means to an end, usually, and I am doubtful that goal is "become indentured to a company" when they've just built up the skills to found one.
Well that's going to remain an issue for a long time: TeX has close to half a century head start :)
Or they didn't feel confident about quickly getting a new job in this market. Especially since Automattic is mostly/entirely WFH.

It's pretty unlikely the company will go completely broke any time soon so their jobs are probably fairly safe.
YouTube is so slow to react that the scam is long done before they do anything.
> My major point of friction with LaTeX is that using unicode is not straightforward.

Possibly you are describing how it used to be before the input encoding standard for LaTeX switched to UTF-8?
So, effectively, these video game models are proof-of-concepts to say “we can make models with extremely accurate predictions using minimal resources”?
I just checked it out right quick. It works perfectly well on an AMD card with ROCM pytorch.

It seems decent in short bursts. As it goes on it quite quickly loses detail and the weapon has a tendency to devolve into colorful garbage. I would also like to point out that none of the videos show what happens when you walk into a wall. It doesn't handle it very gracefully.
A strong German military with an ascendant far right party. What could possibly go wrong.
If by people you mean me, then I wasn't clear enough in my comment. The example given implied an image without any objects the GP was talking about, just a uniform texture.
Is it an adverb? Possibly ?
Sounds like Australia in winter, further inland and south...
Depends how good their PR is. By all accounts, their current PR is not very good
Thanks, that's the detail I was looking for on the training. It's amazing results like this can be achieved at such a low costs! I thought this kind of work was out of reach for the GPU poor.

The part about the continuous control still seems weird to me though. If anyone understands that then very interested to hear more.
Well, I hope he's going to pay people to maintain that plugin now.

Because the original author (or team?) is probably motivated to move on to other endeavours instead.