skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few reasons to go the route mentioned in the article:

- You may want to run more recent games. The 10 year old laptop, particularly one with a dedicated GPU and a lot of RAM, will even run some current games.

- There seems to be a fair bit of interest in retrocomputing these days. This is driving up the cost of both hardware and games. It is also possible to purchase many older games through GOG and Steam that you would not be able to directly install on that old hardware (either due to the installer or client).

- An older laptop is going to be smaller, quieter, and more reliable. Even if something does fail, it is going to be easier to find replacement parts.
Frantically Googles VAE...

Ah, okay, so the work is done at a different level of abstraction, didn't know that. But I guess it's still a pixel-related abstraction, and it is converted back to pixels to generate the final image?

I suppose in my proposed (and probably implausible) algorithm, that different level of abstraction might be loosely analogous to collections of related game engine assets that are often used together, so that the denoising algorithm might be effectively saying things like "we'll put some building-related assets here-ish, and some park-related flora assets over here...", and then that gets crystallised in to actual placement of individual assets in the post-processing step.
This is not the official channel. They no longer livestream on Youtube but use the Twitter infrastructure for that.
ship it.make a MVP
Am I right in assuming X does not allow this? I think they would prefer you bought targeted ads on their platform.
The wording you use “effective for building trust” is a misnomer. As someone who uses ACF, I am suddenly an outcast in the world of Matt/Wordpress.org? And people who I know make money from plugins, are they next in line for the hostile take over treatment?

This IS a violent breach of consumer/user trust. Whatever you thought before of this takeover/stealing, this is what trust gone looks like.
Caloric restriction (CR) leading to longer lifespan doesn’t generalize, including rhesus monkeys [1]. Moreover, across various species there seems to be negative correlation between average lifespan and effectiveness of CR and lifespan extension [2].
[1] https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1844282914521096501
[2] https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1844310815819931661
This is exactly why Qubes OS has been developed, with its strong hardware-assisted virtualization. All USB devices belong to a dedicated VM, which is reset every time it's restarted. My daily driver, can't recommend it enough! https://qubes-os.org
I'm a mobile app developer. Mobility is preferrable.
And I don't need the most powerful dev machine.
Here I am, hired as a team lead, got to a VP of Eng. in 2 years during which I fixed (initiated and led the projects, didn't code myself) many long standing issues with the company's engineering organization and the product itself. I was a director before this job, though at a smaller company. It's a 200-person startup.
A physics bug would be a consistent problem you can fix.
There's no such guarantee about an ML model.
This would likely only be ok in the context of a game specifically made to be janky.
Yet we have no understanding, only prediction. We can describe a great many things in detail, how they interact - and we can claim to understand things, yet if you recursively ask “why?” everybody, and I mean everybody, will reach a point where they say “I don’t know” or “god”.

An incomplete understanding is no understanding at all, and I would argue that we can only predict, and we can certainly emulate reality, otherwise we would not be able to function within it. A toddler can emulate reality, anticipate causality - and they certainly can’t be said to be in possession of a robust grand unified theory.
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> […] and therefore it must be better.

Yes, it is better from a capacity point of view.

If you have a linear path that is x metres wide, and you want/need to move a certain number of people, not-cars will move more people:

* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Corridor...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis–Mogridge_position

Or, from another perspective, you have a budget of $/€ y for transportation, what mode of transportation will allow you to move the most people for that money? Unless you believe in MMT, government budgets are a finite resource, so how do we get the most bang for our buck?

Certainly you need some roads as vehicles such as trucks (UK: lorries) are very handy for society in running the economy. I myself own a car, a motorcycle, a bicycle, and have a transit pass (though I can use debit/credit tap-to-pay) and use each mode when appropriate. But the overemphasis on automobiles—specifically for private transportation—is suffocating the availability for other options.

To go back to your analogy: if you have a starving population, then factory farming is better because you can provide more calories to more people (and probably at lower cost). In that case organic is worse because you may be sacrificing people's well-being by not having enough capacity. Once you solve your first problem (enough calories/capacity), then you have the luxury of other considerations.
One reason: to keep games off of your productivity machine.

I have a modern laptop and desktop, so I simply do work on the laptop and play on the desktop. Not everyone has that option.

It's also possible to have an old unused laptop without having a newer machine. Not very likely in this case since the author seems to be very much interested in computers, but there are certainly people out there who have replaced their computers with mobile devices and may not even touch a traditional computer (outside of work).
There's so much strawmen here I don't want to take it apart because it feels so pointless. A lot of people being single has zero to do with anything else. People don't need to be in romantic relationships to be happy and certainly no one is wrong to have the standards they have for partners. It's their prerogative to decide whom to date and the whole narrative that there's a societal problem related to women not wanting to date the average guy is just disgusting.
wdym by ship it? outsource?
High performers tend to get bored with the reality of most development. This usually presents as over-enginerring and a reluctance to do dull but necessary tasks.

Over time the risk of them leaving builds and others are reluctant to take on their mantle (complex code, assumed overtime, whatever). I've never been able to hire a high performer with the remit of 'please take over this complex and custom system your predecessor built and walked away from' - such people want to build that stuff themselves and someone else has already had the fun.

Businesses want reliability and predictability, your high performance is probably better spent on your hobbies, or your own (ownership >= 10%) businesses.

High is relative to other team members so I suspect this is true no matter the baseline skill.
DuckStation is PS1 emulator and not PS5 emulator.
The method works, and I am going to elaborate on it a little. As the poster said, start warm, work your way down to cool, then cold. Very cold.

But what really seems to kick one off to dreamland is not drying your hair, instead putting a towel down on your pillow. As your hair dries, you'll get some more evaporative cooling strictly for your head, and that helps even more
Corporate world ain't the place for 10x devs, that's just a non-primary skill maxed.

Primary skill is somewhere around understanding politics and grokking how to please the person evaluating / promoting you. If its about rating from others then same applies to them. Rarely is that directly relevant to quality of engineering output itself.

This goes often very directly against innate desire of engineers to do some good creative work so we often struggle to get appreciated, but that's how it is. That's why various degree of sociopathy present naturally helps with above and smart sociopaths comfortably inhibit higher levels of management of such places. I don't use that term as an insult just to be clear, rather personality trait that is not binary but very much endless tones of grey.

Triple above if IT is just a cost center to given corporation.
> There is legal recourse to get people to pay for real damages — civil penalties.

Musk has the money to take any case to the Supreme Court, the court is controlled by Trump who is friends with Elon now. Any case against Elon will probably get thrown out or ruled in Elon's favour.
Do you really use it? If you don't use it and then you are talking nonsense here, you are boring.
Ideas for language learning products w/ IPA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38317345
What the hell is Mullenweg smoking? Seriously. This dude has completely lost what little was left of his mind.
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Speaking of potential trademark issues, it looks like "Secure Custom Fields" retains some ACF branding:

https://x.com/TDKibru/status/1845178985308881146/
https://archive.is/sjuHl

Ironically, Automattic is actively taking legal action against a premium plugin reseller for trademark infringement on modified WooCommerce plugins: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fqw2eh/automatt...
I kind of agree and disagree with you. My main train lines in Berlin are U8 and Ring and it can be annoying sometimes.

And I will still probably never get a driver's license. Been going without for 40 years already. Just being able to jump into any train, bus, tram or ferry anytime is really nice. I could pay double the monthly price for this privilege.
They could also buy WP Engine. Or vice versa.

I doubt it will result in a mass migration. Many wouldn't move to a fork. We are very engaged in this kind of news, but the kinds of users who use WordPress often aren't. Our small company actually uses WP Engine, and I asked our owner (who also handles content, marketing, etc, and who I report to) if he had heard of what was going on, and he hadn't.
Seems odd to compare a machine like a 12 lead EKG to a smartwatch with a single lead EKG support.

Of course variability will differ, that’s why they invest to much into improving the technology and ml algorithms to make up for the difference to personalize the data.

The watch could encourage you to go to a doctor and the doctor can use a more accurate instrument to diagnose.
>If I understand it correctly, the core of the dispute is trademark and that WPEngine somehow implies WordPress affiliation.

No, the core of the dispute is Matt wants either money from WP Engine or for them to contribute to WordPress. He's using the trademark as leverage. However, their usage of WordPress does not imply affiliation instead saying stuff "We bring WordPress to the masses".

The use of WP in their name was them actually following WordPress' trademark policy where they asked people not to use WordPress in their names but WP.
> it's like they copy / pasted the original reporting and added BS drama for effect

You just described most modern news media.
> the common bad guys we really need to remove from our bodies

Can you elaborate?
> ...a machine for finding people with similar interests and experience [is] the web I want back.

What's wrong with dumb keyword text search for people using near-hapax interest- and experience-specific vocabulary?
This video https://x.com/Sentdex/status/1845146540555243615 looks way too much like my dreams. This is almost exactly that happens when I sometimes try to jump high, it transforms me to a different place just like that. Things keep changing just like that. It's amazing to see how close it is to a real dream experience.
They actually sold their stake in WP Engine... Maybe they realised that was a bad move.
I would say it is basically the same on all levels. Devs just want to rebuild everything all the time and most of the time reasons are made up - real reason is they want to make it themselves their way.
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As a tourist, the cost was well worth it. Used buses and rail to get everywhere, booked one DB train from Berlin to Bamberg but otherwise travelled all over Germany during my time there.

Just had to remember to cancel.
One other positive externality could be this: The health effects of tire abrasion in cars are not clear yet, not least because tire manufacturers don’t disclose their ingredients. For all we know these fine particulates could be as bad as PFAS.
> High performance is generally an anti pattern in software.

Talk about "10X performers" reminds me of the saying "It’s a marathon, not a race." Most people recognize Usain Bolt, but how many people have heard of Eliud Kipchoge?

In our field, the "Usains"—the flashy 10X performers—are hailed as heroes. If you are a "Kipchoge", quietly focusing on a sustainable career, you will probably fly under the radar.
Spiral roundabouts are very common all over Europe, including the UK. They take a little getting used to, but once you realise your drivers side wheel just needs to stay the correct side of the white line, and the white line will take you where you need to go, it's all good.
First, you should add "Ask HN:" to the title. Second, "as you can see from my earlier topics" isn't a sufficient description to help you, not even with links.
> Even if it allucinates, wouldn't be worse than the physics bugs that are so common in games.

I don't know about that. Physic bugs are common, but you can prioritize and fix the worst (gamebreaking) ones. If you have a blackbox model, it becomes much harder to do that.
Trump campaign worked with Musk's X to keep leaked JD Vance file off platform
Have fun when you get sent the bill for 0.2 hours.
It's not purely about skill, code quality also improves as a function of discipline, a willingness to take risks and outside pressure.

fwiw I dont think Ive ever seen clean code that didnt make use of something at the very least resembling both exhaustive CI/CD and TDD. There are some practices which are basically essential even if some of the mavens of "best" practices mistakenly label a few that arent necessary as necessary.
Quantum computers were proposed primarily as a means for physicists to do simulations of quantum mechanics. I don't think the 'they'll be faster at everything' hype came from them, in fact this basically seems to have come from people misunderstanding the point of them. So I don't think physicists have anything to answer for on this, only perhaps pop-sci writers (most of whom don't think have claimed such a thing either).
Over the last four years we have made tremendous progress in identifying pathogenic antigens as the main culprit in these diseases. Some may be caused by undetected low grade chronic infections and some may be lingering antigens causing constant immune system activation / dysfunction.
This obsession people have with determinism! I'd much rather take a low rate of weird bugs than common consistent ones. I don't believe reproducibility of bugs makes for better gameplay generally.
This is crazy looking, I know it’s basically useless but it’s cool anyways.
> We can go even further in considering our existential luck.

We can, but it quickly becomes nonsense.

The problem with existential luck is that we don' know the odds. Obviously, based on our current understanding of physics, we can come up with an estimate. But that understanding has to be wrong, because we can't explain why the universe exists at all. Forget the cosmological constant having lucky values, what are the odds that physical constants exist as opposed to there being a matterless void?

I could make an unfalsifiable prediction that there is some sort of N-dimensional super-soup where all 3 dimensions of space, time and physical constants and maybe some huge number of others to determine starting conditions are an axis on a hypercube of unimaginable proportions. Then, everything is a certainty. The amount of luck involved in any particular space-time-other point existing is 1 and there is no luck anywhere. In some sense reality has to be of that nature, because the odds of us existing by chance is so small it suggests that our model is wrong and our existence was in fact guaranteed.
This. If it's completely autonomous and doesn't need either RC or GPS and can build its own route using geographic features on the ground, every nation at war will want it in huge quantities.
I think I understand the topic quite well, since you deliberately deviate from answering the question. You made a practical example that doesn't really work in practice.
Just compare he results of mount(8) between Linux and OpenBSD, another eye-opener.

Linux has a lot of in memory file-systems that I do not know what they are all for :)
Two 4090s, but yeah.
I think it usually gets used by VM/container networks (maybe there's some historic reason)? I have seen it once used on a hotel WiFi network (as I was unable to connect because of docker conflicting).
So you think selling software is the same as selling Fentanyl?
This is one of the fallacies of current AI research space: they don't focus on the end-user too much. In this case the end-user would be the gamer, and while playing games you expect a valid gameplay, so those kind of hallucinations are not acceptable, while I'm pretty sure they give the AI research authors a strong dopamine trigger. We have a hammer and now we are looking for a nail, while you should ask a question first: what is the problem we are trying to solve here?

Real world usage will be probably different, and maybe even unexpected by the authors of this research.
Not really because is it simulators all the way down? Simulation theory explains nothing and only adds more unexplainable phenomenon.
> if they produce something of value to its ends users?

No, that's would be their value proposition or what every company on earth have been doing since inception, filling a gap in the market.

You seem to be claiming that their mere existence in the ecosystem would be a contribution, even if they were closed source. They would be providing value and attracting users in a butterfly effect style. Sure, that help and have a positive impact but is it a contribution to an open source project and the ecosystem?

My model is fairly simple, you can't claim credit for something if you did it involuntarily or with a different intention or it happened as n-level side effect of what you are trying to do.
This should mainly be a matter of giving it more training though, right? It sounds like to amount of training it's gotten is relatively sparse.
I wish, more like 80km, with the luck to jump between bus, two connecting trains, plus bus on the destination, and better not lose any of those connections.
You can use your browsers developer tools to look up the video stream URL (it is the one hosted on "pscp.tv") if you want to view the stream in a different viewer.
Go pair a Bluetooth headset with your Machine, then we can talk about needless complexities.
> cravings for things like addictive drugs also increase for a while as you withdraw.

This is in party because once you become a heavy user, your body stops producing various chemicals or becomes accustomed to larger amounts to meet its baseline (such as dopamine and other neurotransmitters). When you stop your body slowly start producing those again and has to become accustomed to the new baseline. That craving is exactly your body telling you that you are missing something.

Is there anything that shows vegetarian and vegan dieters increase the production of chemicals associated with what they are refraining from? Most drug addictions deals with chemicals the body can make itself, but it the substances lacking in a vegan diet would seem to be things we cannot produce.

There are large populations that have eaten that way their entire life. I wonder how their body chemistry is different than those that started veganism later in life. They don't have to adjust. If they started eating meat, what changed in iron or protein synthesis do they go through?
Every reply we generate is related to the topic, but as we move beyond the early stages, we definitely need to consider a win-win relationship with the platform to ensure long-term development.
It really is.

I just reviewed it:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/10/version_76_openbsd_of...

It worked, but a lot of stuff was way harder than it should be.
Both Mrs Bakewell’s fourteen-year-old son and the couple of guys setting up the large company’s microsite are both downstream of what’s in among the larger web dev community, they’re just lagging behind it by several years (possibly; I wouldn’t be so sure about the fourteen-year-old).

There are of course platforms (it’s always platforms) that have survived losing their in-ness and are still in widespread use (even PHP, arguably), but those are generally described as proven, reliable, stable, well-supported, and so on. I’m not convinced that at this point Wordpress still has that road open to it, instead of only the usual slow decay of widely-deployed software, but either way I don’t think that a transition to a legacy status is a nonevent. It just takes some time to show up in the deployment statistics.
An argument for open source / weight models, why LLMs are a cultural commons
Sure, why not: https://openbsd-ps-vs-coreos.tiiny.site/

In fact, OpenBSD has gotten a lot more verbose over the years, due to sub-processes being listed explicitly. Good example here is `smtpd`, but even then, the difference with Linux remains... stark.
Here are some outstanding issues in the way.

[1] Docs.

Some of the issues I've faced with it could be fixed with better documentation.

Baseline: you have an older computer, one you can afford to have non-working for a while. You want to be able to download drivers and stuff so you want to dual boot with another OS. What other OS doesn't really matter: could be Windows, could be Linux. Not important.
Partitioning

Document how to partition a disk while identifying what existing partition is which. How to ID a bootable working Windows partition, say, but remove the useless "recovery partition" and reuse that space. This needs covering for both BIOS/MBR and UEFI/GPT.

Also: how to customise OpenBSD's positively Byzantine, labyrinthine partitioning so you have room to install GNOME or whatever. (Personally I detest GNOME and I'd say the only desktop in line with OpenBSD's goals of simplicity and cleanliness is Xfce, but whatever.)
Bootloader

Also: how to add the OpenBSD bootloader to GRUB.

[2]

Installer and partitioner.

Many of the others... Well: while I was researching this article, I found a number of people posting on fora all around the Web going "the installation program is great" or words to that effect. The installation program is not great. It's a nightmare.

[3]

Virtualisation

As it happened after installing 7.1 and 7.2 I was emboldened to get 7.5 running on bare metal, which was hard and I felt considerable pride that I did it, as one of 5 OSes on that machine.

That happens to be around the time it stopped working in VirtualBox. Readers have commented to this effect, and I tried it and I've confirmed it.

Out there in the real world people will try it first in a VM. It must work without any special config. It did work until around 7.3 or so and now it's broken. This is a major priority.
This is how users will unknowingly update from ACF to Secure Custom Fields:

https://x.com/Brugman/status/1845195750550143424

https://archive.is/u6ZbY
can you elaborate what are the medical trials which are going on for this?