skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to explain. I don't "get" people, naturally. I don't feel the "proper" emotions, for situations, I have a fairly self-sufficient internal world, that doesn't really "need" other people.

It's made me a good coder, but has made my relationships challenging.

It's really a long story, and one that others have told, far better than I can.
This is literally the problem, let's RP. Engineer: comes up with strong rational solution, hey so all of the people polled -in places with actual gamers, not random polls to people who know what a game is- have said, hey can you make the elf hot please, im spending 10 hours a week on this and having the character being a nonbinary sac of potato orc with a Tumblr addiction is killing my vide. You (Toby), but someone might complain on Twitter and if I conflate some random numbers online I can draw the conclusion that one teenage girl complained. How is that rational?
In many Japanese companies entry level engineers were required to work on a factory line for a few months before being assigned their engineering job. This gave them perspective on how their company makes money by manufacturing, and what that activity entails. (this concept, and my knowledge of Japanese companies may be outdated now...)
Your playground pre-populated example isn't doing you any favors, and the "examples" folder linked to on curator's GitHub would be better served by showing areas where your model shines, not "generate a poem" which hardly has any factuality to it. I don't have any earthly idea what camel.py is trying to showcase with respect to your model's capabilities

I am open to the fact that maybe the value your service provides is in spitting out a percentage, even if it is - itself - hallucinated. But, hey, it's a metric that can be monitored
> We teamed up with global branding powerhouse Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) to revamp our brand and revitalize our intentions across our entire ecosystem.

Engaging in such a rebranding effort is a gigantic red flag for any organization. This is not a good sign at all.
> Given that it is a critical time for Tesla deliveries, particularly of its flagship model, the timing is suspect

That PoS is tesla's flagship model? TIL
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It's a mixed bag. Like any other live service game, you'll see 1-2 breakout hits and then 100 more that can't even last a year. Sex can't magically sell everything.

relying on organic advertising is even harder than making a good game. Some things are just in a snug little corner and never truly break out to that mainstream.
You had me until NY State taxes were included. As I understand, only NY City taxes are required if you work in the City, but live in New Jersey.

> Some bigger US cities have a city income tax

As I know, there is only one in the US that has city specific income tax: NY City. Are there others?
Question: Do Waymo rides ever get on a freeway within their operating territory?
My Open Letter to Peter Schiff (2013)
> I’ve seen teslas full self driving drive me ...

> In what way is it non working at
this point?

It's killing people:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/18/24273418/nhtsa-tesla-ful...
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41381977 :

> "Tongue Disease Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms" (2024) https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/12/7/97 :

>> This study proposes a new imaging system to analyze and extract tongue color features at different color saturations and under different light conditions from five color space models (RGB, YcbCr, HSV, LAB, and YIQ). The proposed imaging system trained 5260 images classified with seven classes (red, yellow, green, blue, gray, white, and pink) using six machine learning algorithms, namely, the naïve Bayes (NB), support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), decision trees (DTs), random forest (RF), and Extreme Gradient Boost (XGBoost) methods, to predict tongue color under any lighting conditions. The obtained results from the machine learning algorithms illustrated that XGBoost had the highest accuracy at 98.71%
A lot of developers don't want to make those games regardless of petty social politics. It's not productive to imply that teams working in creative mediums should optimize for profit to the exclusion of what they want to make or are good at making. There is a lot of room between the scattered financial flops of big producers and gacha waifus. Great things are in that space.
As almost the only country* in the world that charges its citizens on worldwide income, the US is the last place that could be called a tax haven.

*Eritrea being the other...
The rainfall can pose serious visibility risks that will be as much of a challenge as picking up and dropping off customers on a rainy day. Extreme high tides do still flood some roads on Miami Beach with brackish water, which isn't something you want to drive through in an electric car.

On the less challenging side, the city has zero snow, no road ice to worry about.
Paradoxes in Pixels: An AI's Journey Unveiled Through 120 NFTs over 60 Days
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Let's push the boundaries of what's possible together. I look forward to the echoes we'll create.
That doesn't follow. Nobody has said we will force the rich out of their limos.

Some of the rich will chose to use transit though. There is a group of rich people who got that way by being cheap and that group will use transit if possible just because it is cheaper. They don't care about sharing rides with poor people at all.

There is a group of people who appear rich - they live in mansions, drive limos. They are also in dept up to their eyes and one wrong move will put them out on the streets.
But you can use an AI to do all of it effectively. What's your point?
What an awful comparison

> As I understand in US, if you take vacation longer than week, you're in the fear you will be fired. Is it true?

No this is complete nonsense for 95%+ of jobs
What'd really be a shame is if the police could just show up one day and blow up your house. And then just leave

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/03/11/colorado-swat-house-de...
Based on what I saw in SF they're still pretty limited to noob-level driving. I expect driving difficulty will be way more of a barrier than snow.
just to provide some context, the murder rates across Brazil vary widely by region. São Paulo's is pretty close to the global average.
> Waymo also has the option to drop prices lower than Uber/Lyft when vehicles are unutilized

I think that’s an unproven assumption.

There’s certainly reason to believe it to be true of course, but uber and Lyft are already capturing upwards of 50% of the fares for each ride, and that’s without the capital costs on their books. Removing the driver from the equation can’t lead to much more than that 50% (realistically much less) margin.

Going from charging $10 to $5 isn’t going to make rides suddenly materialize. Especially in rural areas there are just times that people aren’t going to be looking to go anywhere, and wait time becomes far more of a factor that raw costs.
Migrating Serialized Data Like Save Games and Custom Maps in Unity/C#
>People do not have a right to other people's labor

Oh god not this nonsense "you're enslaving the doctors" argument.

By the way, insurance companies don't provide health care. They're a financial layer set to extract profit from those who need it, and United Healthcare seems to be the best at it.
You know Stellar Blade, a game you used as an example in your first comment, was published by Sony, right?
Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar's "The Big Fix"
They are held afloat by a few massive live service games, but every single one of their major releases this year has been a disaster. From the comedy of errors in their latest Assasin's Creed game, to the first ever "AAAA" flop Skull and Bones, to Star Wars outlaws, which was so bad the board announced a comprehensive internal review to figure out what went wrong, and the recent announcement of the sunsetting of their "COD killer" XDefiant. They can't coast off of Rainbow 6 Siege forever.
Original 7 were: Redis, Neo4J, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Postgres, and DynamoDB
> What do you think they care about then, if they're not trying (but in some cases failing) to make money?

They care about attracting investment fund money and not building a good product and growing their consumer base. There's no conspiracy, ticking woke checkboxes gives you extra points in any consideration, that's a fact in current political climate.

Biggest investment funds are those managing retirement funds so even a single fund like that is 'voting with wallets' of hundreds of thousands(if not millions) of its clients that wouldn't support the game company to begin with.

If you want to see something grassroots check Grinding Gear Games and their developer interviews for the sequel game (POE2) that will be releasing tomorrow. You will see them engaging in discussion with community for hours, talking about their server infrastructure and how it can fail, releasing numbers of their stress tests and how many players they expect based on preorders (~1 milion).

Than again this only happens when your PR person is actually the technical lead that knows the product inside out and not someone interested in quick buck. Guess how many of that team will be fired this christmas...

Edit: 10 minutes about their infrastructure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lB3TM5FrsY#t=1h9m50s
TIC-80 is indeed a generally more capable console.

The main reasons I'd personally pick WASM-4 over TIC-80 would be touchscreen controller support, more complete documentation, and better performance on resource constrained devices. (WASM-4 can run on the ESP32 and Nintendo DS, while TIC-80 struggles on the significantly more powerful 3DS.)
> trirail frequency increases can be done overnight

Increasing the frequency can't necessarily be done overnight, unless they actually have the spare rolling stock just sitting around along with all the workers needed to operate and maintain the increased usage and the spare budget to cover the increased operations costs. Otherwise, they need to find the money to procure the rolling stock, actually place the order, wait for the rolling stock to be built/delivered, hire the people to operate and maintain it, etc.
Depends.

Chick-fil-A grew into a pretty big business by vertically integrating outside of just selling sandwiches to Waffle House.

So sometimes it's worth owning sauce distribution too. ;)
I don't know what fantasy world you live in but the police don't ask you to remove your security mechanisms yourself. Your likely to catch a charge for destruction of evidence if you do that along with a bunch of other related charges
> Your expectation is that the money hidden under your couch should never go down in value?

Why should it go down? If there were a fixed or slowly growing monetary base (i.e. slower than productivity), the dollar would appreciate and this would be a good thing as we would all benefit from the gains of productivity and living in a prosperous society.

I never bought the idea that we need to inflate our monetary base and have inflation. It seems too convenient as the government uses it as a backdoor form of taxation. And every few decades it gets out of control. The argument pro moderate inflation never rang true to me. The biggest one is "people wouldn't spend money if they knew everything will get cheaper", which is on its face wrong because the hottest selling goods in this economy are quickly depreciating. This year's iPhone or car model depreciates very quickly but somehow people keep buying it and the world doesn't fall apart.
sounds like a great way to make a game people wanted 30 years ago but would fail today. You're basically describing a modern mobile game without the main monetization.

People want services, but don't want to continuously pay for a continous service. well, that's why MTX work. For every 100, 1000 people playing for free, you got some whale amortizing the cost for them.
> I want something different from just "multimodal". I want left-brain vs right-brain, or slow vs fast, or something on that order. I want a different kind - not just fancier and larger LLMs. I want an LLM coupled to an inference engine with the Cyc encyclopedia available to it...

So if I'm understanding, your objection isn't about the modalities that the model can work with (text, video, diagrams, ...), but about the kinds of processing it can do?

Many modern LLMs support tool calling (e.g: to look up entities in Google's knowledge graph, or evaluate code), mixture-of-experts architecture (specialized subnetworks that are enabled/disabled as needed per-query), and chain-of-thought inference (for questions requiring more complex reasoning). Would you consider those to be steps in the right direction?

> You use words like "reasoning", but LLMs do not reason in the same way that an inference engine does

If you view reasoning as something inference engines can do, then I don't think we disagree too much. Remaining difference may just be about error rate - I'm personally fine saying something can reason (at least "to some extent") even if it's a little fuzzy and not 100.0% accurate formal logic (else animals would also be excluded).
I didn't realize this [1] was a thing. I've been informally referring to our Postgres/Elixir stack as "boring, but in the best way possible, it just works with no drama whatsoever" for years.

1: https://boringtechnology.club
> I have known since before the election that Trump is planning to deport all of the immigrants.

Agree or disagree with the policy proposal, that is not what Trump has been saying at all. I don't know if this is an unforced error with some people in the discussion of American politics or a deliberate attempt to muddy the waters. There is a legal process for immigrating to the United States, it is a significantly easier process than that which exists in the majority of Western countries.

Those who follow the legal process are not being targeted by any policy proposal that's been espoused by any mainstream political candidate from any party in the United States, the issue has been and continues to be discussed only in the terms of people who immigrated to the United States illegally either via violating the terms of their visa, fraudulently receiving a visa, or crossing the border without a visa.

Please tone down your hyperbole.
> since we are not solving the problem at hand in a good way, we decided to solve it in a worse way

It's a different "we". Rephrased:

since Houston's government is not solving the problem at hand in a good way, Waymo decided to solve it in a worse way
Not yet. Freeway rides are open to employees only for now, so I'd imagine it's pretty close to being available to the public.
It's not "full" self driving despite their advertisements (which shouldn't even be legal to use). It can't handle basic weather or bad drivers or confusing road markings.

Granted, neither can many humans. But the bar should be many times higher if the operators are relieved of liability.
LA Drivers aren't that bad, driving just is awful there because the amount of traffic. NYC Driving is an absolute pleasure compared to Miami driving. I have what should be an easy ten minute commute and every day I am avoiding an accident due to a driver doing something crazy you would almost never see in another US city.

This is exacerbated by the dysfunctional government which is happy to let developers do whatever they want without regard to impact on traffic flow, while doing no investment in infrastructure itself. I'm generally pro-growth, and I think California goes too far with its restrictions, but living in Miami has caused me to gain some appreciation for the reason behind some of what California does.
New Android spyware found on phone seized by Russian FSB
All of them in one operation? How?
I had a similar experience. Graduated in 2006. My first game programming job offer was $25,000 CAD. I ended up join a non-gaming tech company for $60,000 CAD. I do AR/VR stuff now, so that's at least related to graphics.
It's hard to compare the cost with the Serverless pricing model, as write and read have extra costs. On the pricing page, datastax costs $4000 to write 100M 768-dim vectors. And 10M query will cost $300, which is only 4 QPS. As comparison, VectorChord can achieve 100 QPS on $250 instance.
> Racism is nothing like health care.

Racism is a lot like classism, though, and the distribution of health care is a consequence of structural classism of capitalist society.
How does this relate to the fact that there are people want to ‘come take your suburban house away’? Who do indeed have such motives?
Is this ruling effectively that it's irrelevant whether or not a warrant existed to modify the iPhone 6 because in this case, there is no loss to the claimant from that modification having been made? How much would an old second hand broken iPhone 6 that needs repair sell for? ... not much. Yet the repair carried out has seemingly significantly increased the value of the iPhone 6. The only argument that otherwise comes to mind is an iPhone 6 with an old and very specific version of firmware could be more valuable due to rarity and people are transacting them for $20,000 on eBay because of that firmware version's ability to be rooted. Yet an eBay confirms this is seemingly not the case. Perhaps though there is a non-insignificant cost to buying and selling 20 or 50 iPhone 6's off eBay before finding one with an old enough firmware version installed?
I'm guessing you've never tried driving in a tropical rainstorm. It's as bad a driving in heavy fog. Sometimes you only really have visibility of a few feet.
I'm going to call the bluff of everyone who condones this (save for the sociopaths) and aver that they are "LARPing".

As keen as their justifications may be in hinging on the non-ethics of Brian Thompson and UnitedHealthCare, I think that quietly, most people are relieved that this is an event among countless events that will wash away with time and the cycle of news and that they are afforded this brief flame of solace to voice their frustrations from the comfort of their own homes, minds and devices, without having to practically consider the dissolution of society that the crime represents and advances.
you can throw a dart on an indie board and you'll probably hit a farming sim competitor. And we just got a new Zelda.
https://uithub.com is also a good one for this. They also have an API with more options.
It looks like they contracted to buy "up to" 20,000 Jaguars: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/27/waymo-sel...

Pretty effective press release! Nothing in it is untrue, but it's obviously misleading even to careful readers.
Federal judge halts enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act
I couldn't get past the first 30 minutes. All the sudden I have some ghost thing chasing me in basement of the sheriffs office. Then the sheriff just ups and disappears. Seriously felt like i skipped something on accident.
You dont get a compile error if the documentation is wrong. Chances are you wont notice.

And even if it eventually is fixed it is not obvious that the reason for the bug was that the documentation was wrong in one particular place.
I think the Debian model is okay, it just falls down in terms of being able to have any kind of meaningful cooperation between the debs and what pip does, and of course there's the massive velocity mismatch between what's on PyPI and what's in your distro.... and of course no way to install more than one instance of something so heaven help you if you have two down-tree packages that depend on a different version of a thing.

Okay yeah no, even Debian pretty much sucks.
I'm so curious about how the internal dev teams feeling about all this scaling. Four cities across 3 states -- surely there are differences in road signs, lane markings, emergency procedures, etc. Let alone the sheer volume of data of doing hundreds of thousands of miles ever week!

Massive kudos to them if they are able to do all this without things being aflame on the inside...
I don't know a single person in my sphere who feels this way. I think the common sentiment is things will probably improve and the stock market is up. Would be curious to see how UoM did their polling. Does answering truthfully about the state of the stock market indicate that you think that the economy is doing better?
I don’t know. For example, I see a lot of US citizens complaining that the price of the Apple Vision Pro is ridiculous and unaffordable for what it is, or similar about the Mac memory and storage upgrade pricing. Or even for streaming subscription prices. If you were right, those prices shouldn’t be a big deal.

As for the currency unit, everyone knows what a USD is worth, much less than AUD or CAD or GBP or whatever. The reasons to use USD are the same as for language choice.
Nearly half of folks in the US have no way of paying an unexpected $1,000 expense. $100,000 isn't inconsequential to the majority of the world.
>Making AAAs on huge budgets is no longer a guaranteed ROI

AAA games were being made in the past on budgets fraction of today even when adjusted for inflation. What changed?

My take is that studios and executives got greedy and stupid for the sake of investors with the following logic: "If we spent 10 Million $ on that AAA game in the past and it made 5x that amount, then if we spend 100 Million on the next game, we'll make 500 Million $" and everyone in the boardroom clapped.

So they massively over hired and became insanely bloated and inefficient chasing these mega returns that never materialized because the quality of the game in rarely proportional with the size of the teams or the budget you put in.

Hollywood has the exact same problem where studios waste crazy money trying to recreate their own the next MCU when they saw how much money Marvel made with that.

Now we're seeing the market correction and hopefully a return to making games on smaller budgets with leaner teams with a tighter focus.