skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can play the entire family of angband games at https://angband.live

And yes, mainline angband is still under active development. There are a couple of very popular variants too (frogcomposband and sil-q.)
> In Europe (including the UK), we have seen an enormous surge in asylum seekers and they're housed, fed, etc, with tax money. I believe the latest annual figure is around £5bn, which is not insignificant.

That number sounds big, but for some perspective my city (Seattle) is spending more than that to build light rail tracks to one particular (not that very dense!) neighborhood.

0.42% of the UK budget is spent on helping people who have had everything in their lives ripped away. People who have watched family members get shot, had their houses destroyed by bombs, and for some, their entire homeland turned into rubble.

The UK populace spent decades electing corrupt leaders who purposefully destroyed civic institutions. Of course things are falling apart. Immigrants don't have much to do with that...
Right, but those royalties are based on the value the copyright owners derive from holding the copyright.
Feds Propose Crackdown on Data Brokers Selling Sensitive Personal Information
These articles also gloss over the US market is 400m English speakers with one set of legislation, more or less. Europe is 20+ languages and 20+ sets of legislation. That’s a colossal advantage. And any clicks and mortar business gets the benefit of absurdly cheap shipping costs compared to Europe.
You can practice retrieving something without entering and checking it.
> Rich suburban and small towns—and I mean where the whole area's kinda rich, not just a few neighborhoods—are in fact the sort of safe that lots of people incorrectly assume all suburbs and small towns are. I know how it is, I (now) live in one of those too, so Manhattan is in-fact more dangerous than where I am (these days). :-)

Literally no.

Where I grew up was below median household income and remains that way today (most of it by a good amount) and was by every literal metric safe.
Wow, is this artificial intelligence creating this already?
You do know that we used to have currencies backed by gold, and it was so awful that it caused the great depression right?
Now I have to look up what's available on Switch. I've tried other Roguelikes, but often they get tedious without a keyboard (Darkest Dungeon, Into the Breach). I still want a game I can play kicking back with the Switch.

I keep going back to Diablo, even on the Switch, because I can just run around and kill stuff. Hades is also good.
If I am currently querying s3 parquet files with DuckDb, could I still do that with s3 tables, and what other advantages does this offer?
It's the old dream of the information era. We were going to cure all of the worlds ills by fixing the problem of unequal access to information. Surely people would all perform equally, when given equal opportunity?

Not only didn't it work, it made the world a far worse place. I think Occam's razor tells us why: Forty nine percent of people will always be of below average intelligence.

Average intelligence currently seems to mean understanding the world at the 6th grade level. Maybe we can raise that to the 7th grade level with a concentrated effort, but that will also raise the performance of the top fifty percent.

There will always be a bottom half and they will always struggle to understand the world the top half build.
Elixir/Phoenix is compiled.
Erm, it depends.
If you have to go out of your way, to look into my screen, than no, not ok.

But if I have my screen careless in the open, that is on me.
Why would it need to be distributed by AWS?
I think the appeal is that it sounds simple -- you say "I bought my house for $1M, and I don't want to move, so I set the value at $2M, so I have to spend $20,000/yr to keep it, or someone can give me $2M and take the house."
Government debt doesn’t matter. It’s literally fake.
who is asking for this?
That language implies a self does not mean a self exists in reality.
This is very impressive technology and I am active in this space. Very active. I make an (unreleased) Steam game that helps users create their own games from not knowing how to program. I also (unknowingly) co-authored tools that K12 and university are using to teach game programming.

For the time being I will gloss over the fact this might just be a consumer facing product for Google that ends up having nothing to do with younger developers.

I'm torn between two ideas:

a. Show kids awesome stuff that motivates them to code

b. Show kids how to code something that might not be as awesome, but they actually made it

On the one hand you want to show kids something cool and get them motivated. What Google is doing here is certainly capable of doing that.

On the other hand I want to show kids what they can actually do and empower them. The days of making a game on your own in your basement are mostly dead, but I don't think that means the idea of being someone who can control a large amount of your vision - both technical and non-technical - is important.

Not everyone is the same either. I have met kids that would never spend a few hours to learn some Python with pygame to get a few rectangles and sprites on screen that might get more interested if they saw something this flashy. But experience also tells me those kids are extremely less likely to get much value from a tool like this beyond entertainment.

I have a 14 year old son myself and I struggle to understand how he sees the world in this capacity sometimes. I don't understand what he thinks is easy or hard and it warps his expectations drastically. I come from a time period where you would grind for hours at a terminal pecking in garbage from a magazine to see a few seconds of crappy graphics. I don't think there should be meaningless labor attached to programming for no reason, but I also think that creating a "cost" to some degree may have helped us. Given two programs to peck into the terminal, which one do you peck? Very few of us had the patience (and lack of sanity) to peck them all.
YAML Schemas in Emacs with Eglot – just renewed blog too
The ones that I know don't, but I'm sure some do. Either way, these aren't the people I'm talking about.
What's this conspiracy of the US and Europe to destroy developing large economies world wide? If your plan is take over your neighbors, say you'll wipe out democracies and kill people and it's your destiny to win, then eventually the US & Europe will do something.

Russia literally talks about taking over the countries around them, bites off pieces and then subverts the countries that are left. That was all before the first piece of Ukraine was taken, Crimea.

NK - goal to destroy SK, has a big army and nukes. Worth trying to stop them.

China - Chains says the mere existence of Taiwan is worth destroying them. Also taking over the south china sea on the stupid dashed line that says they own the ocean down there. Dictatorships can't stand a functional democracy right next door.

India - if they don't plan to destroy the countries around them and take them over, then good on them. The US has been basically ignoring the fact that India is on a slow road to make their Muslim and other non-hindi citizens fail in every way in their society.

India said FU to the world and has been happy buying a lot of Russian oil that's under embargo. No one attacked them. The world isn't so simple as "western countries destroy all large growing competitors".
You nailed it. This was the case across all developed economies, a direct result of money printing.

You did especially well if you had assets bought with borrowed money since your gains were leveraged and your loan principal inflated away.
Hey, this is actually a really good idea!
UnitedHealthcare CEO is fatally shot in a 'targeted attack' in New York
Probably my favorite side quest in the whole game.
QAing a game built on a framework where fundamental mechanics are non-deterministic and context-sensitive sounds like a special kind of hell. Not to mention that once you find a bug there's no way to fix it directly, since the source code is an opaque blob of weights, so you just have to RLHF it until it eventually behaves.
> "In conclusion, TPM 2.0 is not just a recommendation—it’s a necessity for maintaining a secure and future-proof IT environment with Windows 11," Hosking adds.

> with Windows 11

I'm not a programmer or a sysadmin or anything of the sort — am I reading this correctly? The way Hosking worded that makes me think TPM exists to solve a problem with Windows security?
You forgot to mention that this quality of life is bought with debt and deficits that have been running for the last 30 years.

Look at what's happening in France for proof that this is just not sustainable. The US has a massive advantage tough,their currency is the global currency accepted and needed everywhere that is backed by the US army. Much less so the Euro.

The cost of all these social programs has to come from somewhere and currently the majority of these costs are shouldered by the middle class that is being squeezed to the max and speaking as someone from the middle class, I can assure you that having a couple of extra weeks of holiday and more job safety (if you are into that sort of thing) is not worth 55% to 65% of my gross income.

Even universal healthcare is crumbling now.

At some point the EU will need to get it's productivity up and become competitive once again or all this quality of life will have to go as it won't be financially possible to continue on this path.
> it's especially terrible when it's unrewarding

you just described the angst of every phd student.
I guess we should go back to feudalism then?
No it's not "partially" true.

Noone claims that people in the third world enjoy great quality of life, for instance. You can't benefit from the advancements of others if you cannot afford them...

> I'm not even sure how this could happen.

It can always happen but it is gradual and takes time. Places like India or China were once the richest areas of the world, only to fall behind and become among the poorest later on because they stagnated while others progressed.
This is neat; congratulations on launching. Curious what you do to assure users that you’re searching every corner they’d be checking manually, and that there haven’t been any regressions to the source set. This came up at work recently.
I think asking people to put a value estimate on a thing is a hopeless task. The idea of having some sort of structured market for it is even more hopeless.

Better to just have a fee structure that starts off as the price of a carton of eggs and doubles every year that you extend it.
you can also find some code for "pglite in the browser" here: https://github.com/supabase-community/database-build
The nature of an EIM/EIF NAT is that the hole exists without punching, as soon as the device behind the NAT connects to anywhere public.

That action creates a public side mapping on the NAT, being Proto/IP/Port - Proto generally being TCP or UDP.

While that mapping exists, any packet within that protocol, from any source address or port in the whole IPv4 Internet can be directed at that mapping, and received by the client computer.

Generally TCP syn's will be dropped by the client (unless they explicitly opened a fixed mapping, and are hence running a TCP server), but any UDP packet for an open UDP mapping will be received.

AFAIK, the various gaming programs tend to run over UDP...

The punching per-se is to coordinate between two clients, each behind NATs, and/or each behind actual firewalls (as opposed to the NAT filtering function).
You can just buy an AC in Europe, most of the time you don’t need it though
yeah i agree. grifter has a connotation of scammy, and author is using the term differently.
There is EU law, which is enacted across all EU members. But there is no such thing as a EU legal framework, neither is there a fiscal one if we are focusing on business.

A debt dispute could be resolved in less than 4 months or dragged for close to a decade depending on which EU state you have a business.

Same goes for fiscal law. Some countries have had pretty much the same rates and taxation arrangements for decades. Some countries change their fiscal load on businesses as much as twice in one year. Both cases are technically 'the EU'.
> So at some point they have to start cutting expenditure and paying that debt off.

They don't have to cut expenditures at all. Since the Fed controls rates, they can manage the debt by adjusting interest rates. There's nothing preventing them from driving interest rates below 0% and being paid to accept money. And the Fed can buy T-Bonds at below market rates and slowly destroy excess money in the economy in a controlled fashion.

Something to keep in mind is that US government debt is integral to the economy. It's a stable way for entities hold US dollars as cash, and it's the only mechanism for them to hold large sums of US dollars in cash.

It's fine (and expected) for US government debt to continue to increase forever, it's just a number in a spreadsheet. The only real risk is the potential for a default. But even then, if you have $4 trillion dollars, what are you going to do with it instead of buying t-bonds? Exchange it for Euros and risk the impacts of currency fluctuation? And what will the buyers do with those dollars? At some point, someone is going to want to bank those dollars in savings, and that means buying t-bonds (directly, or indirectly), and the risk of default merely becomes a factor in an equation for the holder.
> if you look at real wages over time, they're stagnating in pretty much every developed country.

If you look at real incomes over time, they've been stagnant since the dawn of time; or at least as far back as we have kept track.

There was once wage growth because wages started from zero. It wasn't that many years ago that people didn't sell labor, only things. As we have transitioned into a labor economy, wages started to become a larger portion of one's income. To the point that nowadays more or less 100% of the average person's income is from wages.

So, with incomes and wages now being effectively equivalent, there is no room for wages to grow further. To do that now, incomes would also need to rise, and that has never happened.
No idea. Ask the folks who manage that page?
I suspect we're just from significantly different soteriological traditions. I'm greek orthodox and consider scripture to be the single most important, but not the only, means of understanding correct action. I don't place limits on god's grace or attempt to guess who will or won't be forgiven for what. The only sinless one is Christ himself, every one of the rest of us will plea for mercy and I pray we all receive it.

Bonhoeffer's conundrum was that he perceived inaction to be as damning as any action available to him. I think there's room for disagreement about whether that was truly the case. But I find the difficulty in discerning righteous action in crisis relatable, and I appreciate how he engaged with it.
Oasis (the Minecraft world model) can serve about 5 players on 8 H100 in real-time at 20fps in 360p. This is a much more capable model with two orders of magnitude more context. They pretty much say it can't be played real-time, which I read as they generate less than 15fps@240p on 8 GPUs. Probably why they talk so much about using it for AI training and evaluation rather than human use. There is a distilled version that works in real-time, but they don't show anything from that version (which is a statement in itself).

For reducing the price, ASICs like etched may be the way forwards [1]. The models will get bigger for a time, but there may be a lot of room for models that can exploit purpose-built hardware.

1: https://www.etched.com
Oh, I do agree with this.
I would suggest instead of inline comments write block comments, describing the behavior of a function or reasonably big and not straightforward section of code. Basically documenting what is not obvious just reading it without context.
Stop Requiring CRLF Line Endings
> much more expensive and for no good reason

There is a good reason: profits and management pay. And greed is good, right?

> the problems are fixable

Fixable in theory. The US would first have to fix the underlying issue, which i.m.o. is government, media and even judicial capture by financial interests. Billionaires are now openly buying "shares" in those. I don't see any sign of it changing anytime soon. It only seems to get worse.
I wonder if this is due to the new domain, chat.com - it is so easy to remember and access casually
You can refer to https://www.arnavion.dev/blog/2020-04-18-i-switched-my-home-... which is about my pfSense attempt. It has the six-line tayga config and hopefully enough surrounding explanation to make it clear, and then instead of the rc script I had to write you can just make a systemd service or whatever you use. Debian's package already comes with an init.d script (not a systemd unit, but presumably it works with systemctl via sysv-generator).
You have to find them to make the case to fund the remediation. Quantify, calculate, and communicate the risk and cost, then action.
It seems to me this approach could also be used for other aspects of mining. For instance, in Australia where I live there are many old gold, opal and other mines that have long been forgotten but which remain dangerous.

Most are unlikely to emit toxic or greenhouse gasses but they're nevertheless still dangerous because they're often very deep vertical shafts that a person could stumble across and fall in. These old mines were likely closed over when they were abandoned but often their closures/seals were made of wood that has probably rotted away over the past century or so.

It stands to reason that AI would be just as effective in this situation.
>I don't think I know what the word "appreciate" means, and I suspect what it really means in this conversation is going to be the details that you think are important.

Like I said before, your own insecurities are your own issues and not something you need to repeatedly insist I'm poking at. When I say appreciate, my point is that it's a basic element of art and art theory. It's like in wine tasting, there are basic elements to it and one would expect that anyone experienced with wine tasting would have some understanding of those basic elements. Here in painting, the texture of a painting is a basic element of what a painting is.

>If someone told me that he only liked his girlfriend because she has DDD breasts, I might say he's really focusing on a superficial detail. The woman having DDD breasts might still be objectively true, but I would still call that focusing on the superficial.

This isn't an issue of the definition of "superficiality" but what it means to focus. You saying it'd be superficial to emphasize body parts a certain ways. Not that body parts are inherently superficial.

>Modern art generation programs can actually generate things like brush strokes and whatnot, but obviously it will be flat when represented on a monitor, so sure if you feel like you can see the depth associated with that then more power to you.

Yeah, and they'll be flat when printed too. But if you go to a museum and look at some old or new paintings, which is why I asked if you did that, you will immediately see that paintings aren't even remotely flat.

>Again, you're speaking dishonestly. You didn't say the word "true", but you did suggest that if I had seen a painting in a museum then I'd appreciate them better. Specifically, you said "I'm curious, have you been to a museum that has good old paintings?"

No, I suggested that if you had been to a museum you'd have observed basic facets of paintings. You keep putting this value judgment into it (ironic considering your accusations against me) that I'm not. Sure, I might be acting like a bit of a jerk but that's because I found your "Oh yeah, sure I was talking about robots but that doesn't matter with painting because of pixel art" which is fundamentally disingenuous as we were discussing the capabilities of robots' "hands".

> "I'm curious, have you been to a museum that has good old paintings?"

Good old paintings are dense with layers of texture and paint that come off the canvas, and it'd be readily observable to anyone seeing them in person, regardless of whether they had taste or a "giant brain."

> Now obviously I don't have the same giant brain that you do,

Excuse me for being rude, but, fuck off already.
Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement
Wow I thought it was going to be later next year. Been anxiously awaiting this before starting another play through.

The writing for this game is just something special.
This is an exciting step forward for video workflows! Bringing ChatGPT-like functionality to video editing and generation is game-changing, especially with the extensibility for custom workflows and integrations like Stable Diffusion and Eleven Labs.

Curious how it handles scalability for large datasets and optimizes processing costs.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72KsjWUCUJQ
Thanks to high bandwidth Internet, YouTube and smartphones is easier than ever to produce and distribute high quality video. So much good stuff coming from it.

Expect something similar if video games, interactive 3D is cheap to produce.

Filtering is a much easier problem to solve and abundance a preferable scenario.
I'm a noob. Is it possible to run this outside of a browser, like an exe or?
Understanding the file permissions in Android (and Linux)
That's the gist of it, especially since the "IT revoluion" (for lack of a better word) seems to have cooled off in the early 2010-ish, i.e. exactly when the shale revolution started doing its thing (and, no, I don't count the recent AI hype as being worthy of getting called as "revolutionary"). That shale revolution has also come with big opportunity costs reductions, because the US didn't have to geo-strategically care about the Middle East and the oil there all that much, at least not as much as to send real feet on the ground there, with all the associated costs.

With that said, there's also the danger of the US following on Britain's steps from the 1980s up until the 2000s, i.e. to rely on this shale/oil bonanza and not care about (internal) structural reforms that are in dire need of being enacted. At some point the shale money will not be there anymore (the shale gas will have run out, the world's car-fleet turns to electric en masse etc), and if the Americans don't carry out the necessary reforms sooner rather than later then that future "no more shale-gas money" moment will come at a very, very bad time for them. I said it's similar to Britain's situation because things started going downhill there as soon as the North Sea oil&gas money started thinning out.
America was the number one economy while having state enforced segregation.
> It's weird that people suddenly expect 4 year old to accurately reproduce encyclopedia just because it can talk now.

But we are not talking of a four year old but a system wthat has devoured literally all of the works humans have produced to date. If we are going to see further improvement I am keen to see where this emerges from.
how is it enforced? what are the penalties?
The main thing a good manager can do is act as a wall between the engineers and everyone above them, which is hard to do politically because it exposes a whole subtree of the org chart as useless.
I wonder why C++ isn't in that list but a bunch of languages no one uses are.
For me it started with AltaVista.
Not much is known at this point, but I wonder if this is related to the big hack of change healthcare, a subsidiary. I doubt it but just a thought.