skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people strive to create such realistic environments when they're a much more realistic world outside? Although I understand the purpose from a fantastical-escapist perspective, I wonder if this sort of increasingly realistic escapism actually is reflective of how we're making the real world far worse than it ever was before and we're preparing an alternative world to escape into due to our destructive tendencies.
I already had a GBA Everdrive but I picked a GB/C one up because for about a year after release, the FPGA cores didn't support the display emulation features of the Pocket, which is a good chunk of the reason I bought mine. I believe they are now all fully supported though. The Pocket's sleep doesn't really work with flash carts either, so arguably the core + SD card route is now the better option, though I still own my AGS-101 model SP and GB micro, and it's cool to play on those still sometimes.
Chinese doesn't even have adjectives, so there's no difference between CCP and CPC in Chinese.

The whole issue is just a shibboleth. The party itself prefers CPC, while CCP is more common in the US (where it's increasingly used as a slur for anything related to China, as in "TikTok is a CCP app").
The suspect is dead.
In what way(s) do you consider the Dreamcast hardware vastly superior? It had a slower CPU, slower GPU, and less memory if I remember correctly.
They are highly effective pattern matchers. You change the pattern, it won't work. I don't remember who, but most likely @tszzl (roon), commented on x that they still trained the traditional way, and there is no test time compute (TTC) or Montecarlo Tree search (like Alpha Go) in o1 or o3. If that is true, then it's still predicting the next word based on it's training data. Likely to follow the most probable path - which comes directly from the training itself - even for the slight variations. Encouragingly, if TTC hasnt been explored, there is a long runway for performance improvements.

The other reason this seems hard to guess is because we don't know how much of what we are asking is in the training data. It would perform on some tasks, while fail at others even though those are similar.
I really wish that 1% of the sustained effort that is currently being devoted to building terminal emulators and TUI applications was collectively redirected at researching a better future to fill this niche.

Terminal emulators and TUI applications belong with the DMG Gameboys, Commodore 64's, and DOSBoxes: as a historical curiosity and something for the enthusiasts to enjoy after hours. But we've come to rely on them almost to the point where they're being fetishised; most of us using this technology nowadays aren't even questioning its negative impact.

We need better command line / REPL environments. We need better cross-platform GUI toolkits. We need better remote access. And we need to let go of the TV teletype.
Where do you get 80% of world's wealth?

According to the World Economic Forum[1], the USA plus the whole EU make up 29% of the world's GDP-PPP, while the BRICS countries come up at 37.3%.

You also included Japan, Australia, South Korea, Canada and Taiwan, but I find it hard to believe they would make up a very significant part of the difference.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/brics-summit-geopoli....
declare the type separately didn't solve the of hard-to-read cdecl problem.
Podcasts was a great app for those of us that don't care about featuritis.

Plain management of podcasts feeds, the usual play capabilities, in a tiny APK, and that was about it.

Most likely also why they killed it, to push people into getting those YouTube Music subscriptions.

Now I am an Antenna Pod user.
Not much, really. Most sensors are low speed: tens to hundreds of Hz. Then you have some high speed sensors, like strain gages, that are up in the 30+ kHz range.
D&D is so dominant it's more or less the only system you can count on any given TTRPG player knowing, and often there's a lot of resistance to learning any other system. It makes sense for it to evolve into more of a blank slate system that is flexible by default so you can add your own spin on top, and that's a lot of how it's been evolving, because it adds to the ease of playing and running a game. A really good DM barely needs a system at all, and a terrible DM will be awful even given a great system, but the ruleset makes a difference for the majority of DMs that are somewhere in between.
First of all, Putnam is not in the test data, at least I haven't seen OpenAI claiming that publicly. Secondly, removing it from internet data is not 100% accurate. There are translations of the problems and solutions or references and direct match is not enough. MMLU and test set benchmarks show more resilience though in some previous research.
It's pretty common to read of mass shooters that they were in therapy and/or on psychiatric medication.

It seems like an ounce of prevention is worth several tons of cure. We don't really have good treatments.
Not really. Since 9/11 there is a very small core formal group, but no, the thing people refer to as “al Qaeda” is mostly people buying into the same set of memes. Decentralized network of networks of ideological affiliations.

They’re not “random” memes, obviously, but I understand you’re trying to spin with rhetoric a bit here :)

https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/SR236Venhaus.pdf
> it bugs me to an unreasonable extent that he finished one person short of 7777

Perhaps (likely?) he himself should be counted too, so 7777 in total.
The vast majority of people never leave the area they are raised, much less their country, either due to economics or culture.

There will always be a need for software like this as long as the world has these restrictions.
This is often how secure erase is implemented on SSD (though they often don't use TPMs). Encrypting data transparently on the controller, then regenerating the key on erasure request, turning the data on disk into useless bits.

Of course this comes with the risk that someone exploits the firmware and extracts the key, rendering secure erase useless, but in most cases that's good enough.
It's another means of communication, ultimately. If your desires and needs for the game are incompatible with others in the group, it's not going to work out (and the more rigid this is, the smaller the set of people you're going to be able to play with).
>I wonder if this sort of increasingly realistic escapism actually is reflective of how we're making the real world far worse than it ever was before and we're preparing an alternative world to escape into due to our destructive tendencies.

No. Some people just like realism in their video games, and prefer the immersion or just think it looks cool. Not everything is a manifestation of existential dread.
You're reading way too much into it. It's just fun.

If I play a mile I'm like Arma, I don't actually want to be a soldier. Me playing Cooking Mama isn't a veiled psychological thing: I like both cooking and the gamified, simulated cooking.
Thank you! I'll take a note :)
Sucks that you're getting downvoted - it's an interesting point that the headline appears to blame an inanimate object

Does seem like a trend too - not sure it can be attributed to headline brevity
Hope they will contribute back to re3 project because it's stalled for a while
One can be a professional champion and referee and professional referee, all at the same time, just not in the same game event.
This is correct. ATF permit to manufacture and use explosives, and Destructive Devices. Register the destructive device and any made explosives.

Normally each state has an explosives license that you must also have, some of which are almost impossible to obtain unless this is your main job, so hobbyists can't get a permit.

Also destructive devices have to be legal in the state.

And the use of the device has to be recorded via paperwork.

As someone who has an interest in energetics and law, the federal law is pretty reasonable if not just a pain in the ass to handle paperwork wise. The addition of every state having laws you need to comply with in addition can make this pretty easy or upright impossible unless your main day job is working in some mine or something similar.
> Good students are immune to variations

I don't believe that. I'd put some good money that if an excellent student is given an exact question from a previous year, they'll do better (faster & more accurate) on it, than when they're given a variation of it.
> If you don’t have the second how can you trust the first? Without the dataset to test on your human experts will deliver you slop and be confident about it.

One of the key things is that if you don't understand how things work, your test dataset needs to be the world. A classical system can be analyzed, and you can pick a test dataset which maximally stresses it. You can also engineer environments where you know it will work, and 9 times out of 10, part of the use of classical machine vision in safety-critical systems is to understand the environments it works in, and to only use it in such environments.

Examples:

- Placing the trackball sensor inside of the mouse (or the analogue for a larger machine) allows the lighting and everything else to be 100% controlled

- If it's not 100% controlled, in an industrial environment, you can still have well-understood boundaries.

You test beyond those bounds, and you understand that it works there, and by interpolation, it's robust within the bounds. You can also analyze things like error margin since you know if an edge detection is near the threshold or has a lot of leeway around it.

One of the differences with neural networks is that you don't understand the failure modes, so it's hard to know the axes to test on. Some innocuous change in the background might throw it completely. You don't have really meaningful, robust measures of confidence, so you don't know if some minor change somewhere won't throw things. That means your test set needs to be many orders of magnitude bigger.

For nitpickers: You can do sensitivity analysis, look at how strongly things activate, or a dozen other things, but the keywords there were "robust" and "meaningful."
The Wall Street Journal's framing exemplifies how establishment media obscures systematic dismantling of public goods while blaming individuals. Their narrative of "outsized expectations" conveniently ignores that their editorial page championed policies creating this crisis: deregulation, union-busting, and tax cuts that gutted public investment.

The "conventional path to adulthood" they reference required massive public investment - the GI Bill, FHA loans, strong labor protections - which WSJ consistently opposed. Now they blame millennials for failing to thrive in the hostile economic environment their ideology created.

The article's focus on individual choices ("high expectations," "choosing less traditional paths") deflects from the core issue: the deliberate dismantling of public goods and social safety nets that made the postwar prosperity possible. When 30-somethings say "instructions don't work anymore," they're describing the collapse of institutional supports, not personal failure.

The WSJ's perspective represents the interests that profited from privatizing public goods while downloading risk onto individuals. Their "tough economic luck" framing obscures how these outcomes were policy choices, not accidents.
How do I actually install this? I don't know much about programming.
I think it might also have to do with traveling to the places they want to see not being a feasible Thing to do for sind people, for financial reasons for example. Digital recreations (or similar environments) are cheap or even free to "visit", while also bein more accessible (no traveling neeeded).
AI tutors might help with this because I think the constraints teachers have make it difficult to foster a love of books in a lot of kids.

When I was growing up, teachers would assign one text for the entire class to read. Sometimes it was a book I enjoyed (like Canticle for Leibowitz) but more often than not it was some book I hated (like Great Gatsby which I reread as an adult and still think it’s terrible). If you really wanted to instill a love of reading and develop skills around reading, you would give students more choice.

My kids had a similar experience so I don’t think much changed between 1985 and 2015. If anything, it’s worse now. It feels like schools do as much as they can to prevent kids from enjoying reading. They were assigned only books they had zero interest in and were given so much homework they had no desire or energy left to read for pleasure.

It took me a long time after high school to start reading for pleasure (thank you Douglas Adams and Michael Ondaatje). I hope it works out for my kids too.

So maybe the problem isn't kids who decide they don't like to read, but voters and taxpayers have decided that they don't want to pay for anything better.
Rec-descent absolutely does work (source: wrote a working parser), but it's a bit annoying to make it build a syntax tree. Making it build a prefix encoding of the declaration is much easier.

If you have to, you can make a syntax tree work, too, but you'll have to thread through the declarator parser a double (triple?) pointer for the hole in the tree where the next part goes, and at the end plug it with the specifiers-and-qualifiers part you parsed before that. Or at least that's what I had working before I gave up and switched to a prefix code. It'd probably pay to check the LCC book (Fraser & Hanson, A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation) to see what they do there, because their type representation is in fact a hash-consed tree. (The LuaJIT FFI parser needs some sort of magic fix-up pass at the end that I didn't much like, but I don't remember the specifics.)
I don't think this proves that the LLM is just "pattern matcher". Human makes similar mistakes too, especially when under time pressure (similar to non-reasoning model that needs to "use system one" to generate answer on one go). This is further evident that if you specifically ask the models to pay attention to traps, or just ask follow up question "are you sure?", then they usually can get it right.
How does a country protect its cables? Does it require military intervention or are there other methods for protecting them from anchor drags, etc.?
> to refute yours

Oh boy, you still don’t get it! The fact you saw it as something that needed refuting really says a lot more about you than anything else. It’s actually ok to let positive comments about other terminals go unrefuted and just get on with your life ;) But seemingly you can’t let it go.

By the way, nobody is choosing ghostty over kitty just because of the release notes for 1.0.1, so no need to fret! If I was shilling I’d have picked something more persuasive ;)

For anyone else following this disaster of a subthread, I’ve now realised “aumerle” is actually Kovid Goyal, the undisclaimed author of Kitty.

If I had to speculate, seems he’s just on edge that there’s a new kid on the block gaining popularity. A story as old as time!
My shoes were destroyed at the TSA inspection (2009)
"Terrorist" is a political designation, and does not have such a clear definition.

Dylann Roof and Anderson Lee Aldrich were not charged with terrorism. Luigi Mangione was. How does your grammar National Socialist mode distinguish between them?
Don't worry, there are thousands of researchers at the drawing boards right now.
Out of curiosity: Why would you need cut/uncut grass detection? If you have all the other stuff in place, what's the incremental value-add? It seems like you should be able to cut on a regular schedule, or if you really want to be fancy, predict how much grass has grown since you last cut it from things like the weather.
My friend it doesn’t have to be my phone. If I’ve got something to read nearby I’ll pick that up if I think to grab it before leaving.

I am as much of a dopamine junkie as anyone here, but I am perfectly comfortable leaving my phone behind for long stretches and sometimes I’m just sitting at a public transit stop around ads and concrete. Unfortunately people watching, while romanticized as the ultimate fun activity by interesting indie folks in movies, does get old eventually.
I think it actually uses Pixijs for rendering. Phaser is a game engine with lots of tools including audio, physics, scenes, tiled support, etc., while pixi is a graphics renderer lib.
Another great person said something like: sometimes 5 years of experience is just 1 year repeated five times.

I'd guess, less than 1% of engineers in the industry have an opportunity to learn something drastically new at least once a year. Most are doing the same in terms of engineering and just occasionally learn new (not better) tools (that's the only thing that pops in my mind in response to your observation about art moving forward).

On the other hand, considering your 25 yrs of experience, I'd guess just you understanding networking or compilation/linking process will make you look like a magician to 99% of SW engineers outside of your bubble.
Imagine the backlash: "new Windows version requires a $300 video card and a $400 monitor to run". When Windows 95 finally dropped the support for EGA, many people were upset (including me).
Same, just a couple of small beers and a glass of champagne.

I feel much better today than a year ago, where I was hangover most of the day
"They" are subject to being replaced --- in which case, everything "they" say now may no longer hold true.

The reality is that the venture capitalists they are in bed with will push for maximum return on their investment.

History suggests that at some point, the VCs will most likely win and the slide toward enshittification begins.
But they're still losing roughly as many engines as Russians did in N1, so that sounds like a dubious claim.

What about the latter? Are they really not tracing the footsteps of the X-33 program?
> India was one of the largest recipients of this food aid, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s when it faced severe food shortages.

Slightly tangential, but does anyone know why India faced such shortages in the 50s and 60s? I found an article on the subject [0] but it seems to come down to little more than mild crop yield variation combined with market speculation.

This is a period of India's history that I find particularly interesting by way of comparison with China's "Great Famine". The latter is often put forward as a strong condemnation of communist economics, for example in the "Black Book of Communism". But in Chomsky's article response "Counting the bodies" (which I cannot seem to find a link for) he points out that India's per capita excess mortality rate over roughly this period is in fact greater than China's.

I'm neither an authoritarian communist or a big fan of Chomsky's, but I would love to find reliable sources on this topic to come to my own conclusions.

[0] https://www.economicsdiscussion.net/india/food-problem/food-...
isn't it weird that they didn't test gemini?
That may all be true. That still doesn’t mean they intentionally lied.
China's next-gen tailless combat aircraft analysed
> If you don’t have the second how can you trust the first? Without the dataset to test on your human experts will deliver you slop and be confident about it.

1. Test datasets can be a lot smaller than training datasets.

2. For tasks like image segmentation, having a human look at a candidate segmentation and give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down is much faster than having them draw out the segments themselves.

3. If labelling needs 20k images segmented at 1 minute per image but testing only needs 2k segmentation results checked at 5 seconds per image, you can just do the latter yourself in a few hours, no outsourcing required.
I have explored it, see https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/primitive/sor....

I implemented this method in Dyalog 18.0 with BlockQuicksort-like partitioning, using vectorized comparison with bit-boolean output. It's faster than you'd expect, maybe twice as slow as regular binary search when searched values are in cache, and better once they fall out of L2. But Dyalog reverted to 17.1 for later versions so you won't see it in a new download. It'll probably make it into CBQN eventually, perhaps with radix partitioning. Note that both quicksort and radix partitioning can be done and undone in a cache-friendly way.

Unlike quicksort, there's no issue of pivot selection since you always choose the midpoint of the searched values. However, there's a complementary issue of memory if the partitions become unbalanced, because the larger partition can require saved memory of roughly the depth times the number of elements. With a bit per comparison it's bounded by the size of the input.
Because there’s a meaningful difference between being wrong and lying.

There’s evidence the statement was false, no evidence it was a lie.
I’m sorry you had such difficult things to overcome in your life and I applaud you for your skilled eye as a photographer, but you’re coming on pretty strong and I think you could do with being a little less aggressive when trying to make your points. For the record, I am a cinematographer. I’m not sure why that’s relevant but apparently it is.

You also know nothing about our relationship with phones and such. You just sound like somebody who has an ax to grind.
Concretely the “market opportunity” is volatility in odds movement for a particular event? Or amount of bets on either side of an event?

Too bad no exchanges are available from the US. Has anyone gotten around this wit vpn or some such?
IIRC this is basically the premise behind The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I guess that makes it Heinlein-revolutionary style?
I use a T480 (bought new a lot time ago) moderately-capable gaming PC (lol):

- 3 extended, swappable batteries + third-party external battery charger (also has an internal battery T490 lacks)

- 32 GiB RAM

- i7-8650U

- 2 TiB SSD

- Retrofit/modded magnesium top case

- I pre-acquired replacement parts like fans, hinges, backlit keyboards, and case screws

- Works with Windows 11 + Razer Core X TB3 with an RTX 3070 Ti eGPU

Needs a couple of utilities to max out CPU TDP to 25W.
Yup, looks like the one I meant!

I am impressed by the progress on LLMs but I remain skeptical that they can replace humans.

Perhaps some (distant!) future model but I don’t fear mass unemployment (for example) or even moderate LLM-driven unemployment in the near-to-medium term.

They can clearly complement human labor but there are vanishingly few domains where they can be substitutes.
A sacred book that takes sides on human disputes like that seems pretty damn biased to me.
Yea no shit. LLMs are just REALLY good guessers. People gotta stop the hype lol.

Using LLMs for anything serious and which requires consistency and trustworthiness without hallucinations is irresponsible and ridiculous.

Closed source LLMs are a bubble and a joke.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9792046>
> = (2 + 0!)^2*5

How?

0! = 1
so how does 3^2*5 become 2025?
Stuff like:

char *(*(**foo[][8])())[]
I wouldn't call that hardcoding, otherwise you'd have to call everything it does "hardcoded".
I was talking about open weight models more than papers, but OpenAI hardly publishes papers anymore and don't seem to struggle to get researchers. Anthropic are clearly doing a lot of special sauce given Claude 3.5 Sonnet's performance on coding, yet the papers they publish are mostly safety related. So I'm not sure that's really true anymore.
No.

A telecommunications carrier may comply with CALEA in different ways:

The carrier may develop its own compliance solution for its unique network.
The carrier may purchase a compliance solution from vendors, including the manufacturers of the equipment it is using to provide service.
The carrier may purchase a compliance solution from a trusted third party (TTP).

https://www.fcc.gov/calea