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> cross platform/web/mobile distribution

Unfortunately, each and every platform has its own unique quirks[^], and I think the problem is too large for a project like LÖVE to tackle.

In fact, LÖVE's authors have already done "90% of the work in 10% of the code": you can make a ZIP file, change the extension to .love, and just distribute that. Install LÖVE, double-click YourGame.love, and you're done. You can also concatenate the game executable with the ZIP file to create a self-contained binary distribution for that target platform (super old & cute trick; it's possible because ZIP's "header" is in fact, at the end of the archive).

[^]: In 2016 I've attempted a "one game per month" challenge; but I also wanted to distribute executables for Windows, macOS, and Linux, so that all of my friends could just play them. It went something like this:

- Windows: distributing executables from your personal domain is considered a crime; the browser and the OS will yell at the user, block the download, blacklist you, etc.

- macOS: simply concatenating won't work; you need an elaborate dance to create a .app bundle, and distribute that in a .dmg - good luck building that on a Linux host, also good luck debugging without an actual Mac. Nevermind code signing, you can bypass that with shift-right-click-open. Oh wait, macOS 15 won't let you.

- Linux: are you ready for the .so hell?

- BSD: bonus! The documentation for SDL_GetPlatform doesn't even enumerate all of the possible values! You need to source-dive to get them: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/f45ce45603a00e92332f9... - plus any possible patches in ports; most developers won't ever care, and will just hardcode "Linux". Checking for $DISPLAY is also unreliable: macOS users may have XQuartz installed, Wayland purists may run without XWayland, etc.
I just don’t understand that — I thought deep neural nets were inherently hierarchical. Or at least emergently hierarchical?
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It was a "truck-involved collision"
India was a bastion of food, crop and spice growth however incoming invaders did not have the knowledge of agriculture in the same way local indians did (british named it indore method etc)
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Happy New Year HN!

I’m the co-creator of Orbiter, a dead simple tool for uploading and hosting static sites. We built Orbiter for ourselves and realized it would probably be useful for others.

Static site content is some of the simplest on the web, yet hosting this content has gotten increasingly complex over time. Many of you are engineers and don’t have much problem with CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism for deploying a website. This is true for me as well. But there are times when I want to just upload a simple website. I might not even want to put it under source control. And I know this is true for a lot of others who don’t have the same level of coding and deployment experience as I do.

Combine this with AI’s rise in popularity and how easy it is now for anyone in the world to create a website, and Orbiter seems like a nice solution to getting static websites online.

On the technical side, we did something interesting. We actually use blockchain and IPFS behind the scenes. Having worked with IPFS for a number of years now, it’s always struck me as a really good tool for public content, especially when that content needs to be versioned. Websites fit this model nicely.

We wanted to create a system by which websites were not necessarily locked into Orbiter’s platform. So, every site that is uploaded gets its own smart contract on the Base blockchain. The site itself is uploaded to IPFS, and the CID is mapped to the site’s smart contract. When someone makes a change to their site and uploads new content, the new CID is mapped to the contract.

This does two things:

1. It allows anyone in the world to build a version history of the site
2. It allows the site’s creator to easily migrate off Orbiter without even having to access the Orbiter web app if they want

Ultimately, people may not care about the blockchain and IPFS aspects of the technology, and that’s fine. We specifically built it so that you didn’t even see this tech.

Would love to get feedback on the product, the idea, and the technology!
Part 1: https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-automated-my-job-applicati...

Part 1 discussion (836 comments, 3 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42531695
I respect Ellsberg because he didn't flee the country.
Chess is played with hands not feet, hence chess gloves might be more appropriate.
For a farmer or other rural resident - getting rid of tree stumps or large boulders. No one in a suburb or city truly needs explosives.

Note that it's not totally unregulated. If you are only an occasional user, you get a permit from the ATF for $25. Plus whatever your state/county wants.

https://www.atf.gov/explosives/federal-explosives-licenses-a...
7776 is 6^5, that's the amount he needed to find a single correct 'winner' since each race would only have 1/6 chance.
I think it's reasonable to assume that openAI is optimising for maximum hype at this point which may include wilfully overfitting for impactful benchmarks to generate positive reports.
I can never praise A Wizard of Earthsea enough - although it’s highly regarded I never think it quite receives the level of praise it should as a book that will move children (and adults). I first heard it read by Edward Fox on BBCs Jackanory in the mid70s and have remembered it ever since.
folk tales are an ironic example, given they generally lack a canonical form, are frequently adjusted or embellished depending on who's telling the story, and have evolved over time and from place to place. I'd argue that the more modern idea of a 'one true' version of a story, from which any variation is lesser (bolstered in law by copyright and trademark), is the historical abberation, compared to different creators putting their own spin on any given setting, story, or character.

Now, that spin may be good or bad, from your point of view, and that point of view may be affected by what resonated with you about the original work (I think it's often a bad idea for someone to be working with some source material they fundamentally dislike, which seems to be quite common in adaptations nowadays), but that's an opinion as opposed to an appeal to some sense of moral importance of preservation of some particular elements of the original.
> (In my experience as an app developer, getting any traction and/or money from your app can be much more difficult than actually building it.)

This. The app I built has maybe 50 downloads despite me trying quite hard to promote it. It's very difficult work, even with the app being completely free of charge (save for a donation button).
What the fundamental limitations of "pattern recognition" or "stochastic parrots" that LLMs have exceeded?
And it only takes a (near) accident in 5 more minutes' driving to completely negate that.

Your observation from this short time window isn't enough to prove the usefulness of something as serious as life and death.
So it was a military drone /s

The media always report those kinds of terrorist act way too passively.
it says kids plays roblox and minecraft, as a reasning that graphics dont pay, but its rw
eally because they make a game 80 bucks that kinds cant play it. not lack of interest or anything..

also, with tools like unreal engine, quixel megascans etc. etc., companies dont need to invest as much... they need to cut out 10 layers of middle management, fire their always too soon too big marketing people and get back to the core of gamedev, so they can make good looking games that dont cost 80 bucks and have day1 patches that bring the quality from alpha to beta -_-

gamers have the equipment, gamedevs the tools and skills. (huge)game companies tap into neither. they just see $$. how will they get someone to pay 80 bucks for a buggy title but to pretend it costs half a billion to make -_-.
This is how patent disputes should be decided. If an LLM can figure it out, then it is not novel.
If you revise this prompt to satisfy your pedantry, (at least) 4o still gets it wrong.
I recently watched two interviews with OpenAI researchers where they describe that the breakthrough of o-series (unlike GPT series) is to focus on test time compute as they are designed to “think” more specifically to avoid pattern matching. Noam Brown https://youtu.be/OoL8K_AFqkw?si=ocIS0YDXLvaX9Xb6&t=195 and Mark Chen https://youtu.be/kO192K7_FaQ?si=moWiwYChj65osLGy
> i don’t see why the size of the company one works for has to be correlated with an engineer’s skill level

People have such weird delusions about this. Imagine saying the same thing about the NBA vs your local pick-up games. Literally untenable.
This article theorized what effects COVID would have on offices and homes in the year 2025. Now that it's actually 2025, I find it fascinating how wrong it was about most things, and how little COVID remains in the public consciousness now.
What did the report get wrong? If they're lying then prove it please.
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If it were a complete failure on variations I would be inclined to agree. Instead it was a 30% drop in performance. I would characterise that as limited understanding.
I really like Zed's (editor) implementation. The context window is just editable text, like any other. You can freely change anything and send the whole thing back into the LLM. I find that a much more useful interface than mucking around and editing chat bubbles.
Just to be clear, the minor crimes announcement I linked to wasn’t about crimes by minors, it was about the seriousness of the crime.

I confusingly talked about both. My broader point was that the norm is changing in the us towards not naming suspects. And there are ethics conversations around this in the industry.

But I think krebs is on solid footing for this particular case. He’s well within the norm.
I sometimes struggle with Harris’s recent books but I agree these are great.
I think ciphering is not always allowed on remote control hobbyist bands. Some jurisdictions allow stronger radio output in exchange for such restrictions.

That and lack of demand. Most people are nice, key management is PITA, losing expensive toy from a crypto library bug is going to be frustrating.

WPA2 should be still strong enough for most purposes too(threat_model != CIA).
Increased quality of processors and graphics hardware allow designers to push the limits, and "realism" has been a competition in games for a long time. Every console generation touts the realism of its graphics versus previous generations and the competition. And for certain games like Cyberpunk or GTA, realism enhances the gameplay experience.

If there were a general trend towards creating realistic enviroments as a means of psychological escape, one would expect those environments to tend to be more pristine and idyllic than reality. But often that realism is used to depict worlds no better, and sometimes far worse, than our own.

I'm sure some people are using realism as a means of escaping the destruction of our real world, walking simulators and the like exist, but I don't think that's a relevant influence overall. Just like with realistic CGI, people mostly do it because they can.
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I used to think like that, but having a title helps switching jobs.
>This is twisting the English language to assume that "item" only refers to non-living things.

Not really. Unless I'm not reading correctly, most of the problem is irrelevant as you're only required to cross the boat with the goat, you don't care about the cabbage. The difficulty lies in the assumption you need to cross everything due to the resemblance with the bigger problem.
Wow, this seems ridiculous. The expected answer is basically finding a loophole in the problem. I can imagine how worthless all of these models would be if they behaved that way.
The problem is to ask the farmer to transport the goat. So the farmer indeed gets in the boat with the goat. The unstated gotcha is that the farmer is willing to abandon the wolf and the cabbage. A heavily pattern-matching LLM or human would immediately assume that the farmer needs to transport all three.
I have the opposite experience all the time, perhaps because I've spent a lot of time with early-career programmers. I recognise a problem and say "oh, that's a maximum flow problem", then formulate and solve it in a few lines and they are amazed in similar ways as Penn describes. They're like "how do you know all these things"? And it's just like the buried cards. I've taken all this time to read books on algorithms and solve Advent of code and so on, so my whole mind is filled with these buried cards.

Compare yourself to a person with no experience in software engineering at all and you will quickly understand how many you have, too.
> This repository has been archived by the owner on Dec 12, 2023. It is now read-only.

Hasn't been updated in 4 years, and is now archived, so I assume this project is dead. Looks good though!
When 4 came out they released a document that did BOTH inflate scores by changing the exam conditions, and also bragged about scoring worse than guessing on a multiple choice test.
> with no seeming explanation

Oddly though every such thing that “defies explanation” also defies being reproducible in controlled experiments.

That’s the thing a about non scientific stuff like this. If it actually worked it would literally just be science and we would be able to reproduce it.

If you buy a magic moon rock that lets you only roll 6’s on dice, you would equally be left feeling that the 1/6 of the time that it worked was proof enough to you that it was actually true, because you bought yourself a bias along side the useless rock.

Same is true a lot with things like yoga for anything outside the Pilates component, it only “works” if you dedicate enough time and money to it, at which point you’re just biased because you don’t want to feel you’ve wasted your time and money. Sure 1/20 might find that it “cured” their illness, but only if that’s the rate of improvement in a control group as well.
Article doesn't even mention the Cray-2 that used Flourinert for cooling.

Flourinert turned out to be really bad for the environment, so I wonder if the article was meant to be how they have a new cooling fluid that is safer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert
Would you mind an explanation.
So you’ve never had a product update. Do you do your own service on the car to prevent garages from doing any updates?
So it's Ada since 1980, before C++ was even created.
Yeah, because if the AI boom becomes the AI bust, we'll have another 2008-level economic crisis on our hands.

The investments into AI are in the hundreds of billions (maybe even more if you factor in the amount of people studying and researching AI), but the returns are in the tens of billions (if even that).

If you exclude the "growth" coming from the industry sniffing its own farts (e.g. Nvidia selling insane amounts of insanely overpriced GPUs to InsertYourFavAICorp), the actual amount of "useful goods and services" produced (api accesses, chat subscriptions, ai-enabled app growth etc.) are tiny compared to the investment levels.

The AI train appears to have no brakes. A massive crash or AGI are the only options now. Both are going to be bad for average humans.
No. Simply plug in the prompt to chat gpt and see what happens.

The llm isn't getting confused by the meaning of "item". It's recognizing a common problem and not picking up on the fact that the farmer just needs to transport the goat and nothing else.

Instead, it gives the standard answer for how to transport everything across.
You overestimate managerial competence and underestimate misaligned incentives and the ability of people to justify the existence of their jobs by inflating the importance of useless tasks to management.
Exactly. The naivity is just sky-high
Fully agree with this
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514757
The FBI targeted an Canadian scientist of Chinese origin and his family members because he declined to spy on China for them.[0,1]

After he declined to spy on China, the FBI accused him of being a Chinese spy. The accusations turned out to be completely spurious, and the FBI agent involved was found to have knowingly spread lies about the scientist. But before his name was cleared, he was fired by his university, and the FBI made all sorts of public declarations that he was a spy.

0. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/27/1027350/anming-h...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Anming_Hu
Yep, and that gotcha got me, as a perfectly non-silicon human. My bad everyone.
Link title says "slightly", but the PDF says two different kinds of variations: variable names (slight) and problem constants (significant), and the 30% drop is on the combination of a 26 variable and also 26 variable + constant questions.

It's good to have a better test (though I bet this one will also be quickly saturated like all the others), but the title here doesn't seem justified by the page title there or the content.
You’re reading it correctly. I read it again after your comment and I realized I too pattern matched to the typical logic puzzle before reading it carefully and exactly. I imagine the test here is designed for this very purpose to see if the model is pattern matching or reasoning.
I don't think you are betting on the same thing the parent comment is talking about.

The assumptions aren't the same to begin with.
Was there some previous interpretation that was utopian?
Kind of off-topic, but I always wonder why Chase bank's tech is so good. I seldom use the app, preferring instead to use the website, but no matter which way I interact with Chase, they seems to know what they are doing.

This is all the more surprising considering how other other banks, let alone other large companies, seem to blunder all the time with their services, especially online banking.

I returned to my country Ghana from the US a few years back, and more time passes, the more I realize just how valuable my account with them is. Never have I felt I needed to visit a physical branch for anything. Everything just works. In my view, they are arguably the best bank in the world.
I think that most people are underestimating Nvidia strategy.

Their bet is that AI will unlock robotics use and they don't want to be simply compute providers, they want to innovate on the whole chain, software, hardware, services, everything.

Their position is quite unique as their R&D is basically financed by their future competitors, they are making bank while going where the puck will be.
Is it purely that this robot never takes vacation and never asks for a raise? Feels a lot like this permits building a home largely without human labor, which I'm sure the VC class would be very excited about.
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The car dependency—which I’ve had to live with my whole life—doesn’t bother me as much as what’s happening with trucks specifically. It’s like the only remaining trucks for sale are all monster trucks.
> unless you engage in massive potential copyright infringement.
And nobody is going to do that
> The results were “surprising”, Saadaoui said, and could be the result of a number of negative impacts of driving, such as the stress of continually navigating roads and traffic, the loss of physical activity from not walking anywhere, a reduced engagement with other people and the growing financial burden of owning and maintaining a vehicle.

These results are only surprising for someone living under a rock LOL. Still, they're so carbrained that they will continue to vote against their best interests to continue to have the whole place dominated by cars.
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Most common regex implementations are not composable at the language level but there are more modern alternatives like Pomsky [1] that introduce bindings and actually make regexes composable expressions.

By the way regular expressions are "composable" by definition as they are defined recursively as (in their simplest form)

- ε is the regex that matches the empty string

- given regexes A and B we can construct the new regex AB that matches first the regex A followed by B

- given regexes A and B we can construct A|B that matches A or B

- given a regex A the regex A* matches any number of repeated occurrences of A

Then for some reason languages like javascript don't provide a way of constructing

/foo/.concat(/bar/) // equivalent to /foobar/

but that is another problem.

[1]: https://pomsky-lang.org/
This isn't an airport.
You posit that venture capitalists and acquirers would never dream of running down the clock?

I’m not sure you should be throwing words like moronic around so easily. It’s hard being a founder. Some emerge okay, others do their best and don’t.
Blowing up beaver dams that are flooding your farm land.
What's with the bitterness? Maybe don't get blinded by the hype and bring a little bit of wonder (and humility) back.
Not sure about this kind of case, but for more garden variety crimes it is common for the first charges to be slam-dunk, with tons of evidence and a clear path to conviction.

Then, during the pre-trial phase, a superseding indictment can be added as more evidence is gathered and a stronger case is put together.

This happened with Paul Manafort, who was first indicted for “conspiracy against the United States”, but then the superseding indictment included all sorts of tax and bank fraud.
Yes, but spies are going to spy, so we should focus on getting software built to have security by design and not just keep out-sourcing to the cheapest programmers that don't even know what a sql injection is.

Currently, with proprietary software, there's an incentive for companies to not even acknowledge bugs and it costs them money to fix issues, so they often rely on security through obscurity which is not much of a solution.
Correct link: https://zedshaw.com/blog/2017-12-30-photographing-art/
Even humans get confused with trick questions right? Once they understand this is a trick question they no longer fall for it. :)
Cuneiform-like data storage tech boasts four times the density of binary
This reminds me of a similar idea I recently heard in podcast with Adam Brown. I'm unsure whether it is his original notion. The idea being, that if we can create AI that can derive special relativity (1905) from pre-Einstein books and papers then we have reached the next game-changing milestone in the advancement of artificial reasoning.
What does it really mean "interpolating reality itself"?
> “We need to get the voices of those who can’t drive – disabled people, seniors, immigrants, poor folks – into the room because the people making decisions drive everywhere,” she said. “They don’t know what it’s like to have to spend two hours riding the bus.”

Even worse: those really in power - think mayors and other high level city/county officials - usually have dedicated drivers serving their needs. They don't even need to drive themselves or have to go anywhere themselves, not even for grocery shopping or to drop kids off to school, that's all handled by security details, nannies and other servants - because god forbid the elites have to be in spaces with the plebs. Imagine the horrors.

That's also why there is so much push for private aviation and helicopters in the really big cities.
Three Booker prize winners I’m particularly fond of:

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is another recent literary favorite