skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't cheesing it, given those start conditions. That is a standard tactic when you only have the pistol (or are too low in ammo for other weapons).

The pistol is crazy accurate in these games so you can pick enemies of from afar with a few shots each, and in this case they are firing shotguns which are very ineffective at long range (the game stimulates them as having unrealistically wide pellet spread, so even if a far-off enemy gets a pin-point shot you will only take minimal damage).

I remember playing over the collage NetWare LAN and winning people who had better but less accurate weapons (usually the shotgun, or the double in later versions, as we found that the most cathartic) simply by keeping my distance. Works until someone gets close from behind, at which point if you respawn somewhere convenient you can find the bugger PDQ, and pick him off with the pistol for revenge. Even works against the rocket launcher, just make sure you don't get hit directly (d'oh) or hang around where it is easy for splash damage from misses to ruin your plans.

It is a valid method for many DOOM-style games (as they were called in my day) and their offspring. Works well in HL2 where you can spam the trigger button as fast as you like and the basic pistol will fire at that rate without a limit (other weapons have a minimum shot latency).
This is basically the difference between creating art and creating commoditized product. The distinction and the unwillingness to acknowledge the distinction (even though it’s made regardless) creates a lot of friction.

The masses don’t give a damn, and if all you’re trying to do is extract maximum revenue as efficiently as possible, there is no reason to expend the additional resources (and incur the additional risks) of doing more than the necessary minimum.

The artists/craftspeople have a vision and they care. Then the money arrives and none of that matters to the money.

Examples are everywhere. Video game studios discover that they can make a billion with crap story so stop investing resources in story, only the people who care even notice, and there aren’t enough of them to matter: they aren’t the audience anymore. Etc.
i’m curious what the ground truth actually names in the doc are
Even better, charge for entire projects or engagements, start to finish. The more competent and efficient you are, the more you will make per unit of time.
o1-pro takes images? had no idea
I was going off data from the wikipedia, so yeah, it may not be the most current or most accurate. It's in the ballpark, though.

And most of what I care about is small-sats, so Falcon Heavy's are more than enough lift for me. But yeah, other people may have have a completely different set of requirements and see the Heavy in a different light.
"Oh, the prisons are too crowded you say? Well perhaps criminalize less things."

We can also focus on actual rehabilitation or fewer heavy handed sentences for non-violent offenders. A lot of things that are currently prison sentences could potentially be probation and fines.
The demo video shows full screen scrolling, in which the entire screen updates smoothly.

Also, LCDs require periodic refresh, so partial LCD updates require framebuffer memory somewhere, often in the display controller built into the LCD panel or module, or less commonly into the pixels themselves. It's possible there's a frame buffer hiding somewhere, but plenty of systems don't have one, so the only option is always updating the entire LCD every refresh.
We have a pair of Intel 13s at the company as a pilot test, running Ubuntu.

One of them had a battery failure: the battery swelled inside the laptop. Framework determined it was out of warranty, since it was more than a year from purchase, so we paid for the new battery. (Along with some extra excitement because the 45W supply isn't provisioned to handle peak demand without a battery, so we ended up with an Amazon-delivered 100W supply to keep it running until the battery arrived.)

The other machine occasionally hangs. We're still trying to run it down, but it looks like it might be the SSD powering down and failing to power back up.

My overall take is that I really, really want to love this product, but a work machine has to be reliable, and these laptops are falling short on that front.
There’s a bunch of evidence that this isn't true.

People seem to choose quality when they have an option. The rise of Apple is not because people are “sheep”, it’s because there is a quality level that apple products never go beneath- even if the design is stupid.

People can forgive poor quality with innovation, or in the pursuit of pure art- but the more crappy things get the more you notice people gravitating towards higher quality items/content.

The “issue” is when there’s a total monopoly or an oligopoly that is racing to the bottom, which seems to happen quite often, because building high margin things tends to be more risky, and MBAs are risk averse.
Dive into Historical Insights on Vulnerability Observations
This is a pretty mainstream behavior that is maybe particularly prevalent in America. Though I think it’s abated elsewhere more by regulation than consumer preferences.

People will generally pick the cheapest/worst version of things if it’s more accessible/convenient or if the ability to discern value per dollar is difficult. In those situations people generally decide less dollars / fast is best.

I think this is why the “middle” is hallowing out for most product segments. The masses want bad/easy/cheap and the 1% want exclusivity/highbrow.
One doesn’t typically write a webpage in node
You can use pbcopy/pbpaste in a Linux VM on Mac by making a shell script wrapper in the VM that calls “ssh mac-host pb{copy|paste}” - that is, basically ssh back from the guest to the host to use its clipboard. It’s seamless and fast since it’s basically a local network connection.

My specific setup is that I use an authorized_keys entry on the host that restricts the guest to running a specific command, which limits what a compromised guest can do to the host. The command is set to a script that has a list of specific permitted actions. This is a good option if you’re looking for a bit of additional isolation between host and guest.
I have a love-hate relationship with Ruby. On one hand, it's a very expressive language that's excellent for building structured, lightweight applications. On the other hand, it requires significant discipline and a strong memory of your codebase and all the different types in play. When you combine this highly dynamic nature with Rails, especially its concerns and hooks, it can become extremely challenging to understand what's actually happening in the system.
or just a job at the gas station
The inner city gang-related shootings that are counted as more than just the bulk of the "mass shootings" are not "white male".
That’s fair.

But soldered versus non-soldered is a secondary issue to you not having up to date backups somewhere that are easily accessible.

But even then there are backup solutions for Linux that backup to S3 and S3 Glacier is cheap. I have 3TB and my AWS bill is $4 a month.

And “RAID is not backup”
I think so. You could also make that same argument about the new authentication feature, ActionStorage/Jobs/whatever.

Yes, of course, _there's a gem for that_ but after having used Django, it's really very nice to have those features included and not have to spend any time thinking/arguing about which Gem to choose and remembering/endeavoring to keep that Gem patched, etc.
We have been developing code inside VMs for over 15 years at my company with various flavors of VMware on the backend and lately more moving to Azure. I assumed this was normal.

We reach our VMs via VDI.
I think given enough time and experience where people can discover rock bottom dollars isn’t working, they will gravitate towards higher perceived value per dollar.

Apple won only after windows gave average home users a horrific bsod/virus/reboot hell of an existence for about 20 years.
> This definition alone might be fine enough if the word "intelligence" wasn't already widely used outside of AI research. It is though, and the idea that intelligence is measured solely through economic value is a very, very strange approach.

The response from @s1mplicissimus' on my previous comment is asking about "common usage" definitions of intelligence, and this is (IMO unfortunately) one of the many "common usage" definitions: smart people generally earn more.

I don't like "commmon sense" anything (or even similar phrases), because I keep seeing the phrase used as a thought-terminating cliché — but one thing it does do, is make it not "a very, very strange approach".

Wrong, that happens a lot for common language, but it can't really be strange.

> Try applying that definition to humans and you pretty quickly run into issues, both moral and practical.

Yes. But one also runs into issues with all definitions of it that I've encountered.

> It also invalidates basically anything we've done over centuries considering what intelligence is and how to measure it.

Sadly, not so. Even before we had IQ tests (for all their flaws), there's been a widespread belief that being wealthy is the proof of superiority. In theory, in a meritocracy, it might have been, but in practice not only to we not live in a meritocracy (to claim we do would deny both inheritance and luck), but also the measures of intelligence that society has are… well, I was thinking about Paul Merton and Boris Johnson the other day, so I'll link to the blog post: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/04/07-12.47.14.html
Prosody 0.12.5 released – An XMPP/Jabber server written in Lua
Nice, I was already considering to get a pull-up bar, now I will think about adding a smart beeper to it... (with a camera detecting a face in the up position ??)
That’s the naive assumption, but we have had massive car park fires in times when EVs were much less prevalent:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-46290095

And research into car park fires in post-EV times may also not support that theory:

https://www.ri.se/sites/default/files/2020-12/FRIC%20D1.2-20...

> Electric vehicles: Observations during the fire indicate that electric vehicles did not contribute to the fire development beyond what is expected from conventional vehicles.
VMWare has an excellent implementation of this which can selectively connect devices to the guest, and it properly remembers the action for each device you connect to your computer.
I'm also interested in the answer to this question. Can one separate the cracking of the password and the key?
From TFA "decoding rare and lost languages of which hardly any traces survive". Assuming that's not hype, let's see it have a go at Rongorongo[1] then.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
It's just another day isn't it?
This idiot first buys several laptops for 5000 Euro, then he switches to garbage 15-years old 50 Euro ones. From one extreme to another.
And his website promotes anti-humanism propaganda, like turning off running water in people's homes for "sustainability". What a joke.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/01/us/cybertruck-fire-trump-hote...

According to this article, there was also "gas tanks and camping fuel" inside the truck.
Assuming citations follow a zip distribution, almost all papers would have to go through all levels.
You still have to mobilize a drywall crew for ceilings. And your painter needs to use another primer and paint system for the concrete. Hanging interior doors and trimming them out is no longer a job for nails. Same for crown and base moldings and kitchen cabinets.

And you still have to insulate. Four feet of concrete wall thickness is needed for a nominal R10.
Haha this is funny and it's not even April fools day.
And there was tanks of gas and camping fuel.
I know it's more than just Netflix. But I'm sure it is in all ways inferior to the offerings on the smartphone.

Your Tesla is getting extra features on a system that I don't want at all.
> Also iirc his Fund1 is the highest performing VC fund of all time.

How could this claim be substantiated? Aren’t all the numbers necessary to verify this confidential?
The TCS-es, Infosys etc all are actually impacting real candidates who should be on H1B creating real value and innovation.
Should say "pick a diverse fandom"

> I refuse to believe that if you surveyed ANY fandom and asked them to do a character description of the main character, they wouldn't come to a fairly common consensus overall.

Even if the consensus is wrong? Jesus wasn't white, and wouldn't be described as white, but everyone in the US 'fandom' thinks Jesus looks like them. Also, Jesus is frequently portrayed differently in different parts of the world.
That’s fair. Those discussions get super ugly on Blind; I can see why they’d want to prevent that.
Some truth here, and you do see this in home construction. My parents horrific Formica & linoleum 80s kitchen and hardwood floors still looks the same as they did when I was a child.

My new construction “luxury” condo had serious wear damage within 5 years. I’ll have to gut the kitchen and replace my faux wood floors while my parents place remains indestructible.
There’s a big difference between LLMs and this application of CNNs and RNNs.

Very few people on HN are claiming there’s no value to neural networks — CNNs have been heralded here for well over a decade.
I think you only start caring about quality once you have sufficient depth of experience in the subject that you actually care about.

Example would be audiophiles - most people can't hear the differences that they trained themselves to hear. Also an illustration that training yourself to prefer quality is an expensive choice. :)

My personal thing is high CRI LED lights - most people don’t notice the difference but the flat-looking 80% CRI lights that are installed everywhere really bug me.
Klaatu barada nikto
The one thing age and experience has taught me is that everyone has a story. I am originally from Brooklyn, but have lived in the Hudson Valley of NY these past 8 years after bouncing around the US and overseas. Where are you?

I am a much better listener nowadays to reap the benefits of others perspectives and experiences. I lost my ego with the birth of my first child decades ago; this was a nice surprise. It helped me to look outside myself more. However, most jobs becomes routine after a while, which causes complacency and accidents. Beginning technical divers follow a Weibull distribution of early incidents due to inexperience. The curve stays low and flat. Even the best experienced divers get complacent and incidents occur at the end of this curve, hopefully not stopping there, which could mean they died, or were scared or injured enough to change their job.

The less glamorous sides of an eclectic CV are that you may be really good at a few things, maybe you've mastered one or two, but you have gaps for sure. You need to leverage the macro view of business and problem solving you have earned and learned from your multiple experiences. I can honestly say I sometimes just jumped due to boredom, but for the most part it was to learn something new that crossed my horizon. The trick is to push horizon.

Currently reading Richard Hamming's, "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learing to Learn", and it is proving to supports some of my held beliefs, yet it has also exposed some flaws in the mix. Good read.

Happy New Year!
Last year there were five major recalls. One was a software fix for backup cameras not always working. Two were Tesla software issues. Two were non-Tesla hardware issues. I think if I avoid a Tesla, I don't have to worry about software updates for a while.
Caroline Timmis is the boy mother, she is married to Henry Jenkins but was married previously, the boy is James Timmis.
I really enjoyed working with the KubOS team (though I was more on the Major Tom side.) They were a great bunch -- everyone involved on the project has my highest recommendation.

I was definitely worried when I heard KubOS (the company) was struggling. I don't know too much about Xplore, but I think I saw Tyler was working there now, so there's SOME continuity at least.

KubOS (the codebase) doesn't look like it's received any love in the last couple of years, which is sort of sad. Some really bright people poured a lot of time and effort into it. Just looking at the contributors list: Ryan, Catherine, Kyle and Tim... all very bright people and a pleasure to work with.
The US is not an open-borders free-for-all and even during the time period you're citing related to the random poem the immigration was relatively limited.

Everyone understood the necessity to properly assimilate foreigners, and therefore there were periods of moratoriums to preserve American culture.
Amos Goldberg is monetizing being an anti-israel israeli. If you gave him valid counter arguments he'd never accept them because it would be career suicide. So I'm not even going to begin to tackle any of this stuff.
I support your right to free speech but I don't get how any of this helps anyone with anything. You have to work with today's reality that Israel is a state that exists that has certain security interests. I'm guessing the end game here is to cut US support for Israel and hope that it will wither and die afterwards?

With the current administration that's not gonna happen anytime soon and I doubt you'll see it change in the next 20-40 years. Do you think you'll decide to be more constructive in that time?
If they give up they are human 99%.
No not really. The employer has some documentation, it is not complete but is starting point when issues pop up. For example, a JDK neeed to have special certificates installed if Java tries to talk SSL. And when you juggle with different JDKs for different Java versions it becomes a nightmare. The best you can do is to try not to touch anything when it eventually works but eventually something unforeseen breaks it anyways.
> that advertising will have to change

The global pool of Human Attention is non-growing but Content (real estate for Ads) keeps exploding. So the solution is simple - there has to be limits on how many Ads an ad-tech Industry can sell.

If you are allowed to sell more Ads than there are people in the land * time in a day, then its basically giving sellers permission to dupe the Ad Buyer (and indirectly the content creator who is given a false signal that its really their fault no one is paying attention when in fact the pool of available attention is finite and easy to exhaust if everyone is fishing).
My car doesn't have critical bugs. And instead of making software more complicated, it should be made simple to reduce the chance of a critical bug to zero.
A drivers license on your own land - no. Adding a circuit to your own house generally doesn't need a license but does need a permit. Driving without a license or doing electrical work without a license/permit usually isnt sending you to prison for years. Manufacturing explosives generally requires licenses and could otherwise result in years of prison. I'm not sure if the law works this way, but I would hope there are some exceptions for small quantities. I see plenty of stuff online about black powder manufacturing, which I think is cool as an insight into history. I'm sure it's dangerous, but in small quantities it's really only a danger to oneself. Honestly, I see that as less of a danger to others than reckless driving on a road or even electrical work after the house is sold.
No individual Kaggle solution achieved a result of 81%, rather an ensemble of models: https://x.com/fchollet/status/1865865271728390515

In my (possibly flawed) interpretation: o3's scores appear to be an achievement because they were attained by a single model, but the benchmark itself needs refinement before it can claim to be a measure of AGI like it set out to be, as one can bruteforce their way to similar results.
I should have said *one of the - https://archive.is/767d5
The shareware weapons. You had to fork out some real cash for the full version if you wanted the plasma weapons!
i've had issues with aws lambda and compiled ai models, because lambda varies hardware and cpu architecture from one container to another

i can imagine this happening if a team has a myriad of hardware/os flavors and different server setups.
Yes, there is, just use plain old pointers. Who cares about UB anyway.
https://archive.md/zeckB
Summary: The Art of Making Sh t up using the principles of improv
errors in => errors out
Glue Work Considered Harmful
WfW ! Reminded me of this for some reason . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing

Then I also remember win32s on WfW which would then run win95 pinball!
As someone who doesn't do enough web dev to justify learning Ruby just for Rails: how does it compare to Django? That's the only batteries-included web backend framework I'm familiar with...

Asking out or curiosity.
You'd rather have me set it on fire and exploded in the virtual or in the real world?

They point of having virtual environments is to enable you to see things in them you'd rather not see in real life.
and Linear A [1]. To be fair, whatever model would require data about the context of where the texts were found unless the corpus is massive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A
> All the hard stuff is missing. It's half an idea.

Nah, it's all the idea but half (or less) the implementation.

Still counts as a PoC by many definitions. I've been handed less complete proofs to continue ("we fleshed this out in Excel in the client meeting, said we could have it done for real by Tuesday, can we?").
As a single developer of an open source Rails project that has grown to serve ~120k MAU, I can attest to this article’s claims. One tidbit to add: ActiveStorage, which provides file attachment features, is another excellent piece of the Rails family. I’ve been using Dokku but looking forward to trying Kamal. Rails keeps getting better, and Ruby keeps getting faster.
interesting, specifically I'm on a host Mac and trying to use the ESP IDF dev containers in VSCode (https://docs.espressif.com/projects/vscode-esp-idf-extension...)

will try again with sockets/TCP, thought i hit a roadblock after reading https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5263#issuecomment-7...
I have checked both, and while there are similarities, I think they both share a common ancestor - some physical Mahjongg tiles. This Windows Taipei 1 is written by " Bogus Software Inc", and Windows 3.0 Taipei, which uses a very similar interface and tiles, is made by "David Norris" from Redmond WA.
As a fan of Apple products, I am going to… bet against Apple chat supremacy.

Apple hasn’t been in the bicycle for the mind business for a long time. Instead of going all in with vision pros almost-there use case as a high-end Mac replacement (just add an M-ultra, it would be so convenient, sell a keyboard trackpad combo, no sandbox, please take my money), they seem more concerned that it has failed to live up to their wizzbang 3D-media iOS-type kiosk aspirations.

That seems to be their lens.

I would expect another Siri fail, or more likely, it just gets really inexpensive for them to use somebody else’s model.
It was about two or three years ago for me. Not sure when Limp joined (actually... not sure who Limp is.) Oh wait... google is your friend... David Limp... new CEO... Looks like he joined in December 2023. So this was before that.

I overlapped with David at Amazon and had a few interactions with him and some of his direct reports. Don't know if that's good or bad; pretty sure I didn't embarrass myself there.
Strafe while holding 'option' on Mac
I am in the same boat, but luckily we just stumbled across tech that can help solve this problem.
Vagrant, chef, puppet and lots of other stuff is written in Ruby. It's also great as a scripting language replacing Bash, Python or Perl for any number of things. I write all my small, one off programs in Ruby.