skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always found it remarkable with how well Warframe handles updates, I've seen other games do the "Update live now everyone restart!" and then no one can get in due to thundering herd.

But you close Warframe after the red text and the game updates pretty fast, even if its a massive update like 1999 was, and then you are back in the game (Unless you say yes to Optimising download cache, that takes an absolute age for some reason plsfix), definitely a pretty amazing engineering achievement.
>option to increase the bet

There was no bet in the first place, that's the point. It's not gambling because there's no wager.
Come to think of it, Asterix wasn't really any better[0]. There just weren't so many black people to show.

[0] https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/asterix/images/b/ba/The_ma...
> My younger son likes to imitate voices, and at one point when he was about seven I had to explain which accents it was currently safe to imitate publicly and which not

See how much pearl clutching you will get by southern “anti-woke” folks when someone imitates their voice or start saying the only thing they care about is “Gods and Guns”.

FWIW: I was born and raised in southern GA and have only lived in two states my entire life - GA and FL.

They are very sensitive if you talk about their way of life or say anything that can be interpreted as anti-Christian.
The thing about these woke types is they usually mean really well. But in the process they will effortlessly fall into being absolute cunts.

This one time I got a 'concerned' mail from a dude, remarking that he didn't like some of my public comments. It was longwinded, verbose and Very Serious. He tried to empathize with me by imagining what my politics might be, how I might feel about some of his remarks, etc.

The thing was:

- he got my politics completely wrong

- at no point did he actually cite a single concrete example

- he never actually asked any questions or clarifications

The entire thing was a one-sided lecture he was delivering to an image of me he had created in his head. Once you understand this, you understand woke and why so many people find it so unbearable.
I usually read text IF following all paths at once, with heuristic combinations of breadth-first and depth-first search in order to maintain the unexplored front small. Not much different from drawing a map in a computer RPG.
This is brilliant. Today it'd all be CGI trash.
> Since the Microsoft response to the bug was denying and gaslighting the affected people

Well. I wouldn't go that far. Any busy dev team is incentivized to make you run the gauntlet:

1. It's not an issue (you have to prove to me it's an issue)

2. It's not my issue (you have to prove to me it's my issue)

3. It's not that important (you have to prove it has significant business value to fix it)

4. It's not that time sensitive (you have to prove it's worth fixing soon)

It was exactly like this at my last few companies. Microsoft is quite a lot like this as well.

If you have an assigned CSAM, they can help run the gauntlet. That's what they are there for.

See also: The 6 stages of developer realization:

https://www.amazon.com/Panvola-Debugging-Computer-Programmer...
flooding the zone with shit
Can't use the word "error" in corp speak. "Something unexpected happened." Or maybe just "Oops."

Sometimes this extreme spin just makes me angry, to be honest.
Also like, Greenland never voted to join Denmark. Denmark just took it! Every single US state at least had a ratification vote for the territory to become a state.
guess you upset some american sensibilities friend... i see youve been appropriately greyed out
It is likely a bit of nostalgia on my part, but one of my first gigs had an owner that was focused on XP being the way we worked, and given how junior the team was overall, I think it produced excellent results and made for a fun, lively atmosphere.
California Fire Facts
From a consumer rights and environmental standpoint I agree. But it's important that only the actual owner of the device can do this, and not just the person in possession of the device. You don't want to make stolen devices be anything but paperweights. But so long as I (the owner) select the passphrase for unlocking it I don't see a problem.
This headline reminded me of Mumptris, an implementation of Tetris in the old mainframe-oriented language MUMPS, which by design, uses 100% CPU to reduce latency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085593
You're right about this: apparently the same guy who wrote Bundler wrote Cargo.
Ukraine is a country with army, navy and airforce, therefore not a woman. They are not as big as US or Russia.

Ukranian politicians were extremely corrupted[1][2] and they would rather align with money than maintain a stable relation with both countries.

Now they are fighting a proxy war on life support while their Economy runs to ground.

[1] https://kyivindependent.com/top-10-political-scandals-of-202...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2024/01/28/1227447442/ukraine-says-corru...
It seems like it's taking responsibility to not have kids if you're unclear whether they'll even survive? I think that's hyperbole but it is their belief.

Earth will be fine with 1/10th the level of humans. I'm not saying I want anyone to die, I'm just saying massive drops in birth rates is fine outside the economics of it.
That’s why replica guns are _required_ to have bright orange tips on the barrel: so other people (like police) know it’s not real.

If this game is centered around a Vegas-style slot machine aesthetic & animation, people will think it’s gambling.
Indeed. This is ABSOLUTELY not the first time we’ve dealt with a government agency (at the local, state, or federal levels) providing a copy of a public dataset to Ancestry.com and not to the general public. Our taxpayer-funded data keeps ending up solely behind a $300/year paywall. It’s not fair.

(Also, the stripped-down version of BIRLS that has been on the Ancestry website for a while now is much smaller and older.)
Why would they need to justify it? Lots of enterprises are captive to VmWare. Their entire IT staff has been using it their whole careers.
Perfect Weather Conditions Can Create Light Pillars Across Wyoming
This is about penny pinching.
If you have created a system that cannot autoscale fast enough,
then the triggers for when it does scale up should be much lower.

I also think that enormous amounts of headache can be saved by
spinning up beefy instances and including scaling it up
before scaling out.

A big nice beefy instance gets over 50% of whatever metric is used
spin up a new one. Make it an even beefer version.

Scaling "just in time", persumably to lower costs, is much more
of a gamble and a lot more complicated.
Okay, what if some American rich person promised to give $1m to people to vote for the candidate that he was supporting.

Money for votes is the issue I have, regardless of the hypothetical.
If TfL hasn't bought the full rights to their map layouts, the shame is on them.
Actually, I was disagreeing with the GP specifically about Apple products. I'm an Apple user, but very much because they're the "least bad" option. De-Googled Android phones still have awful audio latency (I'm a musician who makes a music app on the side), very limited messaging and notification features, and integrate poorly with desktop OSes. For how I use my devices, open or no, Android simply isn't a viable option.

The thing about all this is, Apple's products being well-integrated and well-designed doesn't require them to be locked down the way they are. The EU move to force them to use USB-C/Thunderbolt over Lightning is a perfect example of this. It unilaterally improved things for users, and iPhone 14 vs. 15 sales reflected that pretty clearly.

So I'd especially describe Apple as the "least bad" rather than "completely acceptable." They're specifically what I had in mind saying that.
The fact that trump junior had to bribe homeless people with food to get enough people in maga gear to take a supportive looking photo I think is quite instructive about what the Greenlanders feel

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Recent versions of Bash don't expand the * (et cetera) patterns when there is no match, which although sometimes useful, I still feel it's a hack.
> But many things in the biosphere (e.g. corals in the GBR) cannot adapt on these timescales. Extinction is forever, it is an incomprehensible loss.

In many ways that's the other red herring. Extinction = bad. More generally, change = bad. I think I can say more things have gone extinct on this planet than exist today.

Some 200 million years ago all the continents were fused into one. I can't even imagine the cataclysmic losses and changes this brought over time. Yet, life and the planet evolved, adapted and survived.

Sure, the time scale was millions of years. I posit that there is no difference here and today. We, humans, and a very small number of us at that, are the ones who are exaggerating the importance of time. A thousand years ago we would not have known anything about changes happening all over the globe. We did not have the kind of global visibility into things we have today. It is quite possible that many things changed massively during the centuries and we had no idea.

If we didn't have politicians and cultists constantly pounding us with climate change as the cause for everything, people would not think life was different in any meaningful way. And that's the fact for everyone on this planet, except for a few who are being driven into irrational panic by the cult. We even have child abuse, with Greta Thunberg perhaps being the most visible example.

In many ways this is no different from what religious extremism does to people. Using such things as the fear of going to hell to justify anything and demanding uncontested belief and obedience, sometimes under threat of punishment. Climate change is a new religion in this sense.
Wifi streaming is great if it's easy, but for me, Sonos makes it hard.

My spouse uses the speakers pretty often, but even the old app wasn't great, and I gave up on it. Why can't I just cast the music from my Youtube music app? Why do I have to connect Sonos to Youtube, then wait for a separate app to pop up?

I just end up playing music in my headphones, or on my phone speaker. The quality is worse, but the experience is better.
HN, or at least part of the user base, is always getting over-excited about some fad or other. As others have mentioned, there was also blockchain (a few iterations of this one), metaverses, more AI (there was a computer vision bubble a while back), thorium... There'll be another along sooner or later.
A penis drawing isn't something that's needed, it's something that happens. Feel free to rail against them in a Kanute-like manner, but learning to cock an eyebrow and say "yeah, that figures" can be self-preserving.

For what it's worth I too prefer the plausible deniability of Georgia O'Keefe's outrageous lies. It's a more sensible chuckle.
> Many of the mailing lists that dominated the discourse of the early Internet in the 1990s operated under a similar rule.

What lists are you referring to? I don't remember this ever coming up.
First time in a very long time. Most certainly the first time since the first beginnings of civilization; I think also the first time since the existence of humans, or maybe even the existence of life at all, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
Tsunami advisory triggered after 6.9 magnitude earthquake rattles Japan
Fair enough, seems like forbidden fruit trumps the branding disassociation.
You (and I) have the luxury of irrelevance and thus can be flippant in our opinions... so I see your point but if I were actually in charge of a community and a significant percent of my small community was diseased with addiction to gambling, banning playing cards seems pretty tame and reasonable.
It's one thing if they rent for cheaper and sell for more. But if they'll only rent it will be messed up.
To extend your analogy, banning Luck Be a Landlord while allowing lootboxes and the like is kind of like banning chocolate cigarettes while allowing kids to have nicorette gum.

One of them has the aesthetic, one of them has the actual negative thing.

The aesthetic being banned is supposed to be in support of reducing the impact of the actual negative thing, but the actual negative thing is being PROMOTED instead of banned.

It all feels very pants-on-head kind of up-is-down logic.
Use https://glowing-bear.org/ for a web UI to Weechat.
They'll do what we allow them to get away with. The quote "the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy" applies here. Trump is revealing who these people really are.
I tried watching HPI[0], but she talks really quickly. Maybe I should try again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPI_(TV_series)
In manufacturing, configuration is all you need
>But not to ban games running on actual gambling? As long as FIFA still has lootboxes it's hypocritical.

I'm ok with banning lootboxes.
> ownership moves to a new not-for-profit entity based somewhere in Europe, with the exact location still to be finalized. The organization is currently headquartered in Germany, where it was a nonprofit until its charitable status was stripped last year.

So it sounds like Mastodon was run by a non-profit, but the non-profit ran afoul of some legal issues, and they're now creating a fixed version? This seems to be administrative details, not news.
Prison time probably. Trump will go after people who don’t cow tow to him.
Taiwan sees threefold surge in suspected Chinese espionage cases
wonder when they'll do it to australia. not much will change here i guess. except more homelessness. the overton window is new to me though, thanks to my sibling poster for that new idea!
The de-facto leading IRC indexing site is netsplit.de

Compared to that, IRC driven looks more modern.
> Indeed, in some of the most difficult scenarios, the efficient operation of your railroad provides no more than the seed capital for the real key to victory, your shenanigans on the stock market.

This is in fact what I don't like about RR2. The stock market had too much of a big part in my opinion, and I never enjoyed it.

I liked much more Transport Tycoon (and its open source version OpenTTD) which had much more focus on the mechanics of transportation. Too bad, because I really loved the graphics and some of the mechanics of the game.
Does that apply to those biometric readers issued to me by the government? If not, why not? Can I have a root on my car to disable ISA? Why not, if not? Do you see the problem?
I don't see how this "flexibility" is not a human trait also.
it's true. i just like knowing how things work.
> Granted not all, I've worked with some widget makers who would rather just take tasks, do EXACTLY what it says, and move on regardless if it works or not. They love the certainty of process and want to just do that.

I've been this guy, as a software engineer.

It turns out that making widgets feeds my family, whereas pushing back on executives from my position on the totem pole runs a very real risk of being unable to do so.
Creator of InfluxDB and cofounder and CTO here. Happy to answer any questions. We're very excited to finally have this release in public. It's been years in the making and we hope to iterate quickly on any feedback.
This was actually a really cool analysis. Fun to see how these things can be broken down so cleanly into graphs.
I lived in Sweden for a few months, where they had a system like that (the deposit translated to around 10 cents), and it seemed to work well.
The other thing I’ll add is the benefit of making it very visible: In the US, state programs are on the fine print, but in Sweden, every bottle or can had the “pant” symbol and deposit amount prominently on it, so everyone was quickly aware of it.
> Open Access Books from MIT Press

Nothing interesting. Just generic or propaganda staff.
Let's not scale mountains, explore the oceans, cross the poles, or go to space. Why be heroic when we can all hold hands and be safe.

"""They have left the regions where it is hard to live; for they need warmth. One still loveth one's neighbour and rubbeth against him; for one needeth warmth."""
Probably prison time and the complete stripping of his position and wealth
You are observing "flattened logits" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774#page=12&org=openai .

The entropy of ChatGPT (as well as all other generative models which have been 'tuned' using RLHF, instruction-tuning, DPO, etc) is so low because it is not predicting "most likely tokens" or doing compression. A LLM like ChatGPT has been turned into an RL agent which seeks to maximize reward by taking the optimal action. It is, ultimately, predicting what will manipulate the imaginary human rater into giving it a high reward.

So the logits aren't telling you anything like 'what is the probability in a random sample of Internet text of the next token', but are closer to a Bellman value function, expressing the model's belief as to what would be the net reward from picking each possible BPE as an 'action' and then continuing to pick the optimal BPE after that (ie. following its policy until the episode terminates). Because there is usually 1 best action, it tries to put the largest value on that action, and assign very small values to the rest (no matter how plausible each of them might be if you were looking at random Internet text). This reduction in entropy is a standard RL effect as agents switch from exploration to exploitation: there is no benefit to taking anything less than the single best action, so you don't want to risk taking any others.

This is also why completions are so boring and Boltzmann temperature stops mattering and more complex sampling strategies like best-of-N don't work so well: the greedy logit-maximizing removes information about interesting alternative strategies, so you wind up with massive redundancy and your net 'likelihood' also no longer tells you anything about the likelihood.

And note that because there is now so much LLM text on the Internet, this feeds back into future LLMs too, which will have flattened logits simply because it is now quite likely that they are predicting outputs from LLMs which had flattened logits. (Plus, of course, data labelers like Scale can fail at quality control and their labelers cheat and just dump in ChatGPT answers to make money.) So you'll observe future 'base' models which have more flattened logits too...

I've wondered if to recover true base model capabilities and get logits that actually meaningful predict or encode 'dark knowledge', rather than optimize for a lowest-common-denominator rater reward, you'll have to start dumping in random Internet text samples to get the model 'out of assistant mode'.
It's quite bizarre, and a little scary, to start seeing how the threads of a fringe weirdo like Yarvin are starting to weave into the politics of the most powerful country on Earth.

Yarvin -> Thiel + Musk -> JD Vance + Musk, they are basically getting their seat time on the throne, bringing Yarvin's deranged philosophy to it... What the actual fuck?
Was that the period of time when you got more bang for your buck building a PC with dual-socket Celerons than one high-end Pentium?

EDIT: An excellent retrospective on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE-k4hYHIDE
> obviously there is a limit

Whether there is or isn’t is irrelevant. The fact that when asked “how much,” the answer seems to have no defined limit is what I’m criticising.
A blank page?
> I might be glossing over some details but isn't this problem largely solved by other products almost everyone has now? Any cloud music service, a smart phone, and some bluetooth speakers?

How do I configure several bluetooth speakers to play music across my whole house with a single phone?
There is also Soro on iPhone that works better than native app.
Juniper Networks Fixes High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Junos OS
How Unix spell ran in 64kb RAM
Interesting piece from Abhinav Upadhyay.
Actually, I didn't even state that I can see a difference
Tanker Ships Set Sail for Greener Future with Wind-Powered Technology
I just call it "Software Freedom", like GNU has since the 80s:

> the freedom to change a program, so that you can control it instead of it controlling you

I don't necessarily endorse all of Stallman's philosophy on software. But I think in this point at least he was very prescient.
For some reason I thought of Comcast telling me when I called in to get the 20 dollar rate on a mailer, that it's only for new customers. I suppose their purpose is transparent with a teaser rate, but still feels unfair.

Regardless of existing US citizens not getting offered 1MM, what does the regular citizen get if Greenland were to join I wonder?
I have no clue how accurate this is or isn't, but it's the first poll of Greenlanders on the topic that I've seen.

https://patriotpolling.com/our-polls/f/greenland-supports-jo...
Resolves from https://californiafirefacts.com/
This is highly speculative (and more likely the brainchild of military intelligence than Trump himself) but it could be aimed at intimidating Russia prior to talks re Ukraine. Russia has strategic interests in the Arctic, and a US presence in those waters is probably a little alarming. Especially given that they are currently using old tankers registered to other flags to circumvent oil sanctions.
Stanford's New AI Predicts Cancer Outcomes with Unmatched Accuracy
I mean, Our Lord and Saviour The Almighty Blockchain (and its offshoot technologies, like DAOs) worked, for some value of worked; it just wasn't particularly useful. I'd put LLMs largely in the same bucket for now.

> I know a few small companies that have legitimately let people go without even having a proper replacement.

In terms of collateral damage, blockchain nonsense is probably still winning, at least for now, though its victims were often at least somewhat complicit in their own destruction.
Genetic Breakthrough Reveals How Superbugs Outsmart Our Defenses
The only good thing to have come about from LatinX is that it enables you to troll your Latino friends with it. Nothing is quite so sweet as friend salt, after all. :)
Quantum Physics Just Got Even Stranger: Meet the Mysterious Paraparticles
I haven't heard of IRC before, but just looked it up on Wikipedia. Can it be used to exchange messages with phones?