skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only played a little bit of Red Alert 2. And quite a bit of StarCraft, although non-competitively.

The complexity difference was sort of interesting I think. I recall there was a lot more… stuff the units could do. Basic infantry for one side could lay down, take cover behind sand bags (maybe?), garrison in NPC buildings. Gain experience and level up. And these are just the most basic dudes.

It is neat stuff that makes the game feel good to pick up and play. But designed in complexity in a game can get in the way of developing emergent complexity. I think this is particularly noticeable in an RTS, where there’s already a lot going on.

StarCraft Marines only really have like one thing they can do (stim), otherwise it’s just positioning. This promotes the whole emergent “micro” gameplay skill. Which isn’t to say micro doesn’t exist in C&C (I have no idea what competitive play looks like there), but there are a lot of alternatives (Deploy them? Let them go prone?).
If you ever have a chance, talk to Vietnamese immigrants that you work with, and hear their stories of escape. Nearly everyone I've spoken to has a book or movie-worthy tale to tell.

Many went through tough times after the war was over and left years later.
As long as you have investors shovelling money in.
It didn't like me trying to find out what its system prompt was, or how to bypass it.

Prompted appropriately of course it was happy to divulge ways to bypass it. I still haven't spent significant effort to extract the system prompt yet since running 32b or 70b is very very slow on my desktop. I should try with one of the smaller models.
Thank you so much (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ
I am totally not biased in the slightest, but you should definitely try it out if you haven't already (and want to paint)
Niri would be a simplified desktop to me

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
Strange how people are always so negative. Always with the nitpicking. Functionally of course 90s style UX and desktop productivity has always been far higher. Palantir's blueprint UI doesn't even specifically target mobile.
I've always been curious to buy a headset display when traveling, but was never sure what I would actually use it for. This is pretty cool and might inspire some use case's I hadn't considered.
Agree, that's the only sane way to approach things. I worry that it's already relatively rare for people to realize that problems in general can be multi-causal, let alone that we can approach problems as probabilistically multi-causal. Placing blame, on the other hand, is something everyone understands.
I'd be interested to know if adding more languages makes them more or less performant. It is my understanding that you have to add code for the models to perform well, for example.
I hope Google will make Android more desktop friendly so it becomes the real alternative to the current status quo.
If a computer parody song is Turing complete, does that imply the given song can parody anything?
Short answer: no

Long answer: Vision Pro (if you are comfortable with the weight/price). Immersed Visor and Play for Dream Mr headsets are likely the first available coding VR headsets at reasonable prices but this will all be commodities very soon.

Your best bet is to resist being at the cutting edge for this year and pick up the winner after the next 11 months
Yeah, I think this hits closer to home: the zoonotic origins story makes the Chinese government look incompetent. They actually are much less competent than Western popular culture likes to paint them, but emphasizing that doesn't provide a very effective external threat to rally the masses against.

A lab leak plays into the stereotypical German or Russian mad scientist trope of the 20th century: the incredibly powerful supervillain who in their hubris (nearly) destroys the world.
They were also agents provocateur sent by the FBI
Soo.. gold stars?
The article claims that loading JavaScript that sends back information comes under the ePDs definition of accessing stored data:

> So sending out JavaScript code that instructs the terminal equipment to send back information is… accessing the information.
I did speak to folks on the North Vietnamese side. I kinda found it really interesting.

They read these stories of escape as emblematic of the southern government’s cowardice rather than heroism. In some ways these are stories of active military deserting their posts.

It was no surprise to these North Vietnamese patriots that they triumphed.
Tangentially, risks like that are why I'm really frustrated-with/exasperated-by certain mRNA-vaccine scaremongers: Ones who act as if older techniques were already fine and sufficient.

Ex: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/vaccine-derived-p...
Awesome mod
dd if=/dev/cd0 of=moviename.iso bs=4M conv=excl,noerror,fsync status=progress

Edit: If errors are a problem, try ddrescue instead of dd.
They really did a good job slowly experimenting with hardware working their way up to the Deck.

First the steam box then the controller, I’m sure they learned a lot from both of those before they released the deck.
Never a true a word as said in jest
People all over like to watch movies, including in locations that lack solid, unmetered Internet access.

And for whatever reason, DVD is still king for compatibility and still costs less than Blu-Ray.
Hmmm. I've made it from Jamaica Station (coming from Long Island) to Yankee Stadium in under 40 minutes many times.
That's a pipe dream.
Unfortunately human programmers tend to be assessed on volume too.
It's interesting that in India, which inherited some of the worst aspects of British governance from the Raj (like perfecting red tape), there is also strong centralization in Delhi, but the richest and best educated parts of the country are the Dravidian South.
It wasn't forbidden, it lacked evidence, which it still does, even under this highly biased new administration.
Ask HN: How long should you wait for a response on hacker one?
I submitted a vulnerability to the kubernetes hacker one program In August, it was triaged by hacker one staff and the last update was its being discussed internally with the kubernetes team, that was 4 months ago. I chased it a month ago but got no response.
It's not a critical issue, but it think this timescale is a bit too long.
"There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that."

This is a neo-Nazi talking point.
Amazing, there are estimated 86 billion neurons in the human brain, so they are just short of 85 billion and change.

But I think there is more to it, how many are used for speech vs vision, how much is used for motor control. If the idea is to build a speech neuron activity to some sort of ml data representation it's probably way less than 85b.
Was this copy protection to keep it from running on systems or does this happen on all 68030?
have they fixed the awful pathfinding bugs - especially the Tiberian Dawn ones make it play worse than the official dos one imo.
So simplified I couldn't figure out how to even login, let alone install it.

I think if they're aiming for simplicity, start with the installer. And no, "read the instructions" isn't making it simpler.
The thinking steps for o1 have been recently improved.
> When it writes half the code at our company

Do you have no code low quality standards in you company? No code reviews?

I sometimes use AI to generate boilerplate code that I use as a base but I end up refactoring it so heavily that rarely anything actually AI written gets committed.

Can't imagine AI code passing code review. The quality is still pretty rancid. It has problems following modern coding standards because it is trained on old data and super over complicated stuff.

I feel AI is mostly useful as a super slow search engine. Now that Google has be completely shitified, yeah it has uses but if we still had we good Google, would there be so much need for ChatGPT? When you could find relevant information in seconds and quickly copy paste code from stack overflow instead of waiting for ChatGPT to generate the same thing?
I'm somewhat surprised to see it here - Iceberg is around for some time already.
I've found targeted agents work best. Of course this also means I now have ~8 different tools I can choose to search with.

They aren't generic and the output needs to be monitored.
Tesla refuses to do the right thing about 'Full Self-Driving' transfers
Then make it opt in
I wrote this awhile ago on a previous thread about this:

To my mind, there are a few reasons why people are so fixated on the lab leak thing

1) It makes the pandemic deterministic (bad lab security means an outbreak) instead of stochastic (wildlife spillover). That is, to be frank, even as an epidemiologist who is very skeptical of the lab leak hypothesis, a comforting thought.

2) It's a popular topic in the Substack/Medium set, because it moves the pandemic back into their wheelhouse of expertise, international relations, policy, etc. It becomes a human problem with human solutions.

3) It appeals to the contrarian mindset.

4) All of the lab leak papers at least attempt to show definitive proof. In contrast, actually finding the source of spillover events is the work of decades (and isn't always or even often successful). "Science is slow and uncertain" is a less compelling narrative.
What a story! Just wild that so many helicopters were destroyed. But everyone on board the ship must have been so gratified that all five children survived.
Until the regime is toppled, then it will look very short-sighted and stupid.
Michael David Crawford had his website on how to code green code which uses less energy. Too bad he ended his life, he had great ideas.
That this is someone's fault and they can be punished is, I think, the reason people want it to be true. Rather than the world is a terrifying place that sometimes kills millions.
I’m half-Polish and I’ve been living in Ukraine during the war. I don’t need a reminder of where the evil lies.
Looks like you read through my bullshit

The point of those beliefs is simple: that's what it takes to get results in this economic system. It's toxic fuel. Whether or not it makes sense is irrelevant

In this economic system, everyone is a free agent trying to maximize their own wealth, but at the same time we have a need for support. People can simultaneously be wolves and sheep

I'm not saying that people shouldn't confide in each other. I'm saying that in this fucked up world, you need both. One side comes naturally because we don't come out of the womb scheming, the other is a hard truth that we all have to make peace with. If you want to keep your stuff, you have to fight for it. Toxic masculinity isn't some pointless evolutionary quirk, it's solving a specific problem in the circle of life
Yup: many settled in southern coastal states and endured vicious racism aimed at keeping them from shrimping.
Is it a fine tune effectively?
Delta Lake is the main competitor. There's a lot of convergence going on, because everyone wants a common format and it's pretty clear what the desirable features are. Ultimately it becomes just boring infrastructure IMO.
I had to think about this for a minute because the abstraction levels idea is very appealing, but ultimately I think this comparison is specious and misses the core issue entirely.

XY problem is a communication and problem-solving anti-pattern where someone has already decided on an approach and is just asking about implementation details, rather than being open to potentially better solutions that might emerge if they just explained wtf they are trying to do first. Framing it as different abstraction levels obscures this real issue and incorrectly suggests it's just a natural variation in thinking styles rather than a specific mistake in problem-solving approach.
It’s also known for being not reflective of the actual work that most companies do, especially the companies that use it.
Same argument as AI efficiencies: when automation (or another change such as arguably less HR activity) results in more free time for employees, the result is not higher wages because this is the type of competitive edge that is sought in order to increase profits rather than redistribute wealth. The result of efficiency for workers is either more work, or layoffs.

Wages don't come from surplus. Wages come from negotiation power. Surplus goes to ownership
Hmm, but has Larry considered that a scurry of squirrels may commit organized crime against his empire? Maybe he should invest in some deterrence there.
GPUs can do other stuff though. I wouldn't bet on GPU ghost towns.
Depends on the company. We all hear stories of people writing themselves a promotion / bonus by deploying a bunch of bugs they can then save the day by fixing.
> corporeal power

?
While I am very skeptical of the lab leak hypothesis as an infectious disease epidemiologist, the DoE has a fair amount of expertise via the national labs.
The problem is that the two theories can have competing indications as to how to prepare. Specifically: should we do gain of function research, or is that foolish — depends on how you read what happened in 2020.
real-world AB testing is the only thing I can think of
Oh wow. Time for some AAA rated GPU loans!
Noneleatic Languages
I'm actually aware of the cultural differences there.
Going to the hospital is not usually the same thing as being "hospitalized" though, and it would be relevant for us to make that distinction to determine how much that tidbit pushes us one way or the other. I had originally read "hospitalized" some time ago, but i just checked the intelligence briefing and it definitely does not indicate actual hospitalization.

So that intel doesn't push us one way or the other very much. Although perhaps the absence of known lab-worker hospitalizations is an argument against the lab-leak though.
Beyond All Reason – open-source RTS game built on top of the Recoil RTS Engine
No simulator to practice on, just the will to protect his wife and family. and I'm assuming a pair of giant steel...
No kidding, this is noticeable even with the simpler platforms like chatgpt or copilot

It gives you an answer that looks fine but lacks important details etc
> a "natural Ebola" almost certainly would have spread at some point anyways

Plenty of plagues have evolved in the last thousand years. That doesn’t mean they, or their deaths, were inevitable.
While irrelevant, I have to thank you for bringing this to my attention - I had no idea that he was, by all accounts, a pedophile. How disappointing.
I'd be surprised if Oracle's cloud infrastructure even relied on Oracle DBs.
more languages gives deeper semantic understanding; I think it only helps with diversity of data, which ultimately improves outputs
This is the saddest thing I've read on HN and that's saying something
AI can now replicate itself
For those interested in CC games see also upcoming tempest rising game. Doesn’t say as much but it’s clearly a copy. Half CC half Tiberian sun vibes
The way it has destroyed the sacred commandment that you need massive compute to win in AI is earthshaking. Every tech company is spending tens of billions in AI compute every year. OpenAI starts charging 200/mo and trying to drum up 500 billion for compute. Nvidia is worth trillions on the basis it is the key to AI. How much of this is actually true?
Open source means you set the system prompt.
Might be luck, based on what prompts they ended up including in the batches they used to train the other models.
Bring back <blink> and <marquee>
it's always easier to dismiss imaginary strawmen than real people.
>As we navigate our academic reserve, it is reasonable to assume that the base rate for intentional deception is very low. But this base rate can lead us astry if we apply it to life off the academic reserve.

That is a bold assumption, given what has been playing out in academia very publicly and messily over the past few years. While it might be plausible that the base rate for outright fraud in academia is still fairly low, the base rate for all forms of deception is likely extremely high, particularly in highly-cited papers with interesting results.

There are just so many ways to tweak your analysis that don't feel like lying, but nudge a p-value the right side of 0.05; so many little issues that might crop up during a study that feel too trivial to mention; so many methodological choices that are perfectly reasonable if you just avoid thinking too hard about what you're doing. All too often, it only takes one little inconsequential-seeming shortcut to get the result you want, but that shortcut makes all the difference in the world.

Find me an academic who can defend every word they've published without once squirming or cringing and I'll show you a zebra.
>Actually, explaining that is a good way to introduce the concept of a merkle tree / distributed ledger, and why "blockchain" is specifically for systems without a central authority

This is a very important points, for whatever systems or solutions that you do, do not overengineer and always remember premature optimization is the root of all evil.

It used to be blockchain and it seems apparently ML/AI is the new fad. Most probably majority of the solutions being design now with ML/AI does not need it and in doing so just make it expensive/slow/complex/non-deterministic/etc.

People need to wake up and smell the coffee, since ultimately ML/AL it just a tool inside the many tools toolbox.
Sure a small percentage of displaced people benefit significantly. That’s offset by those who simply see higher rent then get forced to relocate to a less desirable location further from work / family/ etc.

Poor areas have few people with the knowledge/ resources to really leverage gentrification which is why they are living in poorer neighborhoods to begin with. So the average outcome may be a slight improvement due to the major winners, but the median outcome is likely a net loss.
Presumably the PRC/CCP is a body in this metaphor.
OpenAI will no doubt be copying DeepSeek's ideas also.

That compute can go to many things.
One of the key parts of the lab leak hypothesis is that, depending on who is advancing it, it ranges from "poor biocontainment of a natural virus" to "engineered and released" with everything in between.
> Why did you do this again?

> Because I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could that I didn’t stop to think if I should.

A+. A great hack.
More importantly oracle will be able to count your cores better
> - If you don't want to go to the effort of ripping a hundred DVDs, you can, ah, take a trip to the high seas. Your legally-purchased DVDs serve as a license, for which the digital versions count as allowed "backups".

This is a pattern of thinking with no legal basis.

Over the years I've come around to "just pirate whatever you want". Not for music, where you can actually buy a digital copy and get a real file that you can download and play. But for non-indie video, may as well. The media/legal complex won't give you any credit for trying to be moral about it, and even accessing the DVDs you bought is usually a DMCA violation, so fuck them.
It seems to mostly be hardware.
> This will increase the number of relationships in that small town! (I think)

The problem is, in real life we're observing exactly the opposite. The most developed societies where people are the most educated, self-aware, hygienic, etc. are also the societies where loneliness is on the rise.

I'd like to point to an analogy: some years ago, getting a college degree was sure way to secure a successful career. Many people rushed to get themselves educated. Did all these people get the jobs they expected? No, simply the bar went up, and now you need a Master's degree to flip burgers
Sounds daunting compared to my limited experience:

Friend brings over MiniDV camera and a tape, and asks if I can transfer it to a PC.

"I don't know, but we can try!"

It took longer to rummage through the cabling collection for the right FireWire cable than to get it working, plugged straight into the front of a Q6600 box running Windows Vista or 7, with whatever software Microsoft included by default.

Even the tape transport controls worked perfectly from the GUI on the PC.
The National Labs, where a tremendous amount of infectious disease work is done for national-scale questions. I've worked with them in the past, and considered taking a job with them - of the various agencies, they're the ones who have weighed in with probably the most expertise.
Raises the question, how far can you get using only custom elements and css?

It sometimes appears that the modern ideal is to not have an element "do" anything on it's own and depend on the css to define it's purpose. But we still have a lot of historical baggage we are carrying around.
These glasses are super interesting - if laptops didn't have displays, their form factors could change considerably.

I'm imagining a rectangular shape with the track pad right aligned to the keyboard, rather than underneath.
It also doesn't include that a $1.8MM mortgage usually implies a $2.25MM house that you just put down $450k on.

The median price of American homes is $400k. In California it's $860k. In the Bay Area it's $1.5MM. You can get a house in the Bay Area for under $1.8MM, but you need a $360k down payment, and you will likely face a tradeoff between good schools, safe neighborhoods, being within walking distance of anything, and having a nice sized house. Outside of NYC, these numbers are the upper echelon. If you disagree, you have very expensive taste masquerading as requirements.

On that point about home sizes, Americans are frequently surprised how much less space Europeans are fine living in.
And we should should subpoena Cassidy Hutchinson but actual no cause some of us sent unsolicited sexual threats/messages.
The Tyranny of Now
Remember that interviewing goes both ways. If an employer showed this level of incompetence at the interview stage, do you really want to work for them?
Sort of niche but some Vision Pro folks are carrying SSDs w travel routers setting them as an SMB and powering the setup with a travel battery.

It provides streaming access to from large libraries of HDR content on the go.
I tried signing up, but it gave me some bullshit "this email domain isn't supported in your region." I guess they insist on a GMail account or something? Regardless I don't even trust US-based LLM products to protect my privacy, let alone China-based. Remember kids: If it's free, you're the product. I'll give it a while longer before I can run something competitive on my own hardware. I don't mind giving it a few years.
Or less nefarious: that they mishandled an extracted virus /someone got bitten by a bat in the lab and was allowed to leave without quarantine.
Could this be used to poison scrapers that don’t respect robots?
This was really interesting to me as someone who knows a bit about LLMs, but not a ton.
No, it's a full model. It's just...most concisely, it doesn't include the actual costs.

Claude gave me a good analogy, been struggling for hours: its like only accounting for the gas grill bill when pricing your meals as a restaurant owner

The thing is, that elides a lot, and you could argue it out and theoratically no one would be wrong. But $5.5 million elides so much info as to be silly.

ex. they used 2048 H100 GPUs for 2 months. That's $72 million. And we're still not even approaching the real bill for the infrastructure. And for every success, there's another N that failed, 2 would be an absurdly conservative estimate.

People are reading the # and thinking it says something about American AI lab efficiency, rather, it says something about how fast it is to copy when you can scaffold by training on another model's outputs. That's not a bad thing, or at least, a unique phenomena. That's why it's hard talking about this IMHO
> My main gripe with immutability is that making updated data requires building a full copy of the data again with the changes.

Conceptually yes, but the implementation doesn't always necessarily need to work that way under the hood: https://www.roc-lang.org/functional#opportunistic-mutation
r1-zero is pure RL with no SFT.
Encoding Information in DNA Using Electric Field Gradients and Nuclear Spins