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Show HN: Part 2- LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)
Because my post yesterday[1] got such great feedback, I turned my first twitch stream back on. This is Pokémon Showdown, an online Pokémon battle simulator. You can make moves with Twitch Chat. Be sure to turn up your volume to hear the announcer!

You can find it on github at https://github.com/adenta/showdown_realtime.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187231
Your perspective is understandable. When you say "as a dev" it sounds like you really want to be a docker dev but not a flatpak dev: you are used to writing docker files and docker-compose files but you are not interested in writing flatpak apps. That's okay because docker is focused on developers whereas flatpak is more user-centric.
Maybe it’s a comfort game for you. But it’s an addiction for me. I need to stop, so I can find something else to get addicted to.
> Automatically generates the API configuration by analyzing API docs.

The problem with a lot (most?) integration work is that often there simply aren't any API docs - or the docs are outdated/obsolete (because they were written by-hand in an MS Word doc and never kept up-to-date) - or sometimes there isn't an API in the first place (c.f. screen-scraping, but also exfiltration via other means). Are these scenarios you expect or hope to accommodate?
These are terrible graphs. Sorry, but how do I read them? There are labels for the clusters (?) provided in the text but the legend is just called cluster so what does it represent? Dates? Sometimes there's more clusters than labels. A good graph is worth thousands of words but a bad graph is worth a thousand miscommunications
They sell an alternative to AWS, but their website is hosted at AWS.

Also, pointing the MX record to smtp.google.com will not help with receiving email.
What are your credentials or sources to assert a "chemical imbalance" in millions of people?
If we ever get to adopting this, I will send every byte to a separate IPv6 address. Big Tech surveillance wouldn't work so many don't see a point like the author.
PBS Spacetime did an interesting video on DCQE, but it tripped me up trying to fully understand what was happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs&t=601s ... Later Sabine Hossenfelder did a video debunking the proposition that DCQE somehow showed that the past was being rewritten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQv5CVELG3U And Matt from PBS Spacetime acknowledged she was right in this respectful comment:

> Sabine, this is amazing. You are, as usual, 100% right. The delayed choice quantum eraser is a prime example of over-mystification of quantum mechanics, even WITHIN the field of quantum mechanics! I (Matt) was guilty of embracing the quantum woo in that episode 5 years ago. Since then I've obsessed over this family of experiments and my thinking shifted quite a bit.
>“The doctor advised me that my heart wasn’t in the kind of shape that I should be putting it under any stress,” he added.

>He maintained his love for acting and missed it but the business had become too stressful for him.

Sounds like modern dev work.
I agree it's not a conspiracy at all. It was a blatant attempt by a renegade developer who will be named and shamed.
Won't work on iOS. An app cannot simply get the local MAC address on iOS. Privacy reasons. And trying all the (2^8)^3 options will also not work - for power reasons you'll be quickly throttled.
There's a security angle: Load balancers have big problems with request smuggling. HTTP/2 does something to the picture, maybe someone is more up to date if it's currently better or worse?

ref: https://portswigger.net/web-security/request-smuggling
> God cannot give them their next job - Steven Spielberg can
EA releases source of and adds workshop to multiple Command and Conquer titles
Tariffs apply to imported _goods_. Services like software are not imported goods.

import aws;
The place where I've seen this happen is the bay area. At least two companies I worked at exclusively only allowed phones to unlock doors.
> doing commodities trading.

Game is rigged for big players. You are gambling.

> best friend being a consistently profitable trader for the last 4 years didn’t help my skeptic case…

Last 4 years have been a boon for day traders. Any idiot with a decent sized portfolio and appetite for risk can make a living. However you are literally staring at graphs all day. Not very fun or rewarding or contributing much to society tbh.

For every winner out there, there are always hundreds of losers. Something something, “survivorship bias”

> one needs to just see numbers, statistics and trust on one’s strategy.

In a vacuum, this makes sense. But the market can remain irrational much longer than you can remain solvent.

Good luck with grinding out there. The current POTUS is a massive grifter, and driven by pseudo scientific neoclassical economic theory. So your day trading days will likely be sustainable for the next 4 years.
Well, I have 2 experiences of discovering this to be the case in others' setups (one that they reported noise instead of results, or maybe even went further. They reported a massive success, and yes, better "results" than I did. They were always reporting zero + some noise as opposed to measurement + noise. Given that it was always reporting zero I might be convinced this was a mistake rather than cheating, but ... they certainly didn't correct anything. Their method just didn't work, so they measured small values, which made the noise on their sensor actually close to the correct value (they "corrected" negative values by ignoring the minus sign). Another was a case of dissolved metals suddenly appearing out of nowhere in test tubes, changing the results (where only 3 people, not including me, but including the professor, has access to them) and in one case I was ignored, in the other case punished (essentially fired).
Show HN: Compiler Playground for energy-efficient embedded dataflow processor
Hi HN! My team at Efficient Computer (https://efficient.computer) and I are working on a new computer architecture and I am leading the team that is building the compiler for our chip. Our hardware is focused on energy-constrained embedded applications and is super efficient, which lets devices run for years on a small (ie AA) battery. We built a playground for our compiler that has a cool visualizer and debugger that shows how your C code (more languages to come) maps to our Fabric architecture, and an energy model that shows you how much less energy your code uses on our architecture. Check it out: https://www.efficient.computer/resources/effcc-compiler-play...
Yes, we've discussed that, it makes sense IMO
Building a Modern Data Stack: Our 70% Cost Reduction with Open Source
Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?
Because he's probably a mostly male adult programmer.
For sure. I'm under no illusion that it wouldn't be costly. What I'm trying to suss out is whether libc could hypothetically change to give better safety to existing compiled binaries.
Oi, his role as a USNavy admiral in the film Behind Enemy Lines now makes sense.
Hence the scare quotes. This seems like an unusual situation.
EA just released source code for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games
That seems like it's vacuously true: you can only do a thing for the first time once.

Wozniak helped invent a whole new mode of human life: the personal computer. You can't revolutionize the computer industry in your back yard because all of the things that are easy to do, have already been done.

I have no idea what the next "Apple Personal Computer" might be, the one that utterly changes the way people interact with the world. Maybe it'll be gene editing, or a new kind of entertainment via direct brain stimulation.

Maybe those are waiting for their own Woz to put a bunch of other innocuous advances together into something radical, and grow it into the next Big Tech before the existing Big Tech gets there. It happens; that's how Google pushed Yahoo and Altavista out of the way, and Facebook dispatched Myspace.

We don't need somebody to found Apple again. We need something that does for us what Apple did for us.
you can learn how to edit it, or you can ask someone who knows to edit it for you
I'll agree that "Docker" has a history of "interesting" security practices.

But the core technologies underlying containers: Namespaces, cgroups, POSIX Capabilties, and SELinux. "Should" provide a level of isolation equivalent to a virtual machine[1].

If you're using a decent container platform like Podman, you should feel relatively good about the application's security and isolation.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-selinux-separates-contain...
Reality means different things to each side. It reminds me of the old "Reality-based community[1]" quote by an aide to the G.W. Bush administration, widely attributed to senior advisor Karl Rove:

The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.

This school of thought is still alive and kicking among Republicans: Reality is what we conjure up as we do and say things--it's not some concrete, discernible thing that can be observed.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
AWS Chatbot's Rename to Amazon Q Developer Is a Step Backward
I had a buddy who worked at target for a while - specifically in supply chain management. They were writing software to manage their distribution topologically, or something like that, if I recall. They were using Conal Elliott’s “compiling to categories” and it sounded like it was successful.

Anyway, my point is that software is often what wrangles the complexity of a business process and makes it repeatable. I don’t see that going away any time soon.
Dude wants a kleptocracy.
Op-eds aren't supposed to be that way, though yes many have become that. They are supposed to be experts opining about things related to their expertise. Such as a well known computer scientist opining about the field of computer science. This is useful communication to the general public and plays a valuable role in news.

There's a million shades of grey. The bad actors only want you to see black and white
Amazon, which was originally planned to be named "Ruthless", will see this as an existential threat and use the full force of their Big Tech allies to make sure they have no additional competition. I support their cloud services and know that Big Tech collusion on cloud infrastructure will be nearly impossible to avoid. There must be more decentralized solutions and I'm proud of Nigeria for innovating when Silicon Valley is more worried about consolidating.
That article is all over the place with it's verbage and intention.

What it is actually saying is that there was a meta study done that found low serotonin itself was not necessarily the cause of depression. However drugs that target serotonin still work as anti-depressants.

It's really a terrible article. Never mind using "chemical imbalance" and "low serotonin" interchangeably throughout the article.
The Go crowd, like the Rust crowd, likes to advertise the language their software is written in. I agree that that specific sentence is a bit ambiguous, though, as if it's some kind of middleware that hooks into Go applications.

It's not, it's just another standalone reverse proxy.
IMO, learning a language was way better suited to impulsive excitement. (Of which ADHD folk tend to be experts in) I moved provinces to make that work (Ontario Canada => Québec Canada), honestly in a pretty stupid move. But now it's not just a thing I need to convince myself to do, it's an imperative that people are cheering you on for. The rush I got from doing my first fully French bureaucratic phone call is unmatched. If that call was going to be in English I would've delayed doing it for months.

Embrace a bit of chaos if you can afford it and your brain sort of craves it. (Applies outside the realm of language learning as well, whatever deep-end you can afford to drown in a few times, drown as fast as possible in it. You'll learn to swim after the third or forth time.)
News. Fox. Meet Hen House.
>The above is just locker room talk which probably 90% of American men have participated in.

Nope. Do you know what we did in the locker room? Mostly dick helicopters. Locker rooms filled with men are hilariously homoerotic. The only people who brag about how much pussy they get are exclusively losers and sad people with no identity other than "I must seem cool to other men", which is hilarious again, because healthy, well adjusted men see right through that horse shit. Sometimes they have a gaggle of lonely losers who look up to them as if getting pussy would somehow fix their lives that are miserable for entirely different reasons. I once thought the same.

When I was 14. And pathetically sad from all sorts of problems and maladjustments. I got better, though I had to learn some things the hard way and that brought me immense suffering and involved me hurting someone I insisted I cared deeply about.

Dick helicopters are hilarious though and I would vote for a president who made dick helicopters in the locker room.
Economists, in general, tend to have a suffer a bit from "nothing ever happens" syndrome; Trump campaigns on the basis that he will do utterly crazy things, and the economists largely sit back and go "hahah, yeah, sure you will". And in fairness, _usually_ they're right; politicians who campaign on doing crazy things _rarely_ do so once elected. Rarely, but not never.

You can see this very clearly with Liz Truss; despite both her and Kwarteng being well-known to favour bonkers-economics, her _election_ was kind of greeted with a shrug. It was only after she actually produced her pseudo-budget that people suddenly went "wait, wtf, she's actually doing it?!" and chaos broke out.

Unfortunately, the US may find it significantly more difficult to de-Trump itself than the UK did to eject Truss.
He might be seen as presumptuous for already having a pope name and get sunk in the Vatican politics.
> Much later

I wonder if the new technical lead and boss still work there, at that much later time?
Except for "quantum supremacy", which is the best name in the entire multiverse.
PicoChat for iMessage
EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
Using x11 :) the concept is nice, and could help isolate much more elegant than qubes for example.

But the protocol sucks I’ve heard
> It's just the naturalistic fallacy. Wolves still exist.

No one here made the argument that because dogs exist, other species don't (or some other similar loss happened). At least, that's what you seem to be pushing back on.

In my OP, I made this observation about dogs. Much of the Family's independence and self-determination has been replaced with subservience to us.

I also shared how I personally felt about that. I hopefully did all that in a way that preserved desires to make dogs happy.

That's pretty much it - except for a sidebar about pets in general.
Or he never returned to the hotel, just like Irving?
This journalist didn't: "I’m a dues paying member and I didn’t receive it, and it’s highly possible that others deleted the email without opening it."

OSI’s Continually Changing Election Story
https://fossforce.com/2025/02/osis-changing-election-story/

It wouldn't matter anyway as they announced the deadline as 17 February, which would mean midnight local time by default (and should mean midnight AoE, especially for an organisations purporting to be concerned with openness).
I'm curious about this as well so I took a look at the publisher's site and found some info: https://rawfury.com/talk/ under "Game Pitches". Would still like to hear from OP on any specifics though.
If you're going that route, you may as well just do HTTPS again. If you configure your TLS cookies and session resumption right, you'll get all of the advantages of fancy post-quantum crypto without having to go back to the days of manually setting up encrypted tunnels like when IPSec did the rounds.
What we are discussing is:

from __future__ import service_tariffs
A treasure hunt? On Oak Island? Could it be...?
Not sure where you’re from, but here in the US, the wealthy elites love immigration and inefficient governments. Easily exploited workers and a weak government incapable of helping them is a billionaire’s dream. It’s uncanny how similar the past decade has been to the start of the Gilded Age.
There is a right and a wrong way.

First, you have to be right. Saying "we suck at that" if we are good or even just so-so is counterproductive.

Second, you need a foundation of trust. People listen to negative feedback most when delivered with shared interests.

Third, it has to be delivered to the right audience in the right forum. People who are unable to act on it should not be included.

Fourth, it needs to be oriented in a positive direction. It can be negative. But the goal is improvement, not degredation.

Fifth, it has to be clear. Clarity and specificity are effective.

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These things are nuanced, and without being in the situation, it's effectively impossible to judge what is done the right or the wrong way.
It's unusual in that it is being done. But tariffs are paid for by the importer to the customs agency that is handling the good at the port of entry. Customs doesn't handle services.

The BBC article you linked also points out that it is for goods.
for a second I thought they were talking about the author of https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa08/papers/stack_smas... but apparently that's aleph-one.
I think reverting to only talking to your small social circle instead of the public at large might be one of those chilling effects the OP mentioned
Gene Hackman is one of my favorite actors of all time. There’s very few that can match his gravitas - as the young people say, his “aura”.

One of the few that can is Denzel, of course…
I saw a wonderful demonstration of a supper simple interactive tomographic reconstruction (in a web page explaining what a CAT scan is). I cannot find it anywhere now. It produced pretty good results with the simple algorithm and was easily understood. It just drew stripes across the reconstruction image of the value of the average measurement of each row of the sample image and then rotated both images and did it again (maybe someone can explain it better).
Yeah, because SpaceX is so expert at creating air traffic control software.

/s

This looks like Musk is finding ways to leverage his position into huge amounts of new business for his companies. That is, it looks a lot like graft.
What you're speaking of is a need/usability-based design and extension where you design the solution with certain "safety valves" that let you scale it up when needed.

This is in contrast to the fad-driven design and over-engineering that I'm speaking of (here I simply used ES as an example) that is usually introduced because someone in power saw a blog post or 1h talk and it looked cool. And Kafka will be used because it is the most "scalable" and shiny solution, there is no pros-vs-cons analysis.
El Salvador Dispatch: The Origins of the Bitcoin Experiment
A quaternion is some amount of identity averaged with some amount of line reflection. You can visualize the line reflection as a pair of planar reflections at 90 degrees to each other. You can visualize the identity as a pair of planar reflections that are the same. Averaging the two of those will give you a pair of planar reflections that are some angle apart.

You're correct that you can construct a quaternion with the exponential map - but the most common way to make a quaternion is with a pair of vectors. Every game engine will have that function. GA will tell you how that function works - the vectors are planar reflections, you compose those to get a rotation by twice the angle, and you add (average with) the identity rotation to get a rotation by the precise angle.

> how to detach the two notions from each other

Can you say why would you want to do that? A plane always defines a planar reflection, a point always defines a point reflection, a line always defines a line reflection (assuming we're in euclidean space, which engineering is). To me this doesn't seem to be "happen to have" territory, this seems fundamental.
It should be really not that hard to price in local denominations. Netflix charges different subscription costs in different countries and they have their infra built on other cloud providers.

Cost of hardware is constant. And the generator, fuel, local electricity, wages etc. CAN be denominated in local currency if the datacenter is local. Obviously if you’re using a server in the US region while sitting in Nigeria, you have no other discourse than pay USD, but for other regions, you should be able to charge in local currencies.
Running my own keycloak or another ory hydra is a boring task. Locking SSO behind some arbitrary scale and raked up price takes sales away from you. It’s a matter of perspective.
you can give it any context you have, worst case in text form, and the llm will try to figure it out, call different endpoints etc. Recently someone mentioned to me the intern test by Hamel Husain: if avg college student can suceed with the given input (with a lot of trying and time), then llms should be able to do it too. So that's the bar we're aiming for.

No api at all is out of scope for now, there are other tools that are better suited for that.
Shared Platform for Open Source Initiative (OSI) Reform
Item 1: Repeal the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID)

Item 2: Adopt a process for formal review of previously approved licenses

Item 3: Remove “code of silence” from Board Member Agreement

Item 4: Directors should be allowed to use FOSS for Board activities
Most likely because it predates it, COM+ Runtime is on the genesis of .NET, originally designed with J++ in mind, and backwards compatibility.

For example,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2001...
Yes, I skimmed through that page and got no answer, perhaps because I don't know enough. Did you find answers there?
Accessing region-locked iOS features, such as EU app stores
I think of it as a marketing term to reduce social stigma, which was massive at the time because it used to be thought of as something for hysterics, invoking the imagery of men in white coats taking people off to the looney bin.

What’s disturbing and awful is the field of psychiatry has been so completely taken over by it - psychiatrists tend not to do much other than dispense pills and have patients fill out forms, like they are in a drug trial. They play whack a mole with peoples nervous systems and prescribe very wide acting meds.

Psychiatrists used to be interested in the whole mental health of people rather than stats and what drugs they’re on. They might actually talk about trauma, suggest other therapies.

There’s a big body of evidence that the trauma model has a lot of truth to it, as opposed to the “illness” model which presupposes a chemical cause, treating medication like some sort of split that you rarely ever take off. The trauma model has problems but its much more close to the underlying root causes.
That was an interesting history of the K-9 app. Personally I've always been a user of The Other FOSS Email App (FairEmail), but I keep a close eye on how Thunderbird for Android is developing and it's great to have (at least) two solid FOSS choices in this space. Kudos to this dev and hopefully the great work he has done is continued by the team there.
Ok, so I am curious, I’m not totally opposed to move fast and break things, but on a moving train?

This may be one of those projects I’m ok with a little over time and over budget.