skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, the way you seem to think a game is entirely pre-programmed and moves independently of your interaction with it makes me wonder if you've played any games at all.

You are either misunderstanding or misrepresenting what I said, in either case you are wrong.

> You shouldn't claim to know anything about games if you have never willingly replayed a level of one after completing it. Or even replayed a level full stop, as the better analogy here is one where you fail to fully grasp a passage on the first try just as one might fail to complete a level on the first try

Of course I did, and that's why I'm stating with absolute certainty that this isn't at all close to my relationship and experience with books.

> Which game were you thinking of when you wrote this post? Everything you mentioned has very obvious analogues in gaming.

I'm thinking of games with any kind of history/lore ranging from titles I'd consider more similar to books such as "Day of the Tentacle", "Full Throttle", to the modern incantations like "Last Of Us", passing through adventure/action games like "Castlevania", "Metroid", "Ultima" series, "Elder Scrolls" series, "Final Fantasy" series (played only VII, VIII, Tactics but they all follow the FF formula), "Legend of Zelda" (played all the SNES/N64 and the Switch ones), and also modern incantations like "Dark Souls", "Metal Gear Solid" (played 1 and 2), so on and so forth, just a brief list of what I'd like to mention to shutdown the argument that I don't know what I'm talking about.

None of these games were ever the same experience as a book, they are their own media, with its own strengths but never, ever really like my experience with books.
Satoshi also claimed (in an email to Mike Hearn) that Bitcoin can beat VISA with higher transaction volume and lower processing fees. Has Monero achieved this goal as well?
That's where French law actually makes sense: after 5 years, it's your kid, even if not biologically, not a random kid. I don't think I would be chuffed, but I understand it's not the kid's fault, too, and I'm not so narcissistic as to think that them having my genes is so important. My anger at the mother should not reflect on the kid.
I think it’s a fair point the author is making. There is no ethical production or consumption under capitalism. I’m not saying (and I don’t think the author is either) that Amazon or Bezos are the victims here… more so I think the author was just framing their discontent with Amazon not around the ethics of it (which is an easy cop out, I guess) but from a more practical standpoint.

Also I do agree with the author here. The system/machine is built to incentivize operations like Amazon to thrive. If Amazon wasn’t around doing what they do (displacing small businesses, being a horrible employer, delivering cheap made in china junk in one day, forcing small sellers to adhere to their strict pricing schemes, etc) there would be another company doing that. Just the reality of things from my perspective
my recommendation is to train a custom model
Its crazy how they put it in everything. The EPA and the FDA should work together to ban it, but good luck approving that with our current administration.
I've always gotten the 'ick' from XML/json etc. This is like my personal anti-nausea pill.
In Safari, tabs get small up to a point, then they are scrollable. Sure, there are duplicates but it's usually the homepage of HN or Twitter. I close those when encountered.

It looks like this: https://a.dropoverapp.com/cloud/download/5cda0c76-9398-475a-...
I'm quite excited by the prospect of jank so us Clojurists can get in on some of the ML fun with the torch C++ bindings.
Monero is the last refuge of freedom in the monetary system. Its a beautiful replacement for cash, a true work of art
Well Trump just pardoned Ross Ulbricht who sold unapproved injectable drugs, so you can at least get away with shipping them into the United States, as long as you're not Mexican or Canadian.
I assure you that Baldur's Gate 3 is more thought provoking than Green Eggs & Ham.
China just announced even more powerful Quantum Computer. Why BTC isn't 10k yet is beyond me. Markets must be retarded.
A Single-File MCP Server, in TypeScript
Remember to get a license for your code

https://regexlicensing.org/
It's clearly labeled as the output of Sonnet 3.7, not truth. We all need to apply our own critical analysis of anything we read, whether it's claimed to be from an LLM or from Wikipedia. The possibility of inaccuracy isn't a reason to withhold comment.
> Ukraine is fighting on behalf of all the free world.

Fixed that for you.
Ukraine has a significant legacy in other areas too. The Yuzhmash factory in Dnipro used to manufacture some of the best Soviet nuclear missiles, but that alone does not mean that Ukraine still has a nuclear weapons program. Instead, they are now a subcontractor for commercial space rockets. Their parts have been used by SpaceX and others.

Most of the USSR's legacy was completely dismantled across the former Soviet Union. People were fired, facilities were closed and demolished, and machinery was sold for scrap metal, because everything was ridiculously outdated and couldn't compete on the global market. Places like Yuzhmash that survived by successfully pivoting to something commercially viable are a fairly rare exception. In farming equipment, for example, the USSR was so far behind that almost nothing survived, and Ukrainian farmers nowadays use John Deers and New Hollands and Claases and Deutz-Fahrs.

So, there's nothing surprising about the dismantling of the Soviet bioweapons program. It was a tiny and insignificant part of the far greater disruptions that the country went through. That's why the US got involved at all - to ensure an organized shutdown, because the domestic authorities were busy with massive poverty, crime and other far more pressing issues.
That sounds awful. But there's no reason why Discord can't go the same route.

Some chat apps like Zulip have the option to open a channel to the web. It can even be indexed by search engine bots
Workarounds don’t exist? Haven’t heard of ad blockers? Which, by the way, are completely legal.
>The issue here is that schema validation is expressed in Python. The author contradicts himself when he argues, on the one hand, that Python shouldn't be used for configuration because it's too powerful: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why-not/turing-complete-code... and on the other hand, that Python is really powerful for building schemas: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why-not/json-schema/ .

Disclosure: I'm the author.

The difference is because full validation/parsing is a task that can rarely be always fully accomplished with JUST a non-turing complete schema. Every time I use JSON schema I have to add additional validation on top written in turing complete code.

This happened to me literally just an hour ago when I wanted to put a DSL in a field in a config file. json-schema (the "config" schema) doesn't let me write code to validate this and reject it. It's a string or it's not. With StrictYAML schemas written in code it's pretty straightforward to create a parser/validator that rejects invalid DSL with a meaningful error.

You might argue that "these rules bolted on top aren't part of the schema" or "this is validation that you can do after the json schema validates" but there is benefit to combining them - namely, code coherence and validation error consistency.

(there are also down sides - namely that json schema can be used in multiple languages. strictness comes at the expense of reusability).

In practice almost every schema I build I want to have stricter validation rules that are not enforceable with something like json-schema alone.

These are both instances of the law of least power. There are plenty of languages which are too powerful for the task at hand and plenty which are not powerful enough and people hack around and even rage against both. There are other "goldilocks" languages that are just right for the task at hand.
for a limited time.
The rationale is that apparently due to rampant adultery a lot more fathers than previously thought are raising another man's kids without knowing it (apparently about 10% last time I read about it, also on HN) and since raising kids to adulthood is very expensive and so if the men could easily find out their kids are not their own, then the man can legally opt-out of that financial responsibility then the French state/taxpayer has to pick up the tab for the mother's adultery.

So if you make it nearly impossible for men to ever find out, they'll be legally bound to pay for the upbringing of whoever their partner gives birth to, reducing the financial liability of the state.

But the official reason from the state is something along the lines of "we don't want to put kids/families through unnecessary stress". Basically men have to be cash cows regardless.
> This is one of those false voyeur OS internet tennets designed to get people to publish their stuff.

No it isn’t, it’s a push to get people to login protect whatever they want to keep to themselves.

It’s silly to say informing people that security through obscurity is a weak concept is trying to convince them to publish their stuff.
They already have credits based pricing and that is their API. If somebody wants it, they can use that. Why would you want to burden your other users with tracking credits?
ICANN zone files - https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/czds-2014-03-03-en
Bel in Clojure (2022)
Broadband Program Killed by Trumplicans Saved Taxpayers More Money Than It Cost
Yeah, because apple is totally reliable for sleeping when it is supposed to. I love my macbook, but I have dealt with over a decade of macbooks waking when they should not. Love it when my macbook cooks itself in my bag overnight.
Peter Thiel's Deep Ties to Trump's Top Ranks
Was Snow Leopard 10.6 the greatest OS X release? (2022)
AI is going to hack Jira
Use Zoneminder et al instead?
Good question. The regex I tried is for extracting amounts in EUR and USD:

/
(?<=^|[ \t])
(?<currency_prefix_with_space>
(?<currency_prefix>
€|EUR|\$|USD
)
[ \t]?
)?
(?<number>
(?<integral>
-?
\d{1,3}
(?:[\.,]\d{3}|\d*)
)
[\.,]
(?<fraction>
\d{2,3}
)
)
(?<currency_postfix_with_space>
[ \t]?
(?<postfix_or_ending>
(?<currency_postfix>
€|EUR|\$|USD
)
) | (?<ending>
[ \t]|$|\n
)
)/x
Brave should try an implementation as it fits their paradigm.
At the end of the paper they mention "two problems from the 2025 MIT Integration Bee qualifying exam which the system continued to answere incorrectly".

They say the questions were among the most complex questions on the exam, but the first one is just

∫ ∛(x · ∜(x · ∜(x · √(x · √(x · ⋯ ))))) dx

which just requires you to compute

1/3 + 1/(3*4) + 1/(3*4*5) + ...

So hardly very advanced math.
And I think that speaks volumes to how far gone you are.
What’s the difference between this and what Wolfram Alpha has been doing?

https://www.wolfram.com/artificial-intelligence/
The job market may be tougher than it looks on paper
I worked tech support at an ISP. Occasionally customers would call in from their brand new subdivision to complain about our crummy service. “This house is brand new and we only get 26.4. What’s wrong with your system?”

And then I had the satisfaction of explaining that Ma Bell cheaper out and used pair gains to build out their block cheaply. Sorry, call them to complain, or move.
Reminds me of Apple’s pricing scheme
I haven't seen any Zionist visas revoked for supporting genocide.
Have you checked out what qualifies for 'organic' according to laws. The laws aren't a good standard.
This is absolutely NSFW...
It's worth remembering that canceling Prime is not the same as abandoning Amazon altogether. You still have the option to turn to Amazon for hard-to-find-elsewhere items, you just have to pay for shipping, or exceed the free-shipping threshold. As far as I can tell, Prime Video is the primary element that is difficult to separate.
Yes, I'm sure of it.
> just going through a peculiar period of his life

Of all the remarks made by Elron apologists, this one takes the cake!
This conclusion reframed my views of certain politicians, popularly assumed to be blithering idiots.

You don’t get there by being incompetent, you get there by being amazing at manipulation, cunning and whatever the positive coded synonyms of those words are.

Butchering common phrases on live TV, or spouting verifiable falsehoods are all part of the game. I feel stupid myself for not playing it as well.
Agreed. We bought my wife an NC last year when the criteria was “cheap, petrol, naturally aspirated and Japanese”. The criteria was in response to my Land Rover (Discovery / LR4) which is none of those things and becoming a bore.

After stealing the MX-5 whenever I get the chance I now wish we could run two. That would make family trips troublesome though…
It is progress, not success.
Those copper wires ran from your house to the local central office, the "last mile" of the connection. (which was sometimes 2-3 miles long)

A quick read of the linked article seems to indicate that it's BS, as it doesn't account for the real topology of the local loop. In particular, in older neighborhoods you had a bundle of pairs going down the street, and a new connection was made by patching in to a free pair, creating a "T" shaped circuit. When a house was disconnected, part of this "stub" might have been left attached; over time a single pair might accumulate multiple disconnected stubs. The capacity of that copper circuit is far lower than a straight run.

In addition in many cases corrosion and water cause noise, further reducing bandwidth - I can remember having noise so bad on rainy days that I had to call and get them to fix it. (I assume they patched us onto a free pair and abandoned the noisy one)

Of course none of this is related to the end-to-end bandwidth of the old telephone system. Starting in the 50s a longer-distance phone call would get a single-side-band channel on a microwave link, with about 3KHz allocated. Later on calls got sampled at 8KHz with 8-bit mu-law (logarithmic) encoding, or A-law in Europe, and transmitted digitally.
Here is some "Russian misinformation" for you. Please watch it and come back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU
what about YouTube mobile app?
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4chan has more valuable information than Reddit. Reddit has a lot of echo chambers with useless information
Not sure what this adds, I believe your grandma over any LLM
But “official” is defined in descriptive dictionaries to include descriptive dictionaries.
Yet that's exactly what Zionists did to Palestine.
Funnily? enough I've been dealing with a local (non-tech) business recently for some purchases and it's been basically a case of if $X isn't in, "Nope, we can't help you." Even for basic--can you show me some options in your showroom? That would be a big come back later. You'd think selling stuff would be a higher priority.
Nvidia and music yes, but not arch, because it is notorious for being very "DIY". I would have to do a lot more work if I used Arch, I agree
Great point! Edge cases really are the bane of getting robotics deployed & profitable. Reflections caused us issues just as you describe :) ― we build & sold these robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trrwJnDXX1k now operating daily in Singapore.

Still, even if we put aside edge cases, we believe we can save companies 1-2 years of development on the concept level. What do I mean?

I see robotics development as mostly consecutive phases: ideate approach, develop physical POC, make it profitable. Failing at any point can send you to the start of the previous phase, or even to the complete beginning.

We've spoken to multiple companies and think people spend too little time on the ideation and pay the price after developing the first POC ― or worse ― when unable to make it profitable.

Currently, our aim is to help improve the ideation phase, before you settle on the specific approach. For example, Canvas, Conbotics and Nova Spray Tec. all do wall painting with plans to go further to all of wall finishing. Yet each of them has chosen a completely different mechanism of moving the end effector in 3D space. Canvas went mostly with off-the-shelf lifting platform + robotic arm. Conbotics combined 2 linear actuators with a rotary joint. Nova Spray went for an even simpler system with only a linear actuator and tilting sprayers.

Each approach has concept-level trade-offs on the types of rooms they can geometrically cover, the component price-range and performance metrics like area covered per hour. From these you can calculate rough ROI. The differences between the approaches on this conceptual level are greater than differences due to edge cases, as they make 2-100x difference in the profitability.

We had in-depth discussions with tens of robotics companies, both startups and corporate, and heard again and again how companies pick an approach A just to discover 1-3 years later they are 10x off from it being usable. That's what we're currently addressing. In our experience, all edge-cases are addressable either with more engineering, or small changes to the product application. But if the approach itself is wrong, you have to redesign the robot and throw away most of your solved edge-cases, just to get new ones :/

Back to solving edge cases: in the future, we expect to handle even the phases of developing physical POC and making it profitable. The line of research from ETH Zurich, where applying random forces, noise to sensors or turning sensors off altogether led to zero-shot sim2real transfer. Even better, it worked beyond 2 min demo, but for an hour long hike in reality nothing like the simulation: high grass blocking lidar, walking in sand, rocks breaking below the feet. This seems to me like a promising approach to handle edge-cases in simulation without directly modelling them. Do you have any thoughts on this line of research?
> In practice you can't combine no_std and std within a single project anyway

This is not in any way the problem.

The reason for having std be the feature instead of having no_std be the feature is because if a dependency unsets the default features because it does not rely on the std feature and then someone else still does rely on the std feature then everything will still work properly.

If no_std is the feature then if a dependency sets the no_std feature because it does not rely on the std features and then someone else does not set no_std because they do rely on the std features then there will be problems because there won't be any ability for the someone else to unset the no_std feature that was specified by the first dependency.
End-to-End Testing with TestCafe for Node.js
Green Silk Rooms.
Well, I should clarify... today that's done on-prem. Of course if you had a secure network and host, LLM interaction could certainly be done in the cloud.

There are also other reasons to host LLM's locally. That is systems that leverage contextual reasoning power of LLMs, but are unable to readily access the internet. A planetary rover (e.g. Mars), for example.
They'll answer for nothing, they'll blame globalists for the terrorists and renegade fauci labs for any virus.
It is now listed as a Lisp at r/lisp, courtesy of your truly ;)
Compress first half (even recursively) is a nice idea, but you'd have to sort it by importance first – ie. you don't know if the most important sentence didn't exist at the beginning (ie. the whole goal could have been stated at the beginning, you don't want to loose it – you want memory to fade in terms of importance instead).
As far as I know, muscle is only used when fat reserves are depleted or you don't eat enough protein for the brain's personal amino acid supply. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about this, though, maybe an expert can weigh in.
This sentiment seems sort of sad. The medium is the message. If the medium is small, the message will be small. It may be succinct and you may think you "get it", but without evidence, examples, and context, they won't stick. It's like a good tweet: repeatable and rolls of the tongue, but easily refutable and without context. I cannot imagine compressing all of the ideas in a book like "Antifragile" or "Godel, Escher, Bach" in 10 pages. It would be so short as to be meaningless, the ideas are too big.

Same for fiction. I don't want 10 pages of world building. I want immersion. "The Sun Also Rises" would be miserable at 10 pages. Nobody is trying to communicate an idea in this case, they're communicating an aesthetic, a "vibe" or a mood. 10 pages of that and on to the next thing? Sure, if that's your medium, but the medium is the message, and the book is a unique medium for communicating big ideas, immersive worlds, and extensive moods and aesthetics. I sure hope the medium for those things isn't out of date or the world will seem a little shallow.
Satoshi claimed a lot. For the purpose of the title the Promise was peer-to-peer permissionless transactions, with a weakness:

> public ledger cryptocurrencies have most of the characteristics of cash except one thing: Untraceability

The author argues Monero fills a missing case:

> untraceable cryptocurrency while keeping all of cash’s characteristics
There was a time when 300 and 1200 baud modems cost about $1/baud.
So many thoughts on that, but from my perspective - obscurity is ok, but you can not depend on it at all.

Great example is port knocking - it hides your open port from random nmap, but would you leave it as the only mechanism preventing people getting to your server? No. So does it make sense to have it? Well maybe, it's a layer.

Kerckhoffs' principle comes to my mind as well here.

So while I agree with you on that's obscurity is fine strategy, you can never depend on it ever.
A human being is not a car, and your reference to 'emasculation' is very worrying.
making things obscure and hard to find is indeed a sound choice, as long as its not the single measure taken. i think people tout this sentence because its popular to say it, without thinking further.

you dont put an unauthenticated thing in a difficult to find subdomain and call it secure. but your nicely secured page is more secure if its also very tedious to find. its a less low hanging fruit.

as you state also there is always a leak needed. but dns system is quite leaky. and often sources wont fix or wont admit its even broken by their design.

strong passwords are also insecure if they leak, so you obscure them from prying eyes, securing it by obscurity.