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This is a cool idea I've never heard before. The universe we're in is the result of a cosmically massive star going supernova.

Seconding this.

Llama 30B 4-bit has amazing performance, comparable to GPT-3 quality for my search and novel generating use-cases, and fits on a single 3090. In tandem with 3rd party applications such as Llama Index and the Alpaca LoRa, GPT-3 (and potentially GPT-4) has already been democratized in my eyes.

I'm currently working on a game despite not being very familiar with Unity. When I have some feature I need explained, or running into some bug in the game, I'd usually use Google and find some forum post that hopefully has a similar problem to mine and go from there. With GPT, I can just tell it the problem and get an answer, without scouring through multiple posts or having to constantly readjust my query. Yes, the information it produces might be incorrect, but I think the (time needed to verify the solution provided) is less than the (time needed to produce a search query that gets the articles you want * time needed to read each article and see if it helps me).

Here's an example regarding grounded characters sticking to walls:

prompt: Thanks! I added walls and ground to my game, as well as detection so that if the player touches the ground, they will be in a grounded state. However, when the touch the vertical face of the ground/wall, they stick to it. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

response: It seems like the issue you're encountering is related to the physics and collision detection in your game. The player is likely detecting the wall as the ground, and it's causing the grounded state to be triggered when it shouldn't be. To fix this, you can modify your ground detection code to take the angle of the surface into account.

Here's a solution using the Physics.Raycast method:

Assuming you have a LayerMask called groundLayer for ground detection, make sure the ground and walls are assigned to the appropriate layers in the Unity Editor

[...further details on using angle detection on collision, as well as accurate sample code]

I can even ask it to give me the reference for the _Physics.Raycast_ method:

response: Certainly! Here's the official Unity documentation for Physics.Raycast:

[URL to official docs filtered out by HN]

Physics.Raycast - Unity Manual The Physics.Raycast method allows you to perform raycasts in your scene to detect collisions with 3D objects.

[...further information on how to use it, including an accurate code example pulled from the docs]

This just drastically reduces time-to-solution, especially when you consider you can lazily leave out information and still get a good response.

In short, I treat it as though each session is a fine-tuned search engine and get a lot of value from it, but it doesn't completely replace forums or Youtube videos, for one it can't argue with itself to provide conflicting but valid alternate solutions - I'd have to argue with it/ask it to produce those.

I'm not seeing how onlyfans equate to virtual AI girlfriends

The point of Minsky's action is to demonstrate to Sussman that Sussman's intent is essentially "if you can't see it, it's not there", but of course the room doesn't become empty when Minsky closes his eyes - the neural net won't lose preconceptions just because you randomly wired it, you just lose the ability to see and control what those preconceptions are.

Not sure if you're being purposefully ignorant or not so I'm not going to engage this discussion, but for anyone reading, this should be basic dietary knowledge

This is pseudoscience. As long as you consume a certain amount of calories and get your daily nutritions, you can eat whatever you want without getting obese. You can still become obese eating 3000 kcals of salad every day without exercising. Of course, healthy caloric intake will only ensure you don't become obese, you'll still be consuming way more fat/carbs than you should if you eat McDonalds, but it is certainly possible to create a "healthy" everyday-McDonalds diet (but you would be changing the meal to the point it won't be recognizable)

> This means valgrind cannot really detect memory issues as well since Odin has it’s own internal allocators. helgrind cannot work because Odin doesn’t use pthread primitives. ltrace cannot work because that just provides wrappers over every libc function, etc

Unfortunately, I've gone through too many bugs that had to be fixed through valgrind debugging that I'm unwilling to part with it

Good engineering. Midjourney likely has a lot going on under the hood before your prompt actually gets to Stable Diffusion. As an example you can check out this research paper [0] which seeks to add prompt chaining to GPT-3 so you can "correct" it's outputs before it reaches back to the user. There's also no rule that states you can only make one call to SD, MJ likely bounces around a picture through a pipeline they've tuned to ensure your generated image looks more reasonable.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01691

I think that's amazing on its own. Rather than having to do a leetcode hard on the fly, you can just ask for the solution. You'll still need to know the problem space in order to properly optimize it, but it can save a lot of time.

> I predict that a nonzero number of people will be harmed, embarrassed or at least inconvenienced by this. -haram_masala (2020)

Truth

Minor unrelated, but very happy with how quickly the webpage loaded and how it's just pure content (viewing from mobile)

We used to exploit these types of paths when school IT admins didn't know how to filter traffic properly but knew to block proxies.

The 'eternal struggle' is such an interesting concept and I've thought about it a lot. It really does seem like, while true happiness may not solely come from overcoming challenges, if those challenges aren't present you definitely won't be happy. I think this aligns better than the top post's idea of "smart people see the awful things that can't be changed", it's moreso that smart people aren't finding satisfying challenges in the first place. I remember when I went wild downloading ROMs for games when I found out that was thing; once I ended up with all the games I wanted to play, I lost most of my interest to play any of them.

My headcanon is that it's tied to the fact that our life spans are limited and we've evolved to derive the most satisfaction when we're working on a task that is difficult for us individually or has vague success criteria, which seems to match up in part with the article's takeaway. It's also how I reason that not only fucking things up, but also complaining about it and trying to fix it are all required for people to feel happy. I see this ethos in a lot of old religions as well - humans striving towards the same qualities as a godhead but never quite getting there no matter how awesome their abilities become, or how our 'perfect' state was when we were ignorant of the consequences of our actions.

One thing that immediately stood out to me is the mention of Developer Tools. Most laypersons don't even know it exists. I'm wondering if it's possible for Google to make the presentation of things like meta tags and descriptions more user-friendly? Like, a small banner or icon when your mouse is at the top of a page or even an icon in the address bar, when you click it, it shows you things like the meta and description

> Same thing with my TV and Router, both of which required an app to just setup

Off the top of my head, both Xfinity and Google Home have this problem and it aggravates me to no end. I can reset my gateway from my PC but for some reason, *need* to use my phone to manage Xfinity or any of my Nest routers

Solved in 1:39, very fun game and great implementation! I'm not much a fan of pipes games but have played similar concepts such as Infinite Energy on mobile. This is a good job for such a quickly developed project

>Load image in black and white ttf c++

>I'm not sure what you mean by "load image in black and white ttf c++", but I can give you an example of how to do it. First, you'll need to convert the image to grayscale. You can do this by using the cvtColor function. Then, you can apply a binary threshold to the grayscale image. For example, if you have a color image with a value of 255 and a black value of 0, then you can do something like this: __

First impressions - really impressive! I did have to add "c++" to get any meaningful results though.

> But I imagine Rails is being increasingly dismissed by newbie developers as being obsolete and not-cool. Mature companies may realize it's in their best interest to communicate that their boring-tech works just fine and that they have no plan on changing to cool-tech

I dont think that's the case. I think Ruby is dismissed because it's not a boring language, but has none of the safety of the other "shinier" languages.

Felt the opposite, he really exuded that cold-and-carefree-but-wise archetype I'd expect from a mid-2000s cocky hedge fund manager who got themselves into that position in the first place.

Again, you could make the same argument about brainwashing and it would fall equally flat. But, as I mentioned in other replies, you do you.

>which was invented in the late 1970s specifically in reference to the Dirty War in Argentina.

It was not invented, that was the first time the euphemism was correlated. Having knowledge of the history of "to be disappeared" and having knowledge of what "being disappeared" brings to mind, are two very different things.

What is your point? My point is that if, at some point in the last 40 years, the phrase "being disappeared" became synonymous with the Dirty War in Argentina, most Americans did not get that memo. Whether or not I myself was ignorant of the connection is a moot point, the post I replied to claimed that the article's author should have been aware of the connection - to which I say, if that's the hill you choose to die on, be my guest, but I can assuredly say I'm not alone neither is the article's OP in being ignorant of such a connection.

"there is no question they would be familiar with what that term specifically refers to - the dirty war in Argentina"

The only way you could justify a statement like this is by ignoring at least two events that both hit closer to home to Americans - the kidnappings done by the Gestapo in the 30s and the Mafia in the 20s. I stand by my statement that the Dirty War in Argentina is not something that comes to mind for most Westerners when someone uses the phrasing of being "disappeared"

Why be so disingenious about this? Being "disappeared", at least in Western society, conjures the image of being quietly whisked away from society in an unmarked van for expressing views that a powerful body does not like. That is the article's OP felt happened - they were removed quietly from a platform because their views went against theirs.

Now, you add in things like torture and detainment. I mean, whatever. Feel free to die on this hill. My post's point is that the vast majority of society does not think of the Dirty War, or any sort of violence, when they hear the phrase "I was disappeared".

I know what "being disappeared" has meant historically, and I don't see why the same phrase would be problematic here. Again, I see this the same way as complaining about the term brainwashing being used in contexts that don't involve intelligence agencies

But brainwashing doesn't? I really don't see the issue here. "Carted off", "Political assassination", there hundreds, if not thousands, of phrases that are used that have innocuous meanings far beyond any singular event and are used regularly by people of all backgrounds in many contexts. And I don't see why the usage being applied to video hosting somehow detracts from a completely unrelated event

I personally have never heard of this and I doubt this event is constantly in the mind of the public zeitgeist of the article's OP. Such a general phrase as "to be disappeared" is not monopolized for any harrowing event - it's on par with saying you were "brainwashed" despite the CIA nor other intelligence groups being involved.

>Honestly I see a lot of people critiquing left wing ideas using these really vague descriptors and I don't get why. If somebody has an issue to raise they should raise it explicitly so we can discuss it! Political discussion helps us all to learn.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this: I did explain further the context of obsessive generalization, but I'm not sure how, given you yourself say you're well read on leftist literature, you can't correlate how extreme egalitarianism requires doing away with individual characterization.

>The leftist ideal is actually that all people are free to pursue their passions and creativity

Wouldn't that imply that leftism cannot exist without allowing fascism to also exist? I don't see how you can juggle this with the view that leftism's goal is to reduce oppression, given that the definition you've provided here necessitates that opression must be possible for leftism to achieve its goals. In my mind, assuming I'm reading into this correctly, is that you've created your own "chicken vs the egg" paradox

On intersectionality: I'm not insinuating that intersectionalists are creating the categories, only that they need, and heavily leverage those categories in order to achieve the goals of intersectionality. I don't think you're disagreeing with me on this.

On obsessive generalization: You are approaching it from a purely economic perspective. I think it's disingenous to ignore the social goals of leftist theory, which are firmly rooted in removing the class concept entirely - obsessive generalization.