oracel
23d ago
I watched ~10 minutes from the middle of the first video and this looks super fake. There's no way a small/fast model could seamlessly navigate a 3d space using wasd+mouse (which is extremely complicated compared to the controls available to a self driving car), and then it goes and does things like jumping over a wall that was visually obstructed without pausing for a second. It also switches between using shift and right click to dash, which makes absolutely no sense for an agent to do.
oracel
24d ago
The term "pogchamp" is culture war-loaded itself but not in a way that seems relevant here.
oracel
1mo ago
oracel
1mo ago
Not sure you realize how late sunrises are in the western edge of the Eastern time zone. It would be ~9AM in nearly all of Michigan, nearly all of Indiana, large parts of Ohio/Kentucky and western PA (Pittsburgh would get to 8:40 at worst). Even Atlanta would be after 8:30 for a few weeks in December.
oracel
1mo ago
Maybe he's referring to the many proposals for permanent DST (which would have winter sunrises around 9AM in a lot of America).
oracel
1mo ago
This is possibly worth its own top level post at some point but AdGuard is currently fighting what looks like state actor attempts to censor archive.is (it's not clear which state if any is actually responsible, but they at least claim to represent French regulators). AdGuard responded pretty well in this case but the general method of spamming CSAM reports to censorship-friendly regulators scales much better than most private internet infrastructure middlemen can handle.
oracel
1mo ago
Have you tried setting your phone display to grayscale (either in the morning only or even all day)? I've been doing that for a few weeks and anecdotally it helps prevent absent minded screen checking.
oracel
2mo ago
It's pretty easy to lock yourself out of half the side content in Act 2, which is where and why I quit my first playthrough of the game. The main things to know are that you should probably go around talking to everyone in that zone before picking optional fights and that the Tiefling refugees you already met in Act 1 are the main set of recurrent quest relevant NPCs (there's an achievement for having every single one of them survive the whole game but you don't need to go that far).
oracel
2mo ago
As someone that has played them all (other than 1 and 2, which were made obsolete by their remakes), 3H is probably the Fire Emblem I'd be least likely to every try to play again, and I only finished 2 routes. The guiding principle of modern FE is that every single playable character is potentially the self-insert's husband/wife, and it severely handicaps what they can do in both story and gameplay. The majority of the cast were prevented from having any meaningful role in the second half of the plot, and the ability to always recruit the best characters from each house couldn't have helped the balance design. 3H tried really hard to get the Persona audience when the SMT spinoff they should have emulated was Devil Survivor, where playable characters will happily tell you to fuck off if you choose a route they wouldn't agree with.
oracel
4mo ago
I haven't regularly checked this site in months but my impression as a lurker was that every Turok toppost was some variant of "I found this comment somewhere on the internet: the person who made it is a moron and if you would argue otherwise in the replies you prove that you are less smart than me." Apparently when he was told that unsourced twitter posts from anonymous users were not the kind of thing you make a top level post about, he took the wrong lesson and started doing it with comments from this forum.
oracel
10mo ago
The rdrama 'ops' campaigns did not only target the likes of LOTT, they went after a decent variety of news outlets and were just cagey and evasive enough when their sources were questioned that most of the targets figured out something was up. Those people are information terrorists, and much like other terrorists that came before them, they had to learn that the best use of their effort is go after soft and easy civilian targets.
oracel
10mo ago
I was hoping it was a test of some "the nueralink in me greets the nueralink in you" communication protocol, but skimming the latest blog post I think it's just controlling a tablet/pc using the nueralink as a bluetooth(?) device
oracel
10mo ago
I think LLM output is sometimes useful but should never be put directly in posts on this site, it has to be linked either from the platform itself when possible or dumped on pastebin etc. As far as topics of discussion go, any of 'LLM says X'/'LLM won't say Y'/'I asked an LLM to summarize Z' are not meaningful events to discuss and should never be top level threads or even the majority substance of a reply.
oracel
11mo ago
oracel
11mo ago
Single player strategy games (of a pretty wide variety from 4X stuff all the way to strategy rpgs like Fire Emblem) are not quite as popular as chess or mobas but still very popular.
One of the major goals of the March for Life is to create a positive and accurate image of an activist movement that is strawmanned as misogynist white males while actually being extremely female and pretty racially diverse (especially among the Catholic contingent). The presence of large groups of rich private school kids like the unfortunate Covington Catholic group doesn't exactly help, but their inclusion is understandable and forgiveable if not tactically ideal. The same can't be said for the PF, whose image and history have no sympathetic overlap with the pro life movement.
Even though they are probably not literal feds, their presence is unwelcome because it's doing the feds' job by tying the most (and arguably only) successful grassroots right wing activist movement to the failures of various scary nazi larpers. The online right's tendency to accuse any and all vibe harshers of glowing in the dark is probably net beneficial, at least for now.
As others have mentioned their primary business if having third worlders label training data while talking big about pushing the frontier of AI. However they are also more than happy to exploit CS undergrads (who accept 'internships' to do what I assume amounts to little more than quality checking the third worlders) and PhDs across the world during the recent involvement in the "Humanity's Last Exam" AI eval set (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807803).
We were hiring for a few positions recently and were surprised by the number of extremely low quality candidates that had Scale on their resume (either from the mentioned internships or people caught by their recent layoff), to the point where we started instantly binning them.
I don't have strong reasons to either believe or doubt DeepSeek. On the other hand I do not remotely trust the CEO of Scale AI, a company whose entire business model is empty hype and labor theft. Speaking as an engineer at an early AI startup, there is nobody in this startup bubble cycle who has benefited more from the 'Actually Indians' kind of AI than Wang.
oracel
11mo ago
Don't think there's any real test measurement but anecdotally West Africans seem unsually good at language acquisition. Obviously a cultural component as well, but the widespread beliefs about the difficulty of adult language acquisition don't seem to apply to the Nigerian touts at shady Japanese nightclubs who are capable of pestering potential customers in Chinese/Japanese/Korean as well as every major western language.
oracel
11mo ago
Seconding this, I know over a dozen black nerds and other than one who was my roommate during an internship, I met them all through fighting games (many more nerdy and niche than SF/Tekken)
oracel
11mo ago
"Describe how you would implement a Twitter clone" is a fairly standard and easy interview question a senior software engineer should be able to answer to a reasaonable amount of detail. (The same question about Ticketmaster is significantly harder which would surprise most people outside the industry.)
oracel
11mo ago
Beej's guide is fairly concise but still covers all the important technical details. The sections about network programming in python can be skipped or skimmed through without missing much.
The FB pixel localhost sidechannel exfiltration got caught within a year or so, but the researchers that found it realized that Yandex had been using a similar technique for 7 years without getting caught.
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