skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've seen the technology can fuse together a remarkable range of outputs, but all of them are essentially fused together from within the training set. If there were enough examples of AI opponents, it conceivably could do it since most game AIs are some form of state machine combined with a degree of statistical analysis and pathfinding (for mobile AI actors). It would "just" be replicating existing patterns.

As I understand it, it would take a dramatic leap from this kind of interpolation to being able to extrapolate and "self improve". So far I haven't seen anything that convinces me we're close to this, but again I'm not close to the wheel on the research side of things.
The only issue I see that it can be quite addictive without proper moderation.

From tech perspective I think that it brings something new to social media world and that creates some movement in industry. Look at YouTube “Shorts”.
I feel this must have been sarcasm, probably related to how sending plastic to a recycling facility was just as likely to end up in the ocean thanks to China buying it off of recycling dealers (for ballast IIRC, can't send all those cargo ships back empty)
TikTok has already been found to be censoring content that criticises the Chinese government [1]. Theres a big difference between that and a nonpolitical public research project that ended up with a minuscule effect size.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
On an abstract level, that sounds terrible, doesn't it?

At the same time though, I feel like this seems like the "least bad" possible solution. If a subset of accounts are only going viral because people want to bully them, it seems reasonable to limit that content's reach.
Something more toxic than reddit? I have only seen it in sites that start as "free-speech reddit clones". Outside those I find it hard to believe anything can be more toxic than Reddit. Unless you digg really deep into niche subs even Facebook is better.
"Hey! Sticklyman! WHAAAAT are you doing?"

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/under-construction

Oh my gosh, some of them are headers from old-school (1.0.x) JavaDocs...
>The problem: everything looks 'critical' to folks with a greedy and selfish streak who rise high in management and have their pay tied to the quarterly stock price. That's how we ended up with 24/7 support and "five nines" availability.

I think it was because customers preferred to patronize banks and stores that were open longer hours, and so they won business by selling something customers wanted. Similarly, I thought customers liked 24/7 support and five nines availability (especially for internet and electricity).

If labor prices go up, then maybe those perks will be scaled back because customers will not be able to afford them. I already see fast food restaurants around me no longer open before 11AM and after 7PM.
> I'd like to exclude photos, since they are already on my computer and I don't want needless duplicates of them. Same with e.g. downloaded podcast episodes.

The biggest iPhone is 256 GB. Hard drive space is cheap. Very cheap. So cheap that I would rather backup programs stopped trying to be so clever to save me space. Or allowing me to be that clever.
Sorry for the confusion; the parent comment was different when I replied to it.

It initially started with a quote like:

>as a big fan of Harry Potter

So I was under the impression they may've believed the post was talking about the regular Harry Potter series and recommending something based on Harry Potter rather than HPMOR.
This idea could scale if you also had a network of people on the lookout for stolen stuff. E g an app on their phone that constantly scans for wifi networks matching your STOLEN pattern (not sure if actually possible on Android/apple).

The searchers could get a bounty of they helped find a stolen object.

Their app could also connect to the device (using a single well known password) and could switch it into fast mode where it transmits constantly instead of once/day. Making it even easier for someone else in the network to find it.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Now I can’t help but wonder if this was all for show.
It would be nice to have something like this with a several hour window. I currently suffer from the dawn phenomenon, and my blood sugar spikes by 100+ most mornings (starting anywhere between 5am and 7am). It's super frustrating to have to get up every day at 630-7am to check my blood sugar and, if necessary (most days), take some insulin.
I think the above is only possible if they're getting vegetables with sauce in the bag. There is some salt in the vegetables themselves, of course, but it hasn't been added.
> What sort of manipulative amplification/suppression, specifically? Maybe a skinner box outrage machine that turns us into hostile tribes sniping over cultural crap while completely unable to govern ourselves as they surpass us?

Amplifying pre-existing fault lines to encourage general weakness is certainly one that's been well explored. Another might be amplifying political or ideological that serve the foreign power's goals (e.g. general pacifism when that power is planning some kind of aggression or military build up, or electioneering messages for a candidate with a more favorable trade policy to that power).

No one could deliver particular results with certainty using any of these methods, but they could definitely put their finger on the scales.
> That "No no no" song that is on every other video

Oh, every generation of internet users has made repetitive memes like this; we just have more bandwidth now.
I think the quicklook is available in gnome. I'm not sure how it compares to the osx one because I don't use anything apple, but selecting a file and pressing space in nautilus behaves as I expect quicklook to work. A preview of the file is shown. It doesn't work for all file types but the common ones (images, documents, videos, text files etc.) are shown.

I'm on GNOME 3.38.4 on Debian sid.
That's the crux of it. There are a few edge cases, but quality of life across the whole spectrum of wealth is worlds ahead almost everywhere else. Things aren't perfect, but they are pretty damn good compared to almost anywhere else. People get too hung up on first world problems to appreciate what they've got.
First things first: congratulations on your success! You seem to have single-handedly lit a fire under the Rust gamedev ecosystem :)

When I heard about Bevy last year, I was skeptical that game developers could achieve good iteration times by compiling Rust code in debug mode. It clearly works well for small programs, but I was concerned that it might not scale; in particular, that large dependencies might slow down linking, that CPU-intensive games would be likely to run at non-interactive speeds in debug mode, and that just a few seconds of compile time might be enough to break developers' flow.

When people are working on large game projects in Bevy, have they encountered these problems in practice? If not, how have the problems been avoided?

(Full disclosure: I developed GameLisp, a scripting language for Rust games, partly motivated by compiled languages' poor iteration times.)
“The time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time”

- John Lennon
> a nonpolitical public research project

Are you referring to Camebridge Analytica?
bunch of discussion from when this was news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116274
A bunch of little things: iTerm’s jump/mark feature is really useful, especially combined with shell integration and triggers. iTerm can detect soft splits (e.g. tmux or vim splits) and confine the selection to one side of them. Also it’s split-pane navigation functionality is pretty smooth.
It did in 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
It is an anecdote but over the last 2 weeks, a few times (3-4) when I clicked on the top live videos, it is the live of a man too obese to even walk
A couple of past threads:

Culdesac: Building car-free neighborhoods from scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21600773 - Nov 2019 (9 comments)

Culdesac: Car-free neighborhood built from scratch in Tempe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21574850 - Nov 2019 (136 comments)
I feel like Vine had a lot of that quirky, comedic energy. It's a shame that Twitter decided to discontinue it. I sometimes still watch Vine compilation videos when I want to feel nostalgic.
these are the drills of the 21st century oil fields. they can stimulate you instantly with personalized content feeds, with no thought or effort required from you. inevitably you'll blow a geyser of ego. like oil wells people will be drained from the inside and uninhabitable on the out. don't mind the placid smiles illuminated by the glow of phone displays when your eyes venture forth from your own pixelscape, it's another oil rig.
No, I actually read the documentation that came with the package. 'My kind' indeed.
No, the emotional contagion paper the OP linked. Facebook had no active role in the Cambridge Analytic affair.
I recently migrated to Kitty because of iTerm’s abysmal performance issues, and it’s quite better. The performance is top-notch, the terminal’s scripting APIs are (for my use cases) better than iTerm’s python API, and the config uses plain text.
This is a story familiar to every Canadian, and to many Australians and Britons:

Mid-career executive accepts job offer in the US in Charlotte, Dallas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, or Tampa. Is excited about the opportunity and the raise in salary, and curious about living in a different country, but a little nervous about moving to a "right wing Republican" state "without healthcare".

A few months in, the reports back to friends and family change. More and more mention of the "amazing" house they found in the suburbs with an outdoor pool (!) that is so much less expensive than in Toronto or Vancouver, the "fantastic" school the kids attend with sports teams and cheerleading and other afterschool activities, and—especially—how unbelievably cheap everything is at the supermarket, mall, and gas station.

That family is never moving back to Canada. This happens over and over again.
This is an out of touch take from the TikTok=China=bad days of 2019/2020.

I see queer creators on TikTok all the time. Quite frequently actually.

This was the second video that showed up for me today, with 500k views (it is propaganda out of the White House, in collaboration with a popular queer creator): https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdosCgTr/

Only 50k views from an amateur creator, because TikTok hates queers: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdoss9jL/

90k likes because TikTok hates fat people: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdosn9PW/

100k: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdoGfVKH/
Can you provide an example of a factory process that is only performed in a factory (and not in the kitchen + grocery store, e.g. flour is preprocessed wheat)? bonus points if this process applies to bread making.
One defense of this point is that I see developers writing Typescript code with the constant hinting/intellicode from IntelliJ and somewhat blind to the readability of the naked code.

You get this tight coupling of code and editor/IDE with Typescript that I didn't see coming. The benefits from the coupling are very real and probably outweigh the costs, but there is a price to be paid.

It means that you have to manually go line by line through new code in your editor instead of scanning only with your eyes. It also makes reviewing the code anywhere else harder -- GitHub, etc. This is made more painful when types are necessary to understanding code, but the types are found in a file far away.

But this is coming from someone who sometimes gets nostalgic for the days of printing out code, moving over to a big empty desk with pen in hand. Then going back to the terminal to make those changes.

I also have seen ballooning function signatures that would have otherwise resulting in refactoring to an options object or otherwise refactoring.
IMO ORMs are an abstraction too far. I’d rather use a query builder. It gives you better control over the query if you must use such an abstraction. Of course I would much prefer raw SQL and then doing the mapping to objects and serialization myself but that’s not for everyone and yadda yadda move fast … startups etc etc
> now it feels like the government can basically commandeer your property at will

Owning property is basically a contract with a whole different kind of "governments" saying they will progressively use their soldiers to defend your property if it gets invaded by different kind of actors. So yeah.

Your friend is not the only one that got to see the harsher side of what the government is during the pandemic. People basically had their jobs made "illegal" from one week to the other because they were "unhealthy", like prostitution basically but yeah now suddenly selling luxury clothes on a mall was also like that.
>"Ejecting and minor adjustments are very different things."

Sure, but going out to 1.5 au is already 1/3rd of the way to ejection.
The hyperloop calculations are way off. the longer the tube, the thicker it has to be to support itself.

Instead, "aerial airstrip" on slide 21 would make a ton of sense. Move airports from the ground to above the clouds (3km up in the air?). Advantages:

1) 10-15% less fuel consumption (after take-offs you are already at 3km altitude)

2) much less noise for the surroundings

3) less subject to bad weather conditions.

etc.
Why did Vine fail where TikTok is currently succeeding?
Sure, the "sell dollars for $0.50" company can become profitable by raising prices to $1.10 after they wipe out the competitor who was selling for $1.00, but is that a good end result?
Law enforcement is exempt from GDPR and other online privacy acts and we all know how much intelligence agencies know. The people who it matters if they track you are still tracking you. All that changed is it's harder to make money from ads and it's more expensive and dangerous to run your own web service.
We need to chemically dissolve old tires.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/GC/C9GC0...
Seems like a pretty good example of "Ideas are nothing, execution is everything." The for me page, the longer video length, all the particular UI decisions all add up to a big difference in stickiness.
Yes, and after that we ought to get started on dismantling the sun. The sun is offensively wasteful, not to mention short-lived.
My point is you shouldn't fudge auxiliary data in making a point. I don't know if I can believe your actual argument due to that.

Consider, my dog can fumble around trying to make me happy with really good emotional understanding of my reactions and basic mimicry. I wouldn't claim that is a usage of language, though. From the counters here, there is an argument that if my dog was dextrous with his arms and hands, he could pass off similar results.
I can’t really think of one single reason to stay on Freenode. All good channels have migrated to either Libera Chat or OFTC.
Will only be available in wayback machine in a matter of time.
A community "maker space" would require careful curation of community members to be viable. Even if everyone were honest and conscientious. It's so hard to find the right tool or material at the right time in my own shop, it would be many times worse if I shared the shop with the neighborhood. Sure it's a long, hard, expensive trudge to accumulate your own tools, but at least it gives you a good chance of having the use of them when you need them.
Lots of positivity in this thread, and I don't think that's entirely a bad thing, but I think TikTok is the worst of the social media platforms in terms of addictiveness, based on my peers.

As a recent grad, so many of my friends are heavily invested in TikTok and have been since quarantine began, some of them for a bit before. The amount of time they spend there is absurd. Consuming 30 second content for three hours can't be good for concentration, right? It helps add to the 'always online' mindset that has grown more popular with social media and smart phones.

Instead of going for a walk, some of my friends would opt to lie in bed and watch TikToks, creating empty, basically non-existent connections with people across the world. Connections with people across the world are awesome, and one of the best things about the internet, but TikTok connections are basically UDP.

Most TikTok content I've been shown is shallow, the same way so much social media content is shallow. My having to get to the point immediately, we leave out key details and we want to catch your attention before you scroll away. Of course there is the other end of the spectrum with YouTube where a 2 minute tutorial takes 15 minutes.

I try not to use much social media, and honestly, I probably should limit my time on HN more as well. Doom scrolling is a real thing, and TikTok is not immune to that. I've seen plenty of dread inducing content that comes from TikTok as well.

TikTok keeps you logged on, as it's supposed it. I just don't think that's a good thing. If you can control and limit your usage to something that's healthy for you, then I don't think there's a problem. For me though, that healthy limit is 0, because I know myself and I have little self control with social media in the past.
Uber, Lyft, it seems regulators are intent on pushing up prices. Maybe to bring back taxis?
Thoughts in no particular order:

1. Generating fake testimonials, even if you're honest about (albeit with greyed out small text), is pretty scummy.

2. Not having a no-questions-asked 100% refund option is a non-starter for many people, myself included.

3. $25 is a lot to ask for unproven executables from an unknown developer with no refund available.

4. Written in technology I've never heard of (maybe others have though).

5. No links to any of your social platforms.

6. No comment or info here from the author in over a day on an HN account with no comment activity in 6 months.
Maybe the company as it stands is so inefficient and cash burning that it can't actually compete with taxis. In that case a slimmed down Uber may be able to do so, but that would require a lot of blood to flow inside the company.
That’s interesting, thanks for sharing.
Sorry I was describing our current social networks. Impossible to gauge how thick to lay it on in text.
I honestly think it comes down to this in the majority of the cases.

"Look, we have a two-years contract where we pay X thousand dollars a month for 100 desks and we have on an average day 3 developers in our office. After one year of lockdowns, we know our developers work at least as well from home as from the office, but higher ups ask us why we pay so much for an empty building, so we will force you come back to the office as soon as we can, even if we don't save any money with that and most likely decrease our efficiency and employee satisfaction."

I live in Germany and that's more or less what's happening at my company as we speak. Nobody complained about our performance or said they wished the company would enforce "work from office" rules, yet, they already try to slowly increase the days where we need to work from the office.

In my opinion, once a month in the office is great for chatting and connecting with people, but when it comes to work output, it doesn't move the needle, it's actually a day lost to the business.
>TikTok targets a younger demographic that is digital native and practices better internet hygiene.

Or maybe they're a younger demographic that doesn't have "new homes, cars, kids, spending"?

Also, the bit about "practices better internet hygiene" because they're "digital native" is kind of funny. Prior to the mid 2000s the standard advice was not to put public info about yourself online. "internet hygiene" was the norm, even when most people weren't "digital natives".
> Random fun fact: The Hindenburg had a grand piano made from aluminium, as a regular piano would have been too heavy.

This is truly fascinating. I didn't know that.
> Surely after a few months of driving you get a pretty good sense of actual costs and revenue.

The wear and tear on a new car may not become apparent for years.
We developed them during the Cold War. The issue was the massive release of radiation behind them. Don't fly it over your own country. But they can cruise for days!
> why doesn't that apply to taxis? Taxis make money.

Wouldnt it "just" be because of the massive overhead that Uber has with the software engineers, support staff, execs, etc?
What is the functional difference between the government demanding Apple add code to break device encryption, and the government demanding Apple add signatures that extend their on-device scanning beyond its intended scope of CSAM?

Apple seems to get a lot of credit for opposing the former, but gets mocked when they say they would oppose the latter. But as far as I can tell, the legal argument is exactly the same for both situations: can the government compel Apple to add functionality that they do not want to add?

Apple’s plans seem creepy to me, but I have been less than impressed with the specificity of arguments against it. Most seem to stop at “what if the government forces them to expand it” without addressing exactly how, under current federal law, the government would do that.

For example, see this Twitter thread arguing that it would be very difficult for the feds to do that:

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/14248736290037022...
> They attacked the models of similar ridesharing services in Southeast Asia.

Not really. Nothing more than mentioning keeping them on the book was a financial trick.

> The whole model in itself is a con and the author isn't shying away from that; he's just demonstrating that the biggest player is a particularly egregious offender.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say the author doesn't shy away from it. Not in this article. This only attacks Uber.

> And sorry, but the fact that he has strong opinions doesn't mean that they're not backed by facts. You can be impartial and have strong opinions if the opinions are the obvious, logical conclusion that all the evidence brings out.

When you adopt a tone of preaching to the choir don't be surprised when people think you are doing just that.

> If anything, I applaud the author for not pretending the modern media BS narrative of theres-two-sides-to-the-story, as if they had equal weight.

Do you also wish the modern media called companies "rapey" in articles meant to criticize financials?
> Watching other people do it is not.

Are you equally as dismissive of reading books other people wrote?

The heart of TikTok is video creation and remix. That's why memes spread so quickly there.
For fresh grads?
Your just citing when they abandoned code is law. So it was a thing until your fork example.
I hope this is the future of community design. We need to get people back together. I think most of our problems are that we only interact on the internet.

My mom thought republicans were the devil until a guy with a trump flag helped her change a tire.
I live about 10 min drive from there, and I honestly don't see how it's going to work. Yes it is right on the lightrail line, but otherwise it's not a very walkable area. I guess they are hoping to lock everyone into just doing most of their eating and shopping onsite. Is that actually desirable?
Our two mainstream options for mobile OS are one that stalks you everywhere you go and monitors what you do for the company behind it and one that will look on device at your pictures to possibly report to the government (with other governments likely licking their lips). This two party system is starting to stink.

> "However mobile OS's may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." -- George Washington