skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do wonder about the ethics of doing this ("human emulation") generally anyways. The conversations obviously impacted Lemoine drastically, and it will inevitably do that with others. Having made systems that can be this convincing (at least for some subset of the population), is this really something that we should continue pursuing? What is the scientific value?

Kenneth Noid held up a Dominos because of paranoid delusions and their noid ad campaign. I don't think "somebody freaks out about X" is a good standard. The low end is a downright abysd. The scientific value is in understanding and being capable of doing what we couldn't before. It is of real value.

> And is this really something that we want the world's biggest advertising company to be doing?

You don't get to decide that any more than you can decide that you don't want Country music as a genre. They have their own agency and forbidding hypothetical actions bill of attainder style is questionable in wisdom.
> That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust.

Can you think of a reason people would do that if they didn't trust those corporations more than the federal government?
So I am thinking about how many crypto fans suggest fiat money and banks are a thing of the past.

I don’t think fiat money or banks can go away unless all their functionality can be replaced by crypto and do at least as well.

With finances, it’s more about preventing the bad over getting the good. As long as crypto introduces a big problem, there’s no way it becomes the primary financial tool.

In fairness, I am making some assumptions here, so maybe my view of finance is very wrong. I welcome any alternative opinions.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

I can understand why people have strongly held views about foreign policy but this sort of political flamewar is repetitive and predictable, and therefore off topic here. It has veered particularly extremely off topic in a "Bunny fonts" thread. And I'm afraid you've been posting flamebaity/unsubstantive comments in other threads too.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
IIRC, about $120.
Road Rash on the 3DO was amazingly fluid. I didn't learn the trick until reading about it on Lou's pseudo-3D page http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/#proj3d
Often it is required to cut off some time to read documentation and googling. Most of the time the content has 80% information that I don't need at the time (they're important, but not right now) so I just skim through parts.

When I get to the parts I need, usually I skim it once and reread it slowly again after.
Welcome to governance: no machines are currently certified. Many are "verified to work" though. So probably some number of those will become certified eventually.
I mean, Bitcoin was the first one. It is interesting in its approach (attempt?) to solving the so-called Byzantine generals problem[0], utilizing a proof-of-work consensus algorithm for security with an issuance mechanism tied to transaction validation. A little bit later, some legendary humans used it to facilitate contraband marketplace operations over the Web. Other crypto-asset systems emerged such as Ethereum, further pushing this currency mechanism model quite a bit further, enhancing the ease of creating tokens on top of the system, and fundamentally enabling programmatic execution of monetary transfers with smart contracts, bits of code that move the money around instead of exclusively having people move an asset around manually. Smart contracts are also interesting but have become widely used and abused, sometimes even exploited by knowledgeable EVM hackers that have automatic the detection and exploitation systems. The move to MEV exploitation and mitigation as a service by operators such as Flashbots has been an interesting evolution in these systems, indicating the dynamic evolution of this space.

I don't believe that Bitcoin will necessary become the de facto Internet money standard. I think it's great, and the price volatility is pretty fun to trade (ask me about bitcoin options trading circa 2017 sometime).

It will probably have value for an arbitrary amount of time depending on regulatory pressures among many other factors but given the rapid pace of innovation in the space, I think other systems can and will become equally or substantially more valuable. I think that the transaction fees are pretty reasonable with Bitcoin, but there are a few other competing systems that I think also show a tremendous amount of promise, such as Algorand or Polkadot. I think the complexity of parachains will eventually need to be reworked for Polkadot, but Algorand in particular has all the flexibility of Ethereum's smart contract mechanisms without the pains of gas fee volatility.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
Just poke around rtings.com and you’ll see the difference. It reminds me a bit of what wirecutter was in it’s pre-nyt days before it became a click generator.
So convincing. /s
I have found out that google uses atleast 1 of the last 2 "doubt" ones. My sister was watching my little pony on her laptop without being logged in and her reccomendations would "leak" into my reccomendations on different computer with logged in account. It was very annoying and even flagging the videos as "not interested" or "don't show" wouldn't help much. I think I "fixed" it by disabling yt history or something. I am not sure. This was 2...3 years ago
"Fish are friends, not food"
The physics of optics are still a hard problem and laptop screens have less room which is why the suck.
You sometimes bump into a professional TV reviewer on UK forums and suddenly realize when you think you are polling views from the top handful of sites, he works for most of them, so they are actually just his repeated opinion on one TV set...
Interesting. Happy that I make a conscious effort to keep things as stock as is reasonable. UBlock, Bitwarden, Dark Reader; I assume I’m sitting comfortably in the 99%.
This article was written from the perspective of someone who has not kept up with the webcam market at all and judging by the current state of the comments here, neither has anyone else. Products like the Dell WB7022 and the Elgato Facecam blow the previous generation out of the water, and the Dell is even microphone-free, which I much prefer to the compromised microphones jammed into most cheap models. The Dell model is also bog-standard UVC compliant, unless you want to play with face-tracking or HDR modes; these for some reason require a Windows program to toggle, instead of being exposed as UVC settings. The Elgato model is entirely proprietary.

As much as I like the WB7022, it turns out that nobody notices or cares if I hop on a meeting on my wife's computer with her Logitech c922; at the end of the day and for the majority of business needs the cost/quality cusp has been nailed for about a decade, and I don't predict a major shift toward higher quality any time soon. If you need to produce high-quality video, a webcam will never be enough, and if you don't need to shoot a movie, webcams have been fine for a long time. Even in the linked article, all the criticism is from the owner of the webcams, with strong opinions about photography. Not one iota of attention or interest has been paid to whether anyone on the other end of the meeting even notices.
"The bikeshed"

I've been down this road. I don't know what it is, but many web developers are extremely adverse to doing it. Even once you've convinced people to let you do it, the first PR from a new hire is a fix for this "bug".
Well, some of us prefer upvotes to indicate "I've replied to you" - I even put that in my profile!
I think what people are getting banned from social media for is scepticism of the concept of 'gender identity', particularly when it is used to override the material reality of sex.

It's not only a viewpoint held by many conservatives, but also basically all radical feminists, who are the polar opposite to conservatives in both general political stance and their reasoning behind rejecting the ideology of gender identity. From my observations, in practice it seems to be the radical feminists getting censored for this on social media much more than the conservatives.
Oh wow that's a really good question. I would pick the following but keep in mind it's important to go through all the different solutions.

1. Unique Paths 2. https://leetcode.com/problems/unique-paths-ii/. This problem can be solved with dynamic programming, graph traversal, and recursion.

2. Max Product of K Integers. Not exactly on Leetcode, but this one I really like. https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-product-of-three-numbe.... It's essentially finding the maximum product obtained by selecting k numbers from a list of N integers (1 <= k <= N). This problem can be solved with a greedy algorithm, two pointer with sorting, using heap, and dynamic programming.

3. Word Ladder (https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder/) I think it would be wrong not to include a string problem. I think there are a lot of different ways to solve this one. You could use a trie or treat the strings as a graph. There are also a lot of optimizations you can make depending on the length of words vs number of words.

Honorable Mention. LRU Cache (https://leetcode.com/problems/lru-cache/). This may be the most common interview question asked at one point. Being able to execute a doubly ended linked list, leverage a dictionary, and implementing them all in a class with object oriented principles.

These don't cover everything, but give pretty good coverage of all the topics.

Hopefully that answers your question!
Modern finance does have a high barrier to entry. So it makes sense to try and become a big financial player any way you can and then figure out how to make it better once you are there. But that is really hard, and impossible if your efforts get cooped by scammers and day traders.
Including its name doesn’t mean it’s available. Or that it should necessarily be used even if it is—when the purpose of including Roboto was to get a default font, you probably shouldn’t complain when you get a default font.
If you have an iOS device, you can force the app store to refresh and update Telegram. Then once updated, in the app under settings, you can select Telegram Premium and pay with Apple Pay
So ... next goal is to launch and land the same rocket 3 times in 36 hours.
That'd really bring home the "you don't throw a plane out after each flight" thing.
> These things happen regularly, and often simultaneously.

Yes, I think my assumption is common. Thanks for the list. The entire thing consists of events I would have expected to happen very infrequently.

"KPIs precipitated by school administration" - sounds horrific. Way too easy to screw up.
I just want one without any smart features or preprocessing. Signal in via hdmi, rca, or radio waves. Attempt to reproduce exactly the image the signal describes out with no frames waiting in a buffer or other added latency.
You should only have rules that can be enforced. Having rules that people are free to break is an unnecessary corruption of the system - users and moderators know that the actual rules aren't what is written but what is enforced. People will downvote based on disagreement and there is no way to detect or punish that so why have a rule against it?
Ask HN: Freelancers, do you hire a PM to manage you?
I have constant churning of client and personal projects, but trouble focusing, prioritising, and reflecting. As a freelancer, do any of you hire a PM or a type of work coach to keep on track on the right things? What are your suggestions?
Some posts get picked for a second-chance by moderators - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 - but it doesn't have any connection to twitterers, nor to 'connections to the site moderators', except in the sense that we recognize some usernames as good submitters.

The intention is just to comb through the stacks looking for good stories that didn't get attention the first time around—especially on topics that aren't correlated with anything else. HN has a wealth of these and I'm pretty sure we still miss half of them.
The term was coined to refer to an absence of gatekeepers charging for access, though collusion is often pretty similar.
Autonomous IFR flight is a reasonably tractable technical problem, as long as nothing breaks. The Garmin Autonomi system can already sort of do that for light aircraft under some very limited circumstances.

The problem is that there are a zillion different potential failure modes (some involving circumstances completely outside the designer's control) and it's impossible to program in responses to all of them. Where experienced human commercial pilots really earn their pay is in handling those rare emergencies.
I’ve used it once in the past to get a distro iso.

Wish more stuff used it.
No, the Big Three automakers contracted severely on the whole. The owners, i.e. the shareholders, suffered too.

>>You mean when everyone else was still rebuilding after WWII.

The post war era was the era of rising union power, not weak unions. The first half of the 20th century fell mostly outside the post-war era.

Not only did Detroit become the wealthiest city in America, but that wealth didn't come at the expense of its golden geese, which were the Big Three automakers.

So to summarize, the automakers became stronger during the era of weak unions, while Detroit became the richest city in America. In contrast, the automakers became less competitive during the era of a dominant UAW Union, and that culminated in Detroit becoming a ghost town.
"The proposal elicited strongly negative reactions from many in the crypto community, who feel that a project taking over a user's account flies in the face of the concept of defi and sets a dangerous precedent."

LOL
I don't think the "punishment" is arbitrary. I think it is the result of a tragedy of the commons situation (the commons being Tor in this case).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Looking at it from a hoster's point of view, if 0.05% of your traffic comes from X, but 80% of your security issues also come from X, the wisest investment of their time and money is to just block X and move on with their life.
> A big reason there hasn't been innovation is that the space doesn't attract entrepreneurs (because hardware is viewed as hard) or investors (because hardware is viewed as hard).

Why though? It's all off the shelf stuff. If it's in phones you can put it in your product.
Having worked on what I would classify as a very large and complicated mobile/desktop web app for a few years now, I would probably choose a different direction if I had access to enough developers.

I'm fairly convinced at this point that with enough developers, the best approach is adaptive if you plan on building a web app with considerable complexity. Completely isolated development, fully custom design and code for mobile.

With an adaptive site you have the choice to include or exclude elements which may have a major performance impact on the app, including for instance: entire view/component trees, media queries, heavy JS like graphs or ads. You also get to make web-unfriendly decisions like using a custom renderer if you think it will produce a higher quality experience, like Flipboard's React Canvas from several years ago: https://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web

Overall it's still very context dependent, but I would recommend for larger teams to not completely discount adaptive mobile sites if they're looking to build the highest quality mobile experiences.
Why should I be compelled to use the systems someone else designed? Who is so wise and righteous that their external control over my decision to join or not is justified?
The entire reason why I dumped my iPhone 7 is that it can't keep up with the current version of iOS, and I needed something that could. So, I'd always be stuck on a device with a back rev version of iOS, and after a short while, security patches would stop being back ported.

Moreover, my employer requires that I use a device that is running the latest version of iOS and is fully patched, so the iPhone 7 is now simply a non-starter.

As for using it as a webcam, the camera and other hardware is old enough that I don't think I'd like it for that use, either.

So, it'll sit in a closet or on a shelf until I decide what to do with it, along with all the other old iPhones I have, going all the way back to the original iPhone.
He has to negotiate with the Solend people. They want to be accused of breaking a contract or breaking the law, and he wants financial compensation.
The very next paragraph:

"The same trend can be seen if you look at deaths per vehicle miles traveled. In 1990, the average French person was twice as likely to die as an American for every mile traveled, but today the average French person is 40% safer than the average American. Today there are around eight roadway deaths in France for every billion miles driven, while in the USA there are about 14."
Not surprised Samsung doing it. They consistently over promise and under deliver. I remember when buying their SSDs they promised support for HW encryption in future firmware update (Opal2/eDrive if I remember correctly) but they never actually delivered it. Since then I don’t trust anything Samsung promises or says.
At least for me, upvotes are for when I think a post/comment is useful. I don't have to agree with it, but if it provides some insight, or provokes good discussion, I upvote. I also don't use upvotes for other purposes, like telling repliers that I saw their reply, since I think that would make the meaning of an upvote more ambiguous.

Also I feel like Hackernews doesn't really push for prompt replies anyways. I don't comment expecting replies, so I likewise don't need confirmation on whether somebody read my comment or not
People often confound complexity with having to learn something new.
Does the software you need to configure the camera (and run color calibration) run on Linux?
"Have a bunch of repositories with an understanding of what an expected file structure is, ala ./projects/repo_1, ./projects/repo_2. You have a master repo with a readme instructing people on how to set it up. In theory, there's a disadvantage here in that it puts more work on the end user to manually set that up, but the advantage is there's a simpler understanding of how everything works together."

This is what I do. I have something like 17 code repos organized this way, plus lots of testing repos, plus an extra "hub" repo. (Credit to a friend for calling this repo "hub": short, to the point, requires no explanation.) The hub repo is a bunch of scripts and makefiles that configure everything and even clone the rest of the repos for me. It also has special grep and find scrips that will run on all of the repos as their target. The hub repo just needs one env var to tell it where the root of all the repos is. Note that in the file system the hub repo is under the root and a sibling of the code repos, not their parent in the file system.

Each code or test repo has an "externs" subdir populated only with softlinks to the other repos on which it depends. The scripts configure this by default, but it is also straightforward to configure by hand if you want to do something non-typical. For example, if you want to have multiple versions of a repo checked out on, say different branches/commits, you can do that and name each directory with a suffix of the branch/commit. Then the client repos can just point at the one they want. You can have all kinds of different configurations set up at any time. Doing this makes it straightforward to know what you depend on just by looking at the softlinks. There is no confusion at any time.

There are ways of configuring the system that do not even need all of the repos, so this is ideal. Using the hub repo makefile I can clone the whole system with one make target (after cloning hub), I can build the whole system with one target, I can test the whole system with one target. It is a testament to how well it works that I don't even know exactly how many repos I have. In short, it works great.
Not on iOS but thanks!

I wonder if it'll come to the f-droid version, but otherwise I'm still using the official desktop client so it should be possible there.
This is your rebuttal for "This man was truly angry"? That he might have hired it out to a sculptor (doesn't really look like it, frankly) and _therefore_ wasn't truly angry?

Your surmise depends on whether some random provincial soldier at the shit-end of the empire would really be socially superior to a skilled craftsman, that this was the work of a skilled craftsman, that the soldier could afford the sculptor's commission, that this sort of act really was delegated sometimes, and finally, that he wasn't truly angry because he could afford to hire out the curse?

Or -- said soldier had status to compel some aliquis to inscribe an insult and therefore wasn't really angry? Your idea sounds like an aborted Plautus plot.

To paraphrase a Brian (not the one mentioned in the top comment), I hope you stood up before pulling this out of your ass. Pardon me while I scrape something into the nearest concrete.
I usually do. I seldom downvote.
How do you think the market will be impacted by Apple's recently-announced feature, which lets people use their iPhones as webcams?

I was considering getting a webcam, but when I saw this announcement I decided to wait and see how Apple's implementation works.
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Diablo Immortal proves the general public doesn’t care about video games
I wish webcam manufacturers would focus on sensors and optics instead of rubbing lipstick all over low quality hardware with an undeniable porcine quality.

Fixing it with AI is nonsense. Fashionable nonsense but still nonsense.

I have spent lots of money on various webcams. Including cameras that promise “AI”. The truth is not even my $1000 “AI” webcam gets close to my aging iPhone 7. As a video conferencing camera it is an over-priced, over hyped-piece of junk. The damn thing can’t even do basic white balance and has no control to set it because “it is an AI camera”. I either look like I’m about to die or as if I have a sunburn. And after countless firmware upgrades, it is still horrible. The expensive camera has one thing going for it though: it has decent microphones. That’s actually more important than good video.

To anyone who makes AI webcams: please give me manual controls and focus on image quality instead of marketing. Don’t be clever. Hire someone who obsesses over image quality and is a decent photographer to judge the visuals. And put a good microphone system in the thing.
everyone has known this the whole time and chosen to ignore it.
Bitcoin is too technologically primitive to be used for anything other than a digital keepsake in a wallet.

It'll probably die out with the generation that discovered it.

Other, more innovative projects will flip it.
I don't even use media queries anymore. I detect if mobile and use conditional styling in my components. Way less headache.
True but this argument doesn't work for desktop webcams which have as much space as they want (even a lot more than in a phone)
It's not an IQ test - its just odd. The de facto reason to buy stocks is to invest in production - not to escape inflation in a pure sense.