skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When social networks started taking off, in the spirit of the late 00s there was a push to create standards for distributed social networks so that personal websites could replicate a lot of what social networks did. DiSo is one that comes to mind [1].

The fact was...people didn't care. It made building harder...not easier.

I think it's inevitable. Over time, adoption trends towards easy UX, and open standards almost by their nature lag behind silos in their ability to optimize experience.

[1] https://diso-project.org/
Can you give sources for the claim of how much diesel would be saved
by an inflatable pad in the front and back?
> Advice needed is: is this scope feasible for 1 person and what game engine should I look into for trying it out? I am not trying to do anything particularly fancy; no overall game design, no story, minimal amount of textures and assets. Literally just an environment to toy with game mechanics.

To answer your question more directly, we have not seen the engineering, design, and marketing skills required to do this widely available in the market, or open source space. We know of a small handful of people in the world who have the combined knowledge to do it, but none of them are working on such a product except for some of the engineers at Facepunch and Planimeter.

One person can absolutely do it, but statistically we haven't seen it.

It requires you to primarily have an exceptional background in general software development, game networking, embedding scripting languages, user-interface design, and marketing (if you actually want people to use your product/play with your software).

The guys that I know of who have the skillset to do this are all working for studios.
But this is totally useless - it doesn't consume any resources of the spammer! They can just launch a large number of requests (possibly from their army of bot machines to defeat IP limiting) and have them each wait 3s while doing other nefarious things in parallel.

A PoW has at least the redeeming feature of consuming some resources for those 3s (or so...) making it self-limiting; there's only so many such computations a computer can do in parallel.
At a certain scale it does become very expensive. It's easy math.

When your monthly Athena bill crosses whatever it would cost to have 5 or 10 EC2 machines it'll be cheaper to use Trino. At my previous workplace we moved from ~$40,000/month to ~$18,000/month by replacing Athena.

Athena is a very good tool to start with - unless you have super large scale you'll probably not outgrow it. But when you do there's Trino.

I do contribute to Trino - although I was merely a user when that cost reduction happened.
I love watching Google's attempts to unify/create/destroy messaging platforms, seeing them compete as if they are competitors on an episode of Takeshi's Castle.
I later repeated it after hearing (again on hn) a rumor of another spectre-related Intel bug. This one did not make a splash in the markets. As I was ready to give up and pull out my options play, I happened to be delayed due to international travel, Intels's CEO resigned (due to having sex with his wife). The stock tanked even harder, and I made 3x what I made off of spectre.

I learned my lesson on market rationality that day. Not a bad lesson to learn
I once worked on a home built browser grpc implementation where the protobufs were serialized over the wire in base64. It certainly had it's kinks to work out, but sharing/generating the service definitions and models from the same protobuf markup between backend and frontend was really nice.
We need a federal law that indemnifies them from lawsuits as long as they drop a client after they have been convicted of a crime. That puts the onus on the plaintiff to prove that a customer has done wrong, and gives the bank/payment processor enough notice to remove that customer, rather than suing the bank/payment processor because someone might have done something wrong.
A few thoughts I have about this.

1) Correlation and causation are not the same; that's important here. How important? I'd wager not very much, but we can't say for sure.

2) Being healthy is expensive. Not knowing where your next meal is coming from, or what happens if you lose your job because you were never able to save anything, is anxiety-inducing, and that's bad for systemic health, especially neurological health. So, "not having enough money to be secure in your life and future leads to poorer mental outcomes" is kind of... duh?

3) Personally, I think what makes a job "shitty" are several important factors, only one of which is income. There are plenty of high-paying shitty jobs. And there are some low-paying jobs that, other than their crappy pay, are not nearly as shitty. I'd bet that having a high-paying job that also makes you miserable and gives you chronic burn-out and anxiety is also pretty bad for cognitive health long-term.

None of this is to discredit the findings at all. We definitely need to grow the fuck up as a society and a culture, and ensure each others' ability to survive and thrive regardless of what skills they do or don't have, or how much other people want those skills. Until we do, to borrow the phrase from one of my favorite book-based miniseries, we will never reach Childhood's End.
The solution of solving your app branding problem by renaming the less used apps with the name of the most widely used app is something straight out of the Onion.
>>Also Modi has the distinction of passing maximum bills without debate and bypassing the state senate altogether

I think this comment can be interpreted that way to some extent. Reads like one person has the power to bypass an entire legislative house. That's not the reality though.

I do agree with you that having supermajority for a long time is not a good thing. Unfortunately for India, that's how it has been historically (Congress for long periods of time and now it looks like BJP)
Trees live long enough that that "short term" can still be 100s of years, and buying ourselves 100 years is probably the best we can hope for anyway at this point. And trees are capable of automatically spawning new trees, so a self-sustaining growing tree population should surely count as carbon negative...
I would call Visa a card network here. Sure, the card network processes payments, but there's other entities called payment processors.

The whole stack includes the merchant, the payment processor (think CyberCash, Authorize.net, PayPal, Stripe, Verifone, NCR, etc), the merchant bank, the card network, the issuing bank, and the customer.

If the card network won't deal with you, you've got to build your own card network and issue cards or convince customer banks to issue cards, and convince processors to process them and merchants to accept them etc. I don't know how many adverisers PH has, it might be easier to just ask them to write checks.
https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/?index=laion5B&useM...

There seem to exist several pictures of marmoset monkeys touching iguanas, but DALL-E mini shows macaque monkeys. This makes me believe that DALL-E mini has at least some generalization capabilities.
And it terrified the federal government.
I’m more interested in seeing any code Zuck has ever written than a baseball card
Ye, fwiw there is an example code size comparison here:

https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-web/blob/main/packages/c...

I'm sure someone will chime in on the implementation details, but hopefully others can give it a try with their projects!
Sounds are like smells, and I wonder if someone had written about the pungent odors associated with their ethnic group, how would this author react?

Personally, I like my quietude and don’t feel like it’s rude to ask people to limit the impact of their byproducts so it doesn’t disturb me.
As far as I know, German trucks are already limited to 90 km/h
Show HN: Butt Mover - A butt triggered productivity and health improvement game
Productivity timers needed to be triggered manually before each task, Making it a chore by itself, Often leading to us not using them after a while and They don't take health into consideration.

Health timers are intrusive, Even then they are not always accurate and They don't take productivity into consideration.

Butt Mover addresses those problems by using a butt trigger for automatically starting the productivity timer when we sit on the chair before our workstation and a break timer which reminds us to take a walk automatically when we get up.

Butt Mover also incentivizes its usage through a Game. When the health(tasks/breaks) reaches zero its game over.

I've been iterating different forms of Butt Mover over past two years and released the web application earlier this year(After feedback from several HN users). Today I'm making the core application open-source as I've committed myself to make the Health & Education applications I build open-source.

I hope you'd use Butt Mover for yourself and build Butt Trigger for others to improve productivity and health. Feedback and contributions to improve the project is appreciated.
SElinux is one of the 4 or so security modules in the Linux kernel. Examples are SELinux, Smack, Tomoyo, and AppArmor. There is also a "capabilities" security module that can be used in conjunction with the aforementioned modules. Each distribution will have a preferable default security module.

To my knowledge the NSA have not rolled their own Linux distribution, but they were the folks that initially created SELinux to meet their needs for a mandatory access control system that has parity to their security clearance structure. Redhat then modified it to make it easier to use by adding concepts such as "unconfined" users and types as well as targeted policies, meaning that if it does not match a rule, it is not enforced. Even with the changes implemented by Redhat many people still disable SELinux rather than making rules to fit all of their custom deployments.
Yeah, there was a local place that went delivery-only when Covid came. They wanted to remain in business but they were Chinese and didn't want to take the risk.

(And it turns out that the owner had been playing games with the IRS and some other government stuff. He's in jail, all their places are gone.)
I don't want companies actively facilitating illegal activity but at the same time I don't want it to be on private entities to determine when someone is too criminal to do generic business with. If Mindgeeks ads are so criminal they shouldn't be allowed then the justice department needs to declare that directly, it shouldn't fall on payment processors to solve.
>> all kiddie porn is sexual abuse anyway

Child, Pornography and Abuse ... each definition requires a multi-hour lecture at any law school. One can debate the definition of "child" for days without coming to any firm conclusion. But many states have very exacting laws, backed up by draconian punishments. It it perfectly reasonable for large corporations to take an equally harsh approach. The punishments for being "in possession" of such material are so dangerous that instantly deleting entire accounts/databases will be seen as reasonable business judgement. But I guess that is the point of such punishments. They are designed scare everyone into acting without hesitation.
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Nobody uses the phrase "the children" unironically in current year.
trino is awesome

can't believe this shit is free as in freedom
here's a solo game project I just stopped working on, a short puzzle-platformer: https://jordanorelli.itch.io/the-seal

It has a full game loop but is very small. It takes 10-30 minutes to play through depending on how quickly you see through the puzzles. Right now I only have a Windows build :\

I worked on that for a few months full time, but have to get back to earning an income so I'm not working on it at the moment, interviewing instead. I did the game design MFA program at DePaul to find a group of people to learn to make games with, it was a lot of fun. I think without doing a program like that I would have wound up yak shaving in circles and making a bunch of tools instead of ever making any games.
This is also because laughing at jokes is a way to (unconsciously) show that you get it, and/or belong with the "in-crowd". So people tend to laugh at jokes other's find funny, even if they wouldn't themselves, and remember the joke must've been funny because they laughed. Also see: laugh tracks.
That should be downright illegal.
Agreed—hydrogen is just a bad fuel compared to existing fuels.
This is a good idea. Thanks for posting about it.

It does get lonely. I'm a former YC founder and I left Apple earlier this year to be a solo game dev. Making games (compared to apps or tools) is especially hard because "fun" is so nebulous that "make something people want" is a blurry goal at best.

I also work on my own tools and I'm using them to build the game. I'm very interested in tools that help a very small but talented team (1-4 people) build ambitious games more successfully.

I post progress here if anyone's interested:
http://twitter.com/kineticpoet
>In other words, its bullshitting you. It was only trained on how to get your approval, not to understand the mechanics of the world it is drawing.

A system can learn to do all kinds of interesting things by trying to optimize getting rewards.

See:
https://www.deepmind.com/publications/reward-is-enough
The original claim was that the senate was bypassed (non-democratic).

A majority in the Senate is democratic if democratically elected etc.

Whereas increasing the power of the executive as is the trend in the USA by bypassing the house / Senate is corrosive to democracy in my view.
My favorite non-joke.

What did the farmer say when he walked outside and saw that his tractor was gone?

Damn it. My tractor is gone.
> when querying for "barack obama" on a model trained on a dataset that has never seen Barack Obama the model somehow generates images of random black men wearing suits[1]. This is, in my non-expert opinion, a clear indication that the model's knowledge of the world is leaking through to the image generator.

That's super interesting. It's not just black men in suits either. It's older black men, with the American flag in the background who look like they might be speaking. Clearly the model has a pretty in-depth knowledge of the context surrounding Barack Obama.

I would say the image generation model is also doing a pretty great job at stitching those concepts together in a way that's coherent. It's not a random jumble. It's kind of what you would expect if you asked a human artist to draw a black American president.
I wonder the same thing. Many languages are far better at making precise statements due to stricter and more complex grammar. The reduction in ambiguity could help models perform better.

Then there's also the problem of labelling training data. Most of the labelling and annotating is outsourced to countries with cheap labour and performed by non-native speakers, which leads to problems with mis-labelled training data.
That meeting must have looked like a Monty Python sketch
So I like Apple a lot. Given there are only two choices of phone (iOS or Android), IMHO Apple is way better than Google in terms of privacy.

Apple sent shockwaves through the ad industry by making third-party ad cookies opt-in [1]. This has a material impact on, for example, Facebook's business, arguably to tune of $10 billion [2].

So a demand-side platform ("DSP") would be an incredibly significant move by Apple. A DSP is really one side of the coin of programmatic or real-time bidding ("RTB"). The other side is the exchange of supply side platform ("SSP"). RTB exchanges started as a way of selling remnant inventory in the display advertising space but have grown significantly since then.

But why this is significant is that the big player in display advertising is Google and the centerpiece for that is the Doubleclick Ad Exchange.

So Apple could be positioning itself to take a shot at Google's dominance of this space just like they have been doing to Facebook.

If so, Apple needs to be incredibly careful here because if they offer advantages to their own DSP or exchange they may well run afoul of anticompetitive behaviour.

Disclaimer: Ex-Googler (and I worked on the Doubleclick Ad Exchange many, many years ago).

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/how-apple...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-priv...
Does it have a USB port?
"The connection to the server was lost" is another common phrasing that I like
This is fast becoming a pet peeve of mine: people conflating LaTeX with TeX. TeX is the macro language and the compiler, LaTeX is the library.

Replacing TeX is pretty easy since it is a fairly small language. Replacing LaTeX, on the other hand, is very difficult because it contains a rather huge number of packages that have been developed over the decades.
There's a previous discussion from 3 years ago with 159 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146086

(Resubmissions after 1 year are fine by HN guidelines.)
Read this post a few days ago. I am trying to articulate my answer properly, mostly from a client-side dev's perspective. Here is my half-baked thoughts:

Strict-serializability pretty much guarantees that you don't need any extra business logic to resolve logical states you know you won't, but turns out end up with. If your changes go out in-order over the wire, you know it will be go in with that order on the other end, either that end is temporal or spatial away.

However, strict-serializability doesn't solve either business logic errors or collaboration issues. If you have wrong transaction wrapping (things should happen in one transaction got split), or you have race condition locally, SS doesn't help on that. SS doesn't solve collaboration issues because the real-time ordering means both of you will end up in the same state, but if naively implemented, that same state may not be what you would expect (you still need to solve conflicts, and how you solve the conflict has to match the user expectation).

Then it goes back to what I originally said, for client-side devs, what they are looking for is to not write any extra business logic to handle states they know they won't end up with when their requests to the server went out in order. For many of these business logics, SS is too strong. A combination of serializability and linearizabily, as the author suggested, could be sufficient. It is just hard to articulate what combination that will be for broad spectrum of business applications.
Just think what this could do for a game experience like Scribblenauts. Just being able to glue a fixed number of concepts in a huge number of ways...game designers are going to have to learn how to leverage ML.
Totally agree. SESTA-FOSTA is just the current instalment of this pattern.
The feature size of power electronics is fundamentally limited by the dielectric breakdown voltage of materials. Under a high enough voltage potential, even the best insulator [1] will "break down" and become a conductor

The dielectric breakdown voltage of SiO used on wafers is about 2.7x10^9 V/m (2.7 V/nm) so a 600V part that relies on SiO for insulation has to have a minimum gap of at least 222 nm [2] between any conductors that carry that voltage. Cutting edges nodes manufacturing CPUs and stuff generally deal with single digit voltages so while a lot of knowledge can carry over, the meat of the designs are very different.

[1] Even a perfect vacuum would breakdown due to the Schwinger effect, but at an astronomical voltage potential like 10^18 V/m.

[2] It's actually a lot more complicated at that scale, but it's a useful ballpark value.
it does understand their relationships.

the difference are the subjects of the domain it learns about exist purely as 2 dimensional images.

once these models get larger and include wider ranges of sensory data beyond just imagery (as can be seen with models like GATO), they are clearly better able to "glue together" concepts across multiple domains.

i would argue we absolutely do nothing different with regard to 'gluing things together'. we just have a wider range of sensory inputs.
Maybe unicorn is not the right word? If your app has millions of DAUs choking your DB, you should at least be tacking your next big investment round or some other success milestone.

Otherwise, your product is on it's way to failure, so good thing you did One Big DB...
Education

Basic Income and Basic Capital (so you can use education)
Death Attracts Us
You can definitely emulate parts of this. For example LocalStack can spawn ECS tasks using Docker, or EC2 VMs using something like VirtualBox. Load balancers are also emulated, so you can test load balancing configurations with IP address or Lambda targets. LocalStack is currently not emulating all of the VPC network configuration, so although you can make the API calls to create VPCs subnet groups and so on, LocalStack currently wouldn't enforce these on a network level.
After you've accelerated the truck to highway speed, the weight only matters due to friction. The friction and aero costs are large enough that the acceleration cost doesn't dominate.
The industrial revolution was supposed to completely negate #3, and look where that got us...
> There are other credit card payment processors.

No other processors are allowed to take their payments either, it's on the Visa/MC network level.
Generalising about the south in the us is as wrong as generalising about the rest of the world.

Incidentally in most european countries you find jokes about the south of the same countries as in the us. Its just something we do with people far and different we look at their ways and call them dumb.

The article tho has made an attempt at proving it with science. Correlation does not imply causation.

You cant simply draw the conclusion that a mass of people are dumb and then make up the science to prove it. Sure there individual and small localised groups affected by it but not whole nations or even massive areas of a country.

Edit: even here on this forum, there is anecdata from people that grew up in poverty with little to eat or poor nutrition yet they perform well given the opportunity. Some from the west, some from asia.
Eventually it's all gonna converge to a single app that does chat, video and calls.

And it shall be called "hangouts".
There was some truly fantastical stuff imagined in the 1950s [1]. I’m particularly fond of the GM “Firebird” self-driving jet-turbine cars [2]. They prominently featured various winglets. Not sure if they were there just for futuristic looks and jet-age appeal or if they were intended for the kind of use you describe.

[1]: https://youtu.be/cPOmuvFostY

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Firebird
Very cool to learn about this bit of history.

I really enjoy how crisp and legible fonts and graphics are in that screenshot. Even the tiny terminal in the upper left is very clear. Achieving that in X was always an exercise in frustration IME, involving some obscure fontconfig incantations and specific bitmap fonts. Ultimately I couldn't live without font hinting, but there's something so appealing about that crisp bitmap look.
Is that true? Seems like it would diffuse quite quickly in the scheme of things.
Yes, our friends and relatives know that we health and safety concise. I also share articles about when widespread lead or other chemicals are found in cheap imported toys. It is usually the relatives who like to give cheap gifts.

It seems incredibly rude to give such toys. It is like giving coke when someone doesn’t want their kids to drink it.

And yes on incredible waste as sibling comment said.
especially double entendres or meanings more common in speaking language than writing language, or theater for Ancient Greek, might very well have been lost to time.
A bit. It all depends on how you use HN. Every time I find some interesting site I add it's feed (rss/atom) to my reader (QuiteRSS). Usually stuff on HN has a feed.
What do ML researchers think about AI in 2022?