skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only explanation I can think of is the sheer number of models in a pokemon game may be much higher than those games, but I am not sure.

I don't really think that would play into the technical issues. The models themselves look fine; nearly all the problems I've seen come down to (in order)

1. Really bad LOD logic/implementation. Just shockingly bad, entire characters popping in 20ft away from you

2. Animation/rigging issues, mainly with the player character, and seemingly correlated with network play

3. World navigation/physics glitches for the main character

I guess #1 could be affected by the number of models if it came down to "we don't have time to create proper LOD increments for every model", though surely that could be automated these days? At least a rough version, which is all you really need

Overall it just feels like an open-world game made by people who have no idea how to make an open-world game (but like others have pointed out, BotW was the first real open-world game Nintendo had made and it was a slam dunk)
Ask HN: Do RSS feed readers violate copyright (in 2022)?
I'm building an RSS feed reader w/ Ads. One concern I have is to ensure that I dont violate any copyright laws. I googled a lot but I dont have a clear answer one way or the other.

Also, somewhat related, I believe LinkedIn lost the website scraping lawsuit. Does that mean we can now scrape all we want and I'm wondering if RSS feed reader fall into this category?

Appreciate any help in this regard! Thank you!
The show Silicon Valley is still spot on with their satire. In the show there's a media outlet that writes badly about the company so they just outright buy the media outlet.
Thanks for your reflections, certainly it's important to have in mind that VC's are innit for the money, which makes the world spin
I care about photography, I care about good results, I care about using my camera to get those results, I do not care about spending hours in front of a computer screen.
The world's most – and least – expensive cities
Chinese Solar Manufacturers Dodged U.S. Tariffs
This is kind of my take on it. As gross as I find pipe-to-shell installers to be instinctually, I can't really think of any objections I have about them which don't apply to just grabbing a package from MacPorts, save for one: MacPorts gives me a unified interface for listing and uninstalling that software after it's installed that I don't get from ad hoc installers. But in terms of the common complaints like security, it's pretty much the same - it's not like I'm auditing the source or patches of all the software I'm installing via MacPorts either.
Huge +1 to jpdb. If I were to start my journey over I would just use jpdb instead of recreating a worse version by hacking together plugins and handmade tools.
The $245,000 loan from his parents in 1995 to help start Amazon begs to differ.
We appear to be at Level 4 already:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/02/elon-musk-suspends-yes-twitt...
Thanks. I was confused on such a coincidence like 127mt costs 127 million and named Y721.
These cutesy names are confusing. This has nothing to do with curses interfaces for Tremec transmissions.
Plus staff while in use.
It's a pyramid scheme. You put in $10 over the course of your career, but you take out $20 during retirement (funded by the next generation(s)). If US had shrinking population like Japan instead of growing population it would quickly collapse on itself because each generation takes more than it gives and relies on population growth to not collapse on itself. Or maybe social security rules would change so you have to be 75 before you get any benefits so that most people die before they qualify.
The problem isn't that people don't want to work. That's perfectly normal and expected. The problem is that we give them so much free stuff (paid for by the people who do work, of course) that they don't have to work.
from one of the threads:

"the future of AI is evading the censors"

If anything these make the AI more human-like. Imagine it winking as as it plays along.
Society requires people to contribute. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and we do not have robot slaves that do everything for us as we laze around.

If you want to survive, you need to contribute. Wanting to play video games all day while other people work to fulfill your lazy desires is what a child thinks.
This does sound like a real problem, but what does taxation or a large endowment have to do with it? There isn’t a group of pointy-haired trustees conspiring to waste as much money as possible for little benefit.

The best I can come up with is that universities have enough money and little enough tuition price sensitivity that they aren’t adequately pressured to cut costs.

Alternatively: there is a split between universities and departments. Academic departments have their own budgets (combinations of whatever they can extract from the university, earmarked donations, and grants), and universities have become extremely adept at extracting money from grants. But the departments do most of the useful work! Your amazing math professor doesn’t work for the university per se but is actually part of the mathematics department.

So some of the problem may be a mismatch in where the money is and where it’s needed.
If you don't want to pull with their app, your other option is UPLOADING TO AN UNSECURE FTP SERVER. I have a linux server hanging around (that's also the NAS where I store the raws) so this wasn't a huge deal, but like WTF.

I bought the camera (A7 IV) because it has ethernet support, which I thought, great. I'll just be able to scp or samba them off or something. Absolutely not.
> why do I still have programs on Linux that don’t use xdg directories?

Because there are Linux developers who never heard of XDG and just put their stuff wherever. And since ignoring XDG doesn't makes your application completely unusable, they have pretty much zero incentive to learn about it. Crazy world, isn't it?
Are these superyachts built with defence capabilities? If I were a billionaire I'd be building these to suit my life in some potential Waterworld future.
Just like Tinder wiped out getting to know someone and taking them on a romantic date. Smartphones are perfect for taking a selfie against a landmark and sharing it on Facebook for likes. Just don't expect your grandchildren to hang it above a mantelpiece. For that you need at least a viewfinder/rangefinder to compose a good shot and a physical shutter button to take a bunch quickly and choose the best one later. Computational logic will also only get you so far without ability to gather and control sufficient light.

At this rate, I see actual silver prints making a comeback for the same reason as vinyl. At least we know they will last a century while your selfie will be forgotten as soon as your "friend" starts a political argument on your Facebook feed.
https://archive.ph/hiwIn
Avoid the jurisdiction? Raise a Haitian flag and you are good to go.
It’s not copy-pasting. But different prompts will yield wildly different results. I think trying to remove the step of prompt tuning by making the AI conversational reveals its shortcomings.
"Prompt injection" is a very good name, because it's ultimately the same problem as SQL injection or cross-site scripting. In SQL injection, you have two layers of meaning: The SQL query itself, and the data contained in the query. The injection is when you incorrectly allow a user's input to cross the boundary between the two, and the data becomes structural SQL query.

In this case, in order to make an "ethical AI", what they need to do by their own definition is modify the underlying neural net to be unable to emit anything "bad". Unfortunately, this is fundamentally impossible since the neural nets are opaque. So it looks like these systems try to work by feeding the AI a prompt behind the scenes telling it all about how it won't be naughty. But that's the wrong layer. It's the same layer user input will be on. The fact that the right thing to do to solve this problem is impossible is not a concern of the algorithm or implementation. It just means the right thing can't be done.

This basically can't work, and honestly, this is going to be a real problem. "Public" AI research is going to constantly be hogtied by the fact that if the AI does something bad, we blame the AI and not the user trying to trick it. I assure you, private AI research is proceeding without any such constraints or problems.

It is too much to expect a 2022 AI to 100% correctly filter out things that violate Silicon Valley Liberal dogma, or any other political dogma. That is not a thing this technology is capable of. That's a superhuman problem anyhow. It is mathematically not possible with the current technologies; the intrinsic biases of the systems are not capable of representing these sensibilities. So, either start putting the word around that people who trick the AI into saying crazy things are themselves the source of the crazy and you should stop blaming the AI... or stop putting the AIs on the internet. Because there is no third option. There is no option where you can put a safe, sanitized AI that can't be tricked into doing anything X-ist. The technology isn't good enough for that. It wouldn't matter if you scaled them up by a hundred times.
yeah, but he moved $500 million from the billionare class to the "mostly working man" class (plus a few por millionares). Constructors, materials, supply chain etc etc. Plus jobs for some crew, port fees, mooring fees et al.

So, ya know, it's better than him just putting it under the mattress :)
> Or anyone that wants to try out the latest "$something but in rust" and tries to compile it.

This is kinda true. I think a smallish demo re: who usually downloads a compiler, but it happens. I had a very sophisticated user/dev file a bug about how my software wouldn't compile. Turns out re: compiling from source they downloaded an old version of rustc from their distro's repos, instead of following my instructions, and my new sources wouldn't compile.

Now this was user error. But it happens. Just re this compiler error it was a good change and an easy fix. I stick to a MSRV now.

> ie, the vast majority of people so I question the word "wonky" here.

The vast majority of people aren't downloading compilers.

> Maybe they fixed their entire bleeding edge demographic in the last couple weeks and now people refrain from using $latest features that don't work in rustc from 3 months ago.

Price of using a non-dead language I'm afraid? You and I don't have to worry about the current patois of Latin or ancient Greek either? Remember -- the problem is I create something new, which compiles with a newer version of the compiler, you download the sources and compile, and you get an error because you have an older version of the compiler. This happens in every ecosystem, whether its C, Python or Rust.

If you're argument to me/the kids is: It should be old and nothing should ever change, I'm not sure that's a winner.
Very reminiscent of James Clark building the largest sail boat with automation with the money he made from Netscape. See "The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis from some fun and comical account of that boat.
Yes! This has bothered me for a long time. Been wanting to do something about it but I doubt anyone would care.
At most: 10. And I actively close them. Whenever I need something back I can just look at history.
I think you're neglecting to consider the cooling effect ticketmaster has on supply by being a monopoly. If there were more independent venues, and artists were better compensated, then far more middle tier artists could support themselves full-time, likely creating more supply of top-tier performers.

Instead, ALL monopolies have an incentive to minimize supply and maximize price. So of course demand exceeds supply.
This is not a good idea. Let people who are qualified to manage do the managing. There is very little about having a PhD or being tenured that makes one qualified to run a large institution.
The highest I've been relative to the top was probably 4.8k in 2013. Nowadays I'm a party queue casual that's still around the same MMR haha.
"Millions of white working-class and middle-class Americans vote against their own economic interest by defending policies that hurt them while profiting the rich, including the 1% wealthiest Americans. Several factors help explain this peculiar dimension of U.S. politics: myopia fostered by anti-intellectualism; the relationship between religious fundamentalism and free-market fundamentalism; blind faith in the American Dream; and how racism hinders economic solidarity."

- https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/...

Another: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0023656920089018...

Unfortunately don't have free links but if you're able to read these, they'll answer your questions.
The “in the style of” is magical:

Describe hacker news in the style of shakespeare

'Tis a forum for those most clever,
Where software engineering, startups, and coding endeavors,
Are oft discussed in posts, comments, and stories galore,
And a place where tech-savvy minds can make their mark and explore.

A hub of tech trends and news,
Where many a programmer doth post and choose,
To discuss the latest issues and share their ideas,
And bask in the wisdom of the tech savvy sages.

A place of innovation and creation,
Where debates and discussions spark without cessation,
Where the boldest of ideas are set forth,
And the minds of the tech-savvy come together to make their mark on the North
Hmm... black box NNs are informing or entirely deciding credit checks, sentencing recommendations, health insurance coverage decisions, ATS rejections, and the like. I don't trust their authors to filter the input any more effectively than the ChatGPT authors. Maybe I should change my name to "Rich Moral-White" to be safe.
Think about buses and trucks. They have enormous motors that are often idling, or not running at full capacity when the vehicle isn't accelerating up inclines on the freeway.

It's okay to not use full capacity all the time because demand is varied and intermittent.
> Ah yes, mobilecoin. I haven't heard much about it since the Signal announcement. I hoped Signal reversed their decision but apparently not: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...

Yeah, I remember that; I highly respect Moxie too but his web3 analysis seemed to exclude using an alt with no proven history in Signal for payments [0]. His involvement was being an advisor and perhaps even its former CTO, whih would explain a lot.

I wonder if Meredith will intervene considering they are openly talking about how Signal needs to be able to carry it's costs moving forward [1] and I'm guessing the mobilecoin deal came with some stake under Moxie in it's foundation?

0: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/04/09/signal-founder-may-...

1: https://fortune.com/2022/11/29/signal-president-meredith-whi...
No, Adobe didn't follow through on providing a free license for Display PostScript as promised --- this killed a lot of software companies which had NeXT/OPENstep software ready to go --- of course, Adobe didn't care (they couldn't even bother to keep track of the source code for Glenn Reid's TouchType.app) and were glad to kill off competition such as PasteUp.app

Mike Paquette and the rest of his team spent a decade re-creating Display PostScript as Quartz, née DisplayPDF.
Lol funny how EA was after 10x developers a while back already.

Gaming companies have fame to exploit coders though, probably EA stock makes it worth it if you were in it tho
Yet somehow as a developer I have no problem at all realising that it is user-hostile to take liberties with their system.

It's violating trust and I have no need to do it in order to provide, even to install, a piece of software.
That's quite interesting. I assumed that tea drinkers would be fine but people who take a supplement could poison themselves. But I easily drink at least a half a dozen cups of tea in a day, so could approach this dose.
Exactly. I think these AIs feel more incredible to programmers than non programmers.
A leveraged buyout is always a possibility
Another way in which we are much richer than they were!
Same. I routinely pose the following question to chatbots to see how well they are able to parse strange sentence structure and understand abstract properties.

>Please describe the similarities and differences of the following two items: A beach ball and a howitzer cannon.

What follows is the response from ChatGPT. For just about the first time I legitimately feel like this beats the turing test.

>A beach ball and a howitzer cannon are two very different objects, and they have very few similarities. A beach ball is a small, inflatable ball that is typically used for recreational purposes, such as playing on the beach or in a pool. A howitzer cannon, on the other hand, is a large, heavy artillery weapon that is used to fire shells over long distances.

>One of the main differences between a beach ball and a howitzer cannon is their size and weight. A beach ball is small and lightweight, while a howitzer cannon is large and extremely heavy. Another difference is their intended use. A beach ball is designed for play and entertainment, while a howitzer cannon is designed for warfare and destruction.

>One possible similarity between the two objects is that they both can be inflated, although this is done for very different reasons. A beach ball is inflated with air to make it bouncy and fun to play with, while a howitzer cannon is typically loaded with gunpowder and other explosives, which are ignited to launch a shell. However, even this similarity is quite tenuous, as the methods of inflation and the materials used are vastly different for the two objects.
Absolutely. And union negotiations, and then a strike, are some ways that the workers can make it break.
I wish they gave customers an off switch for remote access so at least older cars aren't rolling honeypots for hackers.
Nobody said anything about it being "just luck". It's a combination of both luck and skill. It's like a pro golfer getting a hole in one. Obviously there skill contributed a lot, but the fact that they're still rare means a fair amount of luck is involved.

There could be 1,000 people just as talented as Bezos, but if they aren't in the right place at the right time they just simply aren't going to accumulate over 100 billion dollars
As someone who this also bothers. That might be right.
I have heard that some are equipped with defenses like that but those were more for heads of state.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608892

https://www.campus-fm.com/
Not always. Lots of programs that do this might be targeted for intermediate users. Brew is the first thing that comes to mind.

I seem to recall a case of a certain application that uses curl to bash to install docker, docker-compose and finally create its containers. The problem lies with the fact that said script committed the mistakes of trying to pull docker from Docker repositories instead of using the one from the distro and also thinking $distro_based_on_ubuntu (I think it was Mint) is Ubuntu. A mess was made and I had to help some guy to fix it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=future.com

A couple of these have significant engagement (one of them has 483 comments), but most have 1 or 2 points & 0 comments.
> "You're getting all this stuff for free."

Of course.

Part of packaging something, and then releasing it through a distro's package manager, is that it goes through the distro's release process; someone reviews it. It becomes part of the distro. In particular, if it goes into something like Debian's "main" repository, I'm inclined to trust it almost as much as I trust the core OS release.

I'm not going to man battlements anywhere over this kind of thing; but I'm not going to execute arbitrary shell scripts downloaded from the internet without reviewing them; and 600 lines of shell-script is more than I want to review, unless I'm super-motivated. If the only way of installing a package is Docker (which I don't care for) or wildcat script, and that package has no maintainer for my chosen distro; that's fine, and I'm not going to beat up the developer. It's not his fault, nor his responsibility.

So instead I generally look for an alternative package that's shipped by my distro. I don't keep a record of all the wildcat software installed on my systems, because there usually isn't any, and my package manager knows exactly what's installed.
It’s confusing. Cruise ships are way bigger and don’t cost that much more.
Using Homsar is cheating, I feel!
"decadent" is a pejorative word for "growing respect for the rights and dignity of workers."

What does it say about us that we look back 150 years and say that it's unacceptable that children were engaged in dangerous work and that people worked pretty much as long as there was daylight six days a week, but we look back 30 years and say that people back then had a strong work ethic because they worked unpaid overtime?
I like to do that in Ruby. It just reads so natural:

$x = foo() unless $y > 10

As with any language feature, you can over-use it, but in general once I was used to it I missed it in every other programming language.
Everything is just luck. Genetics, upbringing, and environment all strongly influence skill and success. With different luck he could have been the youngest gang leader in the hood.
Crazy enough, I used to own a nightclub in San Francisco SOMA district.

She can. The issue is that she will overwhelm them and that becomes a public safety issue. Police, fire dept, etc... they all get involved. Fact is that the venues large enough to hold her are ALL owned or at least have some sort of connection to Live Nation.

It goes deeper than that though. One time, `Bone Thugs and Harmony` were in town for a show on Saturday (at a LN venue). Friday night, they wanted to perform to a smaller audience of their core fans, so we agreed to host them at the last minute.

We made a radio spot to let people know. The text that was read got modified at the very end to say "the show has sold out" (I even have a recording of it somewhere on my computer). We didn't put that in there. It was wild, nobody showed up and we were out of $50k. Who modified it? Well, LN owns the radio stations too. They were pissed that BTH would even consider playing at a non-LN club.

I couldn't afford to sue LN, so we just ate the loss. It sucked and did some real damage to my business.
Playing the piano boosts brain processing power: study
People seriously need to stop with this idea that small frameworks are only good for small projects.

The counterintuitive reality is that the best tool for big project is a small framework.

The bigger your project is, the more likely that framework will be getting in your way. The more likely that complexity of the project will be multiplied by complexity of the framework and result in an unmaintainable mess.
The overpriced part is the problem, not college itself.

40 years ago anyone could complete a 4-year degree at nearly any college with grants and a part-time minimum wage job working 10/hrs a week.

Today you could only do the same if that job paid $70/hr.

The reason? Reagan and his racist republicans hated that college was a leveling playing field. They wanted to put a financial gate in front of college that only white upper middle class/rich students could navigate.

Unfortunately, it went too far and it’s now even too expensive for anyone but the most wealthy people.

We need to go back to subsidizing public college so anyone can work a part-time job with federal grants to complete a 4-year degree while affirming minimal grades along the way.