skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silent-era sensibilities are very different from even WWII-era talkies. The field developed whole bunch, very fast. A lot of those films are difficult to appreciate without active effort to acclimatize oneself to them, much the same way lots of people bounce off classical music or jazz (or hip-hop, or heavy metal, or most musical genres, really) until they've had a bit more exposure and learned how to enjoy them. Plus, a lot of them were leaning really hard into one movement or another, and Metropolis is one of those (many) cases, so what it's aiming to do well isn't necessarily the same set of things most modern films would aim to do well (and indeed, off the beaten path you can find plenty of modern films that similarly target some particular effect or art movement, which can also take a bit of adjustment to one's expectations to enjoy)

Acting in particular has gone through some serious changes as fashions come and go, and most any style one encounters aside from what's now in-vogue tends to come off as corny. Even Casablanca, which is ahead of its time in many ways (for an American movie, anyway—the US lagged in some film technique developments at the time, compared with other markets) features acting that's less-naturalistic than what's popular now. Also, changes in editing have really made a difference in how performances come across, which is part of why watching a scene being filmed from a behind-the-scenes camera can make the acting seem off or bad—because it's not being filtered through modern shot-framing and editing.

IMO the comedies suffer the least and remain fairly accessible (no matter when you were born, if you can't laugh at Chaplin and Keaton, there's something wrong with you) but, for most people, approaching the rest of the silent era is more a project than something you can just dip into here and there and expect to have a good time. The field was immature, the whole "silent" part of it takes some getting used to, and there was a whole lot of art-movement-influenced experimentation going on.

There is, however, a lot of variety in styles in the silent film era, especially in foreign film. If you don't like 20s German expressionist films, try films of the 30s (IMO the silent era got a lot better toward the end), try American films, try French, try Spanish, Russian, stuff like that. Weird absurdist Spanish films that evoke the atmosphere of Monty Python, shocking short films, heart-rending dramas, cheap action schlock, about-the-town documentary or semi-fictional films, heavy-handed allegory—lots of stuff to explore. Plus the comedies, of which many are excellent and most are fairly accessible to a modern audience.

[EDIT] If you want something a bit easier to chew on, from the same director as Metropolis, M, which I mentioned in my first post, is much closer to a modern film, in terms of its storytelling and its plot structure.
Not just "the past" but the idea it happens only in far away places
like Kyrgyzstan. In London, Bradford and some other UK cities there is
an underground problem around arranged marriages that sometimes
escalates into kidnap, violence and even "honour killings". There's a
shroud of silence around it because Britain is a "modern
multi-cultural" country.
Best summary I've read so far is https://mastodon.social/@malwaretech@infosec.exchange/109547...

"Certain foreign governments have been known to engage in hacking to obtain dirt on politicians, which they then leak around election time to influence voters (remember the DNC leaks? That was Russian Intelligence). Social media platforms are aware of this, and are actively working to try and limit foreign intelligence agencies ability to influences the public via these 'hack-and-leak' operations. [...]"
Excel, the second best program for any task. ;0)
I think that’s a romanticized memory. While holding people accountable is good, so is eventual forgiveness. If you steal a candy bar from Old Man Smith at the town’s only gas station, and he’s the kind to hold grudges, you’re boned. Never mind teens trying to buy condoms when every cashier in town knows them.

There’s a happy medium in there somewhere. You don’t want to let repeat offenders off scot free, but there needs to be a cooling off period, too.
whatever would the bored 10x'er do! But of course, invent the LCD touchscreen. Now, excuse me while I throw up.
Nietzche said that altruism is the most mendacious form of egoism. Now that he's won the game, there's no doubt Gates is paying to rehabilitate his image.

There's an overwhelming amount of evidence that Gates was a ruthless and all around terrible human being back in the days he was running Microsoft. For example, there's the story of how Gates tried to screw his partner Paul Allen (who working hard to deliver DOS 2.0 while also fighting cancer) out of his stake in the company. [1]

In Paul's own words:

One evening in late December 1982, I heard Bill and Steve speaking heatedly in Bill’s office and paused outside to listen in. It was easy to get the gist of the conversation. They were bemoaning my recent lack of production and discussing how they might dilute my Microsoft equity by issuing options to themselves and other shareholders. It was clear that they’d been thinking about this for some time.

Unable to stand it any longer, I burst in on them and shouted, “This is unbelievable! It shows your true character, once and for all.” I was speaking to both of them, but staring straight at Bill. Caught red-handed, they were struck dumb. Before they could respond, I turned on my heel and left.

Don't take my word on it, read up for yourself. I can't find any stories from the early days of Microsoft that paint Gates in a positive light. His only skill was being insanely opportunistic.

If if this the way Gates treats his friends, I don't want to hear about all of the good he's doing in the world. I don't believe the end justifies the means. There are plenty of people in the world worth looking up to, Gates isn't one of those people.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371608/Bill-Gates-...
I fully agree! My comment wasn't to endorse his movie but merely to suggest an origin for the main plot.
Mark my words Obsidian will be the next unicorn.
This may just mean that IF life is to originate, it will do so shortly after a solar system forms, or not at all. To infer that the early OoL means OoL is easy has the implicit assumption that the probability of OoL would remain about constant over time.
It was re-made in 1980 with Neil Diamond and Laurence Olivier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer_(1980_film)
I think they mean including a 4090 in a build with either CPU choice would produce a more performant computer.
Just what the world needs: improved efficiency of rent seeking.
>Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect
The term "pirate" has lost meaning and most negative connotation that once accompanied the word.

There are still modern day pirates on water, but that is not what comes to mind to most people when they hear the term pirate.

Today, people think of the antihero, from Jack Sparrow to Long John Silver (Treasure Island, or the restaurant, your pick). They are fun and engaging, clever and witty. They are fighting back against an unjust government. They are even likable, even when they aren't "good" (Captain Hook of Peter Pan).

In addition, the term pirate is often used for copying software or something else digital. It, however, is a victimless crime, in that nothing is actually "taken" from anyone, it is merely that additional money is not given from the pirate to the copyright holder.

Your cute niece and nephew dress up like pirates. Pirates have buried treasure for us to find (so they actually benefit someone, so to speak). They are the very definition of adventure!

This is different. These are not people engaging in a victimless crime. These are not people fighting an unjust cause. These are not just people having fun. These are thieves. Public perception is one way to fight them, so I encourage people not to call them "porch pirates". They are thieves. They may be thieves who steal packages from porches, but they are undoubtedly still a thief. I don't care if you call them blue-hatted, striped-sock, ding-dong-ditch, grinch flunkie thieves, so long as you identify the crime for which they should be rightly ashamed and castigated. They are a thief.
The FBI meddled with the 2020 election. Who needs the Russians when you've got the FBI?
Yes. The copyright duration needs to be shorten.

To grandfather in the existing copyrights, any new ones will have one year shortened every year until the 20 year mark reached. Then all copyright work have 20 years. That's it.
There are a number of books that are based on Winnie-the-Pooh and quoting fragments. For a long time, I have had the idea to write a kind of annotated version of the stories with references to all the books that reference the text.

I understand Disney has the rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh character and that they still might cause trouble for those who publish text from the books in Europe.
> Emergence of life on Earth took 13.7 billion years

13.7 billion years? Isn't that the age of the universe, and didn't life emerge on Earth only after about a billion years?
Right? I mean I think what GP is saying that they aren't qualified to interview Java programmers? Hasn't used it since 2010??? Yet they had the hubris to think that they were qualified, and used the interviewees lack of knowledge to confirm his priors about Java?
>The researchers broke this figure down into those abducted “without consent” (6%) and those “with consent” (16%). Yet the idea of consent is difficult to parse in a country

I knew some Kyrgz who talked about this and they said the real thing was rare, illegal and still happened (almost exclusively in remote villages) but mostly it was a performative ritual done by couples who were dating.

I think the Economist is being intentionally obtuse here. 6% / 16% is about right.
I wish Snips.ai were still around. They had a great system that you could install on a Raspberry Pi and recognised phrases were broadcast as JSON over MQTT to allow automatons to be executed. It was very manual, in that other services needed to be running to parse custom commands etc, but it could be used to control Home Assistant.

It got bought by Sonos and mothballed.[0]

[0] https://investors.sonos.com/news-and-events/investor-news/la...
That's how you end up with redlining or worse. It's too easy to slip a few "undesirables" into the list you're sharing, and as long as you don't do it too often then your list remains a net-positive so people keep doing it. (See also the guy who put his ex-wife on the no-fly list).

For something like starting a fight, you can go by actual court records, which are public and have processes in place to correct them if they're wrong (and we have rules about e.g. when convictions should be expunged). Just sharing lists of names is too abusable.
Plot twist: dinosaurs were really an alien species. After they were wiped out by an asteroid slung at the earth by an evil prince, the earth was written off as a memorial site.
That does kind of describe the modern "cheap" android infrastructure. (caveat the battery, which after a bunch of years is useless anyway :-)) The other "modern" alternative to this is an HDMI display with a Raspberry Pi mounted to the back[1].

One could 3D print a different frame in order to mount speakers and a web camera, but that isn't really off the shelf any more at that point.

[1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/raspberry-pi-ips-hdmi-display is an example.
Wow didn't know that!
The copyright owner determines that. Put some price on renewal and let the owner decide if they want to pay it or not. For the vast majority of content, it's worthless after x years and they will just let it lapse.

We could then shorten copyright down to something like 20 years and anything still being sold or used can be renewed while completely obsolete gameboy games become freed.

Even if the fee was something like $10/year, probably the majority of copyrights would not be renewed.
In this case it's overkill, if you don't enable javascript, the entire article is perfectly readable, including images, and without cookiewall or paywall.
Can this be a great business opportunity? Or, if you try to fill in for Stripe in this case, you'll run into some non-obvious blockers upstream? maybe the parties Stripe is dealing with will penalize porn and stuff, so it's not even up to Stripe? or not?
(I started reading too much into that comment .. I'll pass on that.)

Was hoping that the ~baited comment would elicit a discussion. What would be interesting, from a psychological pov, is to understand why our IQ drops in relationships. The pointed list of 'obvious signs' are indeed obvious. We all recognize them in other peoples' relationships! Immediately, like radar. You always know before your friend if the gf is cheating on him, just by observing. But one's own relationship is obscured by some sort of distorting effect. After it is over, years later, it is crystal clear and then you feel stupid for not seeing it. Because it was obvious, you realize.

This is the interesting psychological aspect of the matter, imo.
Emotional Intelligence and Human Skills
I feel like we can revisit when we reach this point :)
It's there as well.
Once or twice a year on HN, I find myself reading a post and thinking "this is a complete and utter waste of time, this person has spent so much time and effort on something so meaningless that they could have spent on something else", and yet despite that thought, absolutely loving it.

This is probably my favourite link this year.
The point of the Borat movie was to make fun of western peoples beliefs about foreign people and foreign cultures.

In order to capture the audience, it uses satire. It takes ideas about foreign people, exaggerates these ideas even further, and investigates how people react to these exaggerated ideas. It turned out that even when taken to ridiculous extremes, many people (as seen in the movie) were willing to buy the idea that Borat was a real person from a foreign country.

Borat does feel dated now. But perhaps that also means, the movie was effective on some level, in highlighting these beliefs? And perhaps even to help combat said beliefs?
A bit, maybe. But I do know people who are actual left-leaning liberals and folks who are orthodox, economic Marxists and both pretty much loathe the activist class.

A lot of the reason to be afraid of the modern times, though, is that many more or less left-lib people have lost sight of why anything the activist class wants might be bad. People increasingly just have no understanding for why these kinds of word redefinitions or any activist program like trying to erase the contributions of assholes from projects and products might be damaging. It's not necessarily that they're actively onboard. It's not that they're actively pushing for more silliness, but there's just a new blindness as to what they're doing.

It's similar to how in during the pandemic a lot of people were really into the idea of forcibly relocating unvaccinated people, and it just didn't occur to them that their policy might be monstrous.
> I can see this being canceled pretty quickly as being a racist policy.

That's where my first thought went to as well, basically it being nuked from orbit due to racial bias.

Second thought was it would probably be really bad PR and spun as "THIS COLLEGE IS BUYING GRADES!"
Looking at their prices and the (impressive) quality of the mesh topology in the demo movie they have on their web page (the rat) I couldn't help but think this a front that pretends to use pure AI but actually has real people (specialized mechanical turks) involved.

Specifically for guiding generation of the mesh from a possibly AI-generated point cloud (PTC). E.g. using manual contraints on an mostly automatic quad (re-)mesher ran as a post process on the triangle soup obtained from meshing the original, AI-generated PTC.

I.e.:

1. AI-generate PTC from image(s).

2. Auto-generate triangle mesh via marching cubes or whatever from PTC.

3. Quad re-mesh with mesh-guided automatic constraint discovery (think edges, corners etc.).

4. Manual edit quad-mesher constraints.

5. Quad re-mesh.

That would explain their pricing which seems a tad too high for a fully automatic solution.
$600 for 30 models x 10 iterations. I.e. each iteration would cost $2.

Or maybe it's just so niche this is simply because of number of users for now and indeed fully automatic.

Curious to hear what other people involved in 3D and cloud compute think.
Yeah, just looking at National Parks grossly undercounts and, if anything, National Parks are generally more developed (though have more protections) than a lot of other federal properties. Of course, it's somewhat uneven in terms of location. Federal land is disproportionately out west and in Alaska in terms of acreage.
Text Web Templates Considered Harmful (2020) [pdf]
The thing that you're missing is the reappearance in other places of Metropolis's visual style. It's probably easier to see if you're a fan of Art Deco. It might also be easier to see if you watch Tron, which also was influential via visual style (in a different direction and lesser degree than Metropolis).
Imagine this system, but for chargebacks. "You issued a charge back against us once, so you're no longer allowed in any of our physical locations ever again. You should have talked to us first."
> leading to bears openly attacking population

Were they doing it more secretly before?
Nations agree to preserve 30 percent of nature by 2030
In Mexico it is common to say that a woman was stolen or kidnapped ("Se la robó") when a couple elopes. Curious that the same face-saving mechanism is common in other parts of the world.

As a boy whenever I heard a woman had been "stolen" I couldn't help but picture a man carrying her off on his shoulders in the middle of the night while she helplessly tried to get away. Took me a while to understand it was usually consensual.
No, I meant neurotypical. I guess I could have said "normal" or "average". It's also culturally dependent, so maybe I should have just said Americans.
This is clickbait. The anonymous author wants to make you angry, and it starts with the headline. The article is shallow and provides no insight into what the program looks like.

If the author gave a shit about actual reporting, they'd provide context about other programs that tried similar things, and their results. How are the kids held accountable? What type of training is offered? Is there a pipeline into internships and employment?
I appreciate the distinction you're making. I could have been more accurate in my description. Markdown states in its own documentation that the name refers to two things, and "Canvas" to date fits mostly in (1)

> Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.

What we have done so far is shared an open spec for the .canvas file format, with a type definition that helps developers understand how to create properly formed Canvas files. We also are giving permission to people/companies to use this format with the freedoms that come with the MIT license. In addition we're also putting forward the intention that there should be a free and open format for this type of canvas data, with some similar properties to Markdown. Perhaps in the future there will be more open source tooling fitting into definition (2).

The goal here is simply to help people feel more comfortable that the canvas files they create are their own, and can eventually accrue longevity as more tools get built around the format. I hope this will lead to a rich ecosystem outside of Obsidian. We're committing to keeping it an open format, and hope to collaborate with other people who might want to adopt it.

The same can't be said about the PSD format, so I do think there is a difference in the level of openness that we're aiming for.
> Similar to other rights in the Declaration of Independence, this is a right that people will exercise regardless of whether it is outlawed or not and no one can stop those who wish to exercise it.

I don't understand this argument. Should we also have an inalienable right to recreational opiates?

> If someone has been suffering greatly from a very bad exposure to the gympie-gympie tree and they truly need the most expedient death to relieve the pain...

This example is also confusing to me. It sounds horrific, but it's temporary and non-terminal. Not what I'd classify as a "true need for the most expedient death." I can be understanding of the desire to die in this situation, but I cannot see how this should grant everyone the right to die in the manner of their choosing. If you truly need an expedient death, as you say, the law won't stop you.

Reducto ad absurdum: If I get poison ivy and can't sleep for a few nights, should I be legally allowed to swerve headlong into traffic?

If we should have a right to suicide, the only way I can see it enacted is through doctor assisted suicide clinics, otherwise we open the door to even greater harm from public or botched attempts.
All that's required to explain the Fermi Paradox is that it happen < 1 in an observable volume of the universe. The volume of the universe in which OoL could happen could be vastly larger, but we could never see most of it. Each extremely rare occurrence of intelligent life would never be able to contact any other, as they'd never be causally connected by signals traveling at the speed of light.
Someone reverse engineered copilot and found that it was using the weaker faster OpenAI coding model. So they are not using code-davinci-002 or text-davinci-003 both of which are better at code generation.

Also several groups including OpenAI are racing to advance the state of the art in text (and code) generation. We should anticipate better models being available within the next year or so. In fact I believe some papers within the month or so are an improved SOTA in their contexts.

Try the Codex Playground stuff on the OpenAI site.
CUE | https://cuelang.org https://cuetorials.com

It will be the standard language for schemas and configuration in time
What paper like screen protector and Pencil nib did you get please?
I hope he raises the prices on Twitter Blue, it's way too cheap right now.
You may find this product interesting: https://stratoflow.com/
That’s not how I’ve interpreted the reporting on it so far. I haven’t read anything that explicitly claims twitter “threw the election” for biden, at least not in the actual twitter files. What I have read is that a lot of the moderation requests at the behest of the FBI were favorable to biden and democrats in general. Whether that swayed the election isn’t exactly clear, but the coverup happening right before the election makes it impossible to ignore.

I also think you’re being a bit disingenuous and assuming bad faith from the get go. I’m sure there are tons of replies to the original tweets saying the things you’re claiming are being said, but the original tweets don’t make such bold claims. The main message I got from everything so far is that the feds had a lot of influence over twitters moderation decisions, from inside and out. As a leftist, I think that’s a bad thing.

I do think that the hunter biden laptop story is a massive scandal and I detest how it’s been reframed as “it’s just dick pics bro.” That was a coverup of pretty clear cut corruption and it seems that the FBI ordered it, and I think that’s bad.

I do really hate that they were forced to release this stuff on twitter, and I’m optimistically hoping that’s the main reason it isn’t being discussed as much as I think it should be. (I almost never click twitter links on hn.) It could absolutely have been done better and I know it’s just to drive traffic to the site. I’m hoping mainstream outlets actually cover it once everything has been released, but I’m pretty doubtful.

Frustrating indeed.