skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Insurances (e.g. your travel insurance) are contracts. They should be digital, standardized, on a public ledger, so that I can travel anywhere and prove that I have one instead of having to bring, a fakeable piece of paper.

* If I resell my phone, transfering the remaining guarantee and/or insurance should be nothing else then a transaction. On the blockchain that's 10x more efficient than the status quo.

* If an artist sells his art the first time for $10, and the person resells it for 10000$, then the artist should be compensated too. Royalty mechanisms can solve for that and avoid secondary markets or at least create a more beneficial secondary.

There are an endless amount of examples which will make a lot of things more efficient, transparent and enforce standardization on a global level. Long way to go, but absolutely worth it.
This is actually backwards. First party content costs Netflix more. They license everything the same way -- paying someone else for the content. For example, they didn't make Squid Games or Wednesday. They just got an exclusive deal for a period of time. This actually costs a lot more than licensing already existing content, because they have to pay extra for the exclusive rights and they have to pay enough to cover the cost of making it.

They push you towards exclusive content because it's what differentiates them from the competition.
> Claiming violence does not produce lasting compliance is an interesting belief that is not shared by the majority of the world, so I find this claim uncompelling.

It's a belief that is backed by the total absence of evidence of a lasting effect on compliance from the use of violence. That societies continue to condone the use of violence despite the total lack of anything to suggest it works speaks to the pathology of the political process, not to the efficacy of violence.

There are situations where violence becomes necessary, such as self-defence or a defensive war, as a means to achieve short term compliance absent other alternatives, but anyone who believes in a beneficial long term effect on compliance is a fool.
This looks promising as a teaching aide. At my previous company, I transitioned our project from Clearcase to Git to save us licensing and administration fees. Many of the senior developers, who had never used Git, had a hard time understanding it, and I spent many whiteboard sessions explaining by drawing similar graphs. This would give those developers more autonomy, and stop the “let me blow it away and start over”, which would drive me nuts. Devs spent a lot of time and frustration performing that operation.

I believe the core issue is devs like above never take the time to “grok” Git. I believe part of this is due to the lack of a tool like above to teach easily, but also because devs want to ignore the “how” of their tool working to find out the exact commands they need to run in their current situation.

One could argue users should not need to understand how their tool works to use it effectively and this is a leaky abstraction. Others could argue some commands are not intuitive (git reset can do many things, and git rebase swapping ours/theirs comes to mind). I don’t claim Git is perfect, and sometimes I need to Google to learn more than I wanted to, to get out of an obscure scenario (e.g. someone put classified intelligence into a repository we need to transfer to a lower classification network; how do I rewrite the entire history while correcting this error that occurred 487 commits ago?). However, understanding the tree structure of Git, what git rebase does under the covers, what branches and tags are, how remotes work, how merging works, etc. would go a LONG way. The folk I worked with struggled to pick it up.
It is just a few years on node size (Samsung is close), but probably large setback on production capacity (Samsung has less volume).
Biggest problem here that it's in a browser. One tab next to it is this orange time trap website.
> An inaccurate engine and a statistical one are indistinguishable.

How so? The paper is trying to assess if some semantic understanding is being created by the underlying model, not if a completely accurate one is. If such a world model maps to Othello-prime (gleaning concepts like tiles, colors etc), that is still a very interesting result.
> The exaflod of content and deep fakes, etc. that's coming towards everyone soon will require some sort of trust protocol, blockchain is great for that.

No it isn't. Blockchains have no solution to the oracle problem. A blockchain is useless for distinguishing AI-generated content from other content for the same reason a blockchain is useless for managing mortgages on real property.
The last days of Nikki Finke
Intellectual status is recognised slowly and belatedly. See for example Nobel prize awards, which frequently come late in life.

New talents are recongised only slowly over time. I've lived long enough to have had the experience of seeing people I'd noted long before gain wider appreciation, as well as seeing new faces appear out of the blue. There's also of course the reverse: formerly esteemed individuals falling from grace, with Alex Kozinski being one such example in the legal field.

Among the first appearances of Richard Posner at the New York Times is a mention in this 1978 article:

<https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/18/archives/regulation-do-it...>

Would it be clear from it that one is dealing with a budding giant in the legal field?

(There's an earlier match on the name, though I'm not sure that it refers to the same Richard Posner, though on reflection I suspect it is: <https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/30/archives/the-closed-enter...> (1972).)

Full search results, oldest first: <https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&query=%22richar...>
This is a great point. I thought about how I could simulate commands like "git pull" and "git push", but like you said that would require communicating with the remote to determine ... stuff ... like what objects need to be synched, and potentially even doing some of the actual data transfer before an accurate simulation would be possible.

My initial goals for this tool are to purely simulate actions on Git repos without actually modifying them, but I might be flexible on that going forward, as I mention in the article with the --execute flag.
I totally believe this is the future of NPC/player interaction for more immersive and useful in-game assistance.

I worked on a small project for fun a couple of weekends ago.

I wanted to capture and mix the state of the game (League of Legends) with AI to generate snarky fun comments.

I came up with this [1], using the LoL client internal API, OpenAI's libs, with few external dependencies and a couple of hundred lines of Python.

[1] https://youtu.be/tdONZF9iktY
Maybe this is a good time to ask. Have you found Pomodoro to be good for coding?

When I get into the flow I completely lose track of time, and find the 5 minutes interruption every 25 minutes annoying. And then, during the break, I either can't get my thoughts off the problem at hand, or I do and then it's more effort to get back to the task.

I'm curious about your experience.
This should not be overlooked.

A film that exists is better than one that never gets made.

Digital reduces the cost required to get certain shots; makes certain shots possible that would be impossible with film; integrates more directly into cheaper digital production workflows that make it possible to pull of effects that would be impossible on film…

Much as we may nostalgically enjoy the aesthetic of the optical compositing of original Star Wars special effects, they were incredibly expensive and - compared to what can be done today for a fraction of the cost with all-digital workflows (eg in the Disney plus Star Wars shows), objectively not as good.
The interaction is a huge component of it. Shared experiences is important to a lot of people. It's why people love playing games with friends. Even single player games, people will still discuss online etc.

I think it's always more immersive than a movie, even in terms of non immersive games. "You" are the one playing after all. I also think there's such a wide variety of games that's there's something for everyone.

Music is much cheaper to consume. I have 95% of the music I ever care to listen to at my fingertips from a single music streaming subscription. That definitely contributes to the pure money factor and why games sell more.

A lot of artists make more in merch, vinyl, and touring ticket sales than they do in pure streaming numbers. Buying new video games generally cost more. Even if they don't, people tend to spend more on microtransactions.
Interesting that the Jax page still says it's not an official google product (a recent Research publication said it was).
Paper cash was an innovation to solve the issue that gold is hard to lug around. And very much an analogy of a L2 network

It is arguably easier to counterfeit than gold (there is fools gold too…)

The base layer is very secure. L2s will be faster, but have a trade off of being less secure.

Note: the L2 Lightning Network is different than L2s for ETH like POLY, POLY has its own market cap (garbage idea IMO). Lightning is just a tool to make BTC more efficient
Not to go to far off topic, but:

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-319

> "Operation Warp Speed was a federal effort that supported multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates to speed up development. We analyzed the program's vaccine candidates and found that their development followed traditional practices, with some adaptations. For example, some clinical trial phases overlapped with each other and with animal studies to accelerate development."

Notice this probably played a role in the fact that the clinical trials didn't reveal that the vaccines didn't have much effect in preventing transmission (although severity of symptoms was clearly reduced).

This discussion would have led to a perma-ban on the main Covid subreddits, I believe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34478626#34479520
No, but the least-bad choice clearly isn't Windows.
Where I'm living "watching TV" often refers to "old-fashioned TV", so for streaming people say "Let's watch Netflix" for example
Not only that. Different cultures who have traditionally had their own sense of color have all started copying each other...cause you know to "appeal to the largest number of chimps possible". Stuff from Europe, Japan, Korea and India all starts looking similar in color.

Its similar to the unimaginative western boring shit color palette that exists in Windows, Apple and Android permeating all software guis across the world.
The Crab Apple you refer to is a species, not a variety. And, to be clear, while there were many, many varieties of apples named and propagated in North America in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, almost all of them were of the same, single species.
Yes, but it's not exactly a desired outcome.
last ones to suggest that got uno reverse cards instead
> This is wrong, regulation can make a difference.

Regulation is per country or bloc. With ML the value of defecting is so high that any regulation you impose on it which restricts its utility will amount to self-sabotage.
Call customer service, tell them you'd like to be removed from all A/B tests, because it's messing up your experience. They should still have a button to do that.
It also crashed to a value that is still above the 2017 high and above what it was for 2018 through 2020.
Ask HN: Is AI revolution only for the select few unlike internet/mobile eras?
We had internet and it was very democratic anyone/anywhere could build something, then smartphones came and it created new age of similar oppurtunities.

However, It feels to me that AI age is different only companies with unlimited funding can come up with models and new advances (midjourney/openai)... and rest have to either sit and watch or rely on their tech stack which is a risky proposition (if you core tech is third party then they can increase prices, kick you out, or launch competitor to you)

In many ways AI wave in tech is similar to bio advances, a domain of select few corporations and VCs.

Do you agree? Am I not seeing something?

Unless you are some brilliant PHD grad students with triple focus on Math, ML, and Neuroscience. It seems you have not many options and even then you need a lot more of resources to actually train your models.
I don’t trust it for setting a timer fully. When I say “set a timer for 50 minutes” (laundry) it ends up setting a 15 minute timer >50% of the time
Wasn't that the whole point of the movie? How horrifying the uncanny valley can be. Not just M3gan herself but the entire world that the movie takes place in. James Wan is a brilliant director.
Counterpoint, I tried it and it was good enough for me. I play games every day and haven’t used Windows since 2020.
If anyone like me has read the comments here and the linked page and still has no idea what this has to do with tomatoes..

Apparently it is a method of dividing a work day into explicitly timed intervals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
They don’t have to pay anybody… there’s no shortage of people who are more than happy to wield the power of being a mod and share the political and corporate values of the Reddit staff.

Not to mention Reddit doesn’t have as many legal responsibilities over them if they don’t pay them I guess.
I would imagine, games are relatively less expensive to produce, so duds are less costly. That said, it's costly enough that the barrier to entry minimizes noise in the market (unlike music).

The music industry has social appeal but the truth is only a few artists do very well. So despite the volume of artists and releases there is a never ending stream of duds.
I was about to ask the question, thanks for the explanation!
The post you answered to was too narrow; they should have written "regulatory arbitrage" that this would have encompassed your examples.
Note that having rollback in mind from the very beginning can also impact how a fighting game is designed. The happy path of rollback involves "hiding" network jitter in the startup animations of various moves. But startup animations exist for a reason, to telegraph intent to an opponent and give them a chance to react. For moves with very little startup animation, a rollback correction can update the state of the game to several frames into the hit itself, making many moves unreactable! This feels about as bad as being shot despite ducking behind a wall in an FPS (with basically the same cause). The "solution" is to have a policy whereby you design the game such that you increase the amount of startup animation across the board, to smooth out these wrinkles. In the worst case, this is even used to justify massive built-in input delay on every input! This optimizes the game for being played online, at the expense of being played in-person. The irony being that, while the vast majority of play will happen online, all the most prestigious events (funded by the developers themselves to advertise their game as an e-sport) are in-person.
GPG decrypts to standard output (by default), can take input from standard input so that Pass uses this to avoid plaintext on storage media. The issue that /dev/shm addresses has nothing to do with PGP. It is when you want to use a text editor to modify an existing multiline entry. Then the text editor needs a file to edit.
> "The exaflod of content and deep fakes, etc. that's coming towards everyone soon will require some sort of trust protocol, blockchain is great for that."

I don't see how this is the case. Any blockchain verification is one off, and limited to the chain it is on. I, and many other people, would probably more trust a variety of centralized claims to truth or trust, than a decentralized claim. You trust when multiple parties state how they verified, you don't trust when one party writes "this is true" to a decentralized service, without all of the evidence they used to verify as true.

Crypto, except transactions on centralized exchanges, is hideous for microscopic payments. It costs too much to verify even minimal transactions on chain (even more for contracts). It's a lot, lot cheaper to use a centralized service for minimal transactions.
In part.

But another important factor was that movies couldn't be too dark because tvs couldn't reproduce them properly.

We all now have devices that can display the full SDR and HDR is becoming more common.

Filmmakers were forced to shoot and deliver bright images. So now the pendulum has gone to the other side. It's probably going to stabilize at some point.
I'd say these 3 are pretty awesome.

- Cloudflare

- OpenAI

- Apple
Ask HN: How do I get into pen test as a developer?
Earlier this week someone asked why devs seems to not care too much about secure development. I figured that it must be because there is no positive feedback if a system is secure. Only negative feedback when it isn’t.

So as a developer I would like to gain more knowledge about how pentesters usually work, so that I can continuously test my own implementations. And because I am curious ofc. Is there any good sources out there?
Weird thing is I use Surface kit, ie despite everything being from Microsoft I can’t pay them money to get a Windows (Workstation or LTSP) without ads.
I disagree, my experience as a photographer has been that almost everything is “perfectly exposed” in my visual experience, but committed to a photo it is suddenly a mess. This isn’t really because the camera is bad; our brain creates a visual experience with huge dynamic range without us realizing it.

A simple example is backlit subjects on a cloudy day. We aren’t even aware the subject is backlit, but a light meter will reveal multiple stops of difference.

The result is a “real” photo frequently doesn’t actually look like your experience of the scene, and the photographer needs to do the work your brain is normally doing for you. Poorly done, it does look fake. This is where photography (or cinematography) becomes art.
I give myself full permission to skip the timer when I’m in the zone. Pomodoro is brilliant for me when I’m not personally motivated to get a thing done, like chores or other things that have to be done but that I’m not excited about.
Its called Windows 10 LTSC. I have been running it for years and everytime I use a non-LTSC version of Windows, i'm baffled by the amount of bullshit MS manages stuff in their OS. It's almost as if they are actively trying to make people leave their ecosystem.
Nice interactive demos!

I may just buy this book.

---

On a somewhat related note:

It would be nice if there were more information / tooling centered around doing SVG animations w/ CSS alone.

The reason being that you can animate SVG on GitHub README pages using CSS, but cannot do it using JavaScript (to my knowledge).
> Combustion and hybrids will be banned in most markets by 2035-40.

Banned from being sold, not used*
It's also why so many multiplayer games are bad. Wanna know what's worse? Unreal Engine's architecture is unreliable by design.[1]

Basically, Tim Sweeney's approach for Actor movement wasn't to replicate state accurately, but just trust that clients would eventually get the right data. This isn't the same as eventual consistency mind you, because game state constantly changes in fast-paced games.

You can have whole time spans where Actors have absolutely no accurate player position replication.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KGLbEfHsWANTTgUqfK6rkpFY...
He is using logic which is from our current planets situation , technology situation , culture situation which could be completely different from a different species deciding if trying to contact another civilization makes sense. Also, even if this is most likely, the amount of time we have to observe visitors is very limited relative to millions/billions of years of existence, plus, there are trillions of planets that may have life that may or may not interest these guys. All in all it only proves how unlikely we will be visited but doesn’t say anything about if life is out there or not.
Some liberated Ukrainian regions have mixed loyalties
https://archive.ph/seULz
> I believe the core issue is devs like above never take the time to “grok” Git

I believe the same, and it's not just a problem you see with git, it's all over the place. Some developers seems eager to use something so they just skim the documentation in order to do the least amount of reading and understanding in order to implement something, but often miss some fundamental detail and have to jump back. Or, they fundamentally misunderstand the tool at all, but push forward with their own idea what the tool is, rather than stepping back and start learning again.
This is probably risky saying this here, but here goes:

HN is crying a river about a bunch of millionaires losing their jobs.

99% of these people will land another job without any problem. Sure maybe they will have to accept a more normal salary (shock! How will they survive on less than $300k per year!)

Believe me, I'm not one to play the "you're privileged" card, but: you're privileged
If a person was doing the same thing we would rightfully call that "harassment".

Shame on every single <expletive> at Microsoft involved in this decision.
We had issue where memory consumption was several times higher with THP enabled. When you hit OOM, such performance problem became correctness problem.
Spotify certainly does sometimes give unexpected results. A few months ago some random train of through made me think of the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats and I decided to listen to it.

I went to Spotify's search and typed "i dont like' and hit enter, figuring what I was looking for would probably be near the top of the results. It was indeed the first result.

But man...the rest of the results were something else [1]. I've never done anything on Spotify that would suggest I might like most of those songs, or in many cases that I would even be interested in their genre.

Eventually curiosity got the better of me and I did listen to some of those to see if they were as bad as their titles suggested. They were.

But now I think Spotify has decided I like that kind of music.

If I do the same search now it has many of those still but now adds songs called "Sex Offender Shuffle", "Niggas in My Butthole", "3 BIG BALLS", "Alabama Nigga - Original Version", and "I Don't Like Beaners" to the top 15 or so.

There are plenty of songs with "I Don't Like" in the title or something close to which are about things like relationship problems or self esteem that are in the search results, so it is not like they only had songs about disliking certain races or songs about people's genitals to choose from.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/zks8UoQ
It’s hard to argue that it’s an intentional artistic choice if the overwhelming majority of compositions use it. It would be like saying a Monet being viewed through oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere is an artistic choice.
It's not even remotely close to being the same issue though
Theoretically yes. In practice every big company has a large amount of self-imposed process around firing to minimise the risk of lawsuits.
AI is dangerous unless I control it (or, can pass that control to big tech for a couple billion).
I think the idea of chatting during a Pomodor session is strange, but I do appreciate the opportunity to work with friends and the social accountability it provides. I believe it would be beneficial if the service offered private rooms. Additionally, it would be great if there was a built-in feature for users to give positive feedback, such as a 'like' button.
Let me fix that title: "Works are in danger of being swallowed up by AI"
An ex's mother was a concubine.

It's traditionally pretty normal for a married couple to drift apart over the years. People marry for appearances, social status, and to raise a family. They then seek gratification elsewhere.

The men who engage in this aren't looking to knock up more women. They already have a mother to their children. They want gratifying sex and emotional connection.