skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great discussion and a great starting point for interesting discussions.

It’s quite interesting that Japan anime are adding more movie-like look and feel by adding complex scenes & backgrounds (see, e.g., a Dec 2022 anime series, Chainsaw man), whereas Netflix goes the other way around. It’s said that animes are trying to gain more mainstream recognition in overseas markets this way, although it’s adversarial to the relatively low budget in an anime as well as the way they are created.

I think Netflix vs traditional movie has something do do with expectations on the screen size to watch, TV vs in cinema. It’s about information density. There are media specifically tuned to be watched on smaller screens, i.e., phones.

I used to advocate simplicity in artmaking, largely influenced by East Asian art style and also tech advertising and interface design at the early 2010 era. But as I grow up, I started to appreciate complexity, texture, imperfection especially after I moved to NYC. This has become so much so that a empty-esque room makes me uncomfortable, not organic, not homecoming. Wonder if this has something to do with age and audience also.

The Netflix are tuned to the younger generation vs traditional movie tuned to the older. And there is also that Netflix tuning to overseas markets that are unfamiliar to American audiences.

There is much to be discussed under this topic, but here are some sporadic thoughts of mine.
Crypto has one application - soak up excessive speculative capital. And annihilate them in the process.
I’d recommend browsing new releases on Vudu. Sure you’ll get some Netflix-aesthetic movies mixed in, but you’ll also get plenty of indie and movies that don’t..
I fully agree.
Every judge and laywer should understand:

base rate fallacy and cold hits.

(and everyone should understand:
Simpson's paradox,
Regression toward the mean,
NHST problems
)
It absolutely does. A Torah scroll without it would be invalid for public readings.
Investment into nuclear never stopped, it just doesn't achieve anything positive.

Which makes it a perfect analogy for investment in a V8.
Japan. Land of the overworked Salaryman. Is like the literal embodiment of this.
> it's a pain because of NAT/port forwarding

Tailscale or zerotier. It's a solved problem. You don't need to use a vps at all.
This [1] is worth watching in full. Crypto, to me, has shown three things:

1. Its only use case is bypassing laws;

2. Crypto thrives on desperation and hopelessness. I think more and more people are realizing that their circumstances (or "material conditions" if you prefer) are awful. So many people are bordering on food and housing insecurity. So many people feel like they'll never "get ahead". Everyone saw Bitcoin's meteoric rise and don't want to miss out on the next Bitcoin; and

3. Despite crypto having no use cases and being a giant Ponzi scheme, it's amazing how long something can persist when people want it to be true.

So is it dead? Not yet. It may never die. But it should. It's worth noting Weaver's Iron Law of Blockchain [2]

> When somebody says you can solve X with blockchain, they don’t understand X, and you can ignore them.

I'll also note that apparently the Bitcoin network used 200TWh in 2022. It came up in another thread the other day that Google in 2020 used 15TWh. Now compare the utility.

Think about that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORdWE_ffirg

[2]: https://twitter.com/Kellblog/status/1532756678596124673
> is actually a good thing

If you believe that those who have the most should get more going forward. The new system concentrates the wealth more than the old system
iDeal is really nice and everywhere in the Netherlands. Giving out credit card details to websites is crazy to me. (https://www.ideal.nl/en/)
He elaborated and you didn't understand

There are tons of accounts of how you feel a sense of 'presence' in VR. The head tracking fools your lizard brain into thinking you're actually there in the virtual world.

If you're reading this site I'm guessing you have access to $400. Just go buy a Quest 2 and try it out for 10 minutes, and you'll see what I mean.
Two things I could adopt at any time, but usually keep them out of my bloodstream without careful consideration.

Could be habit-forming and you could build up a tolerance to things that otherwise would keep you up at night.
It hasn't been brought up, because it is ridiculous. Reddit is a platform to create communities, and people operating subs are reddit's customers. With the same logic you could argue that everyone posting on Twitter should have participated in their IPO, the same goes for Facebook, TikTok and whatever platform you can imagine. Why isn't Discord paying the server admins? HN would be nothing without people posting links. Should OP be paid by YCombinator for this thread?
Questioning My Approach to Advice
You can't have a healthy online community without moderation. It gets overrun by spammers, trolls, off-topic conversations, and flamewars. Moderation is the reason that all of us are here instead of Usenet or 4chan.
Unable to play any of these online in Chrome on Windows - first 3 games I tried fail to load with the message TypeError: failed to fetch.

Update looks like it's timing out so maybe server is getting hammered.
At least with traditional search results, there are some indicia of their trustworthiness: does the author/outlet have a history of deception, are their assertions well-sourced, etc. With a chatbot result, it's effectively a black box.
Check out https://character.ai - cool product, and it basically already does the NPC aspect very effectively.

First encountering it around last year in September, it blew my mind.
No worries! There's a good chance that anything I post that sounds remotely authoritative turns out to be super inaccurate as well :)
Yes, the FTXs and people who use them will suffer, sadly

More regulation is needed

The same happened before FDIC insured banks, fake banks that would “hold your paper cash safely”
The Perils of Prudence
If it knows that it knows, then surely can program by itself a sufficiently large program, debug it, extend it and so on. That is an NP-hard problem, as the name suggests, it is not easy, which is to say that it is infinitely hard, i.e. impossible.

Something that many people are surprised to realize, including me, is how much of our life can be be described by a context-free language. When we try to create a machine which knows-that-it-knows this is context-sensitive. Day and night comparison, Javascript vs CSS for example.

Machines are currently able to compare, contrast and mimic images and text,a thousand times better than a human. Maybe even million times better than a human. Very soon this will be billion and trillion.

This copying machine, copies only the context-free properties of the subject it analyzes. The moment it will try to copy context-sensitive properties, then the it hits the halting problem. No LLM currently has any problem terminating, so it analyzes only context-free properties of the subject.

A human song, a painting or a novel, maybe copies only the context-free properties from one other song, painting or novel. We humans for centuries and millennia described it as creativity. It turns out it was not creativity. Machines are creative only because we conflated context-free art creation, and context-sensitive art creation. When that distinction takes place, then machines will not be described as creative anymore!
You wrote a lot of words but did not answer the question
And this goes beyond games. Imagine what education looks like when the AI is able to model how the child views the world, and how to get the child to view the world so that they can answer some goal that has been set, and what problems and contexts will best motivate them to reach that goal in the quickest time.
Ask HN: Non-Intrusive Human Verification?
With the existence of SMS receiving services and click farms that bypass Google's latest captcha (I'm not even going to mention how easy it is to "click" on email links), services have started implementing more and more elaborate ways to detect bots, at a detriment to regular, everyday users.

If I were developing a new service, how could I verify my users in a non-intrusive way? Forcing SMS verification only slightly reduces the bot problem and alienates new users, and asking users to, say, manually email me to enable access is completely unsustainable. Is it even possible to keep bots out in a sustainable way that respects the end user?
May I recommend bitburner?
> Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game that revolves around hacking and cyberpunk themes.

https://github.com/danielyxie/bitburner
https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/
Yes. If you have to ask then you know the answer.
If doing cloud gaming in unsupported regions of the world, sometimes VPNs are about the only option.

I live in Nicaragua, don't game a whole lot, but did subscribe to XBox Cloud Gaming to see what it's like, and while it's not supported here, I can connect to it as long as something is proxying it from a supported region.

Previously I was using my own OpenVPN instances that I set up on some servers that I manage in the U.S. and the results have been okay.

Subscribed to ExpressVPN the other day to try it out, and the latency seems much improved, though there are periods of stutter that seem more pronounced than my own network.
While I support upholding section 230 I find irony in reddit proclaiming their support for users and everyday citizens. The majority of the site is overrun by zealots and trolls who relentlessly punish any non-conformance woth their chosen orthodoxy. Their moderation rarely maintains communities but rather restricts discussion, dissent and freedom of expression.

This is like the Stazi proclaiming support for privacy laws.
Only when you start to learn to use it, just like when you start to learn to use Windows.
He plans to do this for many years. "Simple" colors like that won't work after he's done, say, 17 rounds of updates.
Well, nicotine kind of is one of the most harmful things about cigarettes. During the curing and processing of tobacco leaves, nicotine and other alkaloids partially react with nitrate to form nitrosamines ("Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines" or "TSNAs"), that contribute greatly to tobacco's carcinogenicity. They're not the only carcinogens in tobacco / tobacco smoke, of course, but they are important. (This is, afaik, not relevant for pure nicotine.)
I don’t really get your example. You could search for common liver conditions and then get a link to WebMD or Mayo Clinic very, very quickly and you can be very confident that it is accurate. If I’m a 4th grader using ChatGPT to cheat on my math homework, I might be quite satisfied with the answer that 42 is a prime number and even provide its great proof.
Is any AI generated image even illegal, assuming originality and difference from training set?
> ChatGPT often makes up facts.

As opposed to... Google? Your doctor? My doctor?
Who Are the Real Babies in First Class?
That assumes a 150kw+ charger, which aren't super common. I did a trip from Houston to San Diego in my Kia EV6, and those chargers (I believe Electrify America is the only one with those speeds) were roughly every 60-100 miles. Many areas you can't even find one close enough to not run out on the freeway (for instance, anywhere in Texas south of San Antonio). Slower level 3 chargers will typically take 3x as long, and the level 2 chargers that are common will typically take 5-8 hours.
Singapore sounds ruthlessly authoritarian. Mandatory death sentence for drugs is barbaric. I would legitimately rather live in a city like you describe (and probably do by your standards, Seattle) than that.
This is absolutely amazing. I seem to recall ultima underworld came out a few months before with a similar ray tracing engine, but it wasn’t open sourced so it’s not possible to try
This is only a single post
I mean, not to defend Bitcoin, but if you have invested at $60 and sold at $60K - it has provided tremendous value. Most people are going to lose money on this “investment”, but just saying that it provides no value at all is a tired argument.
Is that a performance problem or a correctness problem?
For the simple reason that market corrections are not absolutes: the only thing that a correction down to 440B tells us is that it hasn’t been corrected down to 0 yet.

It may never be, but that’s just to say that “it’s still valued” is not a good argument for “it’s correctly valued.”
The good ol' "criminals use it"

Might as well ban e2e encryption. Or any security-enhancing measure that can protect individuals.
> From that measure alone, why should anyone think “it’s dead”?

Because everyone is waiting to exhume it when it's worth something. Bitcoin has no utility, which is not a knock against it's implementation but it is an ill-omen for it's value. The concept of 'digital gold' only works if the gold is inherently worth something. Owning a piece of a blockchain that's too expensive to transact on is a detriment, not a positive.

Not to insinuate there's some 'better investment' though. Crypto is dead because the dream of democratized currency hit the mainstream and got rejected, big-time. Use it if you want, invest for however long you'd like, but you should make peace with the fact that a crypto future is nothing more than opportunistic ankle-biting.
Except Barry Lyndon did exactly that.
Use Privacy.com for that!
Artifactory, unfortunately.
for the same out of pocket price? every single one of them!

heck even paying 5 lawyers to work in shifts around the clock taking calls and updating a local excell sheet is cheaper with better uptime
Genuinely curious what type of content would be considered illegal here.

- the tool is drawing original content.
- the tool is executing on my laptop.
- the output image is not shared with anyone.

In a way, whatever this tool can do, MS Paint could (theoretically) do.

Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
I think this goes back to Google’s decision to be evil.

Being evil has a lot of overhead where you have to invest significant time into researching grey areas to exploit and then crafting your product or service not step over the line. Then it falls apart when you get to Europe and they are happy to call you on being evil and fine you billions of euros for doing evil things.

Google should go back to not being evil, that worked a lot better for them, and just focus on making cutting edge products.

It would also be great if they answered the phone on occasion, and did more to listen to their users. Community support is an obvious cop-out, and nobody wants be dismissed without warning or explanation when it involves something they care about.
Just open up a command line, change directory to your Desktop, and type:

attrib +h "Microsoft Edge.lnk"

Then you never have to see it again.
> However, one of the problems they share with many "Western" nations but much worse, is the birth rate. They're looking at a massive demographic crisis because of their misoginy, and not helped by their xenophobia (e.g. some countries are relying on migrants to "fix" the low birth rates).

This argument about misogny being the cause of low birth rates kind of falls on it's face when you go back in history to when these countries had higher levels of misogny yet much higher birth rates. If you're JUST looking at the correlation, misogny rates correlates with HIGHER birth rates, not lower ones. (Correlation does not necessarily imply causation and all that, but there's a possible argument that could be made here but I won't make it.)

Low birth rates the world over have a much higher degree of correlation with urban versus rural living ratios rather than anything else. When property costs per square meter/foot are high and you can't use your children to help your business there's a VERY strong incentive to not have children for economic reasons. (Historically most Japanese either had children working with their parents on farms part time or children helping run the family shop part time that was underneath the living area. That changed with the post-war economic boom.)
Actually I meant it as a Western value, in reference to the fact that women in Japan often leave the workforce to focus on the home full-time. In the West, being a stay at home mom is not really acceptable socially, at least in major cities.

It’s definitely complicated though, as the salaryman phenomenon shows. No simple and straightforward answers.
> most societies believe that each individual must contribute to some degree

That sounds like tax money to be used for mental health services.
MS being MS. Lots on this site said it's a new MS, no more of the old shenanigans and yet here we are...
It heavily varies on the price you’re willing to pay.

Cheapish appartments will have a ton of specific clauses, including no foreigners in general. Slightly overpriced ones will be more open, and you won’t have issues finding something above 160000 a month.

This is one of the reason why getting a meh paying job just to come to Japan is playing the immigration game in hard mode.

PS: for those shocked by “no foreigners” clauses, you’ll be interested to know that “girls only”, “no pets”, “no music instrument”, “no smoker” are also pretty common clauses, and you’ll also get refused depending on your employer if they don’t look good enough to the eyes of the owner. Lower tier appartments are a wild ride in general.
Betteridge disagrees with you
Microsoft will shut down AltspaceVR on March 10th
A famous counterpoint to your statement that eighties film stocks would not be able to capture that kind of low-light high-contrast scene: Barry Lyndon (released in 1975).

However, it's pretty much guaranteed that both the old and new scenes mentioned in TFA have a _ton_ of extra lights and flags just out of camera. If anything, the article is pretty naive in assuming that they just walked up to some diner and started filming using available daylight.
Amazing when a rival / competitor start exceeding them how now is the time for caution...
> Same way that dropbox can be compromised: your account gets hacked or the provider gets hacked.

Nope. My account on my vps is protected with a strong ssh key and password-logins disabled. Also fail2ban is set up to forever disallow ips that try failed logins. So not the same at all.

> lots blindly typing in "npm install ..." or even "curl ... | sh" going on.

Nope
50% is still useful? A broken watch is useful in that sense as well I guess. I can only see that has useful if you don’t include efficient in the definition of useful.
I was thinking of giving it a try, but why does it have Datadog as a prerequisite

> A Datadog account with API key. Go to Datadog website to create a new free account. In addition, create a new API key by navigating to Organization settings, then click on API keys, and create a new key.

https://docs.odigos.io/prerequisites
If I take 80 Dollars from you and promise to return you 50, is this operation also worth 50 Dollars? If so, what‘s the meaning of „worth“?

If I open a bank account and someone else deposits 1 billion there and I have a contract that obliges me to return the money in a year and I am not allowed to move it or use it as a security, is my bank account or the bank creating it „worth“ 1 billion?

Whether bitcoin is worth something as a tool/currency cannot be measured well by the amount of money stored in it.
I agree completely. Hilarious example. But, hell, if a product's pitch is "you'll feel like Tony Stark or Captain Picard" it will probably be successful.
It's neither uncomfortable nor a truth. If it were that easy Taiwan would have been conquered years ago. It isn't Ukraine - China can't just invade by rolling tanks and artillery across a field.

Its invading force will have to cross a 150 mile sea where it will be decimated before landing on one of about 4 viable landing sites where the invading force will again be decimated. Setting up supply lines would essentially be impossible. Keeping morale up when 6 out of 10 invading soldiers snuff it before reaching the island will be impossible.

US carrier groups would be useless in this war, but they're useless against anything resembling a peer competitor. US nuclear subs would tear up the invading fleet though, while Taiwanese missiles would turn the PRC economic heartland to ash.
Who's going to enforce rights on the moon and send someone(thing) there to do something about infringements?
This cuts both ways. If there's more to life than money, why not spread it around to those who create the value of the thing you're selling?

"There's more to life than money" is used by capital owners to justify the exploitation of labor.
LLMs are- literally and figuratively- opening a lot of doors in robotics right now. In the sense that LLMs can provide mostly usable code, with a few prompts or some fine tuning can translate text commands into fairly primitive robot commands.

SayCan is one I've seen: https://say-can.github.io/

Using an LLM map a conversation into discrete, real in-world states changes or actions seems pretty similar.
I wonder if this would help Mastodon (the project, not the generic term) since I thought the recent Twitter flight caused them scaling woes, but I don't know enough of the details to readily know if one lambda per route would help them or not
What does a blockchain bring to that process that signing a document with a normal public-private key pair does not?
Got a pointer?

I've been having some annoyances which seem to stem from somehow any BT use in this laptop causing it to lag sometimes like it's competing in the latency olympics, and strange interactions like it not allowing me to pair any bluetooth game controller if I have a wireless headset paired (it just errors out every time), but the reverse not being true, so I can pair them if I do it in the right order, but have to unpair both if the game controller disconnects for some reason. :/
How could ANYTHING stand the test of time and be worth 440 billion if it has no utility? Genuine question.
A Welsh firm breeding maggots to heal wounds
I have several friends who stake ETH. Never met a single miner in person.
You realize that on windows at least, that the "desktop" is just a folder, and what you see as the desktop is just a rendering of that? In other words, there's no concept of limited amount of slots like you suggest, so if your desktop was entirely "full" and another item gets added, existing items don't get evicted.
It is a free trial.
That line seems to often be said in threads where people are fighting against Microsoft's latest barrage of dark patterns. For some reason the time spent on dealing with that is never compared fairly: "Windows is only usable if your time has no value".
at least in the tech side of things, they decided to hire the same type of person, uncreatives who memorize leetcode questions and have no ability to think outside of that box.

memorize leetcode, regurgitate
memorize system design, regurgitate.

There are no room for creatives with that process.
>AltspaceVR to Sunset the Platform on March 10, 2023

https://altvr.com/sunset/
I've lived in three and find it amusing how there's two camps arguing with a straight face as if they could generalize anecdotes/conclusions about large amorphous entities. Both Norway and Venezuela are western countries. Tokyo is very different from rural Hokkaido. San Francisco is very different from New Orleans.