skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lying-soundtrack thing is indeed cheap as hell.

Re: the missed opportunity of soundtrack in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, later in that string of posts—that's, unfortunately, a hallmark of modern film-making. They've cheaped out by shoving soundtrack development to a part of the process that makes other things easier, but also means the soundtrack tends to get neglected. The Every Frame a Painting channel (RIP) on Youtube has a video about this that does a good job of covering what's gone wrong and why, and at one point explains not only how a particular scene in (IIRC) Captain America 2 could have used its soundtrack better, but then demonstrates that the existing soundtrack is so very bad that the scene plays obviously-better and its emotional beats hit harder if you remove the music entirely.

[EDIT] LOL, whoops, I got that Cap 2 bit mixed up (it was other Marvel scenes where the channel demonstrated that removing the soundtrack often had, at worst, no effect on the quality of a scene)—in that one, it was actually a case of the music being basically OK but so little attention being paid to the overall effect of all the audio that they slapped a prominent, totally pointless voice-over on it, such that in that case the scene's actually far better if you leave the music but cut out all the other sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs

That's the video, coverage of the process-related causes of soundtracks being a forgettable after-thought in most modern "blockbusters" starts around 5:50. There are other videos on Youtube that go even deeper into the "how" and "why" of that, too.

[EDIT 2] I think an especially telling line comes in one of the clips of the composers sitting around together, where they're all talking about the effects of extensive use of placeholder music: the guy says something like "you look at the edit without the music, and it's wrong"—I don't think he means wrong for new music (which can be molded to fit the scene), I think he means it looks like it obviously could have been edited better and wasn't only because the editor got fixated on trying to make the edit fit the placeholder music.
I work a lot on modernizing codebases. Many times it will be codebases without any proper testing, different versions of frameworks and programming languages, etc.

Currently, I'm working in 3 projects at once + my own. Even though it's all PHP, the projects are PHP 8.1 / Symfony 6.2, PHP 8.2 / Symfony 6.2, PHP 8.1 / Laravel 8 and the newest project I joined is PHP 7.4 / Symfony 4. I have to adhere to different standards and different setups; I don't want to switch the language and the yarn or npm versions or the Postgres or MySQL versions and remember each one. Some might use RabbitMQ, another Elasticsearch.

Docker helps me tremendously here.

Additionally, I add a Makefile for each project as well and include at least "make up" (to start the whole app), "make down", "make enter" (to enter the main container I'll be working with), "make test" (usually phpunit) and perhaps "make prepare" (for phpunit, phpstan, php-cs-fixer, database validate) as a final check before adding a new commit.

Locally, I had additional aliases on my shell. "t" for "make test", "up" for "make up".

So now I just have to go to a project folder, write "up" and am usually good to go!
https://confluo.app - A productivity assistant app that instead of planning your day in advance dynamically suggests you tasks to pick based on the time of the day.
Planning ahead never worked for me as something unexpected always came along. Hence I wanted an app that I can open, go through a list of task suggestions and pick the one I like.
In addition, I included features like timer, pomodoro, and virtual co-working that helped me stay productive during the lockdowns.
I also wanted to track how many hours I was working and which skill I was spending my time on, so I also those features.
I shared it on HN, hoping people will like it. But it never made it to new page :(
Definitely, no one is arguing that an AI lawyer will be the near future, but I can totally see it being good enough for the vast majority of small scale lawsuits within 10-20 years.
That's a better example than mine. I was trying to think of something that also sounded silly, since "blog" has always been kind of a dumb-sounding word.
Hydrogen has significant geopolitical advantages for Japan, but it was also very unclear which path was better back then. Even in California we had political darlings like Bloom Energy and fleets of fuel cell buses crawling around city streets.

It was only around 2016 or so that battery technology and renewables started to clearly win out and it was too late then to change course.
Very interesting, TIL, thank you.
Hydrogen has been mooted as an alternative fuel as long as I remember (40 odd years). The fact there is barely any Hydrogen infrastructure (and hence, barely any cars) by this point, while there are plenty of electric cars suggests there are a lot more problems with Hydrogen than you might imagine. Yes, there are problems with EVs. But they seem to work for the here and now, and are certainly better than staying with oil.
I responded directly to what was said. There's no handwaving, you just don't like my response. Read my other responses in this thread, too.
PM says: yeah, this is for other projects, my project is different
Based on goomics [1], I think the social capital has been rotting or at best fragile, for a while [2] [3].

Alas, money-printing machines emit strong reality-distortion fields. As long as it's working, they'll have no issue finding people to hire.

[1]: https://goomics.net

[2]: https://goomics.net/240/, 2018Q1

[3]: https://goomics.net/155/ 2012Q
The proper industrial stuff can be quite expensive for sure. IIRC I paid around $400 per motor in total. You might be able to get a better deal on used motors/drives though.

But steppers won't necessarily save you either, because that torque specification only applies to full steps.

Harmonic drives are great but unfortunately quite expensive.

What you might want to do is go cheap on most of the components and add a decent-ish encoder and use software to compensate for the imprecision. CUI's AMT series of encoders is widely available and comes with up to 14-bit resolution. I believe this can be a pain in the arse to get right but it sounds like you're comfortable with maths so it might work well for you.
Cantenna
Hi recuter.
You wrote: "Some may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make".
That is super weird: in what way would some person dying involve you making a sacrifice?
- Do you include yourself in the list of the persons that would die?
- Is it a sacrifice because you own these persons?
- or is it something else I can't understand?
Yes, perfectly sound and meaningless advice.

In practice, for example, I import openssl libraries to get mTLS, even knowing the history of CVEs they had over the years, because I know I'm definitely going to do a worse job at implementing it, and not implementing it is also worse.

So now, I knowingly included a bad-but-less-bad thing to avoid the bad-bad things. Now I have to keep myself aware of the bad things from the less-bad library that comes up from time to time in the form of CVEs. Those CVEs are "enumerating the bad". In theory I should be able to write a bulletproof mTLS library myself (or convince somebody else to), but apparently this thing doesn't exist, and the only real alternative is to wait for other people to enumerate CVEs from time to time and keep patches up to date.
Which price tag are you willing to put on a loved one’s life ?
Some consequences of fully automated systems can go deep into human life cost.
My speculative hot take on the reason that Toyota did not jump on the EV bandwagon and stuck with PHEV/Hydrogen is that much of it's operations are financed indirectly via low cost Japanese bank loans encouraged by Japanese government. These loans probably have an underlying perhaps unspoken component which nudges them toward business models which employ Japanese workers.

The one thing that EVs require is an EV charger network to exist in the foreign countries that Toyota sells the cars to. Without an existing EV charger network, it becomes a chicken and the egg problem for Toyota since, as a Japanese company, it would likely face a difficult time getting financing to build EV charger networks in foreign countries.

Hydrogen fuel theoretically would just be an adaption of the existing petrol gas station infrastructure so the existing players/gas station networks would just need to switch over.

Now that ElectrifyAmerica is more "a thing", Toyota can start shifting strategies.

VW and Tesla/US car brands could move faster since they were required (VW) or had home court advantage and government support (Tesla/US car brands) to finance the US EV networks. The Korean autos switched earlier as they were probably more hungry and had less to lose on ICE than the Japanese incumbents.

There's also the game theoretical play that being the only major petrol based auto producer could lead to pricing power if the transition takes longer than expected.
I think it's still an apples/oranges comparison.

Whether or not it is superficially similar, the barrier to entry and the upper ceiling for infringement have both drastically changed overnight.

AI is not an independent entity that has entered the game, it is (currently) a power to be wielded by anyone regardless of their background. It can only be used as ethically as the person sitting at the keyboard, who most likely does not have a sufficient understanding of the underlying systems to make an informed decision (I suspect that if using the AI software involved the end-user feeding images into the model as a prerequisite step, they might have better intuitions about how to understand the implications of the images they generate from the resulting model).

> so nothing really changes for the "ethically sensitive" use-cases.

I think the thing that changes is the whole playing field. When overnight, anyone with a recent iPhone can generate highly sophisticated art/images with no artistic practice/training, it seems hard to argue that nothing has changed.

Before AI, even with the constraints of human capability, the art world was full of stories of stealing and bad behavior. Some blatant, some ethically questionable but thought provoking, etc. For all of their promise, the tools at hand have the ability to grow that kind of misuse at unprecedented scale.

What it even means to exist in an "ethically sensitive" framework likely needs to change. Or at the very least, current thinking needs to be examined to determine if it still makes sense in light of these new tools.
First steps with NGenate – A dataflow and visual programming platform
> That said, if it's such a catastrophically stupid idea, I'm not really sure why it had to be shot down so harshly

To avoid the catastrophy that makes it a catastrophically bad idea.

> I assume the real reason it was shot down was out of fear that it would work well. Does anyone else have a better explanation for why there was such a visceral response?

It had already worked badly (subpoenaeing the key adverse witness, who would provide a basically automatic defense win, and one of the most common wins for this kind of case, if they failed to show up.)
Same thing, ish, here. I don't know if my experience is anecdotal but this gets easier with age. I can hypothesize that I did a lot of unpacking and that my experiences today are much more net positive, thus drifting my "default state" farther from a depressive mindset. Mushrooms helped, but I'd recommend anyone looking into mushrooms, or psychedelics in general, to be cognizant that dealing with trauma in a trip can either be really great or really terrifying. You also are largely not in the driver's seat when dealing with trauma in a trip and fighting it will make things worse. The latter being a lesson I've learned many times over at this point.
Oh, you meant interaction as a joint training with images, actions, feedback etc. That would be the next generation I guess.

I am simply thinking of interaction here as similar to learning a language in a classroom. First the teacher provides sample questions/answers, then the teacher asks the students to come up with answers themselves, and tell them which one is better. The end result here is I think ChatGPT is quite good at answering questions and can pass as a human, especially if it's augmented with a fact database, so obviously wrong answers can be pruned.
At some point we need to stop acting like transportation solutions for areas with orders of magnitude higher population density than the US are obvious solutions. Infrastructure for a country like the Netherlands (a popular “see we should bike” example) with a population density of 459 people per km^2 is going to be completely different than the US with its 35/km^2.

It is just as naive to think the US can remake its transportation infrastructure to be like Europe, as it would be to expect every road in Italy to be made wide enough for a Ford F-150 Raptor. Places in the US with high population densities (NYC, DC, Chicago, SF, etc) often do have far better public transportation than the rest of the US.
Russia state propaganda alums launch new D.C. media venture
Intrinsic value involves discounting future cash flows. With rates up that should punish Stripe similar to the rest of the
market.
Advent of Code with iRules [video]
Not sure it's working. I keep hitting the flip button but nothing is happening.
Could you fire projectiles or lasers at the ice from drones? This could be automated and cover a large area.

A small penetrator with built in radio could conceivably make it through a lot of ice sheet depth and relay all of the data back.

Optical methods could penetrate a certain thickness of ice and give us absorbance / reflectance spectra.
>I definitely get the “we don’t understand the brain” aspect. This applies to a ton of things in psychology which I can’t say I’m a fan of. For instance my sister (a psych major) spent thanksgiving arguing with me that babies can be born sociopaths. This is something we definitely can’t state for sure and seems like predetermination with a fancy name.

I'd go further and say that most things we class as "mental illness" is just a way of categorizing our ignorance.

Even drugs that purport to help with "mental illness" at best treat some of the symptoms of the unknown causes of such symptoms often have side effects that can be worse than the symptoms.

While significant advances in neuroscience have given us more knowledge about how our brains/mental states work, most attempts at treatment are at the level of trepanning[0] to release evil spirits.

Hopefully that will change as we learn more. I'm not holding my breath.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning
Sure, many cabins operate on a honor code. People hiking in this harsh environment respect the hospitality. If you don't have that kind of respect around the mountains, you won't fathom going there anyway.

And yeah, it's a high-trust society. In some farms you'll find a fridge where you can get local produce and leave your payment in the box. Especially so in the mountains where they make their own cheese. You'll find me lugging a nice cut of cheese back home from a Sunday hike. That box will be locked though, because there's more people passing than at a remote cabin :-)
As far as I understand, the exact history of syphilis is still unknown, and the idea that it was spread to Europe from the Americas is not completely impossible (though seems less likely today).

As for SIV, I am aware of it, but it is not a serious problem for most simians (though apparently Chimpanzees are being killed by SAIDS in serious numbers) - which is my point. STIs have not been so serious a threat to animals as HIV+AIDS has been to humans in the initial pandemic.
Mvp, thanks for sharing
I'll bite: you are OK with PHP and JS, but would complain if you had to use Python? JS is known for its speed of change (not in a good way) and PHP is legendary for inconsistency in system library. Python is not without its warts, but still... What did it do to rank lower than those two in your eyes?
How big of a team costs that much? Looks like the highest listed price is $180/person/year before it becomes "call us" pricing. Im sure that enterprise plan can get expensive, but even at $500/person/year that's at least 2000 users.

I'd hope there's lots of things higher on the list of effective cost savings before trying to migrate that many users, and integrations, and history.

Such migrations are happening and will continue to happen, but I expect most will go about as well as the one discussed in a sibling comment.
The Streamlit Tutorial-a-thon results are in
A big shout-out to all participants for your amazing entries. Stay tuned for more exciting contests in the future!
'apt-get clean' doesn't clear out /var/lib/apt/lists. It removes cached downloaded debs from /var/cacpt/apt but you'll still have hundreds of MiB of package lists on your system after running it.
Data: Postgres & Hasura (for me Hasura is the goldilocks level of abstraction - lets me skip writing CRUD handlers, but doesn't get in the way either when I need to do something complex).

Frontend: TypeScript, React, apollo client, graphql-code-generator, tailwind

Backend Logic: Lambda functions written in TS, packaged with serverless.com, but deployed with Terraform

CI: GH Actions

Deployment: AWS via Terraform. One account per environment under an umbrella org.

Because I've used this stack so many times I can get a "shovel ready" foundation going in minutes with a skeleton that I've been iterating on.
Board members are not selected for their ability to follow reason.
If you buy anything online (in Europe at least), you can return it for a full refund within 14 days if you don't like it.
But it's no longer possible to operate that way as they were getting gamed by SEO's.

Today may look bad for searchers like us but it could be a lot worse. It's a constant battle.
I'm not the one who called David Gerard a "journalist" in the first place, you are. Not sure why you think the onus is on me to prove that David Gerard is a "bad journalist" when I never claimed he was a journalist to begin with. I claimed he was a crank (as opposed to a scientist). I've provided plenty of examples of him being a crank, but you don't really care about evidence against your beliefs, so you'll just no-true-scottsman any example provided.
Ask HN: Resource for Learning Binary Exploitation
I've been doing web security research for a few years now.
I've dove deep into HTTP, and how the requests are handled, different web servers, frameworks, browsers and programming language behaviours at the code level.
Now I'm thinking about expanding into another field.
I'd like to learn more about reverse engineering, and binary research and exploitation (like finding vulnerabilities sudo, OpenSSL, Apache, Chrome etc), then get more into researching kernel (linux) vulnerabilities.

Can you help me come up with a roadmap of thins I need to learn?
Do you have any recommendations for books, courses, or anything that can help me with that?

Thank you.
There's only one element above lithium on the periodic table. If there's a replacement for lithium, it is hydrogen.

Most of what you say is not that different than what people said about batteries. Let's not forget that li-ion batteries are really hard to make and have their own major challenges, and for a long while seemed like a terrible idea. The story is basically repeating with anti-hydrogen arguments.

This includes the dumbest of them all: that it is just a conspiracy by oil companies. Last I checked, there is no carbon in hydrogen, and "novel liquid fuels" will imply adding carbon to it. So either it is not a conspiracy by the oil companies, or the oil companies were right all along.
that was my thought -- ping google, which is reachable in the Americas and Europe, and hit the Chinese and Russian sites that might limit Google.

Guess you're out of luck in Turkmenistan, but works well enough most other places.
That's Tinder. I'm told Bumble and Hinge actually work for people.

Of course, what really helps is to be on the favorable end of the gender mismatch if you're somewhere like SF or NYC. It's not nearly as bad as online people say it is though. You only need to find one person!
OpenBSD relinks sshd. Which is relatively small thing that is linked from relatively large objects (ie. it is the typical modern C code). Relinking thing like glibc on demand is going to be problematic, because it is structured as to allow small binary sizes for static linking and thus almost every function that is part of glibc API is a separate compilation unit and object file. Linking that into .so is slow, no mater what kind of optimalization tricks you implement in the linker.
Has been on my list! Will move it up. Thanks
Wire RSS Reader https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wire-rss-reader/id1438331258

An RSS reader that caches webpages locally, so you can read the article in a webview with native-like performance instead of just that text that comes through in the RSS feed.
While Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve wonders where the 3.5 million "missing workers" are in the workforce...

(See also the decline in immigration due to Trump's policies, which Biden has never actually reversed)
Don't think Google has a paid Search API. Bing does though with Azure.
Reaktor publishes car racing coding game based on machine vision and AI
Behold our latest and greatest online coding and racing game Reaktor Race Condition 2023.
Hah - fair point :).
Apple stores aren’t that widespread in Europe, and you can usually buy Apple devices around 10% (or more) cheaper elsewhere.
My impression is that at least some part of that vitriol is a sort of "dominance" baiting by woman dissatisfied with the current situation.
This sounds very similar to the game that was described in Ender's Game, with the giant and the two shot glasses. That's always been one of my wishlist games, excited to think that it is starting to become a possibility.
Thanks for the in depth write up. Makes a lot of sense!
Focus (2021)
You shouldn't be getting all of your needs met by a sexual partner. Friends and family are critical. A lot of the people I know into polyamory do not have the best friendship and family situations. They are seeking to get everything met through partners.
What women "want" (who they start conversations with) on dating apps isn't super relevant; that just means you have to message them first.

IIRC the OKCupid data showed that women rated most men poorly, but then still responded to their messages, so, like, it didn't matter.
It looks like it's down for the "night".

OP: I like the idea. How can we keep up with what you're doing/when it's back online? I have some code to post :)
Super, excelente.
If cars were made by bioinformaticians (2015)
"Nelua is a systems programming language for performance sensitive applications, like real-time applications and game engines. Its syntax and semantics are similar to Lua, but its garbage collection is optional, it provides optional type notations, and it is free from an interpreter. Nelua uses ahead-of-time compilation to generate optimized native binaries. It is metaprogrammable at compile-time using Lua and it is simple and easy to use."

This seems to mean that you can't drop a Nelua script into a game/engine and use it. You have to compile the script and link with the game? Something with either an interpreted mode or runtime code generation seems more appropriate.