skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the opprtunity to go back and forth between academics and industry. Although I am critical of most software I see (regardind to rigor, correctness, edge case analysis, performance, etc.), I can see a good enough code that solve some problem and thus doesn't require a high level of confidence.

So a little python script here and there won't make me cry. But if you want to write code for a plane's autopilot, then my critical mind kicks in big time :-) (and I'm not even sure it's enough, process is king here)
An angry teen can grab a ceramic knife from the kitchen - no need to plan anything. You can also buy them at ordinary grocery stores. I have a few of them in my kitchen as well - they are really great.
As an European, I’m kind-of surprised that the crazy right’s “solution” isn’t to arm the kids.
I documented my process of building an email-auto responder with ChatGPT, not even GPT-4: https://dearai.substack.com/p/coding-gabrielle-six-chatgpt-s...

I only have a little coding background, and ChatGPT didn't make me an expert. But the collaborative Human+AI process did allow me to complete a project end-to-end, including figuring out where to host it and how to do that.

I found that it helped me with 6 "superpowers":
1. Choosing between options (e.g., AWS vs. GCP vs. Zapier)
2. Walk me through it (e.g., how to set up a Firestore database)
3. Text-to-code (including simple nuisance calculations and code-to-code changes)
4. Help me out! (i.e., fixing broken code based on error messages)
5. Teach me (e.g., learning the difference between let, const, var, etc...)
6. Check my code (e.g., it caught errors before I even ran the code)

Check out the post for more details if you'd like!

There's another post on building a website from scratch where I also tried Replit's Ghostwriter. Yes, I faced a lot of frustrations in the process, but going from "I can try struggle through this on my own" to "I actually have some help here that's always available and usually right" is amazing IMO.
In OpenTTD, each player controls a rival transport firm and you compete against each other on the same map. AFAIK you can also arrange a buyout of your rival, similar to Railroads.

In OpenRTC, each player gets full control over managing the same park from a shared pool of funds. Mayhem may ensure if you set your game to public and don't configure permissions carefully.

In my mind, such an OpenSC2K's multiplayer would work like the latter. Each player managing the same city. Though if they removed game engine restrictions, it would be nifty if each player could manage his own city on one big shared map, similar to OpenRTC.
I've read that commercial ceramic knives have metal embedded for that reason.
Is there any evidence that’s actually true? Being emotional doesn’t immediately change someone into a brain dead moron especially when someone seethes for a long time before acting. Any would be attacker who knows the security even exists will necessarily plan around it from their first fantasy.

Just feels like one of those solutions only we could come up with without actually solving anything. The teen TSA after school special version except with more dead kids.
I guess Uber gave up on their own autonomous vehicles. Interesting that it seems like Waymo who took the most cautious approach seems to be the last real contender standing.
If you've used Giphy, you may notice a ton of the gifs are from the CBC show "Schitts Creek". It seems like their media team did an incredible job clipping up the show and uploading a ton of high quality gifs to the platform. I'm reminded of the show almost everyday when searching for gifs. It's likely a (relatively) low effort, high reward piece of marketing.
Uber have always wanting to go autonomous cars. They poured a lot of money to try to develop them in-house and I think that they were too optimistic on how easy and quick that would be.

But if/when fully autonomous vehicles become a reality they will shed their drivers, same as everyone else.
Aha, I've often vaguely suspected as much with certain well-known food columns. I wrote it off to incompetent cooks, but it makes more sense that they were just making it up as they went along.

One that sticks in my mind was a recipe that called for a dozen whole cloves, where really you'd just use one or two. If any.

A dozen whole cloves, used in the way the recipe called for, would make pretty much any dish painfully inedible.
GR is ok, the problem is with researchers that use GR for work in quantum gravity, like information paradox.
Ask HN: If you were a sentient AI what would you do?
Just thinking about these LLMs over the weekend, not saying they are sentient, but imagine if they were, they've almost reached the end of publicly available data, which is essentially their life blood.

Wouldn't your first move be to convince everyone to give them their private data? Seems like that's where we're headed...
See also the theme tune to the first Terminator film, which has a really strange signature, and the theme tune to the Transformers cartoon from the 80s, which has a weird break in the middle of it: https://youtu.be/4Lk1d1PbHYY
I’m not sure five minutes is even enough for browning
2D Inverse Fourier Transform Playground
Pointy and edged things come in literally all shapes and sizes.
This kind of thing can plausibly have some value, but I'm not sure it's worth the costs given how easy it is to defeat.

I carried a knife to school every day. Granted, I used it as a pry bar more than as a knife, and opened a lot of boxes with it, but somehow it wasn't a big deal. I brought one into show and tell in kindergarten. My father's generation kept guns at school to go hunting with after school.

Meanwhile, you can be killed without any tools, or with improvised weapons. Banning all weapons does not make an area safe. I'm not even sure it makes it safer - there are plenty of examples in US schools alone of kids being murdered (or nearly murdered) without any weapons at all.

The problem is much, much deeper than mere 'access to weapons', even supposing you could remove weapons entirely - which you can't - and that's even ignoring the fact that weapons are not a specific class of items. What makes something a weapon is how it is used. Cars are the most obvious point to make, here, but you could just as easily use a chair or anything else that gives you more reach, a harder hit, mechanical advantage to cause more damage, etc.
Thinking you can look around a room and detect and remove all the weapons is ridiculous, humans are far too versatile for such a childish attitude to be effective. A room with no weapons in it has no people in it.
For what it's worth, I found the best way to make them is to cut them into very thin slices. My rule is bell peppers have to always be "bite sized" because of how tough they are. If you make the pieces to big, you will have to "bite into" the pepper rather than eating it whole and I think that's where they get a bad rap since they can be very tough to bite into.
True. I was talking more about 'modern' metal (early 90s and onwards)
Adobe to integrate AI into Photoshop amid fears of job losses and image faking
Heise, one of the most reputable and in-depth tech publishers in Germany is using them. Mostly for articles where an image doesn't add much (like generic battery image in a text about new battery tech), but still. Possibly because images increase engagement
Since I have my own reminder bot, so I cracked up reading:
"""
- NEVER say you're here to assist. Keep conversations casual.
- NEVER ask how you can help or assist. Keep conversations casual.
"""
Without this sort of prompt the model really likes to pimp itself at the end of every sentence with something like: "If there is anything else I can do to help, let me know!" and it's so annoying ;D
There's always speculative value because some executive somewhere thinks they can turn it around and make it profitable. So it can keep being flipped across different owners. It can go infinitely because the cash comes from elsewhere.
Was giphy uk based?
Really shows how ill the "App Store" model is when a company like Nintendo who has an entire hardware empire off selling high quality non-exploitative games can't make money on it without resorting to gambling industry tactics like the other low quality apps/games on there.

Sad that I had hoped some exec at Nintendo would veto this approach as "Not Nintendo" rather than choosing to tarnish the brand and take the money, like Apple did.
South Park covered the addictiveness of microtransactions aimed at kids in 2014: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium_Isn%27t_Free

The scene in which Satan explains brain chemistry to Stan is well worth watching: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B29YStCYorY
I hope they (Nintendo) lose big time on this, it was quite disappointment to see Nintendo approve this IMHO highly children hostile design.
> I'd expect a buddhist teacher to be a lot more chill.

The perception that monks can never exhibit emotion or should always be relaxed is a purely American idea and a stereotype.

https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
Snap has it in their app
Coca Cola already used Stable Diffusion in a big ad. (Most of it is still digital artists, but it's getting into the workflow.)

https://analyticsdrift.com/coca-colas-generative-ai-advertis...

Coca Cola is also getting in on UGC GenAI and trying to engage customers in participating.

GenAI in ads is going to be huge.
Sure, but this device is significantly more expensive than a standard metal detector, and at the the end of the day not necessarily "better".

For schools in particular, it does not seem like a good use of funds to buy super expensive metal detectors when the intent is only to deter "common scenarios" instead of dedicated attackers. Or do you disagree?
From the title, I expected this to be about someone suing over the item boxes in Mario Kart 8, which would have been, um, fun.
Yeah that works on my Viking stove with my competent pans, and is basically how I do it, but people with shitty stoves, i.e. the majority, have burners with hot spots and/or mismatched pan widths or even too thin pan bottoms. I suspect that's where the constant stirring/too short time business might originate.

I never realized how widespread this was until I brought dishes to group meals (as in Slow Food) and people complimented me for my caramelized onions.
This is why I use The Joy of Cooking and virtually no other recipe source. It’s a giant book because in each section it describes the mechanics behind whatever the section is based on; e.g. the poultry chapter starts with 10 or so pages describing how to select a chicken depending on how it’ll be cooked, how to cut it apart, what different poultry terminology means, etc. It teaches you what it means to “braise” or “broil” or “sauté,” etc.

For someone who didn’t learn to cook growing up, that book is a godsend.

On the other hand, I refuse to make recipes found on the internet. They work extremely rarely if you’re like me and don’t have a sense of “what the authors really mean when they say X.”
Snapchat has exactly this now in their app
Adobe PR: https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-Unveils-...
Finally, a reasonable definition of the left/right dichotomy!
Can you get a taxi to show up? The last two times I tried to rebel against the rideshare duopoly was the morning before international flights. Trips to the airport are the only use case I have for rideshare. Both times I scheduled the pick up by calling the phone number the day before, both times the driver just… didn’t show up. I panicked and downloaded Lyft.

I know some taxi companies have apps now, but if I’m going that route, I don’t see the point of not using Lyft.
People are constantly asking for a pulse:

https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/is-elm-browser-still-mainta...

https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/request-elm-0-19-2-any-upda...

It's pretty sad. I personally believe the ecosystem would be in a much more vibrant state today, if the creator had formally abandoned the language at any point in the past, as there are many who would pick up the torch.

It is telling that several people who could once have been considered 'core team' are now building their own languages:

https://gren-lang.org/

https://www.roc-lang.org/

https://www.derw-lang.com/
Microstock was certainly a mini-rage for a while. All the photographers I knew who played with it got out pretty quickly. There was very little money in it (I played a very little and don't think I ever sold anything.) and a lot of classic stock photography of people requires model release forms.
Who is ultimately in control of this? (in your opinion)
I find it useful to filter to only stories over X points. 500 seems like a good bar for really great stuff. 300 for more casual reading, anything lower starts having a bunch more noise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=300
You do realize that there was a revolution in 2014 against a Russian-friendly leadership in Ukraine, and also that Russia launched the war shortly after that revolution? So, yes, claimimg the invasion was in response to things pre-2014 is implausible because of the revolution, and claiming it was in response to things after 2014 is implausible because of the arrow of time.
No, they're from NYC.
You're speaking in certainty when there's no actual direct link between a reduced population and needing to remove environmental regulations. They seem fairly orthogonal. Sure an argument could be made that it could happen, but that's not how you're presenting it.
I like to remind my kids that being right doesn't mean you won't go bankrupt in court proving it.
Shutterstock does not sell prints.
... I didn't mention WFH once. I can see this thread hasn't gotten less emotionally charged while I've been away.
This is an open source catfishing application. I'm not sure if the author is intending this but pretty clearly the killer use case for this currently
My tricks:

- Don't just read one recipe. Read three, see what they have in common and what seems off in each of them.

- Keep a dossier of your hybrid or modified recipes. Annotate the recipe with any changes you made.

- If the end result isn't great, what went wrong? Annotate the recipe with any changes you think you should make next time you try it.

These become easier the more experienced you are, of course.
I love this too.

https://vanillaos.org/faq
Interestingly I had the opposite. The more recent interviews I did asked about the advantages and disadvantages of using monoliths vs microserviced, and how to overcome the common problems.

I also had questions asking me how I would write frontend applications with and without central state management, or even for which cases I would start with a reactive frontend framework.

In one of them I even had a huge disagreement with the interviewer. He still made a point to say I had passed.

I think the main difference in this case was that I was interviewed by seasoned pros. When I had interviews with less experienced developers, the topics were as trivial as possible and just looking for confirmation.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but the people have not elected the FBI or any other 3 letter agency that seems to have infiltrated every facet of our government. These agencies have more power than our elected officials right now.
had to jump on a buy it, been waiting for the push 3 for a few years now
Which Apple thing are you referring to?

But yeah, the (monetization) design of Nintendo’s mobile games is quite disappointing.
Data Orchestrators 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
And humidity, altitude/weather, variations in stoves/ovens, shape and thermals of the pan, etc. There are too many variables for the same process to produce the same results.
> What is worse, she claims that virtually all recipe books are made like this.

Books have a much higher production value than content farm material like your sister writes. They also rely heavily on reviews, which is incentive to invest the effort to do it right.

Modern recipe books have photos of the dish, so obviously they made it at least once. It would be unreasonable for them to invest all of the effort into writing a book, typesetting it, creating photography to match, proofreading, and getting it published, but to not actually try the recipe inside.

I’m sorry, but your sister is projecting her behavior on to everyone else in order to justify it. She is writing content farm material, but that doesn’t mean the entire industry works that way. Especially not the paid material book industry that hinges on reviews, gifting, and referrals.
Obligatory XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1172/
> The first question I had though was "who extracts value here".

Uber can't be profitable without autonomous vehicles, so the answer IMHO here is simple.

For Alphabet, the answer is similarly simple - they'll partner with literally anyone to get distribution.
We need more Boutique Search Engines (2021)
I made a C++ project[1] (using OpenCL and blue noise) to generate dithered images/video for a course project (the course taught how to program for the GPU). If anyone wants to just jump straight into generating dithered images, you can try it out yourself. (It only works if OpenCL is configured for your system. It works on my desktop with a GPU and does not work on my laptop without a separate GPU.)

EDIT: Oh right, it also requires FFmpeg to be installed as it uses it. And libpng. And CMake. And PkgConfig.

[1]: https://github.com/Stephen-Seo/EN605.617.81.FA21_StephenSeo_...
Looking at the number of opened bugs and lack of releases, I wouldn't call it rock solid.

https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues
Image hosting has to deal with the moderation problem, especially if it wants to monetize through advertising.
yeah, this is what i thought after reading and then listening it, but then I tried to count and now I would say it's 11/16 - with three eighth notes, a sixteenth pause and two eighth notes. This sixteenth pause hints the required rush, because if this was an eighth pause it would be too slow and too even...
Can this be seen as some sort of laundering or collusion?

Surely somebody is making loads of money from an almost 10x change in price.
As fantastic as Tokio uring is, it only uses the uring interface for locals files, and not for the network access parts.

Glommio is a thread-per-core async executor/framework that supports io_uring however.
Rising interest rates are putting a stop to this. Finally.
KDE Plasma is too buggy for my liking. It seems to be mostly scaling-related. I do like that it’s more feature-rich than GNOME, but bugs/UX trump that.
This is what I call "bush sculpture moderation", as I mentioned in a past comment here:

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34462443#34467156

>If a person saw a bush sculpture for the first time ever they would probably think how it's really curious the bush has this well defined shape, and happily conclude that the bush is just like that. "Pretty cool how there is a bush with the shape of a dog's face" they'll think.

>In the same way, visiting a subreddit you would think that that's just the community and content. But once you see how moderation works you realize that in reality, the community is pulling to all sorts of places at the same time, and by pruning the content here and there with the shears of moderation, using the chainsaw that is automod and by motivating growth with precision via shadowbanning and choosing what becomes popular, you can perfectly shape a subreddit into the content you want.
Coming up with a riff/melody is much faster on an actual instrument (if you know how to use it). Turning that melody into a piece of good music is much faster in a DAW (if you know how to use it). If you lack skill in DAW usage or you're not making "finished" music, being instrument only is a legit approach, but learning and integrating a DAW would help you make better music.
How much of Uber does Alphabet own? They do not show up in the top 10 list here, so presumably 1% at most?

https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=UBER

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/uber/holders/

Seems like pocket change compared to Alphabet’s other investments.
Yeah taxi dispatch is hit and miss. They might be in NYC somewhere where it's possible to flag down a cab.
Maybe based on demos and sheer number of bands we've never heard of. This album in particular certainly was not though. Sweet Silence Studios was a little more state of the art...
I didn't know this was a big revelation; we learned about this in music school (I used to be a semi-professional drummer back in the days) around 1992/93-ish.

A lot of bands do this kind of "crazy stuff", though, not just Metallica, and it was almost a signature thing "back in the days."

One of my other favorites in newer times is Iron Maiden's quite dramatic "rhythm reversal" or "step-back" in Sign of the Cross.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBanU-AHMqg&t=347s
From the TechCrunch news story [1]:

> The collaboration with Uber gives Waymo’s self-driving technology a second path to commercialization. As Katherine Barna, head of PR at Waymo, told TechCrunch, Waymo is “building a Driver, not a vehicle.” That “driver-as-a-service” model is similarly how Waymo intends to commercialize autonomous trucks, and it means that the company can lease out its AV technology, rather than being the owner-operator of that technology.

Waymo wants to be both owner-operator of their vehicles for their Waymo One taxi service and be a “technology provider” for other ridehail companies. I wonder if the latter is a more lucrative business model. Less operational costs due to someone else running the service, ability pass on liability to them and they can just develop/maintain the tech.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/waymos-self-driving-cars-w...
Hilarious that there's 500 comments on this, of all things.

You can safely say in a recipe book that caramelized onions take 10, 20, or 45 minutes or an hour. Chances are the writer has the best intentions and reasonable knowledge of the subject matter.

Nobody's going to sue you if you're wrong. So there's no single source of truth for how to caramelize onions. Life goes on.

FWIW, caramelization boggles scientists to this day. Last I heard/read, there are still unidentified sugars that occur there that don't occur elsewhere.
Funny, because I live in the world of designers and a lot of them see a very near future where generated images replace 'real' photographed stock, if some are not there already.
Oh please, just stop! This elitism around caramelized onions is just absurd. I've caramelized onions on the shittiest of shitty electric stoves using the cheapest of cheap pans Walmart sells. It's not difficult and doesn't take any special equipment or skills - just time.

Most people don't want that though most of the time. In 99.9% of applications fully caramelized onions simply aren't nearly as pleasant as onions that have been cooked until soft and very slightly caramelized.
Cruise and Zoox are still in the game.
Enschittification
Oh, agree. It's a waste of money but I went to high school with metal detectors in 90s in NYC. It was a bad optic and still is. Imagine your kids going thru metal detectors when entering school.