skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For non Indians, NRI = Non Resident Indian i.e. an Indian who lives outside India. In case someone wondered.

It is easy to shit on the party in office which is BJP right now but show me a country that can have hundreds of languages, all religions and still survive for centuries as one country. Europe couldn't do it. They broke into EU (for better or worse). There are flaws but India is a complex country of various cultures and you have to understand the nuances.

Congress party ruled India for decades after Independence in 1947 and all they could do was to keep India as a 3rd world country while other similar countries progressed economically. Fun fact: Until the early 1980s, India and China were same econonically when COngress ruled India for decades. And talk about authoritarianism ? Who was the one who declared emergency in 1974 and suspended all "civil rights". That was Indira Gandhi from Congress, the so called "secular" party.

My point is that there is no saint and people in india like BJP because they are at least doing some work in various areas including infrastructure, economy and areas that have been neglected for decades. So yea, people wanted change and they got change with Modi as a strong leader.

Source: Also an NRI who is a naturalized US Citizen and I see a lot of positives among all the negatives that Media loves to portray.
The box is called an "audio processor", but in my usage, all I care about is a compressor/limiter. For a mic, probably also a gate. You can get those functions pretty affordably, here's an example I found with a quick search:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MDX2600--behringer-c...

This isn't really my field of expertise so I can't recommend specific gear. I suspect you could do it with a PC/SBC but latency would be a concern.
Oh, so it's the doctrine of the text that matters, not the doctrine that is the reason behind the "censorship." That makes more sense. I mean the Miller Test is a doctrine after all. To clarify something; I think the ALA bill of rights is overall good. It's just the 2nd clause (which is the only part required to be adopted by this law) that I was struggling to find a way to interpret that wouldn't impair librarians' ability to meaningfully curate.

And to be clear: As a rule, I am in favor of librarians making this decision without interference. Librarians have repeatedly put their livelyhoods at stake in order to protect individuals access to information, and protect the privacy of those same individuals.
Also more recently environmental regulations; afaik its not unusual to shift production to countries where environmental regulations, or their enforcement, is laxer to further cut costs. It helps that cheap labor tends to correlate with lax regulations.
Hard disagree, I use the hover-to-preview-article feature all the time. Sometimes I just want to peek at a page to see what it is instead of opening it.
You need to be able to accept incoming connections to be able to fully participate in the network. Last time I seriously looked into this, BitTorrent clients didn't support any sort of NAT hole punching (and they often work over TCP in any case). Try running a client with and without a forwarded port and you will see massive difference in the number of peer connections.
> If you have wide non-text content, for example an img, then the page will not necessarily appear at scale 1.

Hmm, interesting. Thanks for the correction; I confirm this in Chromium’s responsive design mode. Also that (as expected) if you’ve got suitable `max-width: 100%; height: auto` incantations so that it doesn’t actually overflow, this doesn’t apply, and you stay with an initial scale of 1. Frankly, I think that removing initial-scale=1 while developing might be a good thing, since it’ll make overflow more obvious, but I now have a clearer understanding of initial-scale’s purpose and default value. I suppose that means that it’s probably still desirable in general, as most causes of overflow are probably better handled by inducing scrolling rather than scaling the whole document down.

Need to file an issue to fix https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Viewport_m... which claims the default is 1, then. Going to add a blog post about this to my TODO list as well, since I had erroneously thought it was solely about that Safari orientation change bug, and have mentioned that belief a few times here on HN and probably misled others thereby.

(Found some potentially relevant spec, too: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-device-adapt/#handling-auto-zoom, though I’m not sure quite what the situation is, HTML Standard seems to cite that spec but a csswg draft, and that link’s a 404, and the @viewport stuff hasn’t ever been implemented and has been retired <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4766>, so I’m not sure if there’s actually any nominally-active spec for meta viewport at present.)
> At least there's no draft...

Yet.

We're 1 wayward Russian (or Ukranian) missile away from a NATO engagement and maybe WW3. And they've changed how they do deferments -- they're a lot shorter.
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- Using a symbol of Monarchy as the center piece of this inauguration.
For the same reason that the Republicans continue believing, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that they have a chance with black voters.

No matter what the BJP tries, they will never get more than 10-15% of the Muslim vote. Hindus accept laws contrary to their interests. Muslims come out on the streets and arm twist their political beneficiaries into reversing judgements and acts that they perceive to be against their interests.[1]

[1] Shah Bano case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohd._Ahmed_Khan_v._Shah_Bano_...)
AGI labs need an internal audit function
This is a nice anecdote, but it doesn’t mean anything.

In the US at least, being raise by a single parent is a massive statistical indicator for basically every negative social outcome. Poverty, criminality, future generational single parenthood, etc.
> "What is an illusion, is the flow of time. There is no
'present' moment.

So We don't choose to control, or have any influence?

> If you realize that "we" are observers of our thoughts, and not necessarily thinkers, it may be weird to value the worth of an (one only!) introspection.

But you can have a thought that you object to, or a thing, something materialistical and assign that thought another thought?

Hint: 2nd Art Law, 'Mass can be trained around Informationpoints of a Reality'

> A 'metathought' dualism -or you may call it a kind of 'mechanistic-thinking'

?! ^^
Sure, same with west/east

https://xkcd.com/503/

But it still makes no sense to me, to exclude russia from the global north.
Outsife the US, fluoride is added to tooth paste. Sounds like a better idea to me.
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I don’t know python and I am not worried.
I don't think that is true.

On Wikipedia's mobile view, collapsed sections are super useful (as the table of contents is not visible via the sidebar) and media viewer makes it possible to view details of an image/thumbnail without navigating away from the page.
Ask HN: Is AI potentially far worse than Web3 for the world?
Hi all.

I have been on HN since something like 2008, and I've seen many trends come and go here (including JS framework fads :)

I remember when blockchain and Web3 were massively popular (2014) with only a few dissenting voices and then became total anathema to the point where VCs like Andreessen Horowitz are spit-roasted for riding Web3 hype and selling to the public. (OpenSea was incubated in YCombinator btw.)

So I am genuinely curious because the same seems to be happening with AI, but the result seems absurd to me. With Web3, we are in the "this sucks and has no good applications" phase, but with AI we are in the "but it could have so many... amazing applications" phase.

Yes, I agree that AI might have some good potential applications, and I'll even (for argument's sake) grant that Web3 and smart contracts have no good applications at all. But the question here is about the DOWNSIDE to society. After all, that's what we should be talking about.

Web3 was mildly zero-sum for society, while AI is shaping up to be massively negative-sum, as more people get access to it. It's like giving bombs to everybody and hoping no one will use them in bad ways. At least with nuclear bombs we knew who was enriching the plutonium. Here, everyone has access to weapons, to be used as they please.

The key to when things go bad is swarms. When HN is overrun with swarms of bots a few years from now, you'll remember reading this. Web3 by contrast is just an immutable ledger, its worst applications are convincing people to voluntarily put some money into a buggy smart contract.

With AI, it's not voluntary participation, you can't opt out of being assaulted by swarms of bots peddling fake information, impersonating people, and actually being socially and economically forced to interact with it all, the same way Facebook and LinkedIn were highly needed for social and professional life online. And this is to say nothing of disinformation at scale, like we just saw with the officials in India.

Perhaps this video will bring it home, but for online usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw

What I'm curious about is, isn't HN supposed to exercise reason and logic, and not just ride the waves of hype and disillusionment like the less-tech-savvy public? Reason says AI can have much worse consequences than Web3 ever did. And the experts do too... this guy who used to work at OpenAI Safety Researcher says 20% chance it leads to most humans dead:

https://news.yahoo.com/ex-openai-safety-researcher-says-165725772.html
The Universe Simulated Itself into Existence
So you're saying there's a chance
And if you're a startup looking to ship 10k units in your first Kickstarter round, this library will probably be low-cost compared to your other expenses. But I have no illusions that I'll be able to afford it for a one-off hobby project.
Funny you are being downvoted because you are speaking the truth. I have already said in another comment that people like the current party because they actually get shit done in various areas like infrastructure etc which was hugely neglected for decades. We all know that but some people wouldn't want to accept.
Sorry for your situation, but since you shared I feel it's okay to ask. Why is divorce not an option for you?
The opposite. I always add CF to small sites.
This phase won't last long in the grand scheme of things. We've had about 150 years in which people have been conditioned to trust anything that they see in a photograph, but it's always been possible to fake it and for the last 30 years it's been getting dramatically easier. AI just brings us full circle back to the era of woodcuts—just because you see a photorealistic image or hear an audio recording does not mean it's real.

We're likely going to see a few cases like this that take off while people are adapting, but this naivete won't last forever. There will always be a few gullible people, but, just like with Photoshop, we'll get to the point where most people understand what's possible and adapt their reactions accordingly.
> If you win, great, but there's a huge potential to lose, big. There's a reason the divorce rate is so high

Divorce isn't the same thing as "losing big". The latter is a relatively rare occurrence, which can happen when the relationship is very one-sided (one spouse makes 10x the income of the other spouse), and one spouse is extremely mean and vindictive. Plenty of couples separate amicably. Plenty of couples separate and it's a long painful affair, but no one gets robbed or cheated in the process. If you really find yourself that worried about your wealth and find yourself that worried about getting cheated in a divorce, sign a pre-nuptial agreement. Most reasonable people will accept one.

My point, moreover, is that the risk itself, the state of vulnerability, is something a lot of people want in a romantic relationship. People like you and the OP of the post I replied to see this risk as pure downside. You think that everyone sees the risk this way, and that they only accept it because they think the potential winnings are worth it. Marriage, as you put it, is a huge gamble. But this is not the way everyone sees marriage. Achieving this level of intimacy with a person, where you inevitably have to trust them like this, is itself the goal. This is the "something valuable" I refer to. It means the downside (potentially getting robbed in divorce court) is offset not just by the upside (a good marriage) but also by the inherent value of the risk-taking behavior that marriage involves.

> 1-2 years isn't really enough time to get to know someone well enough to determine if the relationship will work out

Sure! I can agree with that (with the above note that getting divorced is not really the end of the world). So take 4 or 5 years. Live together for a while. Get a shared bank account when you feel you're ready for that and need to pay some bills together. You may even find that you achieve the kind of intimacy you're looking for without going up to an altar and putting a ring on their finger. I've been with my partner for over a decade, and we're not "married". I'm not old fashioned, and this isn't the 1950s anymore. But I am attached to the rather romantic notion that intimacy is inherently valuable, and that it inherently involves taking a risk.
And you can pump water up the mountain using solar in the day and use it in the night and on rainy days.
India is a fine specimen for anyone wanting to observe 1930s-40s first hand.

A far right party with a popular/charismatic leader is using religion as a basis to all the problems India faces. We have extra-legal forces acting as vigilantes against people of a community. They have a very strong support in the majority. Media is in totality controlled by ruling party and social media is saturated with noise and false discourse. No other nation will speak against them because of geo-politics and honestly same religion is hated almost everywhere. Though lot more pragmatic and not a globe-capturing maniac, but rest of the world is complimenting for that.

I believe we are on a strong path to revisit that event in late 30s though hopeful against it as now 6 million and 2 nukes are rookie numbers.
Thanks for engaging my extreme example on its own terms. If that's what this law actually does, I'm kind of okay with that. I trust a random librarian's judgement far more than any law passed by grandstanding politicians in order to stir up anger.
I would also like to share examples on how Modi Government Jails every honest opposition leader who does development work for general public and gets popular.

2 leaders of Aam Aadmi Party (a primary opponent to PM Modi) are lodged in Jail for months without trial. Same judge appointment by Modi government somehow gets all the cases related to Aam Aadmi Party and orders to extend the judicial custody month after month.

Satyendra Jain, the man behind world famous Delhi Mohalla Clinic (Neighbourhood Clinic) is in jail awaiting trial since May 2022 on allegations of money laundering. [1] [2] [3]

Manish Sisodia, the man behind public education revolution in New Delhi is in jail awaiting trial since Feb 2023 on allegations of corruption in creating Delhi Excise Policy. [4] [5] [6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Kumar_Jain

[2] https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/former-un-chief-ban-ki...

[3] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/even-kasab-got-a-fair-trial-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manish_Sisodia

[5] https://www.timesnownews.com/delhi/nyt-report-lauds-delhi-go...

[6] https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2023/mar/21/if...
It was fascinating to see the familiar names talking about the same things back then. Ben G... etc.
Which political party in India primarily fights elections "based on any development agendas like education/healthcare or social security"?

If there was one, how much "development" has that party achieved when in power?
I used scissors and it was good enough
For clarity, this article is about UX Research not UX or Design in general. Kind of an important distinction, UXR is a small part of the umbrella in jeopardy and one that is probably the easiest to fold into other roles.

I agree with the the general message you're conveying though.
Unrelated, but I love how fast your website loads. I looked at the source code, and it looks like it uses Astro.

I debated whether to go with Astro or Next.js for my new blog, but because I've not had experience with the new React server components, I decided to try Next.js. I've had a goal of making it have the least bloat possible, so it is kinda interesting to compare these side by side now.

I picked random two posts that have similar amount/type of content:

* https://www.nray.dev/blog/using-media-queries-in-javascript/ [total requests 13; JavaScript 2.3 kB; Lighthouse mobile performance 100]

* https://ray.run/blog/api-testing-using-playwright [total requests 19; JavaScript 172 kB; Lighthouse mobile performance 100]

It looks like despite predominantly using only RSCs, Next.js is loading the entire React bundle, which is a bummer. I suspect it is because I have one 'client side' component.

One other thing I noticed, you don't have /robots.txt or /rss.xml. Some of us still use RSS. Would greatly appreciate being able to follow your blog!
You have to provide authentic image with your image for it to validate, just as you have to supply any intermediate certificates in TLS. If you want to crop to hide information you have to do this while taking the photo in the camera app.

Powerful entity can tell you to install their root certificate just like it happens in China. This is a different problem.
I find it interesting they cast data science as some sort of inherently wrong Other

When your profession views math on user & business data as the enemy, and it's for a business...
no, this is incorrect. Proof of Work was invented by Moni Naor and Cynthia Dwork in 1992 as a proposal to fight email spam. https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/pvp.ps
these days lots of Indian twitter accounts that shown on my feed are itching for Hindutva.

P.S Not an Indian so Idk how they appeared on my feed.
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Because a least one person has to have forwarded ports for them to form a direct connection. [0]

This will degrade torrent performance and make torrenting worse, routers normally have uPnP enabled these days so we forget about it, but this will make it so you can’t connect to any other users who are also using Mullvad, for one.

[0]https://superuser.com/questions/1053414/how-does-port-forwar...
That was in the context of “the entire EU”.
I've never liked the sharp object transitions typical of video games, but yes, I think that this technique only really works in specific circumstances.

I think it'd help a lot of the terrain geometry were distorted such that it looks like it's physically interacting with the object it's blending with (e.g. sand resting against the side of the object). If that were added to this technique I think it'd be a lot more convincing.
I see it as cultural Darwinism. Remember Sturgeons law. 90% of everything is crap. Culture is mostly like casual conversation and ephemeral
Do you believe in a middle ground of informed consent such that data can be shared while mitigating the privacy harms? It allows each patient to make their own decisions, and just like volunteering to be an organ donor, there can be societal benefit without forcing harm on people who do not want to participate.
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As I've commented before, there are some problems in his work.

Namely, he occasionally sidelines to propaganda and outright falsehoods himself, he doesn't speak a sufficient amount of European languages to understand the cases where pro-Kremlin propaganda is more rampant, he exaggerates the situation in countries where it is not a big problem, and he accuses some people without sufficient evidence.

Nor am I sure whether I like the name-calling, especially when he picks on nobodies.
Think to yourself, would a captor modify the images of the imprisoned for a benevolent purpose?
I saw a poll once re: 5-star rating systems:

Roughly 50% tolerate or like them
The other 50% completely hate them
That's the brute force approach.
Most people think information is transmitted from source to receiver. This is actually wrong.

What happens is the information is creatively formed in the mind of the receiver, by the receiver, in all cases.

In other words, people form an explanation for the observation in their minds and judge it compared to other competing explanations.

So instead of the post-truth, doom-and-gloom world that you fear, another possible outcome is that people get better at forming or identifying good explanatory knowledge. In other words, the bar for what you call truth actually goes up and people get smarter.

An example of this happening would be door-to-door sales people. They basically no longer exist. Because people learned not to answer the door when a random person knocks.

The old explanation “someone I want to talk to is here to see me” got replaced with a new better explanation of “some time wasting stranger is probably at the door.”
Here's a demo running on just the drive: https://cdm.link/2021/07/freespin-is-a-demo-made-for-the-com...
And adding io_uring support for networking operations is underway in the same manner. ISC is sponsoring the work.