skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is relatively new; previously Visa/MC prevented their merchants from doing this but it changed recently.

Not that it is the biggest point in this chain of people arguing badly past each other, but you have confused “hypothetical” (which assumes a condition independent of what is true in reality) vs. “counterfactual” (which assumes a condition contrary to what is true in reality).
I think I prefer the results from the other approaches listed in the examples, e.g. material blending: https://orikmcfly.artstation.com/projects/9zRna
You should be able to detect user agent and determine capability and send the poly-fills for backward compatibility ?
AI-assisted media manipulation will have an interesting effect on evidence becoming subject to reasonable doubt. Ten years ago, showing a video in court was damning evidence. I expect it to become less so.
Ooh this sounds familiar a lot also has to do with getting finances.
A manager once explained it too me, see if i make a down to earth presentation to investors i might get just enough money. But if i use the fancy flavour of the year tech terms i know im guaranteed to get enough financing and maybe even enough to expand.
> > It’s just a fun drive. 0-35

To me sounds like coitus interruptus. And I am not even a fan of 0-60 , 0-100 etc.

Real fun is in corners and ICEs will always be superior compared to EVs in corners because the latter are freacking boats.
If your Mac has multiple users, putting your downloads and screenshots in /tmp might make them visible to anyone else logged in to the machine.
> the threat

You can see here how wrong and violent these protests were. The bouncy castle and hot tub were a danger to society!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74pbbhCZng

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hzfwaSVIvoA
> The same criticisms don’t apply to the technologies that underpin the metaverse

Interesting, so what tech are we talking about?

> As it turns out, people really like collaborative open worlds, as evidenced by Fortnite’s estimated 80 million monthly players

Ah, yes, 3D games. The metaverse killer app was hiding in plain virtual reality. But... this nagging doubt...

> metaverse companies attracted $120 billion in funding during the first half of 2022 alone

Which prompted me to prompt my trusted GPT-0 LLM: "cost to setup a game studio?". The answer was eloquent yet hallucination inducing:

In the United States, rough cost of setting up and running an MMO games dev studio for 12 months is almost $618,000 including federal withholding, social security, insurance and state tax and excluding variable costs such as Internet, electricity, heat, etc.

So by GPT-0's reckoning, you could use the metaverse funding of $240 bln per year to fund 240K (two-hundred forty thousand) game studios per year.

Put that in your meta-pipe and smoke it.
I think you could produce the same effect without worrying about overdraw/sorting and without translucent materials:

1. Render the terrain to a separate buffer

2. Copy the terrain's depth buffer to the main depth buffer

3. Render all non-terrain objects normally

4. Smoothly blend the terrain buffer into the main buffer based on depth

This sounds similar to the method used in BotW, but allows for depth culling since the terrain is rendered first.
I'm not familiar enough with Unreal Engine shaders to attempt making it there, but I made a demo in ShaderToy: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ct3SDN
Are you me ? :p
This is a lot of steps for what’s essentially just a cronjob

@reboot rm -rf /Users/me/Downloads/*

Throwing away _all_ downloads / items on the desktop is not the hard part. The hard part is deciding if there’s any wheat in with the chaff.
These sort of articles are popular for a reason, maybe it reflects a pedagogical trend both ways (preferences in teaching and how one likes to be taught). Personally I gravitate in the opposite direction.

I’ve come to appreciate “dry”, technical guides void of overt personality. I’m not a fan of “Why_’s Poignant Guide to Ruby” in the least, but there is a visceral element in its whimsicalness (and other why_ materially) that similar efforts don’t compare to (I count the listed guide here among this). For me, why_’s work is an outlier in this “literary tech writing” genre. If I ever intended to learn the language, I would contemplate scrubbing out the comic strips if I couldn’t find a better alternative guide.
Same, I use Hazel to periodically move files from Desktop > Downloads > Review

Gives me sort of a drip feed of items to either delete or move to a proper folder. I also place the 'Review' folder in the Dock, so it is usually empty, but every now and then a file pops up in the preview, so I can move it somewhere.
Ask HN: Any privacy-preserving minimalist phone launchers for Android?
I came across "minimalist phone" [1] and really like the idea. However, its Privacy Policy does not spark joy. In fact, I haven't found great alternatives that don't send your data to Google. Would love recommendations of open source/privacy-preserving alternatives.

Although, thinking about it now - the data it could collect about what apps I use, when, and how is probably something Google has access to anyway on Android phones? :D

[1]: https://www.minimalistphone.com/
> Nvidia uses a new NVLink Switch System with 36 NVLink switches to tie together 256 GH200 Grace Hopper chips and 144 TB of shared memory into one cohesive unit that looks and acts like one massive GPU

Is there more information about this?
> is popular software mature enough and regulated enough yet to be worth distributing to 100 million users? I think the answer is overwhelmingly "no".

Well it depends on the alternative. If you had to choose between Linux and TempleOS you'd probably get fewer bugs and the ability to do more actual work with Linux. If you had to choose between Windows and TempleOS, you'd probably be able to get more work done with Windows. If you had to choose between MacOS and TempleOS, MacOS would probably let you do more of whatever you were trying to accomplish than TempleOS. Yet TempleOS is only used by a small number of people and only has the resources that you'd expect from something that very few people use.

Now if you are saying that the alternative is to just not use software until it is "mature" you can definitely go back to writing your drafts with pencil and then typing it in a typewriter, but you probably don't actually believe that since you seem to find greater value in using the Internet and software for communication instead of the postal service.
The tmp folder trick I knew, but the screenshot to clipboard is new!
Though they're easily removed without a reinstall, it'll clear out things like startup apps and background daemons. Kernel extensions (which should be rare already, but still exist) will also get wiped.
Is this what it's like to not have ADHD?
I swear this comes up every 2-5 years. It's insanely violent, doesn't work as well on the elderly (like literally everything else), and is still better than nothing. Things like this almost feel like fear bait. It's intuitive that a procedure performed on someone who's dying is ALWAYS going to be less effective on the elderly. So long as it's not killing more people than it helps (extremely unlikely given the whole "you're not breathing/your heart has stopped" qualifier) it's still an important thing to know.
I happen to think that we Europeans would be better off without Twitter.
Credit card fees (arbitrarily chosen by credit card companies) are a source of inflation because they get integrated into sales pricing.
LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay
Even if I took your position that people having more wealth than the government was a good thing, I'd struggle to treat 31 individuals as The People.

If you literally meant, any individuals having more wealth was better than the government, I don't see how the power structures here wouldn't just turn into these hyper rich effectively being the government, but with no oversight via democracy
You could use those things to assist an attack. It's been done many times. But they just don't scale. These types of tools scale. Also I'd love to see someone realtime fake their identity with Photoshop or a pdf editing tool. Seriously send me links I'd love to see it
All of that is false and a bit silly except that we log IP addresses the way any website does.
Happy this helps!
That question of "does this allow for more work per unit of time" is honestly a pretty interesting way to stratefy whether an innovation is actually innovative imo. For example, the first iPhone? Sure, you can email and video chat on the go and conceivably do more work over time. But the 14th compared to the 13th? No, all that effort spent didn't really unlock more work per unit of time. If anything you are doing the same work, at the cost of more resources because the hardware is more overpowered, the screen has more pixels, and the bulk of the resource load on the hardware is from rendering stuff like sexy window dressing instead of the actual functional process, like checking your email.

Pretty interesting parallels to biology too, like in some birds there's the race towards sexually selecting ever fancier tail feathers that might cause more female birds to ooh and aah perhaps, but hurt your chances of flying away from a hawk, and lead to an overall reduction in fitness in the species as the hawks start finding more success and expanding their population size at the expense of yours.
Now read up on Gell-Mann amnesia, and ask yourself if you should really trust anything on Wikipedia.
Interested if still available :)
"The 2000 Federal Cardiac Arrest Survival Act grants those who administer CPR or use an AED immunity from civil charges, except in instances of willful misconduct or gross negligence."

That should make it less risky to try and help in the U.S. But apparently it can still be a choice that's easy to get wrong. That makes me less likely to jump in as a bystander, and to bias intervention toward healthier looking victims who look like they could tolerate the treatment.

https://www.cprcertified.com/blog/can-you-be-sued-for-perfor...
The article mentions /tmp is symlinked to /private/tmp
Parallel evolution: not on MacOs, place everything on desktop () and move it into backup folder (usually just something like 2023mei29) if the desktop becomes too unmanageable.
Happy to read this solution has been thought of by others as well
I'm guessing running GraalVM on top of WASM would be a bad idea as well, but it seems Joker would work.
I wonder if you could fetch the logged-out page first and then re-render client-side what's missing for a logged-in user.

Also, Firefox container tabs might be a nice solution: normally browse in a container where I'm logged out, then to edit, change the tab to my Wikipedia container where I'm logged in.
I’m saying it right now. Public libraries like the ones we currently have should not exist. That’s the stance I’m taking, you should not have the right to force me to buy you books whether they are books that align with my politics or not.

If it’s voluntary because it was voted for, surely anything else voted for by the same governments that voted for taxation is also voluntary right? Shall I enumerate a few examples to check your consistency?
A recent example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/science/moon-crash-japan-...
"lawful" is doing a lot of work there

"lawful" is the rub

not all laws equal and not all nations are democracies, or equally moral or enlightened

I do agree we should have less "meta-crimes".
This is really interesting. Because if you actually think that Huang believes what he means then Nvidia stock should be worthless shortly. No really, if you think that he genuinely believes this then we're about 6 weeks away from Nvidia firing all their software engineers, hiring in a bunch of cheap idiots to talk to their magic AI, and as a result completely tank the company. If you believe what he says. What I think is that all the real running in the AI story has been done by incredibly well-qualified engineers with cumulative millennia of experience. Yes, the crypto crowd (an old nvidia favourite) are out on twitter screaming about how they can generate the mona lisa through these 10 weird hacks... but is that really the important story? Or is that a side show?

If anything I would say this trend actually makes engineers more valuable. We can do away with people who write code, and focus on where the real value is - people who can write the right code, in the right way, at the right time. Value software engineers, not coders.
Which is extra interesting now, because fintrac and US treasury lately had to address issues of derisking ( banks choosing the easy way out from the burden of explaining every instance SAR and UTR was not filed ). Breaking point was coming for a while with crypto being an interesting symptom of the issue, but clearly things did not get bad enough yet.
That’s not why the term Global North exists. A historical analysis of modern history shows why Slavs are not included in the Global North.

Some one said the west cares about social rights and freedom vs Soviets or Indian people. Both societies were better with many forms of expression including gender and sexuality.

This is a good example of history being rewritten for the Global North as the vanguards of social justice and liberal freedom. IE India has been better with trans people and Soviets with gay people.

The Trotsky stuff is a big deal in the context of socialist states. Not the Global North. I fail to see the difference of the extent with some victims of COINTELPRO or the rewritten history of figures like Ho Chi, Ernesto Guevara, Cuba (Castros), Allende, Lumumba, Mao, Sankara, Kabil, Bhutto, Tito, and so on.
Brazil has a similar system called “boleto”, you chose that option and the systems promts you a barcode you can use to pay with cash in ATMs, paharmacie and some other stores with no comission AFAIK.

It has some limits (10000 BRL when i used it) but thats more than enough for most purchases
You can fit more than one operation in a transaction.

The paper from 2017: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320247611_Scalable_...

The general idea is called channel factories.
The OS files itself may be immutable, but you’re still wiping your user data, all installed software, and other clutter stored in writeable locations.
> a mechanical clock in your house is probably a good thing to have.

There are much better and more reliable options. Solar powered watches that can run months without recharging, some digital watches run a decade with a single battery. A mechanical watch, on the other hand, has to be wound regularly and is usually far less accurate.

I like automatic mechanical watches but I don't think they can compete in any technical aspect, that's not the reason one would use them nowadays.
People claim that -in time- the monetary saving on fuel, plus the time (and hassle) saving of having to go to the pump , plus not having to go for an oil change every x miles would make them end up ahead.
I think the implication is that the torpedos had not yet left their tubes, so when the sub turned around with them still in it they registered that as a situation where they should destruct.
That wasn't the main point though. The point was that a few generations ago, Nvidia was selling mid range silicon, 60 and 70 series cards, for around 300 to 400 USD price point. Now with the 4000 series, the 60 and 70 series silicone have the specs of the older 50 and 60 silicon, at much higher price points.

Nvidia is now selling us less silicone die for way more money, and their sales numbers reflect that.
I was taught that if you aren't breaking ribs, you're doing it wrong.
You're not new here to be using such language in your comments.
Is /tmp usually wiped on a reboot? On my slackware box the /tmp directory wasn't auto-clearing so I had to setup a cron job to wipe them every week.
And this was one of the key hopes that I had for bitcoin.
> Ten years ago, showing a video in court was damning evidence.

Courts have dealt with issues of manipulation of content and falsification of provenance of video and photographic evidence for a long time, actually.
I collapse the crufty locations down onto my desktop. It doesn't really stop me from treating it that way, but it means there's only one place to clean up, and creeping icon sprawl eventually forces me to deal with it semi-regularly (instead of letting it slide until it's time to wipe the device...):

$ ls -ld ~/{Desktop,Documents,Downloads}
lrwxr-xr-x 1 abathur staff 24 Apr 19 2020 /Users/abathur/Desktop -> /Users/abathur/Downloads
lrwxr-xr-x 1 abathur staff 24 Apr 19 2020 /Users/abathur/Documents -> /Users/abathur/Downloads
drwx------+ 233 abathur staff 7456 May 29 13:56 /Users/abathur/Downloads
Is this a comedic "wtf"? If nt, I think you should recognize the flippant tone, not to be taken too seriously.
> On the other hand cards are effectively free to me

The average card merchant fee in the US is 1.5-3.5%. You're paying that much more for everything you're buying. That applies even if you use cash. So it's effectively a private sales tax.

You absolutely pay for the convenience. It's just not on any receipt.
That's a cop-out, fraudsters don't announce themselves so naturally retail businesses look for proxy markers from which to draw inferences. There's an entire money-laundering industry that aims to handle this issue for organized criminals. If you don't engage with this fact than you're just handwaving away the problem, undermining any pro-cash advocacy you engage in.
So how many years do you think it'll take to onboard people? And how many dollars?
But this is a remote transaction - no matter the form of currency, an intermediary would be required.
That's because originally they were arms - it's how combatants would identify who was who on the battlefield based on what was painted on their shield and helmet.
Here’s a source for the free-gold-check thing: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664923/twitter-verifica...
Do you live in Canada, have family in Ottawa, or are you just consuming right-wing content in the US?

They loaded up the capital area with 3,200L of fuel and started bringing in propane tanks. You think that wouldn't be considered a threat in front of the White House? Especially since the fortified compound around the White House is significantly further from the roadway than the comparatively unguarded Parliament is from Wellington St.

With respect, I suggest you stick to commenting on the US, or at least things you have some specific knowledge of.

Maybe read some contemporaneous news coverage. From Ottawa where it was happening.

> Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency Sunday after a dystopian weekend of carnival-like scenes, heightened lawlessness, growing tensions between protesters and residents, and relentless noise, diesel fumes and fireworks.

The fact you think the situation was limited to 'bouncy castles and hot tubs' is pretty telling of how little you know about what you're discussing.

You know the invocation of the Act was supported by multiple political parties at the Federal level and Provincial Premiers of all parties?

[1] https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/mayor-declares-eme...
Whether or not you agreed with the trucker protest in Canada, I hope we all agree it’s pretty terrifying that the method the state decided to use to silence protesters was freezing their bank accounts without due process, any trial, anything. Cash is the best weapon against this.
I think famous not wealthy people (especially those that are victims of internet mobs) end up in hiding and it’s a pretty bad situation for them. There’s also the middle case too - I’m not sure what level of wealth Sam Harris has, but I don’t know if he’s able to afford this kind of security (and I know he gets a lot of death threats).

At some threshold of fame it seems like you just attract crazy people and the risk of them attacking you goes up substantially.
Reverse polish notation is operator last.
> Attorney Steven Schwartz was "unaware of the possibility that ChatGPT’s content could be false.”

... There are no words...
It's unbelievable. I used too work for Google back in 2005 and they had a custom to welcome all Nooglers (new Googlers) on Friday general meeting, where Larry/Sergey were present an people could ask them any questions.

So one guy stood up and asked why our main page is not compliant with W3C guidelines (doesn't pass HTML validator test). L&S answered that they need to shave off any unnecessary byte, so that it loads faster. That's why they didn't care about closing tags etc.

How the world and perception has changed since that time... It's just sad that one needs a huge JS framework just to build a simple website these days.

Oh and the size of the homepage was in the order of 20 KB then, IIRC.
It's definitely something we're thinking about but I don't have any sort of timeline, sorry.
7 Best Books and 4 Research Papers on Machine Learning Recommender Systems
I encountered security like that when I went to a party at a private Rockefeller estate. When I arrived I was confused as to why there was so much security but when we were inside there was priceless art everywhere, for example they had a head of a classical Greek statue placed next to a urinal in the bathroom.
Everything got more expensive. They pumped out Deus Ex in under 2 years with a staff of less than a hundred FTE.

As a child I was ecstatic when I learned the gaming industry had eclipsed the movie industry. Now I know what that meant: we went from Reservoir dogs to Marvel Endgame.
Everyone you see on the street has a slab of metal in their pocket that you can take apart and sell for parts online, or sell as a bricked device to some sucker. This cashless society is dealing with a robbery problem in places like Beverly Hills, because for some segments of our society its common to wear $30,000 on your wrist. A couple hundred cash perhaps in a wallet is honestly the low end of the potential take for a mugger these days, if they know where to mug.
Exactly. Aside, I don't think we can predict the full scale effects of LLMs for citogenesis https://xkcd.com/978/
Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect ;)
I don't disagree! I'm saying that by law that should not be an option.
I mean that's the best use case. Mass spamming ads, propaganda, and custom phishing attacks. Other criminal schemes are easily envisioned but I'll keep those to myself because half the people on here would be like "heyyyy good idea thanks!"
There's presumably a lot of evidence of this you can point to...?
Sounds like the torpedoes were armed, but not yet fired. So the sub itself turning around in a circle triggered the self-destruct mechanism while the weapons were still in the tubes.
I bet there’s a special place in hell for that Wikipedia editor. :>
Legal system doesn't bother with harassment.
Are you saying that's a bad thing?
Ask HN: What are best technology demos you have ever seen?
A great technology demo can be a fantastic way to probe product-market fit, even before anything is actually built.

What early stage demos can you recall which made a strong impression and convinced you to learn more about the incoming product?
At huge cost and essentially nonexistent benefit I'd say that crappy is also an enemy of good.
Because I'm not good at arts and crafts, or playing the guitar. I wish I was good or at least interested in music or painting or soccer, because then I could do coding purely as a job.
I thought this was a story put out by card companies. I hear it (the implication it’s the same or more) a lot but often unsubstantiated