skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I played DX:MD just before Cyberpunk, and it made Cyberpunk feel so dead and barren in comparison. The levels of interactivity and exploration in MD's Prague were crazy off the charts in direct comparison.

Discovering an entire underground little civilization in the sewers and tunnels I could have equally just easily missed etc. really made me feel like I was discovering things just for me. Cyberpunk instead felt like clinically crossing off items on the map/quest tracker todo list; aside from the fantastic visuals, just looking around on your own offered basically no rewards at all in the game.

Similar feelings around NPC interaction and AI.

Add the fact that Cyberpunk's "hand-holding you through the environment" approach feels more and more lacklustre and grindy as the game develops, as they clearly ran out of resources to do all of the custom animations and setups they have in the first couple of hours to at least make it feel big and cinematic. The emergent/more sim-heavy/sandboxy approach of the DX games is more even there, and things tend to feel deeper rather than shallower over time, I think.
> internet users usually question the authenticity of photos

Maybe _you_ do that, but I would not generalize, and I would not necessarily think I’m always capable of doing that myself “by default”
It is a conundrum, because the same NRIs oppose bills that would solve India's problems.

The ban on crop burning (main cause of Delhi's pollution) was central to the farm bill. But protesting farmers (widely supported in the west) opposed it, and the bill died despite having democratic approval (both national opinion and sufficient votes)

> dared to vote a great scientist to president

We do not vote for Presidents in India. The president was selected by the ruling party (The same BJP as Modi) to be the ceremonial president. The same one that has now elected a tribal woman to President, to signify secular allegiances.

> believe in equal rights

If we are to use leaders as a yardstick to measure equality opportunities and rights, then the incompetent ~6th generation heir of the Nehru/Gandhi family leading the opposition is hardly a good look.

> disappointed by the country I called home for most of my life

As a fellow NRI, this is counter to what I hear from my fellow Indians. There is a ton of optimism around jobs, infrastructure growth and economic policies that are finally opening up the nation, as India embraces the US after decades spent close to the Russia.

> potentially great, secular country

Even as a big supporter of liberal (as in valuing liberty, low authoritarianism) democracies, the evidence for free-democracies industrializing is exactly zero. Every big nation that has successfully escaped poverty has done so through suffocatingly authoritarian means (SK, Japan, Taiwan, Chile, China, Thailand, Malaysia). Every single one of them only transitioned to a proper liberal democracy (if at all) AFTER industrialization had been achieved.

It is depressing. But, the numbers don't lie.
300ms is on a low-end android phone, which is nice, but I wonder what's the performance impact on something more modern, like a 2 year-old iPhone.
As an entry level employee perhaps. But past your first promotion it should change (or indeed what would the point of being promoted be?)
It was never a signal for 99% of verified users. It as a game.
The news is accurate, but not particularly newsworthy. This was posted by an unofficial, loosely defined group of accounts called the "IT cell" - not very different from MAGA folks or far-left account clusters. The linked news source (alt news) is an opposition news source/blog.
When I was evaluating options a few months ago I found https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR to be a very strong contender for my use case (reading product labels), but you'll definitely want to put together some representative docs/images and test a bunch of solutions to see what works for you.
Why eat physical food? Just buy some banana NFTs and eat those instead. Much less waste of natural resources. Same with housing. Just live in your Sims home.
How is AI related to this? Did LLMs figure how crack encryptions?
Why You’re Losing More to Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip
Fixed cost in that if you host on a machine you know how much you'll pay a month. Obviously capping it out based on usage.

As opposed to API based where you pay more per use.

Remember this isn't a commercial service that OP is creating, it's an amusing Chatbot, they have no revenue, so fixed costs are likely to be a better model.
The 4 reasons all boil down to reason #3, money. “Coffee is for closers.”
And? I was very clear that this was anecdotal and responding in a thread about the aesthetic aspect of teeth.

I’m sorry I didn’t dig any deeper than the link that was presented but it was about adolescent kids. And no one is saying that these differences show up in young people.
It seems strange to say that confidently if you don’t even know what it means.
> That world is increasingly the world we live in

I think the point of the postmodernists was that was always the world we live in, it's just that the Internet has made it much more visible and we can see the fraying and the contradictions. It's just that, for a fairly narrow window of time and societies, there was enough of an honor culture about being caught lying that the discourse-reality matched fairly well the actual reality. But even in the 20th century that required hiding a lot of perspectives, or only slowly and begrudgingly acknowledging them.

There's a distinction of degree but not of kind between "presenting the version of events most favourable to yourself" vs "presenting an entirely fictional version". I don't know how we get that back.
I've purchased that book in january (with a 60% idscount) but completely forgot about it .. so I think it's time to finally give it a go :)
Toothpaste with SLS causes ulceration (canker sores) in some individuals (myself included). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphthous_stomatitis
https://archive.is/m2vzN
The idea of central AC/Heat to me is so dumb. I much prefer the style of having individual units in individual areas. There’s no single point of failure, if you only want one room to be extra cool it’s easy and faster to do. With central AC you have to set the temperature for the whole house and wait

I’m sure there are reasons it’s so common that I don’t know about, it’s not even close to an area of expertise for me. But moving from the US to Mexico I feel like concrete is the way to go vs drywall and wood framing. Sound insulation is so much better too.
What are the costs like? Are they mostly staff?
Everything is monolithic by accident. Source code used to be able to be shared and compiled directly with little effort. Now we have created tools to create entire systems dedicated to running source code. We have literally codified a poorly designed, middle-manager riddled organization into our current systems.
The JS Post talk about what everybody else don't already know. The non technical / non historical aspects of its success and the low barrier of entry. The Netscape story is well-known, should I have to repeat it all the time?

In regards to TDD did you actually see the step by step coding doing inside out? You write the test to justify the code you write not the code you've written, which means it's not implying test after the code.

In regards to management triangle I've written so much about that with references that it should be obvious by now what I'm talking about. Besides, the triangle is the first image in the post, what do you mean by not referencing it? It even links to the damn concept. What's the problem of explaining it?

Also, lean is to avoid waste and agile is just too subjective to even mention anywhere as a "thing" other than just a set of principles and values.
It's like that in general, with authority-based and cargo-cult based thinking.

Look at how the "Wuhan lab leak theory" was flagged and buried, how it took Jon Stewart to voice it and take a lot of heat before anyone paid any attention, and now it's mainstream and the Federal government is supposedly officially investigating it. https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/jon-stewart-recalls-outrage-af...

Sometimes governments use it to gaslight everyone: https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/how-jimmy-carter-...

On HN, the orthodoxy was that you shall not talk about everyday causes of depression or ADD. But then in 2022 we had this meta analysis that found no evidence supporting the serotonin theory and SSRIs: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220720080145.h...

Now it's OK to talk about it, whereas before it was not. So now we have a lot of taboos to talk about overdiagnosis of ADHD and gender dysphoria, talking about the DSM V criteria etc: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/feb/04/adhd-diet-fo...

So yes.. right now the thing is to hate on Web3 and to do strawmen like "how will it fix AI". It won't fix AI, it's just that Web3 may be roughly a zero-sum game for society, or at least not nearly as negative-sum as AI.
It allowed our shop to drop Windows almost everywhere, so depends on your worldview. The platform itself is nice, although I too don't like the company, and probably never will.
There is no classroom full of students 3+ standard deviations above the norm. (15 is a standard deviation. 145 is 3 standard deviations).

And if there were, the reasons stupid questions would be asked is because kid#11 was not paying attention and nothing to do with their intelligence.

Which happens plenty of times with average students. These are subjects a decidedly average person can understand with effort and study. But if distracted by well... Life... Things happen.

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No joke, one of the smartest people I know was distracted in class because he won Jeopardy and the NDA / don't tell anybody was kinda stressing him out. That kinda thing.

Life finds a way to distract us, even the smartest of us.
If you can find an advertiser who likes that. You will have a much smaller pool of potential partners for that kind of content, and I'd guess many of the mainstream ad services just won't cater to it.

Not impossible, but tricky.
Stupid article, but funny that the title gives a nod to Karl Marx's "history moves in a straight line" analysis. Liberals have been furiously criticizing this idea for 150 years.
The truth comes out but the pro fascist people will have the ammo to keep lying about and repeating the lie. A percentage of the rest will believe it. They keep chipping away like that
> No, but another key insight is that it helps corruption very much if it's completed and delivers the promised benefits, since it means less chances for people to complain, and for later investigations (e.g. by political opponents) to deduce wrongdoing...

Again, a nice theory, but one that does not match reality. High-corruption projects rarely get done, or have serious flaws if they do. You can see this all over the world: from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome (still not fully complete, money all embezzled) to Mexico City’s Metro Line 12 (inferior concrete saved Carlos Slim some money but killed 26 passengers). There is no accountability for the perpetrators of these failures precisely because of the corruption that enabled them in the first place, so they do not need to concern themselves with the benefits of the project. That’s why corruption fundamentally breaks the incentives for good governance. Meanwhile low-corruption countries build lots of great infrastructure.

> As for the California example, this is in a place with supposedly less or no corruption

Surely you can’t be serious

> So, "Local/regional special interests and parasitic consultants and contractors" messing up the project is more about a huge bureaucracy and a too disjointed process, with baroque procurement laws, and decision makers who have to satisfy and yield to all kinds of interested parties along the way.

What huge bureaucracy? The problem is that there is none, that all decision-making has either been passed up to politicians or down to consultants. CA HSR authority barely exists—all there is is a self-serving political board and a bunch of self-serving private consultants with virtually no one in the actual civil service technically competent to check their work. The politicians like Rod Diridon of San Jose use their positions to improperly benefit their cities (corruption) and the design-build consultants use their lack of oversight to improperly enrich themselves by making intentionally expensive design choices (also corruption).

The rest of what you said about the process is correct, and is another way to say “institutionalized and legalized corruption”.
I often feel that UX refuse to listen to ideas unless it originated in their kabal. They can completely ignore obvious points even if users themselves are pointing it out. And in this I think the underlying criticism is that they have forgotten or deemphasized the U in UX. Resulting in poor meshing with the rest of the organisation.
Ask HN: Native vs. Web for AI Apps
Hello,

I am a web developer turned game designer / lead game programmer

For some small ai related side projects, I’ve been trying to decide whether to write web apps or whether to write native apps (windows/macOS/iOS) that connect to a server

It occurred to me that I’ve never really had to make this choice before. I did web when I worked in web, and we use native for games for performance reasons

Why choose one over the other in cases where the server does the heaviest lifting? How do you decide?
I wouldn't say UX has become universally terrible, but the average experience has definitely gotten worse over the last couple years:

- The introduction of several banners/popups/modals, either to shoddily comply with tracking consent laws or to drive up engagement (newsletter subscription, notifications, check out new feature X)

- The display of several, sometimes even nested loading indicators all over the place

- The adoption of "trendy" UI patterns that don't necessarily fit (e.g. "stories", a few years ago)

- An obsession with reducing information density and making everything very sparse

- Rejection of color as a redundant signifier for UI elements, particularly icons

- An overall extremely hostile attitude towards the user, with dark patterns, disregard to preferences and privacy
Unless some AI has doctored the images
There is nothing in principle which prevents us from solving this problem. We cannot predict which new knowledge will solve it. But we can say that if we don’t solve it, it will be our fault for not producing the required knowledge fast enough.
Using GPT for Automated Crawling
GPT seems to make web crawlers more efficient. specifically, it can:

1. GPT can extract the necessary information by directly understanding the content of each webpage, rather than writing complex crawling rules.

2. GPT can connect to the internet to determine the accuracy of crawler results or supplement missing information.

So I have created an experimental project CrawlGPT that can run basic automated crawlers based on GPT-3.5. I hope to get any suggestions and assistance.
I get the feeling that the enterprise environments targeted by this product are already restricting access in this way.
A sugar tax would have the same effect, it's a single change that's very easy to implement. 10,000% should do.
So only the most dystopian news is newsworthy?
Not the author but to use WAF rules that can be used on layer 4 for instance. Zone lockdown, some rate limits...
Archive.org would also act as a seed, so at worst it’s similar to regular download traffic. At best there’s a few more people downloading and seeding.
> I figured the answer must be four revolutions. So imagine my surprise when I saw that the answer was given to be five!

The answer is four from the reference frame of the small moving circle (the fifth rotation belongs now to the big circle). Imagine two circles fixed and both rotating together, like connected gears. The question is fun but only surprising because it’s ambiguous and assuming a specific reference frame without saying it (which would be a clue to what’s really being asked.)
Macro research is to help determine what products to build and what users to target. Micro research measures the effectiveness of what's been built. The middle tier is intended for optimizing which features to add. If the economics of middle tier have changed it's because adding features to an existing product had gotten cheaper.
C++17’s useful features for embedded systems
I've been following news about this company for 10 years now.

What's remarkable about them is that they had a sufficient for large-scale deployments, roll-to-roll process already developed back in 2016, and that was after their short partnership with a Chinese phone maker, where they delivered a 5000mAh battery.

They might not beat their competition to market in terms of scale, but they definitely have an edge in terms of experience manufacturing their product.

Exiting times ahead of us. I hope this makes its way to consumer devices like e-bikes eventually. Or cars for that matter.
RME makes terrific audio interfaces with onboard DSP. Like the Apollo systems below, they are not cheap. (I've used both).
You didn’t answer my question why can’t adults pick and choose what material is appropriate for their children only? If you don’t think it’s appropriate just don’t let your own children get their hands on it. I don’t understand why this has to be a debate.

I’m actually not that invested in ideology or whatever. You’re prescribing something to me I don’t really care about. I’ve read the book for fun, as an adult, didn’t feel titillated or aroused at all. It’s about as sexual as putting a condom on a banana, and I was definitely doing that in highschool. But even then parents who were uncomfortable could sign a thing preventing their children from attending sex ed. I think we parents can do the same thing for sex ed related books! No big deal.
In a recent interview, Ukraine's senior security official, Alexi Danilov, announced the country's readiness to launch a long-awaited counter-offensive against Russian forces. This decision is regarded as a historic opportunity for Ukraine, but also one that carries immense responsibility and risk. As tensions continue to escalate, the world watches closely to see if Ukraine can shift the balance and break the deadlock that has gripped the conflict. This article delves into the crucial moment Ukraine finds itself in, the significance of the counter-offensive, and the potential implications for both Ukraine and its Western allies.
But the conclusion becomes “you can’t trust anything”. I worry about a civilization that can’t agree on even the most basic of facts.
Public money would also mean regulation and I doubt the IA wants to be regulated. They already see themselves apart from things like web standards given their approach to robots.txt [1]

1: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
I don't have or want kids so have never had an opinion on this.

I see “Nick and Charlie" mentioned in an article. A book about two gay boys that get drunk and fool around.

If you just look at the cover it is going to be super triggering to some repressed parent. Especially since many of the fathers are going to have unexpressed homoerotic fantasies themselves.

To me, the whole thing seems like a huge unproductive distraction from actual learning. Imagine if parents gave a shit about the math books to this degree.
For those who worry about it, it isn't that it's broken soon, but that it will be broken within a timeframe that the data is still useful.

Veritasium : How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now - https://youtu.be/-UrdExQW0cs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later
It was flagged because it's a taboo on HN to say anything good about Web3, or even that Web3 is not as bad as something else, like AI that will destroy our trust in anything digital.

The point was that 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.
I've got a use case that is now almost entirely covered by these workers but the JS-only API is somewhat painful from my perspective. If CF offered support for running x64 linux .NET6+ binaries on these edge workers, I'd probably block off the next 3-4 weekends to play around with the stack.

I realize this is probably untenable considering certain compromises made in the CF infra (i.e. V8 optimizations), but one can dream. For now, Azure appears to be my prison.
AI-enhanced smile seems to be a product in test here.
If that’s true, they’ve muddied their marketing.

They specifically mention the hardware being low-cost (ESP32s are ~$6USD)
In the mid-20th century film switched to modern plastics like cellulose acetate, and later PET (which are still quite flammable). But before that, it was the first kind of plastic invented -- nitrocellulose plasticized with camphor. Nitrocellulose is also known as gun cotton; it's literally explosive.

It degrades over time, with the plasticizer separating and the film becoming brittle, eventually turning into a powder that can ignite from friction or even auto-ignite. More than anything else, that's why so many early major films are lost. They turned to dust. And then exploded.

> The use of volatile nitrocellulose film for motion pictures led many cinemas to fireproof their projection rooms with wall coverings made of asbestos. Those additions intended to prevent or at least delay the migration of flames beyond the projection areas. A training film for projectionists included footage of a controlled ignition of a reel of nitrate film, which continued to burn even when fully submerged in water. [...] Owing to public safety precautions, London Underground forbade transport of movies on its system until well past the introduction of safety film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose#Nitrate_film_fi...
It wouldn't, that's not what is being claimed.
I’ve heard from someone who worked in a water district that they didn’t add fluoride to water for dental health, that was a spin they put on it. Not sure how true it is though.

After the city treated and purified the water, they needed something to add in to keep it from reacting with the city’s pipes. Otherwise the water will eat the pipe and you get dirty water full of pipe delivered to the tap.

They needed something that was cheap, relatively safe to drink, and available in large quantities- fluoride checked those boxes. Supposedly they came up with the dental spin to sell the solution to the public.
As somebody who already uses gpt as a (unreliable, lying, refusing-to-answer many questions) tutor, I wonder what this offers that I don’t already have. I wish there was a trial so I could see for a day
And yet we still have hospice care. It is almost like just saying your adult children should take care of it isn’t an adequate solution.
It’s a common acronym and term in the software product life cycle. It’s been around for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Ge...

Here are some other examples in common use:

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql

https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
Alternately: The West can do no wrong?
Let's End Digital Colonialism
Also in Spanish: https://freakspot.net/acabemos-con-el-colonialismo-digital/
> A riffle shuffle (pictured above) requires seven shuffles to randomize a 52-card deck

More generally, it takes a number of shuffles equal to "approximately the square root of the number of cards," per a documentary i watched on the topic several years ago.
The AI Boom Runs on Chips, but It Can’t Get Enough