skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"AI detection" is a scam. Already such detection in education has been treated like "the computer says your work is AI, so that's final and you're getting sanctioned" rather than "the computer alleges you are submitting AI-generated work, can you show your work process?". It unfairly targets neurodivergent individuals who sometimes have a tendency to write in such a way that is closer to what these AI detection tools claim is AI, than neurotypical individuals.

AI detectors will (intentionally and unintentionally) end up being used in heavily ableist ways. Once it's ingrained in the zeitgeist, then we're stuck with it until it causes a scandal so big that it can't be ignored, and in the meantime it will harm millions, if not billions, of people.

AI image detection, even when it does work, will have an extremely short shelf life, as the model continue to improve. Remember when SD couldn't even reliably render hands with five fingers? Go try some image generation on the state of the art models and inspect the hands, you'll find that there are far fewer impossible hands than there used to be. This will only improve over time. What do you do when the state of the art models eventually overcome all these issues? What about when they become capable of rendering flawless text? What then?

It's like people who claim that they can tell you with 100% certainty whether an image was photoshopped. Bullshit.
Yes but that is a fact of life for anyone that isn't a US citizen, to live under the good will of the largest army in the world which forces policy, laws, war etc on everyone else. That our comms are spied on is "just another" thing.

I'm actually pretty fond of the US, love to visit and the culture - but not realizing we're all just living under the US empire is a bit naive. The US does whatever it wants and everyone else just accepts. Basic things such as voting against the international criminal court and having law allowing it to invade The Netherlands if it ever prosecuted a US war criminal
is a funny example, but there are many more.

And it also does good things for the world as well, it's not all good or all bad, but it is the largest empire in the world, with military bases all around, colonies all over the pacific, etc, we just don't talk about it like that usually.
My family wore 3M's best face masks for the US market, i.e., N95, and we still got it a few times. We switched to FFP3, equivalent to N99, and there have been no infections so far.

I am surprised how bad people are at basic arithmetic! A N99 face mask is 5 times better than a N95 one, not just 4% better!

So, I wonder why FFP3 is only available in Europe. I buy the FFP3 face masks, which are manufactured in Poland, from a UK online retailer, but this is sad, given that 3M is an American company.
This very much happens with aurora borealis.
I mean both. I feel like Trump's flaws, crimes and Project 2025 [0,1] should exclude him from discussion. Like, he should be politically radioactive at this point. Set all of that lunacy aside and Trump is just a mainstream Republican.

Not that I like Biden, mind you, I just hate him less than Trump. They're both imperialist, capitalist bastards but Biden is at least less fascism-adjacent.

The problem is that our first past the post, two party (in practice) system means most of the "discussion" we could have is meaningless. The candidates and most of the votes were already locked in well before any campaigning even took place. Biden vs Trump 2 Electric Boogaloo was a fait accompli. Most people will vote red pill or blue pill.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

[1]https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/19/project-20...
I think React Native is fantastic for getting out basic applications that may need camera, map, browser, and storage, etc capabilities. However, once you need more intricate functionality, I think it's best to write modules in Swift/(Kotlin/Java) and have your React Native UI communicate with your modules via the bridge.

I think React Native solves an organizational bandwidth issue. Building true native applications per platform will always outshine any results you get from React Native, both in performance and capability. However, if you have just a few developers, I think React Native is a practicable compromise.

Companies like Airbnb have the engineering bandwidth to develop bespoke platform specific applications, it's up to you and/or the company you work for to know what compromises can be made.
Ask HN: What're your favorite/practical design patterns for daily use?
But in this case the answer from AWS would have been that's their SLA and you need to just be ready to handle an instance getting messed up from time to time, because it's guaranteed to happen.
I got vaccinated three times (with Pfizer). No ill effects on my hearing/tinnitus (I was monitoring it). Then I got COVID (Omicron), was quite sick for several days (lost smell) and it seems the tinnitus worsened a bit in one ear. So... your mileage may vary, as with everything.
> Flutter is sort of dying

Do you have a citation or data to back that up? We've recently launched several cross-platform app rewrites in Flutter and from our perspective it seems like Flutter is really hitting its stride.
Yeah, metallic lead is pretty safe to handle overall, as long as you don't inhale the dust. I wouldn't want to go trying to ingest it, but the amount of incidental exposure you'd get from handling, say, a lead brick at room temperature, is not much of a worry. Wash your hands after handling it, wear proper PPE, and you should be fine.

Edit: this isn't counting stuff like using lead solder. In that case, ventilate the crap out of your work area (preferably doing the work under a hood), wear PPE, and clean any equipment used.
I thought so too but look at the dates and the scope of the projects. They're just good at managing their time :) I probably have just as many projects accumulated over the years.
Yep, we have been promised crazy storage like this for years now and it has always been vaporware. Remember this? https://www.engadget.com/2007-03-28-mempile-shows-off-teradi...

One can dream though....
Create an account in Linkedin, you will get a lot of offer from the libro companies but the salary is low compared to other countries but still, you will have a regular money coming in for your family.
If this sort of thing interests you, I highly recommend "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson. Probably my favourite piece of writing in Wired.

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
It is not incorrect to use this expression, it can universally be understood to mean what the author meant through context, whereas the usage you consider correct is exotic.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/beg-the-question
I haven’t really heard of Jobs or Gates being manipulative within the company, just ruthless. Curious if anyone has comparable manipulation stories?
Yes, but tell that to my clients who keep telling me "Why can I choose any color in Chrome but in Safari I'm limited to a crayon box?" They either can't use color picker plugins or they can't figure out how to access them.

And there's no language in the declarative API to, for example, start the user on the Mac OS system color picker.
Carloooooooos!
Storage conditions really matter for DNA longevity, and a lot of the older DNA that can be extracted and sequenced is both fragmented and damaged in areas. I've had closed-circular plasmids fragment completely after being stored in water at 4C for about a year or so.
If it's got a motor spinning something as an essential part of its operation, it's not solid state in any conceivable sense.
Yes it is still popular. Take a look at the showcase who is using it - Amazon was just added

Libraries have always been a unique problem to React Native. A lot of the time not maintained, and can be low quality too - like half baked re-implementations of existing native components, skipping the whole ‘native’ part

There’s not really another cross platform mobile framework in the same league. Flutter exists, and has its positives, but will never be an amazing experience on iOS. They don’t use native components, and the native components can access OS stuff not accessible by people other than Apple
Objective-C isn’t actually that bad as long as you’re aware of what constraints it puts on the compiler. People like to go “oh method calls are so slow!” but you can do a billion of them a second. The real performance win comes from selective use of optimization-friendly code on hot paths that don’t act as a black box to the compiler. Some teams move at Lightspeed to some weird janky architecture that just sucks in every aspect because they think it will help, and it usually doesn’t.
> Musk could have paid a $1B penalty and backed out

That's not correct: the penalty was only for failure to complete the transaction, Elon still had to go through with it.

Elon tried to create cause to stop the transaction (the weird bot fixation) and eat the penalty but that didn't get to discovery.
Something like slashdot where you add a explanation to your post?
My dad is from a village in Bangladesh, and I myself vividly remember rolling blackouts on hot summer nights living in the capital city, so yeah, I know those things.

Flooding is bad, and sweatshops aren’t great. But the only way to overcome those things is GDP growth. My dad went back to his village this year and was shocked to see how much it has changed, thanks to the World Bank-led GDP growth that’s happened in the last 20 years. (After decades of fucking around with socialism, which is another plot by bleeding heart first world types to keep other people poor.)

The best foreigners are the ones that invested in those H&M factories. By contrast the bleeding heart types who glorify third-world poverty have done exactly jack shit to make anything better. Bleeding heart hippies aren’t going to come help build flood control systems. And relying on foreign generosity is suicidal. GDP growth is the only way to protect the country.
…or just getting old, as the article mentions.
Thanks, here is where it originated: https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1583907942834716672
Dark patterns are never accidental.
I don’t think this is so true anymore now that you have such huge investment by the likes of Shopify, with many slick libraries, or for example Reanimated which makes very bespoke and interactive animations performant. Add something like my library which uses an optimizing compiler to make things much faster on native/web when sharing code and I think you can make just about any experience you want. People like Catalin Miron do tweets replicating native UX quite successfully across many examples.

You will still have to invest a lot to make a truly drop dead experience, but you have to do that anyway even in SwiftUI, which I found to be not so easy to just snap your fingers and have nice UX. There are many performance pitfalls there, and having to write your app 2-3 times means you have a lot less to invest into it.
That seems needlessly rude to those people.

Okay, refresh probably won’t help, but you can build logic gates in css, and css has for example, the ability to animate things forever:

animation-iteration-count: infinite;

Hypothesis - you can find a way to use animations and logic gates to build a very crappy cpu complete with program counter, and then use that to run arbitrary code.
That second link is a gold mine. Thank you so much for sharing.

I've known how to do the basic BTV/VTO for many years, but it wasn't quite enough for me to equalize pressure while diving (without descending very slowly, I suppose). Just a few minutes with the techniques on that page has already improved my ability dramatically.
I picked up React Native and Expo last year for a medium-sized hobby project and found it a better experience than when I developed a Flutter app three years ago.
I have always heard the React Native dependencies were a mess, but I did not have that experience. Things were stable and Expo has pretty good documentation.
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p29... C++ is preparing this for years, though it's uncertain when it will actually land in C++.
What? You feel foolish about trying to save your cat? What’s wrong with you? I will sell my kidney to protect my dogs if I have to. Email me. It’s on my profile.
Ask HN: What's a good credit card to own?
I am graduating in 20 days and starting a new job. I currently have a student credit card(Zolve) with a credit score of 680. Should I get a new primary credit card for daily expenses and groceries? If so, what card do you recommend for my situation? I don't travel much and will be living independently.
Funny we just hit a similar issue while scanning for some docs..
I think you need to read more of the sentence. It’s objectively good to everyone, even fiscal anti regulatory conservatives, to not have lead pipes. But to fiscal anti regulatory conservatives the method is antithetical to their dogma. So they will feel compelled to roll back while waving hands about how the goal is good the method is flawed etc. But since the goal is objectively good to all, almost everyone will just see “evil conservatives killing us for money.” In that sense, as I said, it’s a trap for the next conservative administration.
Are any of the spatial datasets that may have gone into this available for public download?
Note that in your hypothetical 1m 60Hz display, the edge of the cylinder is moving at 422 miles per hour. I'm going to recommend an evacuated transparent bell jar for safety, at a minimum...
The detail/summary element is a very common need, I had no idea it was so well implemented.
The AI Stack for the 3rd Epoch of Computing
Out of curiosity - what kind of window performance are you talking about? What's the advantage of tilt turn over double hung?
The longer I look at Efani's website, the more it looks like a scam: no clear information about eSIM support, typos, repeated/redundant blog posts that seem AI generated, "11-layer verification" whatever that means...
Searching for that one leads to bathroom fixtures as well. You can’t win anymore! Search engines are almost completely useless now!
> top of the right mirror is very slightly curved, indicating the perspective correction of panorama mode.

Straight lines are actually always curved in wide angle photos (you can tell because of the exaggeratedly stretched corners) unless you perfectly correct for it. It's called radial distortion and is a natural property of lens projection. This is not on its own a sign of stitching, just imperfect calibration.

Anyway, I also believe this was a pano shot, but a curve isn't real evidence of that.
Why do people pay for things like Google Drive or Dropbox when S3 storage is so cheap?
All this death and destruction only because Zelensky took the bait from Biden to make a NATO bid and even mentioned the desire to have their own nukes!
I'll note I had an extensively curated saved list of cute cats and kittens on IG, which ive carefully curated over the years.

Midjourney has made my list irrelevant. I noticed I wasnt saving these photos anymore on IG, even without making a conscious decision about it.

I think it is because cute cats are now infinitely generate-able and no longer something to curate. My behavior made me sad.
A recent example I noticed: Nikon's Small World microphotography contest: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrogra...

We've become so accustomed to amazing things, some real, some synthetic, and every mixture in between, that these just seem less than "awful", to use the original sense of the word, to me. Even though they're probably objectively (heh) among the best micrographs ever taken.
I wish we had a public database of who approved lead pipes after a date when they were known to be dangerous. Same with all of the other health and environmental threats we face with micro plastics, PFAS, glyphosate, freon, etc etc etc, going back 100 years.

With that database, we could create liens on the corporations/families/individuals which profited from passing their externalities onto the public. Then they could pay for the cleanup and/or go bankrupt.

Where I'm going with this is that the current power structure in the US is built on ignorance. Many millionaires and billionaires are only wealthy because they've gamed the legal system to dodge most claims against them.

Examples are the Sackler family, the Koch family, the Walton family, the list is long:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2020/12/17/billion-...

Now, I have nothing against wealth creation through hard work and building things. But when it's done by corrupting the system, at some level that must be considered unpatriotic. Yet a politician wears a lapel pin and claims to love America while accepting money from the people who hurt us. This is a failure of leadership.

I'd propose that wealthy individuals can start setting an example by doing the right thing in a very public way, or risk bringing the wrath of the masses against them. And it wouldn't take much to pull the wool off people's eyes, especially with AI. How hard would it really be to use historical precedents as training data? We're in the midst of a Global Awakening where everyone can see in real time that the mainstream news doesn't match what they see reported by real people on social media. We've also reached a level of technological development where people are starting to provide resources for themselves outside the system via renewable energy, automation, hydroponics, 3D printing, etc. Those trends point to a reduction in wealth concentration and authoritarianism.

Yet the wealthy and powerful manipulate the system even harder, running authoritarian candidates, spreading anti-intellectual propaganda, starting proxy wars.. and soon using AI to trick people to vote against their own self-interest at even more unbelievable levels. At a time when people are barely able to earn enough money to make rent and put food on the table. You don't do that when people are struggling, you do it in the boom times like the mid-2000s. I almost wonder if they have a guilt complex, like they want to get caught?
Is this the same line of reasoning that lead to things extraordinary rendition and black sites in GWOT? Non US citizens on non US land, thus the government can do whatever they want like detain people indefinitely and "enhanced interrogation"?
I’ve been struggling with finding work this past year (really since Covid hit, but I was working somewhere alright in 2021 for 8 months until I got laid off due to lack of work). Queens, NYC.

We haven’t been able to afford rent or electric, and we have nowhere to go, and we have no family that can help us.

Our electricity has been on a shut-off notice for months, and we are in a holdover eviction case with a conference date of this coming Monday, 12/4.

We’re working with social benefit services, and there’s a chance we will be able to get a housing voucher, but there’s no guarantees and we haven’t even been able to begin the application process for it yet because they won’t answer the phone or call us back…

It’s very likely we will be forced out in the beginning of 2024, with nowhere to stay but streets or a homeless shelter.

I really just want to find work, to be able to take care of my partner and I (and our cat!)

I don’t really want any sort of handout, I just want to find a way to know my family will be safe.

I doubt there’s anything that can be done to directly help us, but I honestly don’t know what else we can do.

My email is on my profile.
The user interface is unintuitive, text search is slow, querying is even slower, refining the metric graphs to a time period is really annoying, the graph controls are consistently buggy in my experience... those are just off the top of my head
Thank you very much, yes, indeed, we are currently actively considering these
Nvidia Jetson Minimalist Images
An update was released just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38485309 N.b. practically plan9 has become 9front.
C# used to have postconditions and verify them at compile time.
But this has been deprecated :(
I wish I knew why they removed it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/debug-tra...
AFAIK Microsoft built the latest Office on top of it.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/react-native/2023-09-08-rneu-...
Many professions induce trauma. The only reason agile is a thing is because programmers refuse to band together to stop it.

The usual course of action in exploitative working conditions is collective bargaining. Instead, programmers got a consulting economy peddling the most insane interpersonal interactions because every social interaction must be individuated. Not wanting PMs hounding you for deadlines, crunch, and sane working conditions are all achievable through workplace democracy.
> There are only so many holiday pictures you can take, after all.

You miss the point, sadly.

Yeah storage is getting larger and cheaper but modern cameras/phones/etc take photos that are way larger than they used to do.

My first digital camera in like 2001 or so could only take either 20 "large" (640x480) bitmap photos or 80 "small" pictures, taking a few tens of kilobytes each at most.

My 2022 iphone se takes high quality pictures that are easily in the 7-8MB range (i just checked).

So yeah, disks keep getting larger, but so does the media.
Is post-scarcity of cute kittens really such a bad thing?

I think it's better to take a somewhat stoic view of things, you can't control the world and what happens, technology will always advance, but you can decide how you will react to it. There is nobody except yourself that's stopping yourself from enjoying collecting kittens, AI or non-AI ones.
A lot of that is cost reduction though because people want cheaper goods more than they want buttons.
What disadvantages do you see with flutter though?

The jank issue has been fairly minimized with Impeller, so performance-wide, it's fairly on par with RN. The only 2 issues I seem to find are the core Flutter team leaving Google, and Flutter web being unstable (and honestly I just wish they stopped developing for web and focusing on mobile). Another issue is learning a new language, but Dart being strongly typed makes it much easier to work with than Javascript.

In either case, RN and Flutter should be used only for the MVP stage, and once you can, you have to immediately switch to building on native at the right time.
virtualenv is the python way. For things like redis and other external web stuff, docker is the standard.
Email me. I might be able to help. Email on profile.
2 million laser beamlets sounds very expensive, depending on how they generate them.

It could be that the "writer" costs $1 mil right now, so might only make sense in a data center.
A long time ago I would sometimes amuse myself by opening the tubes and humming some melody - would sound really loud.
> But more importantly, unless I am misunderstanding I think your description just ruled out photography as being able to invoke awe.

Only if you start with the assumption that no work goes into photography.
The article doesn’t say what normal is, but does say “The third fiscal quarter saw 212 shutdowns, the highest number since the firm began tracking the data. Last year, 467 companies folded.”

Largest quarterly number and ‘higher than last year’ of course don’t directly compare to normal. They also aren’t a percentage, so this doesn’t help us understand if the failure rate is higher, or there are just more startups.
The firm in question is Carta. Browsing through their set of blog posts and data, the headlines don’t seem to project a dismal picture at all, somewhat the opposite. https://carta.com/blog/category/data-research/
From what I understand RO is the best, but charcoal is a good alternative for those with tighter budgets. I bought one of the counter top models with a water carafe and I've been very happy with it