skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to add multiple animations to a single USDA file for RealityKit
I'm skeptical of this argument. I don't want to be on the same road with people who self identity as expert drivers going at the limit.
> Parler off the face of the planet, a purely political move

Having a policy against hosting apps that host illegal content and taking no measures to remove it is a political move? There are plenty of active conservative communities on the internet, Parler just went the "free as in anarchy" speech route. Tumblr faced a ban on iOS for pornographic content and Reddit also has to sanitize their default experience to be on app stores, so it's not just Parler.

It's why BlueSky is interesting because they have moderation which will get them on app stores, but you can turn it off.
Hackernews moment, Hi Dave!
Halting AI
Great question.

Boston Dynamics has been demoing the pre-baked dance routine for 2+ decades at this point. Really hoping we can evolve past it.
oh lord, Boing has run these days..
OI wherz ur matches loicense!?
I find this super interesting.

A big part of HN is business
The closest precedent for this ban are laws banning foreign ownership of TV stations.

But TV has always been national. How is global social media supposed to work when every government demands to have its own version, controlled by a local company?

Do these representatives imagine a truly separate version of TikTok, like China's Douyin, without access to foreign content, and without anyone else seeing american content, without any connections between american and foreign users? Does the US want to separate itself from the world like that? China has a long tradition of this kind of separation, the US doesn't.
If you get in a car crash and are suspected of a DUI, in most states you must submit to a breathalyzer or you are presumed guilty by default. Where you live, is that not the case? Or can you get out of a drunk-driving charge by just refusing to blow?
> The harms cannot be overstated.

Proceeds to not state said harms…

Maybe tell us those supposed harms.
Preventing magnet meltdowns before they can start – symmetry magazine
One reason to go to the Bay Area. And timely, given the post about the Bauhaus a few days ago.
How dare people fight oppression!
Sure they are. Speed is easy to detect for instance. Someone driving 50mpg in a 25mph school zone should have massive increases to their insurance as they present huge risk.
I have long suggested the more extreme solution. Getting to the bottom of our problems with calendars and time in general. We should simply remove Earth and Moon from equation. This would allow moving to metric year, months, days and even hours and minutes. Much cleaner and saner system. No more issues trying to fit these together.
Navigating the Future of Front End
I know this might be perceived as an obvious question, but what exactly did you switch from, and to?
If they have an ACTUAL measure of lower skilled and higher risk drivers, fine.

But when they use overly simplistic data (or use it in an oversimplified way) that makes the highest-skilled drivers appear in the same batch as low-skilled and high-risk drivers, that is not subsidy, it is unfair penalization by stupidity.

(see other comment on logging of g-forces)
I wrote a short blog post[1] about this pattern a few years ago. I still don't understand why so many apps use this workflow, especially ones that previously didn't. Just let me deal with the project creation stuff on the first write instead of requiring all this up-front commitment!

[1]: https://davidyat.es/2018/03/01/project-wizard/
You seem to be assuming that the carbon will stay locked in the construction materials. But I doubt that it will, what will happen to it after the building is destroyed ? Either it will have been by fire, or as waste, will likely be back in the atmosphere after wood-eating life is done with it.

I wonder how feasible it would be to put wood (from particularly dense species ?) on the bottom of the expanding anoxic ocean zones ? That seems to be one of the rare locations where the only thing that could possibly degrade it are sulphur-"breathing" bacteria, which seem to have trouble digesting lignin ?

But even here, it might still be easier to just stop burning fossil fuels ? EDIT : ninjaed

P.S.: For an opposite example, see how concrete reabsorbs over decades back up to half of the CO2 exhaled during its production.

P.P.S.: Supposedly, soil-buried charcoal is also decently stable, I guess even fungi find it unpalatable ??
We're banning the company not the ability to express. They can upload the exact same videos to YouTube shorts, Instagram Reels, and who knows how many alternatives.
"At the core, welfare steals from all to provide for some."
Yep, I want a system of progressive taxation that provides negative pressure on wealth inequality while uplifting the poorest. I like this idea because I like liberty, and a rich person loses almost no agency by having some portion of their income or wealth taxed while a small stipend can make a huge difference in the choices available to a poor person. There's also the utilitarian argument that disproportionately burdening a small-ish number of rich people for the benefit of the majority is a net good. If private sector charity could achieve either of these goals (alleviation of wealth inequality or uplifting of the poor) as well as social welfare can, I'd argue for it instead, since at the end of the day I prefer it be voluntary, but I don't think that it's up to the task, which we can observe in today's charities. Do you have any evidentiary basis for the counter? Why would the system of voluntary charity suddenly improve its outcomes or have more money to spend?

"they ignore moral hazard"

Sometimes economic risks are negative, like spending your paycheck on lottery tickets, but other times they're positive, like starting a risky but ambitious startup or getting an education. If social welfare causes a significant change in the average person's risk tolerance, a claim that definitely requires substantiation, then I still might argue this isn't a net negative for the economy or society at large. Even if the claim is true, is using homelessness and privation as a threat (a threat often realized upon the unfortunate) a worthwhile ethical sacrifice? How much does it cost us not to do this, because I think it's worth some money.

"tend to produce worse outcomes"

If this is true, which I also wouldn't take for granted, then you'd still need to factor in the asymmetry in access that private charities have vs a social welfare system. Perhaps a person who gets the aid of charity benefits more than one who gets welfare, but does the average person?

"are less economically efficient"

This is likely to be true simply because government tends to be inefficient, but
can be worth it for the above reasons and can be assessed objectively. I'd be fine with spending some margin more than should be spent, say 50%, if it means that 95% rather than 10% of people have access to food or housing or whatever else.

Overall, I don't see how charity can even serve as a mechanism for what we're talking about. If we see unprecedented unemployment due to AI, how exactly do we expect voluntary charity to expand to meet demand? What can we do other than some form of wealth redistribution if we don't want lots of people to starve? Furthermore, why can't we do both? If charity will expand to meet demand, then let's use social welfare to fill in the gaps and prevent destitution.
I had a job where i had to stand in one place all day - definitely hard the first couple of weeks - you adapt (+find comfy shoes), I would have never characterized it as unethical, and its probably a lot healthier...
I think for certain people with an extreme illness or vulnerability like this, it's reasonable to still be very cautious in 2024. You'd probably also be very cautious about cold and flu.
Claude 3 is way better than GPT-4-turbo at actually doing stuff.
You have this completely backwards.

GrapheneOS provides much better privacy than CalyxOS including features like Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes, per-app Sensors toggle, Network toggle instead of the leaky LineageOS approach, per-connection MAC randomization, fixes for many data leaks and much more.

GrapheneOS provides much broader app compatibility than CalyxOS via sandboxed Google Play. Apps forbidding using an alternate OS via the Play Integrity API is an issue for any alternate operating system and it's known that spoofing the device integrity check for Google certification is not a sustainable approach that will keep working. It already doesn't work consistently.

CalyxOS is not a hardened OS. It greatly reduces security vs. AOSP via added attack surface, rolled back security and slow patches.

Compatibility with Android apps on GrapheneOS is also much different. GrapheneOS provides our sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer:

https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

Can run the vast majority of Play Store apps on GrapheneOS, but not CalyxOS with the problematic microG approach.

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm is a third party comparison between different alternate mobile operating systems. It could include many more privacy/security features but it's a good starting point.

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/choosing-your-android-base... is an article with more long form comparisons between OSes.
Thank you for an informative read. When I came across "Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48" I thought it's just a typo and he meant "superior", it was interesting to read on discover I was wrong.
HD2 is hard enough. I dont need to be playing FN DeepMind driven Space Enemies... sheesh.

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What would be better is if you have a game that you play - but you have an AI droid companion to get you through all you challenges.

And make the challenges hard. But maybe the AI cannot shoot or damage, but can do tasks to help you - but the kicker is - you dont communicate with it in any way, it is like a little Orb that flies around and follows you and does things to your benefit as it watches you struggle through the level, based on your gameplay it knows how to give you an assist. Because it needs your hands to get him back to his ship/home?
Cheating on web3/emission/grinding games will go wild...
Absolutely. People on X keep making the mistake of assuming cloud / network latency is the problem here.

The vast majority of America is within 10ms of a data center. That's nothing.

The current challenge for most interaction is ASR -> prompt processing latency. This will be improved with multimodal models on specialized hardware like Groq.
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And the punchline is they're actually vanishingly marginal and esoteric compared to those from junk food, guns, tobacco, booze, and social media.
It makes reading code more enjoyable for me.

This is the joy of uniqueness. For me, colour is beyond annoying on text. I loath it, yet would never want your colours removed!

I worked for a guy who thought he was "helping" by barging in and distracting me, whenever he saw me in deep thought. I finally confronted him on it, and he thought this helped the creative process!

OK great! I think through a mega-complex problem, anticipating possible issues with furture use of my code, security issues, or if people use the API wrong, and in barges the guy 70% of the way through a thought process and starts blathering on about something irrelevant.

Sure, I guess ot helps HIM become creative, but it just wastes my time and is highly annoying, and does nothing for me. Except perhaps engender mistakes.

Letting others work as they do best, is pivotal to success.

So please all people who have read this far, colour is great, but also no colour is too.
MDX, with the custom content involved, is though.
I've been working on a hybrid WYSIWYG editor for MDX at Vrite (https://vrite.io).

Currently supports custom block elements and JSON-serializable attributes. Now looking into inline content and building an extension system to render custom previews for the nodes.

Check it out if you're interested - it's also open-source.
"Free" doesn't mean no restrictions. For example, apps/websites like Myspace and Facebook and anything that's been used to spread hate, cause bullying, or threats have always been a target of regulation, albeit never an outright ban.

In the case here, it's ostensibly being done with national security considerations in mind. What remains to be determined is whether or not these concerns are valid. But the idea that "free" means the government has no power to ban things, including apps, borders naïvety.
They have this completely backwards.

GrapheneOS provides much better privacy than CalyxOS including features like Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes, per-app Sensors toggle, Network toggle instead of the leaky LineageOS approach, per-connection MAC randomization, fixes for many data leaks and much more.

GrapheneOS provides much broader app compatibility than CalyxOS via sandboxed Google Play. Apps forbidding using an alternate OS via the Play Integrity API is an issue for any alternate operating system and it's known that spoofing the device integrity check for Google certification is not a sustainable approach that will keep working. It already doesn't work consistently.

CalyxOS is not a hardened OS. It greatly reduces security vs. AOSP via added attack surface, rolled back security and slow patches.

Compatibility with Android apps on GrapheneOS is also much different. GrapheneOS provides our sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer:

https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

Can run the vast majority of Play Store apps on GrapheneOS, but not CalyxOS with the problematic microG approach.

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm is a third party comparison between different alternate mobile operating systems. It could include many more privacy/security features but it's a good starting point.

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/choosing-your-android-base... is an article with more long form comparisons between OSes.
Would calling Steve on the phone be your first move if you knew nothing about his day-to-day life or schedule?
It's nice to see another functional language. This one seems to be inspired by F#.
That line also jumped out at me. My understanding is iron lungs were only declared "obsolete" due to cost and mobility reasons, but the actual experience of an iron lung is better because it is less invasive and spreads the pressure more evenly over ones whole torso rather than forcing air into the lungs from the inside. In other words, an iron lung is more like actually breathing (and maybe that's how Mr Alexander was able to learn to breathe despite the prognosis).
I want to see it play helldivers on level 9. That would be so fun to watch.
Have you tried following the transaction trail on the blockchain?
It seems to me the issue in this article wasn't caused by soft deletes, it was caused by a botched migration from soft deletes to the history table method the author is recommending. Blaming the issue on soft deletes completely misses the actual root cause.
It passes muster unless and until five vote against it at the Supreme Court.
Maybe it's better that these time wasters die, speaking as someone who played them way too much.
> Wow. That's a new low standard for journalism. Whatever happened to keeping opinions and news separate?

You seem to have some idealized view of journalism that has never existed. The fact that you linked to the nytimes...

> And no, modern Congress is not more corrupt than historical standards

That's a straw man. He didn't say congress was 'more corrupt' than before. He just wrote 'grotesquely corrupt congress'. You surely can see the difference. If not, you'd make an excellent journalist.
dating a danish bird has really given an understanding of how valued their furniture is, how normal it is to see a 5k chair in someones room as an investment. Things that would have boggled my mind a few years ago. Yet now I see the chairs not just in Copenhagen but on american shows in the background. The longer I live the more I seem to learn about my environment. Notice things that I didnt understand before.
This could very much be that different applications have different strategies that are applicable.

For games and embedded systems, memory and CPU cycles are at a premium. My strat works best in languages with a GC where memory is abundant and cheap to allocate and there's not strict CPU time requirements.

For the field I'm familiar with, microservices and backends, this works really well and mutation can generally be controlled (usually the only permanent state is the database).

I agree shared state is probably faster, I'm not sure I agree with it being robust. Parallel code with shared state can be deceptively tricky to get right, especially when trying to hold multiple locks at the same time (which you have to do if you want to be fast). Nobody likes debugging why an app suddenly freezes for no apparent reason (deadlock).
> ...even talking of "re-arranging my code" is something that should be avoided.

Why? I find a well organized code file to be easier to read, e.g. grouped together constants, related declarations, class methods, instance methods etc. And to display those groups in some common order so it's easy to find them. An auto-formatter would have to have deep knowledge of intents to do that automatically.
"They hate us for our freedom"

Anything other than open propaganda seems to be offensive to the government. I've got no clue what they're saying on TikTok about him, but kids understanding that there's some nuance and understandable motivation behind a guy like bin Laden seems like... not something to be terribly alarmed about? Of course, goes without saying, bad dude. However, there's a big difference between cartoon character who "hates freedom" and "guy who is pissed off about (among other things) the effect of US foreign policy on his country." One breeds "turn 'em to glass" sentiments, another breeds "what IS our foreign policy?"
> Coast Redwoods are of the genius "Seqoia",

on the genus Sequoia
I suppose that depends on what you mean by “propaganda”. Personally I think it can be convincingly argued that any message transmitted to you from a State is propaganda

(Note: that means that I don’t believe that all propaganda is inherently evil, sometimes your interests align with a State. For example governments paying for advertising to discourage smoking is a great thing, IMO!)

I’ve never lived in China, but I’ve spoken with many people that have and my understanding is that allegiance to the State (eg, the State’s sole stewards the CCP) is a big part of life there. I’ve even been told that staying in the good graces of the State’s only official political party is important if you want to do things like buy property or start a business.

TikTok is administrated by humans, many of whom live in China.

Those humans are, I assume, ambitious and want to do well for themselves and therefore likely want to appease the State.

Therefore, when I read articles about how the administrators of TikTok can effectively decide what goes viral it makes me fear what I’ve begun calling ‘incidental’ propaganda.

Probably those China-based administrations at TikTok don’t want to actively harm American society, but it’s certainly true that America and China have different interests in the world. I assume that any administrators in China will never choose to make something go viral if it is critical of the Chinese State or its interests.

You can see how that might skew things for those that only get their news from TikTok, right?

(This is my understanding and thinking on things right now given the information I have. I gladly welcome any new information if someone reads this and disagrees. But please be kind :))
In an ideal world, such data harvesting would be illegal, with liability adhering to the executives pushing for and approving the initiative as well as any legal counsel involved. Acquiring the data should require explicit, truly informed, and revocable consent not buried in a bunch of BS and not required for the purchase of a vehicle or insurance.
The thing, is that this is not just about fitting in society (although that is an important part f it), but the most major one that has doomed me is some kind of aversion to just "doing" things, and i mean any thing, like exercise, grooming, learning, studying and so much more. This is combined with the fact that when i do try to learn something, i stop after sometime either because i feel tired or feel it is too easy and i am very smart and can easily learn it later.

the one time i did work hard in school, i did not get anywhere as good outcomes as the effort i put in. i live in a part of the world where money is very necessary (i mean, it is important everywhere) and to earn boatloads, you have to be exceptional, know the right people, be wily enough to catch opportunities and manipulate people but i don't have the capabilities to do any of this.

i am going to be honest, i have had big dreams and ambitions but i have never been able to put in the work to get to them because of multitude of reasons. so, i don't really know what to do anymore.
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Someone, please ask OpenAI to stop artificially dumbing down ChatGPT by adding "um" to the audio output. I get that it is supposed to make it more human-like or something, but every time I hear it do that, I cringe and feel sad for humanity.
They cut down trees that were 10+ feet wide to make matchsticks? That makes the whole affair even more disappointing.
Are real world physics really that much more complicated than video game physics? Sure, if you’re talking about E&M, relativity, or QFT, the real world is more complicated, but for every day mechanics, they seem pretty comparable?

Video games might be even harder to predict sometimes, since the physics simulations have very strange edge cases. There are no physics glitches in the real world.
I used more or less a bare vim (not minimal, not neovim) config with no plugins and < 100 lines in my vimrc for about 5 years. Minimal syntax highlighting, zero popups or autocomplete, no jump to definition, etc.

It wasn't intentionally by choice, I remember getting frustrated with some interaction between a couple of plugins and resolved to start from a clean slate and carefully configure and curate my config. The clean slate happened but the subsequent configuration never did. I got used to it pretty quickly and it forced me to keep more of the code base in my mental RAM at any point in time.

That still resulted in quite a bit of hunting around, slower refactors but I was thinking about the code quite a bit more. I finally started using a much more feature rich environment and while I'm glad I did the long stretch without it, I even feel I benefited from it, I don't think I could go back.

For autocompletes specifically I do find the immediate suggestions annoying even when I can type right through them. I have no idea how people work when they have to pause their coding to actively dismiss suggestions either via the mouse or through a keyboard shortcut.

For the time being my autocomplete suggestion window is a key combination to even display for a single instance and no additional actions need to be taken unless I want to accept the suggestion (I can still type right through it). I'm sure everyone's mileage will vary but autocomplete feels significantly more intrusive to me than syntax highlighting.