skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users

Perhaps that's the real reason. But if so, why can't the US government just require Tiktok to push content that aligns with US interests? Say for every 3 videos a user watches, they are then required to watch a US army recruitment ad, or an VOA anti-China propaganda clip, or Uncle Sam telling them that there's a high chance they just watched foreign propaganda (think tobacco package warning messages). I'm pretty sure that Tiktok would find this acceptable as the cost of doing business, and that China wouldn't care — plenty of anti-China content already exists on Tiktok.

Of course I'm not seriously suggesting this. But I'm saying that if control over content is the real motivating concern, why wouldn't a solution like this be considered viable?
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> `-b` should be illegal

Sure... but I didn't use `-b`. Maybe I've misunderstood.

> give a dedicated error message if you write `a-b` but you happen to have both variables `a` and `b`

I guess, though the idea of having mutually exclusive sets of identifiers sounds like a nightmare. You can have `a` and `a-b`, or `a` and `b`, but not `a`, `b` and `a-b`... Maybe it wouldn't come up much in practice but it's still a pretty big WTF.

> In turn you have a bidirectional translator.

But the problem is that you have this translation in the first place. It makes the identifier ungreppable. Ideally any place you have an identifier it looks exactly the same through your whole codebase and if you have to translate it then that is no longer true. For example if you want to update all background colours in your project you might search for `background-color`... but miss `backgroundColor`.
It explicitly says that the lawsuit filing showed a distinct lack of understanding by the University of what LLMs are/how they work.
> The alternative is to make game creation fun - which then gets you to Roblox territory. Have people make games and share them quickly with each other.

That's the plan :-)
Someone reverse-engineered Robotron and found bugs in that too [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130714200334/http://www.robotr...
Forums are literally this, only aggregated by topic / title.
Yes, I had that issue too (years ago, when they first allowed deleting the Music app). I think it might not be a problem in newer cars, but my car radio only had iPod support, not iPhone, and it seemingly needed at least one song in the music library for the connectivity to work at all.

I actually bought this 10 minute long silent song on iTunes at the time, so my phone wouldn’t automatically play Weezer’s “Across the Sea” every time I connected my phone to the car: https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-a-a-a-a-very-good-song-si...
I'm aware that life in the USSR wasn't roses and cake, but it's not like it was stuck in pre-industrial feudalism until 1991 either.
Now, try to be an engineer that tries to "correct" him. Musk's ego is so fat, if it walks by in front of your TV, you will miss the whole season.
Direct link to the map: https://hn.wilsonl.in/s/
I think you're missing the point. It's not about this single example. The point is that this is how Apple operates. It's embedded in product decisions all over the place.

But also, this comes off a bit like a "if you don't like it, move to another country" type of response. It's not very reasonable, and it's not very helpful for the majority of people.
If someone evaluates whether to socialize with you based off of this, and it's important enough to you to not have or carry a smart phone, then they're probably not super compatible as friends or a partner anyway
I've a Kodak Ektar H35 which is ostensibly a half-frame reusable disposable camera w.r.t. specs and price.

Because it's half-frame it also takes twice as many photos per roll of film
The "security by obscurity is bad" mentality works in cases where issues are easy to fixed when identified. Most bugs fit in this category. It's doubtful this applies to recommendation algorithms. If you know which factors are most important in making a post go viral, and a bad actor exploits this, how are you supposed prevent them from doing so?
Oscillofun: stream of stereo samples that are music, and also a vector animation if interpreted as the X and Y deflection signals on an oscilloscope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YyI6_y6kw

(History of numerous appearances on HN).
You can still make stuff that runs from the boot sector. You just won't have access to fancy graphics drivers.

I found this: https://github.com/nanochess/RayTracer
The 'again' is misplaced, imo. And then one has to wonder whether this person was ever in love with them before.
> In January, New York state announced plans to build up its AI research bona fides through a $400 million public-private partnership dubbed “Empire AI.”

How is this not just straight graft?
from the article: "...according to investors, founders and businesses with ties to the region." seems to confirms my bias that this is based more on hopes and dreams than reality.

NYC wants to be seen as a hub for tech startups, but they aren't. There's lots of great investment there, especially for building around stuffy old-business workflows, but its not exactly an innovation R&D center and that's ok.

But yes, I'm sure more funders in NYC would love a greater slice of the VC pie that's been historically over-allocated to SF.
I thought that deal fell through?
Generating Open API Specs with Hypothesis
You do realize that Rust, C#/F#, Kotlin/Scala, now Java to an extent, pretty much all FP and many other languages have extensive pattern matching support?
Startups on hard mode: Oxide. Part 1: Hardware
Grandiosity is a big ego without results - Bitcoin got the results!

There's the interesting moment when making a project, where you believe it could be successful. Most stuff doesn't make it, most creative work is internally rewarding at best.

How someone deals, copes with that little flicker of hope that what they're doing might matter is interesting.
If your wealthy urban area’s needs are already being met, then obviously it makes little economical sense to overbuild.
Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
I don't, but this is what this topic is about. Open another one and I can share my opinions about that. I don't even think "publishing algorithms" is feasible, so my point is if you want to do this for adults, I disagree, if you want to do it for children, I don't disagree, but would rather just simplify the experience for them because its easier to prove the mechanism.
This comes back to the old adage, we aren't the consumers, we're the product.
Related discussion of the original research link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429326
Once I saw that suggestion I cannot un-hear it.

It's much closer to RJ than SJ... MUCH much closer. Enough that if it's not her, I'll be genuinely surprised.
Browser spec creators and browser vendors have been implementing touch and non-touch UI differences in common primitive features since the 2010s. Example, if you use at a <select> element on desktop browsers and mobile browsers, I would say it falls into a similar idea as rotating UX. There are countless other examples, too.

Could there be improvements? Absolutely, and that's where we get to have a voice.
When you consider the submission itself, the upvotes it receives usually is praise. If you can see it listed not far from the home page, people probably upvoted it more than downvoted.

Also, there's probably bias in that the less work and mental effort required of a comment, the more likely you will make it. Fault-finding can be productive, while "good job" comments maybe not so much. Therefore, the combination of that sort of comment being "easy" to make while also being perceived as more useful and more likely upvoted explains why we see more of them, to me anyway.
This is one of my favorite parts about working for a CDN with tens of thousands of servers around the world… the challenge of designing systems that will encounter rare events all the time.

Race conditions just become conditions, because they will happen all the time. It has never been more important to know which syscalls are actually atomic and under what conditions that holds true.
Indeed, that's a good point. And increasingly is the case for people.
Yes, lots of activity in the space. I thought you were saying it was a dumb problem, but I was wrong.

I think this is a great paper.
There was a lot of homegrown research too, and they put people in space before the US managed it.

Comment above claimed that only under capitalism can we have nice things, which is a blatant lie. Arguably it's due to central planning and a high degree of enforced conformism that China manages to keep up with mass surveillance and production output.

Personally I'm not particularly fond of the state and very suspicious of the presumed necessity to have one.
Sonos Ace – Wireless over Ear Headphones with Noise Cancellation
I thought I knew the basics of tape, but as always I learned a lot from that video. The one that went through my head is mastic tape. I used some on actual ducts and I don't know if it's just an extra thick layer of goo or if there are also more engineering secrets. But dang it is sticky and messy.
That was out of necessity. The C=64 floppy drive was so painfully slow that using it for gameplay without causing stalls would be close to impossible. The few games that tried (there was an Elvira RPG for example) were plagued by long loading screens. The C=64 was also gifted with a higher than average amount of RAM for the era, making it practical to fit entire games in memory.
lol, this is kinda a no-@#$% for anyone ever been enlisted in the military. "Here's some Motrin", go back to work.

1. one small example: I was sick. I woke up early and made it to sick call, which isn't fun when your sick because it requires more energy and effort than just going to work. They took a throat culture and gave me some Motrin, and sent me back to work. I hated it, I went in daily, but I was so sick they had me sit and study rather than working with anyone. Then I got yelled at when I was nodding off. This went on for a couple of weeks. I know I had a fever too. A couple of months later, I got a message on my answering machine (yes, I'm that old), that said "this is Captain lksjdffl from the hospital. I called before but your answering machine wasn't working. I just wanted to check in because you had strep."

1. My answering machine had not moved or had any defects.
2. They could have gotten word to me, though the chain of command, if they wanted.

Worthless
California PUC rejects PG&E plan to spin off 5.6 GW in non-nuclear assets
Well.. to be fair, those records aren't on any system anymore. It's a lawyer problem.
at most it will be opt out.
Really impressive for the size. The 4.2B vision model apparently outperforms GPT-4V-Turbo on 5 out of 7 vision benchmarks.
I'm with you... I use a 5.9" phone, but have accessibility/font settings maxed out. There are a lot of sites with limited or broken functionality. Modal dialogs are the absolute worst... they should be configured to just take over the screen on smaller displays, with the region as scrollable. It's easy enough to do, and has been my approach for menus and modals for a long while now.
Well, if you don't get how DRM is incompatible with privacy, it's not going to be a productive discussion.
> I think your confused here as trade groups are NOT non-profit groups. Non- profits can't do much lobbying

The point of the original article was about 501(c)(4) organizations running PR campaigns. And that they don't really have direct sway with lawmakers. That's what I was speaking to.

I think the CBO is an amazing accounting organization, but even they rely on industry data organization and commercial forecasts and outside consultants.

Regardless of how you feel about Citizen's United and PACs, any representative democracy is going to have lobbyists. The only thing that changes is who's allowed to have one, how you account for them, and what you call them.
Sam Altman Is Full of Shit
TLDR California regulators rejected PG&E selling a chunk of their business to private equity.
We Built an Unreal Engine Volume That Competes with Amazon
A giant Video Wall/Volume that is used to shoot movies and commercials built in as a giant circle with video Wall Ceiling. about 350 degrees around and 21 feet tall with 75 feet in diameter. This might be the biggest Volume on in North America. Full Tour of how it works!
The near and mid-term future of improving the Ethereum network
wow, I've heard horror stories and that's one of the worst. Also heard about a pediatrician doing a surgery they shouldn't have just to keep up the surgery qualification. I forget the whole story, but it didn't go well.
> I remember people exclaiming 'musk is right, Twitter doesn't need 1000s of developers' only for Twitter to start failing a lot of regulatory and abuse vector edge cases shortly after their layoffs. It's no good judging business needs based on a basic garage implementation of Twitter. The real world and a few billion users makes for an entirely different set of problems.

It's strange this is the lesson you took from Twitter. Twitter fired 90% of their developers, and almost nothing changed. Twitter is a site that exists in the real world, at scale. People don't even talk about the fact that Twitter fired 90% of their devs anymore, they just began firing devs themselves.
Sorry wasn't meant as an attack, the algorithm based feeds of instagram and twitter are almost a decade old now, and I believe facebooks older.

There are definitely people in the tech field who have only (or mostly) experienced algorithmic based feeds.
For starters, you’re prepackaging the overthrow committee.
Arrogant answers are very helpful! Thanks!
Windows 11 Recall AI feature will record everything you do on your PC
US helium system auction draws few bids
Unless your needs are extremely specific and necessitate replacing most of the engine, Unity is probably not limiting your capabilities. The default packages are extensive and allow for basic game-making without writing that much actual code, but large developers will almost certainly swap default Unity components for their own for parts that need them, while the engine manages other parts like sound and input handling, multi-platform deployment and so on.

Unity is by far the most used engine in the world and tons of extremely different games were made with it. Subnautica, Rimworld, Hollow Knight, Beat Saber, the Ori games, Disco Elysium - none of them seemed to face any issues with being made in Unity. The "Unity games are bad" stereotype annoys me - it's bound to have a bunch of shovelware made on it with how many resources there are for learning it (and Unity being free), but it's popular for a reason.
Sure. But there is also a gaping hole of regulation in this area. They can strongly sway public opinion with their algorithms? That sounds dangerous- let's regulate that as we do other forms of media. Then we see droves of nerds come out about how sacred the dang internet is and all of that and it shall never be regulated unless you're a fascist.
Robotics Startup CEO Simulator
This is a little tool I made to try and figure out how to make humanoid startups profitable. It goes with this blog post: https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/humanoid-robots-dollars....

I thought folks here might like to play with it.
To add some details, he worked for the BBC during wartime - that was the inspiration for the job in the truth ministry of the main character in 1984. Basically inventing the truth.
Also a brilliant audiobook series narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith who some here may recognise from the first Earthsea book.
This is why it's a mistake to go by "vibes" of a person when they're speaking to an audience. Pay attention to what they do, not what they say.
Why? To waste resources and electricity? This is Blockchain mania all over again.
The F-35 is going to join the long list of fighters that will be pulled from service as quickly as possible.

It might continue to fly in the Air National Guard, and in countries that don't have the means to renew their fleet, where it will have served its purpose: being so costly that it starved any possible competition.
Here’s a link to Mashey’s post on mstdn:

https://mstdn.social/@JohnMashey/112477330642538953

It’s short enough that I’ll quote it here.

“I am very sad to report death May 17 at age 89 of Gordon Bell, famous computer pioneer, a founder of Computer Museum in Boston, and a force behind the @ComputerHistory her in Silicon Valley, and good friend since the 1980s.
He succumbed to aspiration pneumonia in Coronado, CA.
I'm told there will be a "Celebration of Life" service in August in Silicon Valley.
(Another fallen giant, we attended a similar service in April for another, Nobelist Arno Penzias.)”

HN should post the black bar.
Also worth checking out is oscilloscope music which pops up on this forum every few years

https://youtu.be/ywdRQ3zU6Uc?si=EZc6Pz8j6y1i83DJ
I'm sorry, but what does poorly implemented responsive design have to with React? I agree with you that most websites are very poorly made, but that's not React's fault (as much as it is being constantly shitted on here on HN, which I really don't like), only developers' (and their managers'). Please stop blaming frameworks.
Don't want to be this guy - but isn't this article just an ad for fujifilm? The author only mentions fujifilm and there is a link to buy one of these cameras right at the beginning.

Maybe it's more of a try to generate a trend then a real trend the journalist is describing?
I think the best infographics are kinda like that indeed.
Visual Studio 2022 17.10 and GitHub Copilot
> That Bùi’s life story remains so unknown, to others in his field as well as to the broader public, seems to exemplify racist stereotypes about technically skilled but otherwise faceless Asians, and reflects an unwillingness to reckon with Asian American history.

Hold up. This seems forced.

What would've driven this fellow to household recognition? Even his billionaire, surviving peer, Ed Catmull, and the commercial face of Pixar isn't a household name.
For other words, they don't ever get substantially easier.

This should (hopefully) get easier over time. From your dates there, it looks like the cards you have to re-learn often were only originally added 3 months ago? I think this should become easier for you in 6, 9, or 18 months – provided you continue to keep updated on the cards.

A. I definitely agree here. If I don't at least know understand a word to say, 30% confidence, I will never learn it, and will forever repeat it without making any progress. Personally I use images and sound to help make words stick in my mind. There's a lot of research about the effectiveness of imagery (see the "picture superiority effect.")

B. Ditto with #1. In scientific terms, this is called "encoding." Properly encoding things at the beginning has a big effect on your long term retention.

C. I do my reviews every morning while on the exercise bike. I use a gamepad to move through them more quickly, although I would technically be better with typing them out.

Also, as a side note, I have written a few blog posts on an old Substack about using Anki and AI tools:

https://neurotechnicians.substack.com/archive?sort=new

You might find the one about Using Images to Remember Things useful.
Private enterprise is bounded by considerations of the common good. So it is reasonable to regulate private enterprise when it becomes an essential service or utility, or has a huge impact on the common good.
Controversial images like this, such as Taylor Swift deepfakes, can be generated without training on any related explicit material.
What would be your example of a non-moneyed interest? My doctor and mechanic are moneyed interests? Even independent researchers are moneyed interests in their own way.

If you were to pass legislation about crash safety for cars, would you not allow input from anyone who knows how cars are manufactured?
The Recall feature runs on your device.
Microsoft says Prism translation layer does for ARM PCs what Rosetta did for Mac
Are you new to New York?

Everything the state does is graft.
Uh, by just doing it?

You can still file your taxes and apply for benefits on paper, if you’re so inclined.

Banks and government departments still have phone lines.

You can still send letters to your friends or call them on the phone.
Nice, it reminds me the old one geocities... but it did not suport
such things like a guestbooks, etc.
As I can see there's community in the Telegram messenger that I don't use. Will you make another one community somewhere else?
very cool to learn - I'll update the readme
The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]
256 is the magic number
I feel like this is a huge digression, but this is basically the perfect counter-argument to "its never been illegal to write down license plate numbers/stake out people's houses/write down the addresses of mail delivered to a home/etc, why should we make new rules now that AI is doing it?"

Obviously manually interceding whenever you have a server failure is unsustainable when you have 1000 (or more servers). Why do people somehow believe that manually interceding to prevent bad action with surveillance is somehow sustainable, when previously the rate limiter was that the surveillance itself was manual?
Anything based off of the Latin Vulgate is almost certainly going to say "root of all evil" but translations off of the Greek may differ here.
> Players will be able to use natural language to ask questions like "How do I craft a sword?" and the Copilot will search your chests and inventories for the necessary materials, or guide you to them if you don't have them. It will also explain how to craft the item, and so on, eliminating the need to alt tab and read a website for Minecraft guides

"Inside" as in "LLM search engine for game tips"

We're over a year into the AI hype, and this is the practical application? A game-adjacent search engine? The next AI Winter is going to give us all frostbite.
If you want to see what a master of Deluxe Paint palette cycling can do check out Mark Ferrari's

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/ (hit "Show Options)

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0
>I'd honestly struggle to find any good games (right for their time and audience) that failed because of a lack of suitable marketing.

Among Us is a good example. It was out for over a year before it exploded.

It got found by streamers and that slowly spread in that space before even the biggest ones were playing. [1]

[1] https://twitchtracker.com/games/510218
That suggestion just covers one variable among many. There is an endless list of social issues.

The suggestion doesn't restrict how much anti-US propaganda gets pushed.

I don't think TikTok or the US would find it acceptable. It is too heavy handed
My understanding is that any recycling advantage is dwarfed by the environmental impact of the ship breaking process.
You can be every bit as dense in a web based application... you can make it look the same pixel perfect if you want to go that far.

I've never been a fan over overly dense applications, unless they are purpose built tools. There's a big difference between PhotoShop and Grubhub. Likewise there should be differences depending on display size and UX... If you're going to have users with finger/touch input, then you don't want things too close.. if it's mostly Desktop/Laptop, you can go much more dense with less issues.

Do keep accessibility in mind, some of us zoom up a couple steps on many sites.