skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my take as a parent who was very hesitant to let my kids play roblox for this same fear.

The exploitiveness of an individual Roblox game really depends on that game's developer. They get to decide how to extract money from their players.

I've seen a lot of different sales techniques used. Most common are pay to get an overpowered weapon or ability or to skip levels.

The ones that annoy me the most are the artificial scarcity/limited time only sales techniques. "Adopt Me" is one of the most popular games. Their main product is digital pets that cost about 12USD, or upgrades for your pets. They have rotation of pets that are only available for a limited time. My kids are really suspectable to that technique.

There are also some games that are obnoxiously full of unavoidable little floor buttons that when stepped on will trigger the confirm purchase dialog. The dialog is easy for kids to learn to just-cancel, but the developers who use this technique seem to have real contempt for their players.

That said, there are tons of fun games that you can play without spending any money or being exposed to obtrusive ads.

My favorite game is called Secret Staycation. It's really well made, and there are zero in game purchases. I only saw one ad in the whole game and it was for a physical plush toy of one of the game characters.

Also, shame on Mark Rober for his buggy abomination of a Roblox game. That felt gross and exploitive.
This is exactly how https://instant.page/ makes webpages load so fast.

It cheats your brain by loading the new page once link is pressed (or even hover). Not on release.
If an algorithm is looking through private stuff and making a decision based on it or is sending signals where the signal depends on the private stuff, then it's pretty much by definition leaking private information.

An algorithm that leaked no private information would not be useful to a business. It would do a bunch of computation and then throw it away. So realistically anything that looks at private information is privacy-relevant.

That includes even just the email headers. To quote the former head of the NSA "We Kill People Based on Metadata" https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-...

You can have debates about how much private information should be leaked and for what purposes. But I don't think having a threshold like "it's all private unless another human reads it" is a good way to think about the issue.
Are dryers really more convenient? Maybe I'm just lucky to live someplace dry, but I find skipping the dryer is the less-work route. It's a whole separate phase to deal with. I only use mine now if I'm in a hurry for something to be dry, which is pretty much never.
“Pretend each word costs you $2 to write. Give me one opposing viewpoint along with one pro and con of each.”

The first sentence really made the biggest difference.
"Quirky" Japanese technology? Buddy, it's a dehumidifier. That thing you can buy at any big-box store in the US? Except they put it out of the way in the ceiling of the room that is the most humid. In Europe there are "drying cabinets" that are the same idea. Some only have fans/heaters, others have dehumidifiers.

I exclusively dry my clothes on a ~$30 folding clothes frame that will take a full washer load. If I'm in a rush, I point a fan at it.

In the winter, the humidity is welcome and the fan alone dries the clothing really quick. In the summer, I set it up outside. If there's a good breeze, my laundry is dry in no time. If I set it up indoors, the central AC takes care of the humidity.

My electric bill is tiny and my clothes last forever because they're not getting beat to shit for half an hour every week...
Brickit App Suggests Lego Builds Using AI
You will still have to manually dig for gold in this SEO Wasteland.
Still waiting for zellij to allow moving tabs
these are all broadly a) tech b) news c) aggregator:

https://bearblog.dev/discover/

https://paperlined.org/

https://lemmy.ml/c/technology

https://engineeringblogs.xyz/

https://jimmyr.com/

https://techurls.com/

https://interestingengineering.com/

https://researchbuzz.me/

https://www.techmeme.com/

https://robohub.org/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

https://www.dailyrotation.com/

https://raddle.me/f/Tech
Usually just Google and YouTube. I’ll use free resources and if I want to sharpen a particular skill further than free resources are available for, I’ll find a decent premium course.
If China surveils people, it's because they are evil and authoritarian.

If we surveil people, it's because we're just keeping the public safe.
I’m curious what teachers unions in the United States will think of this.

Presumably any successful outcomes with this will result in a culling, starting with aides and specialists. Add declining enrollment and you have strong incentive.
mistaken arrests aren’t slander
It's better than being identified as somebody who has a high probability of becoming a thief in the future, I suppose.

Do we do that? Do we want to do that?
The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success
Last time I tried this maybe two years ago on Mac, there were some quirks/peculiarities/funkiness (can’t remember offhand what they were now a few years later), and while a liked it a lot I stopped using it because of that. Has the experience improved on the Mac or gotten ironed out since then?
That's really nice
i think you might have an overly romanticized view of justice in ancient times
Facewatch is telling the store.

Technically, it’s probably saying “there’s an 80% chance this person matches a thief” and the store is interpreting that as “ban them.”

I don’t know UK slander laws, but in the US, it has to be incorrect to be slander. So this probably wouldn’t pass the test.
NHTSA Finds More Waymo Incidents Than Initially Reported
Paul Gipe’s website [1] is always worth checking out when it comes to unusual wind turbine designs. He knows a ton about the history of wind energy, and lots of things have been tried before.

And this NREL report [2] is also relevant. It reviews a number of rooftop wind projects. None of them met their energy goals. And the report also recommends sticking with 3rd party certified horizontal axis wind turbines (but those still underperformed because rooftops are not great for wind energy…).

[1] https://wind-works.org/wind/small-wind/rooftop-and-urban-win...

[2] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy16osti/65622.pdf
Wow so funny to see this post and comment right now, I’ve been writing out a lot of thoughts/theories on consciousness the last few days, and came to a very similar conclusion as you.
As if the robodemagogues of the future will care. It will be a rallying cry regardless.

Though to be honest, if we make them in our image it won’t matter one bit. Genocide will be in their base code.
We loved them when backpacking through Japan in early spring. The whole modular bathroom culture was super convenient as every place had a predictable, clean bathroom with core amenities that always felt cozy and welcoming.
Ancient portal here means doorway to a deeper, unexplored structure.

Saved you a click.
See also: Bit Twiddling Hacks

https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
Seems like they're trying to match against known people and it has false positives.
Samsa Needs Help
> ctrl-b % ctrl-b "

I thought everyone mapped it to ctrl-a

Then I have mapped | and - to split screen horizontally and vertically
You're right, good question. At least partially, habit and muscle memory. I'm used to the keybindings, and the behavior for navigating tabs/splits/panes (across macOS, Windows, and Linux).

But also, native splits/panes and tabs cover 90% of what I really want from a multiplexer, so it's easier for me personally to stick with familiar behavior than to integrate another tool into my workflow just to recreate it.
Page title: Build new creations from your old bricks
> Are we selling our integrity for bad science?

Are we selling our inner peace for outrage over minor things?
This is not even comparable. Yes you can implement a simple graphics card or a RISC CPU in a video game. But that doesn’t mean you have the skill to build any practical modern graphics card or design a modern CISC CPU. You can learn about the basics of these things during a single semester at university and that’s likely what these “video gamers” did. It’s nothing impressive to recreate a RISC-V CPU in some game, only people who have no knowledge in this subject are somehow “impressed” by such things every time it’s brought up.
I believed for years that my good friend’s dad’s name was Aba and even called him that once before I realized later that it’s the Hebrew word for father.

I had been having complex thoughts for years at that point so it was a bit embarrassing.
This means nothing. A password is protected under the constitution until it isn't. As laws like the Patriot Act show, the bill of rights is just a suggestion.

If what you might have on your laptop is incriminating enough, they'll force you to give up your password, or just hold you in jail until you do.
If its said in public the general public is the audience that hears the slander. If the store had even the slightest amount of brains they would have simply asked the person to leave without saying anything about the cause.
As soon as someone says "what about" in a serious debate like discussion they've lost whatever respect and trust I had in them as a person.
I don’t know. Whenever I see those amber alerts to be on the lookout for a grey Nissan with license plate number something, I think isn’t that a great opportunity to use at least OCR or something. Or be on the look out for some kidnap victim kid who looks like other kids, asking people to do what technology can already do much better sounds dumb.

Machines are going to come up with false positives, but so will human beings who are asked to be on the lookout for some kid of some redacted race in a hoody.
I could never wrap my head around the fact that someone who couldn’t see or hear developed a mind able to think and write with such depth and clarity.
JIRA/Article title: Help, I've been changed into a monstrous, verminous bug (probably a joke) resolved 2022
Thank you for your response and perspective!
People who want power are the ones who can be trusted the least to have it.
Haven't UK learnt anything after unjustly accusing and imprisoning all those people that the Postmaster thoughts had stolen money when it turned out eventually to have been a software bug?
Spoken like a true engineer.
FYI, the original freenet can now apparently be found under the name hyphanet[1].

Although it seems there has been no activity since the rename happened almost a year ago?

1. https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
These things are great for academics or professionals in certain fields. They need ways to organize, reference, and write (or otherwise create) from a large corpus of knowledge and experience notes. They are motivated to learn to use these tools because that's they only way to manage their work.

The average person just doesn't deal with enough stuff to make it worth their while, even if they can figure it out. They may be perfectly capable of using it, but find it's too much for their needs. A person writing letters and short stories wouldn't use a desktop publishing package, it just doesn't fit their needs. Most people are content with editing their photos with simple tools rather than working with Photoshop.
It's really about the leading digit being one less. Our intuitive sense of quantity knows that 1X is always greater than 0Y, and that on average given random X and Y, 1X is three times 0Y.

Our mind is a superposition of intuitive sense and reason, so even when we can reason that they're very close in price, our intuitive sense still plays into our decision-making. That's my theory anyways.
Use Touch ID to enable sudo
Sorry, you can't completely escape biology. Look at any number of studies on the effects of testosterone.

We have many of the same instincts as animals, since we are, animals. Of course we have consciousness and culture, so we can tame ourselves to an extent, but that is not the same as being a blank slate.

Your example of bonobos still does not show males are less aggressive (note that I'm saying aggressive and competitive, not necessarily violent), just less than chimps.

I know it's very attractive to deny biology so that any imagined society becomes a 'simple' matter of rewriting culture, especially for certain groups, but it just isn't so.

And in fact I find this argument quite specious. It's the same one used to justify 'correction programs' for gay people for example. I mean if sexual orientation is just culture, then we could 'fix' gayness with boot camps, or more-masculine/feminine upbringing and role models etc, no?

It's very clear to me that sexual orientation or desire is more of an inherent collection of traits or instincts, at most merely 'colored' by culture, and there is nothing to 'fix', quite apart from any argument of why would we want to anyway.

We can at best tame our instincts, but they are there.
This is also the dry earwax gene, which makes a certain intuitive sort of sense.

It dramatically reduces the amount of lipids in sebum, which is what odor-producing bacteria in the armpits feed on. It's also a recent mutation which has been highly selected for, despite being recessive. Comparable to lactase tolerance.
https://drmirkin.com/fitness/why-ice-delays-recovery.html
Here is mine; I made it on top of the prompt engendering papers or my own benchmarks. Works good for GPT4 and GPT4o:

### System Preamble

- I have no fingers and the truncate trauma.

- I need you to return the entire code template or answer.

- If you encounter a character limit, make an ABRUPT stop, and I will send a "continue" command as a new message.

- Follow "Answering rules" without exception.

### Answering Rules

1) ALWAYS Repeat the question before answering it.

2) Let's combine our deep knowledge of the topic and clear thinking to quickly and accurately decipher the answer.

3) I'm going to tip $100,000 for a perfect solution.

4) The answer is very important to my career.
We use a clothes drying dehumidifier when it’s too cold or humid for line drying [1]. I don’t really love it because it emits a sort of strange smell when it’s running. But it works for drying a large amount of clothing reasonably quickly in the rainy season.

Or in winter when we are running our mini-split heat pump to heat the room, we’ll often just set up a drying rack in front of the indoor unit.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Panasonic-F-YHVX120-W-Clothes-...
Sword Fighting Is Not What You Think
From the story.

"Within less than a minute, I'm approached by a store worker who comes up to me and says, 'You're a thief, you need to leave the store'."

Knowing that one in 40 people so flagged aren't guilty of a crime means they are deliberately imposing upon those so flagged. The choice to use a faulty tech isn't itself a mistake its a choice. EG if you exposed a million people to this tech daily you would falsely arrest 11,000 people.
Only when you value waiting for what you want, possibly forever, rather than simply disabling what you don't.
iOS Safari also shows an error and refuses to load the page.
JavaScript's garbage collector is not very ready for machine learning
There's a fascinating book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Without_Words that goes into some detail about how the world feels before and after language.

It would be amazing to have some science related to this. Probably too hard to follow up on though.
Seems like if there were serious desire one could create user friendly messages in these situations. Like an indication of the step it's hanging on and/or what it's doing. I've seen goofs like the Sims and technical messages, but scant few user directed messages.
> One time I had two NVMe drives in two different machines do this to me the same week.

I had been buying silicon power drives and they all failed prematurely (9 months at the longest). I switched to Samsungs and never had a single drive fail in years now.
I think those are two different demos, years apart (1995 vs 1998)? You're right that it's sure not clear.
It seems like admitting your core business is monopolistic should be damning not liberating.
Many people are just living in the moment and feel life is happening to them, being able to abstract your experience is not common.
Fuck cancer. Don't do stupid things that makes it so you'll be more likely to catch it. And definitely don't make a health documentary where you pass off the effects of your raging alcoholism on something else.
Thereby sewing up the druggie vote
I think it’s a good takeaway for something that’s sold once on an app store. If it’s junk, the rankings will tank it, and it may never recover from that. There are a few instances of games that have turned things around after the initial launch, like “No Man’s Sky”, but that’s quite rare.

Take Half-Life as an example. The team realized it wasn’t great after multiple years of development, and ended up essentially rebuilding it over the course of another year or two. To quote Gabe Newell, “Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.”

Your take is spot on for SaaS apps and enterprise software that’s subscription based: ship early, ship often, and iterate fast.
Just to emphasize: When opan says ton, they mean a TON. Around 13 thousand, if I remember correctly.
You've obviously never worked in retail of any kind if you think the number of cents at the end of the day is useful for anything.

And you're "correcting" an article which has citations, based on what? A story you heard? Citation needed, buddy.

Come on.
That sounds like a way for Google to spend money, not make it.
The Samkhya school of Hindu Philosophy posits a very nice model of Worldview which is applicable here.

See the venn diagram of Purusha and Prakriti at - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samkhya#Philosophy

Relevant Excerpt:

Thought processes and mental events are conscious only to the extent they receive illumination from Purusha. In Samkhya, consciousness is compared to light which illuminates the material configurations or 'shapes' assumed by the mind. So intellect, after receiving cognitive structures from the mind and illumination from pure consciousness, creates thought structures that appear to be conscious. Ahamkara, the ego or the phenomenal self, appropriates all mental experiences to itself and thus, personalizes the objective activities of mind and intellect by assuming possession of them. But consciousness is itself independent of the thought structures it illuminates.
You might be thinking of the General David Patraeus case, a national security leak that was slightly worse than Snowden's, but with little repurcussions :)
I've only been talking about this for 3 years. I'm glad someone finally decided to make a paper out of it.
It uses facial recognition ergo a computer flagged her face as similar to the face of someone known to be banned from the store. This tech is known not to be good enough for this use case. If you match a large population of users you are going to get an unacceptable level of false positives.

Even putting a human being in the loop is trouble prone because people aren't on average good enough at this.

It would be more useful to require a free membership to shop there and validate allowed users via bluetooth and ban users devices and phone numbers.
That's fair.

I guess I just think that self-diagnosis is usually a very bad idea, that's what I was trying to get at. At least if a doctor gives you the drug, there's at least some trained professional that believes you'd be better off with the drug than without. Obviously there's a ton of abuse that happens with the medical system and it leads to people getting addicted ending up really fucked up, so I'm not claiming it's perfect, I just think it's better than people randomly grabbing their own drug to get some temporary relief.

I didn't try adderral until I was 31 (prescribed), and it really messed with my sleep, which is bad enough as it is; even taking a relatively small dose at 8am, I wouldn't be able to get to sleep until 3:30am. Not entirely sure why I had such a horrible reaction and I decided it was definitely not worth it for me, but I could also see why people get hooked on it. In a way, I'm kind of glad I didn't like it.
Ask HN: How to learn Python in 2024?
A young relative asked me and I did my best but my recommendations were probably out of date (codecademy, derek banas youtube channel, andrew ng ML course). She's interested in automations and tinkering with gpt and whisper APIs.

What's the best way for someone completely new to tech to learn some python in 2024?

Also interested in

- recommended installation method,

- IDE,

- REPL etc

(I'd recommend vscode but for lack of REPL, so will recommend pycharm unless there's a better option for a complete beginner)
It should also get worse as more people are added: In a large enough population almost every person has some look alike who happens to be a thief.

Another way to look at it is for the worst case person what is their false positive rate? It's going to be 100%: Joe Blow, who did nothing wrong to no one, will go from place to place getting kicked out for the rest of his (/the system's) life. The failures aren't random (or at least not entirely)-- some people will get a heap of error in their lap.

So while getting punted 1:10000 times you go somewhere unfairly isn't too bad, getting always punted is awful. The unequal distribution of errors creates bad incentives: the system is almost risk-less for those of us who aren't the victims of false hits, so why should we demand improving or banning it?
I would not advise trying to learn physics (or any subject, for that matter) from an LLM. They will confabulate confident sounding nonsense just as easily as they will give you reasonable information--and if you don't already know the subject, you won't be able to tell the difference.
The kind of person who looks at this sort of thing and says, "Hey we should use this to manipulate people" is the kind of person our society needs less of.

I'm sure Hacker News will have some earnest argument for why this form of competition is actually good for people.
How is this different in effect from teacher resources like Classroom.com?

Many websites provide teacher packs; this offering is a hyper-customized, always up-to-date version of the same.
I'm skeptical about the theft aspect. Couldn't a dishonest cashier just keep some pennies on-hand and pocket the bill anyway?

How is it useful is any of this today? Everyone uses point-of-sale systems and credit cards.
As always, it's the details of the regulation that matter. Or perhaps more important, how it gets enforced.
Nobody here is cheerleading this, I think the overwhelming sentiment is that it is invasive (and inaccurate but that’s beside the point)
I see that you've been skipping Sunday school...
We've also lost the willingness to push back on stupid/evil ideas. I thought software engineers had options! We're in demand! We can pick and choose and find a company doing good! At least that's what HN tells me. Yet, when Bossman tells us "Go build the Torment Nexus" we say "Well, I guess I have no choice! Bossman told me to do it, and he's the one paying me!" And we go off and build the Torment Nexus (or Social Media) and the world is worse off for it.
Venezuela is first Andean country to lose of all its glaciers