skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is not the modern internet and widespread usage of ad blockers that exact scenario?

Take a person that hates being advertised at, a persona that is growing. This person meets all of your criteria. Multiply this person across the internet.

When this person sees an ad, regardless of company or content, they are repulsed because they hate ads. This person likely runs an adblocker so when an ad gets through, they are even more angry. If this person sees this product in the store, they will avoid it.

Take a common example of Coca-Cola. Their ads are everywhere. This person would instead buy the store brand cola even though it has not been advertised at them.
Since people are making assumptions based on the title: The video is stating that if you're making a game from scratch, you shouldn't make a game engine. Instead, you should focus on what you need to implement for your game specifically, and make that. I didn't listen beyond that point so I might be missing more, but it's not saying "use off the shelf game engines."
Removing the cap is a solution, but not necessarily a preferred solution. For one, it is not guaranteed that mining will even continue if the rewards are positive but insufficient to cover the expenses of mining. Secondly, I shudder at the thought of burning fossil fuels in perpetuity to mine bitcoin.
That's GPL, not AGPL. The AGPL license implies that communicating with it over the network is sufficiently to count as a violation.
Is that due to the touch screen or the interface? I’d be interested to see someone who normally has issues getting around on a touch screen trying assistive touch to see if the simplified UI with fewer controls helps.

For me, I thought the original iPhone was easier to navigate than any previous phone, or electronic device with buttons, I had ever used. While I like buttons and tactile controls, doing things in software allowed everything to be obvious. I don’t know anyone who fully used the contacts function on old phones, and speed dial required remembering which number was assigned to which person. With the iPhone the favorites had names on them, there was nothing to remember. Controls were also direct and purpose built, not abstractions assigned to unchanging buttons.

That said, over the years the OS has become more complex and harder to manage. The UI also got harder to use when skeuomorphism was dropped, imo. I’d like to think Assistive Touch addresses some, but not all, of this. I’ve actually thought about turning it on for myself just to simplify the experience, but I’m guessing I’d probably need to revert back to the full UI too often.
But doesn't it make sense to pay for targeted political ads towards people opposed to you? The algorithm allows advertisers to do targeted advertising, and you were targeted, the subtle implication that targeted advertising would only show you "what you want to see" was intentional and misleading to get people on board with their attention being sold to the highest bidder.
They recently introduced an anonymous mode
> When I was the slower student, I was blessed with the inordinate chutzpah to shamelessly ask faster students for explanations ad nauseum.

This assumes that the other person has a "thinking style" that is compatible with yours, and that thus the explanations are helpful for you. For example if the other student is "sufficiently advanced" from you, it can happen that this is not the case.
> Such a belief purports that the effect of all advertising is measurable. It clearly is not. For example, someone sees your ad and decides your company is reprehensible. They were not a customer and they decide to never interact with your company. It's not possible to measure this. Anyone claiming it is holds what amounts to a religious belief.

What on earth? You obviously haven't worked on anything related to sales. It's clearly measurable: An advertisement is shown one day on TV, for example, the sales the next day are higher. That's the case 99% of the time. You can say it's not, and you can call that "religious belief", if you want to.

Companies use ads because they work, obviously. Everybody thinks they are somehow "immune" to advertisements because they are "smarter than the rest", but the sale statistics are plain and simple.
Yeah that’s a great longer term strategy but cancelling Netflix and having dinner at home instead of Chili’s are actionable things you can do today that will put more money in your pocket.
That FAQ covers the GPL, not the AGPL.
It's the epitome of design over function. Destroying UX entirely so the mouse can look a tiny bit more sleek. Nothing more Apple than that I guess.
How to be a dad.
It's not just the deflationary ones. With one exception, all cryptocurrencies give outsized rewards in early years. E.g. block rewards 20x higher in the first year for Dogecoin. Or 40% of all (soft) supply in the first year for Monero.
The threads of glass that make the internet run: How fiber-optic cable is made
Why not to split keyboard into 2 pieces and place it on the back of the smartphone in order to make possible touchtyping with 8 fingers?
There is an alternative to sorting every step : Build your indexing structure a little looser, so that you catch the candidates collisions when object have moved less than epsilon.

For example that can be done by increasing the radius of the spheres by epsilon.
As long as the spheres have not moved by epsilon, you don't need to recompute the index.

To avoid latency peaks when you do need to recompute the index, you can start building a lagging index by sorting 10% each frame (aka amortizing the computation cost). After 10 frames you have an index that is valid as long as the position is within epsilon of the position 10 frames ago.
And I would rename the format to SSV and make semicolon the separator. Comma is a terrible choice, because it's used as the decimal separator in many countries around the world.
Along the same lines, I have a near-terabyte of videos I have downloaded from Youtube, of my own vast and multivariate interests, and having it on random, with a simple pause/next/prev-style interface, is also a compelling viewer-experience equillibrium akin to the sets of yore ..

(cue Buggles..)
>> What is the mandate of ARPA-H as compared to NIH?

ARPA-H has a much more commercial/translational focus, much like DARPA
Meta shutters tool used to fight disinformation, despite outcry
> Ever had an id in front of you and you weren't necessarily sure which database table it belonged to?

I'm not sure I've ever been in a situation where I had a random ID and absolutely no information otherwise as to what it might be, real-life or otherwise. I really dislike IDs that just repeat information that is captured elsewhere, such as the type of the underlying object or date-time information. It reminds me of coding conventions in primitive languages where you need to prefix every variable name with a type, such as str_my_var.

Long IDs with a bunch of common information also have the nefarious effect of appearing more random than they really are. "Profile_1gsd9e" looks more unique than just "1gsd9e", but barely adds any extra entropy (https://gist.github.com/4k1/6fbe670807db1d48407685d6cc46b0af).

Also, by prefixing random IDs with table information, you're revealing the underlying structure of your database to a bad actor. Don't reveal unnecessary information about the structure of a database or network when you don't have to.

I'm not really one to care about "clean code conventions", but this might be one I could endorse - don't clutter IDs with extraneous information.
I'm British, we've also resisted it, which is why the closes thing to a national identity document I listed was a driving licence or passport. It's not uncommon to have a provisional driving licence (learners' permit to you I think) purely for the purpose of being IDd for alcohol or whatever.

For tax I would use my national insurance number and any form of photo ID to register for an online account, or you can do a paper form but I don't know how they verify identity if you're claiming a refund in that case.

A credit card application would similarly want a copy of photo ID and probably a proof of address (like a bank statement or utility bill).

There's nothing wrong with having the number, I have a national insurance number, I have Self-Assessment Tax Return numbers (I think it's unique each year), it's the secret bit I don't get.
Learn languages with your Voice Clone
Hey HM!
I'm one of 2 creators of this language learning app. Our approach is quite different. The main feature is to learn languages with the help of your own AI voice clone. We use a bunch of other AI tools and technologies to make the experience smooth.

If you have any questions you can send me an email at yourbestaccent@gmail.com
> you won't automatically steer yourself towards a product that you have never heard before just because you have not seen an ad for it. having some names in your mind, even them showing up when you do research creates influence

This is 100% percent true. I thought about exactly this, and it's the first time I hear someone say it, I am glad. I try to keep away from advertisements, but it's just not really possible, you get influenced by even what your friends or family say.
So you reinterpreted the OP's question in the most meaningless way you wanted to, and then declared "How does this question make any sense?".

Nice contribution to the discussion! /s
Like everywhere else in the intertubes, people think their experience domain is relative to every other specialty domain. We live in a conspiracy world now, where RTFM or "do the work" is a micro aggression.
In most of Asia doing drugs (aside from the "normal" ones like alcohol and tobacco) is also considered something good people don't do.

Here (USA) billionaires microdose acid and take molly in the desert. The culture around drugs is entirely different.
The only thing worse than the intro is the 2nd intro. Just get to the GD content please.
Nice, seems like a more cost-effective alternative to homomorphic encryption
Not requiring a CLA and only requiring a DCO. (IANAL fwiw)
Whats funny to me is Dapr is also by Microsoft, but at least you can use it with other languages too.
What about commercials?
Interesting! I don't think I quite understand how this compares to the vat model of actors that was used in E and what tuplespaces are contributing here. I guess I'd just need to sit down and try using the language.

See also Goblins, an actor model + object capability system inspired by a lot of the same stuff (like E) that uses the Preserves-derived Syrup format for encoding messages over the network. https://spritely.institute/goblins/

There's also a standard in development for communicating capabilities over the network called OCapN: https://ocapn.org/
This is a legitimate, reasonable way to assess whether a document should be published or not. However, it's also a very potent method to stir up shit and cause inadvertent social crises rather than scrutinise power in all its forms and inform the public, which are arguably the main roles of journalism.
Less familiar users are often also confused whether something requires double-click or not, double-clicking web links for example. What's worse is that is often not immediately noticeable, leading to opening same program multiple times or breaking some submission form.
It has struck me for a while that associativity can be seen as a higher-order commutativity. Specifically, for the real numbers, it's associativity just says that you can commute the order in which you evaluate the multiplication map.

To make that more explicit, consider the space of left-multiplication maps Lr(x) = rx for real numbers r and x. Similarly, for right-multiplication maps Rr(x) = xr. Then the associative rule a(xc) = (ax)c can be re-written La∘Rc(x) = Rc∘La(x), which is precisely a commutativity relation.

The above obviously generalizes to arbitrary Abelian groups, but I'm curious if there's more depth to this idea of associativity as "higher-order commutativity" than just what I've said here.
Recently learned to fly and got my private pilot license. I'm working on an instrument rating next...

I've also played drums most of my life and am planning to learn to play piano next year.
MIT releases comprehensive database of AI risks
Nice use of Unix philosophy and some well said things about why.
Thanks for sharing these.
But can it deliver ads?
I have some older relatives who were actually able to use a computer back then, thanks to the simplicity and brilliant design of Classic Mac OS. Now they are essentially shut out of computing for the rest of their lives. They can just barely use their cell phones to make calls and send the odd text. They do all their banking over the phone.

There are tons of people like this. Apple used to be the absolute market leader at making computing accessible for everyone. At some point they got big enough and powerful enough that they could ignore all that and just let their dev teams do whatever they want. They gave up on trying to make real computing accessible to the masses and just pushed all these users to the iPad.
Learning how to use GitHub's CoPilot as a pair programmer to get me through doing C and Javascript programming, as part of my BitGrid project, so I can eventually have something worthy of ShowHN.

I apparently also need to learn about VENV as it applies to python, so I can get WikidPad to run properly, as it's frozen in 2012-ish python.
This is still an experiment at the moment, we'll figure it out.
> We can already tell if an image is AI generated

Mostly, for now. But if this is some sort of solid truth, then why would a utility like this even be necessary? The only purpose for it (and the one stated in the FAQ) is to make it easier to fool people.
GPL includes a line which allows it to be used under any future version of the GPL.

So if you license under GPLv2, the FSF can create GPLv5 and add whatever clause they like in it.
Amazing! Are you generating the list.json and just pushing new data when it's due to run out? Or is there some logic that loops it?
On-premise will be a lot more difficult than just launching a few pods in Kubernetes. These AI tools (LLMs / vision models) will require some high powered gpus as well.
> Tesler registered a strange combination of sensitivity to people and fascination with math. The best career choice the counselor could suggest was working as an architect or maybe becoming a certified public accountant.

A CPA??

Im glad to see that counselors have always been terrible?
In that case I'm the happy owner of an old iPhone with "impossible" battery life. Surreal experience.
Whether it’s Twitter censoring the Hunter Biden Laptop story, or Politico censoring this story, the media should not be determining what to censor and what not to censor. Release the documents and let the voters decide.
Sorry, what? I've been wearing glasses for three decades and the only time they feel uncomfortable is when I'm also wearing both over-ear hearing protection and over-glasses safety specs. I've resolved that by getting a pair of prescription safety specs.

Oh yeah, and when the nosepads are brand new and sticky. Otherwise I've never had a problem.

I'm at -3 or thereabouts with a cylindrical on both eyes, if that matters.
It's unpleasant because of the repeating patterns, IMHO. If it actually looked like NTSC or PAL snow it'd be quite nifty.

That's probably one of those things that's harder to generate dynamically than it sounds like it would be, though. Perlin noise might be the right approach.
You also have to prevent unrelated actors from choosing overlapping (conflicting) message formats. In other words, you can’t decide on a new message format without knowledge of all already existing message formats.
I hadn't watched actual television for years. Then, in a visit to my parents house, I randomly got to watch a band in a talkshow that later became a band that I love.
> But there simply has to be control and restrictions over the use of software for it to be commercially viable (in almost every case).

True. But not all software has to be commercially viable, arguably the most useful/critical and yet valuable isn't - currently my list is Linux, git, Postgres, Python, dozens of Python libs (perhaps thousands, if I go down the dependency trees).

Declaring my biases: I'm partial to GPL licenses and believe providing value to users is more important than making life easier/profitable to developers. IMO, the difference between GPL-style and BSD-style licenses is not being "restrictive" or not, but who gets restrictions (end users and developers being on opposing ends).
if we're talking about stuff to make it more authentic, how about looking up my local weather if there's a strong storm the quality drops + more static, and a small
(rng) chance of it completely breaking if the antenna upstairs got completely broken by the strong wind.
Happy to see this. OpenAPI has been frustrating to me for how "aspirational" much of it is. Reminds me of the WSDL days when you were promised that writing the WSDL would help get cross vendor clients. Reality was more that the tools that worked in the MS world did not work in the Sun world. Heaven help you if you tried to get something working in both.

What I was seeing in OpenAPI docs is that everyone seemed stuck on Swagger for most interop. And if you really wanted generated clients/servers, you were likely using a framework where the fact that it also generated a swagger doc was a bit of a side benefit that didn't actually matter.
You can watch the demo of the app here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RCCYSlH3z8
CEO of Substack on remote work, Canadian culture, wokeness and more
Almost everything you see or use around you was invented at some point.

e.g. the following things were all invented:

- that a human dwelling has space between adjacent dwellings and/or eventually streets (straight streets came even later)

- punctuation and spaces between words (looking at you Ancient Greek)

- what word to use when answering the phone ("ahoy hoy" was one proposed option)

It really is true what Steve Jobs said (apropos given Larry Tesler worked at Apple):

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it.|
"How much does it cost?

The app is currently completely free."

Bullshit. Read the privacy policy.
The difference is that democracies have elections and this year we are seeing them reject the oligarchy and populism, across many countries.

Democracies are not perfect, often messier, but they can course correct and have meaningful checks and balances.
From the plaintiff's response to this motion linked elsewhere, I'm thinking that Disney is somewhat compelled to file this motion in order to have any shot at arbitration being relevant at all. Their initial response to the lawsuit (included in the appendix of that plaintiff's response) is a pretty stock "we don't think we have liability here, it's on the restaurant" response. But the plaintiff response notes an aspect of law where a party willingly participating in a lawsuit without asserting their right to arbitration early is presumed to be waiving that right. So it sounds like Disney must produce some argument early in the proceedings that this should be removed to arbitration in order to preserve that possibility assuming that it is something that would be covered by the arbitration agreements.

I'm not sure I buy how they connect their agreements specifically to transactions in this publicly accessible mall, but it seems like if they didn't make the attempt at all, they couldn't later make the attempt if later in the court process something came to light that indicated this should have been handled with arbitration.
That is only if the license of that software says they can use later versions of GPL; it is not automatic.
I don't want to die in another racism fueled genocide. Whether or not that genocide will be a natural Nash equilibrium is of no interest to me.

I have no faith in my fellow man after studying history. I have faith only in good systems that attenuate humanity's worst aspects and allow humans to flourish despite our flaws.
It’s 2024, all major sites [Have Been Engineered To] require JS to load properly.
This is amazing! It brings back old school feelings. Just turn it on and let it run in the background. The limited choice is sooo freeing.
I just used libgen’s torrent pool to get the MIT supercollider book, which is an old book covering a music programming language extensively. If I wanted to purchase an ebook, I’d need to spend about one hundred dollars. It sure sucks for the broke academics that wrote it, but brother I don’t have any cash either, so the alternative to me pirating is not having the information. It’s either the writer loses or everyone loses, and I have no incentive to lose.
“no modes”, i’ve always considered that to be a bit of a mantra worth following. but now i seem to be breaking that rule while learning Vim (normal mode, insert mode, and so on).

yesterday i was test driving a car with eco mode, sport mode..the Larry in me was yelling “no modes”!!!
Do you know if that can operate with no transcoding?

I’ve designed my media set-up around Jellyfin on a weak server that can’t handle transcoding, and very-capable clients that don’t need it. This lets me avoid like half the bugs on the Jellyfin bug tracker and all the instability an Nvidia or AMD video card would introduce to the server itself.

I’m very interested in this, but can’t use it if it must transcode.
It'll be interesting when (and only when) it can run GrapheneOS and other open source alternatives.
To everyone saying this needs this feature or that feature: it really doesn't, it's perfect as it is. Please don't complicate it OP!
If a website can't manage to at least display text and images without needing JS it's just bad design. Good design degrades gracefully and prioritizes making the essential data accessible to as many people as possible
Your whole comment shows the goal is to maintain the socioeconomic order of those with assets (regardless of how they were obtained) maintaining greater purchasing power over those with fewer assets, even though simply hoarding assets provides zero utility to society, whereas having fewer assets but actually working provides utility to society.

A simple power law land value tax would limit the dragon from hoarding gold and incentivize working rather than hoarding. Instead, we have the exact opposite. We tax working via earned income taxes, and have lower capital gains tax rates. And we bail out asset owners time and time again, but when wages don’t keep up, it’s crickets.

In a way, it is also a way for old people to maintain their power, after their physical power declines. Things are hunky dory as long as economic growth is achieved, but if population dynamics are changing, then we’re in for some drama. The battle lines are not just rich v poor, but old v young, especially in democracies.

See the most recent proposal to court votes by removing income tax from social security income.
$3000k... so a cool 3 mil? Just kidding, I assume that was $3K. I have a couple of old Swatch Irony mechanicals, they were pretty decent 25yr ago when I wore them regularly. Other than the style angle, I would be much more interested in a Sistem51 movement Swatch, if I was going to wear a cheap plastic mechanical again, but I have settled on a not-so-smartwatch with an e-ink screen as the sweet spot for my watch-wearing.
All we know is this: They virtue signal that they want a product but don’t buy it because they’ve been conditioned to dislike the company’s CEO. It’s likely that their tribe has all been conditioned in this way so the virtue signaling would be well received and elicit social approval.

I don’t think that makes them good or bad people, per se. I’m not here to lay down a judgement. It is what it is.
Used fsd 12.4/5 or whatever for that mileage yes.
The Escape Velocity series were fantastic games.