skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other day I was helping an elderly family member purchase something from the Internet. They were talking to a chat bot. One of the automated replies was a voice recording. There was not much "AI" in it, just a bunch of spam in Whatsapp all the time telling them to purchase all sorts of products. They were added to multiple "group chats" where only admins could send messages (i.e. a spam fest). But what worried me was that because the automated messages are never marked as such, I wasn't sure if they were perfectly aware that they were talking to a bot, since it seemed they were tried to have a conversation, saying hello and explaining things. Maybe that's just they think that's how bots work, and, loosely, the bot responds appropriately, by ignoring almost everything all the time and just spamming more.

I found it repulsive on a visceral level.

Add AI to this and I'll need to start praying to God to give me the restraint of not breaking other people's smartphones.
Nah, this shouldn't be on the front page. Blender is a registered trademark (I only clicked because I thought it was project from the Blender team) and OP is not transparent about this just being a wrapper.
Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata
Epic Games' app store will be preinstalled on Android phones
tons of global variables on code that has lots of people working on it seems almost as hard as trying to write lock-free data structures.
Some of the hairy ones are kinda bald with a comb over though
There's an employee at work and every time I've seen her she has a full headset on. Outside, inside, cafeteria, everywhere. There's something very off-putting about it, visually signalling that you are unwilling to communicate.
If MacOS didn't have insane defaults, it wouldn't have any defaults at all.

Obviously, I exaggerate, but damn I hate getting a new MacBook for work and have to go disable mouse acceleration, disable autohiding scroll bars, invert the scroll wheel so it goes the RIGHT way, and who knows what else.
Ask HN: How would you monetize TikTok uploading system?
I developed a system that can upload about ~5k videos to Tiktok everyday (this number could be scaled to hundreds of thousands).
It already got ~100kk organic views as a proof of concept.

But we don't have any idea how to monetize it.

What kind of people or businesses might need this, and what kind of content can be produced for this scale?
We don't want to work with scammers or shady businesses.

Would love to hear your suggestions. e: nasaoks@gmail.com
Using "Blender" when not associated with "Blender" at all is a huge dick move.
I cannot imagine a future where I want to watch "TV" again. Mid-roll advertisements and constant banners make it almost un-watchable. I tried to watch a football game earlier and I couldn't enjoy it because of the constant blaring nonsense for stuff like prescription drugs and oversized cars. YouTube wants people to pay for that?
Thanks for this write up
The conspiracy theories of phones listening is not true.

TVs absolutely do that however, and it’s the first thing to disable in settings for a smart tv. I even block the TV from internet since I use an Apple TV for the streaming.
For most people, reading lots of text on pure black background can be harsh on eyes. That's why they go for dark greys instead.
I genuinely don't think this will ever be useful. UIs based on voice and gesture are not precise enough Even if they capture words accurately, it's just not as expressive or precise as tap or click. Most people don't want to talk to their devices out loud in public. There's precious few use cases where I want data to be in front of what I'm trying to look at. We've been trying for so very long and nothing has stuck. The last coup in AR was Pokemon Go. We've had a Meta Quest for years and it's primary use is still Beat Saber. It just isn't going to happen.
I agree.

To be clear, I have a lot of guns, but it's not because I have any special love of the US BoR or even a belief that they are useful against state actors. Or, even a real enjoyment of shooting.

I have guns because my neighbors all have guns and think queer/trans/atheist/lefty/etc folks are literally demonic. They are explicitly waiting for any suspension of regular government in which they can play their fantasy of a "purge". I'd much rather be collecting pretty dresses, but this is how it is where I live.

I would say that the parent comment is accurate in noting 2A loving folks don't want government authority applied to -them-, but it's -only- to them and many are living in the privileged fantasy that this power will never be applied to them and only to their grievances- hence the boot licking they do.

I don't think that's dishonesty, I think it is delusional. And they generally go from being "normal conservatives" to out right fascists just as soon as that fantasy weakens even a little.
That's interesting. The only medication quality issue I have ever had has been... Glenmark XR tablets that refused to dissolve properly and gave me massive dose spikes. In my case this wasn't KCl, so I survived, but I did have severe vision problems for an hour or so. More than once. The other generic vendor who supplied that medication in this area had no such issues for the exact same drug and dosage. And I've been left with extra eye floaters that have never gone away since the last incident. Fuck you, Glenmark. At least I barely notice them most of the time.

It turns out there is no way in the US (at least according to my doctor) to write a prescription as "anything but Glenmark", so I was out of luck for that prescription. Fortunately I can take the immediate release version at only a minor convenience hit, so that's sorted. Still... very frustrating.

I guess I should have filed an FDA complaint. It's always hard to know what's "my problem" and what's actually their fault.
> Your linked diatribe says, quote, "All types of man-made EMFs/EMR". All. Antennas are polarized because that's the easiest way to build them, and the polarization has nice properties.

You are comparing light bulbs to wireless communications? What is your point? He says "All types of man-made EMFs/EMR", not "all types of manmade energy". It is clear he does not think that light bulbs are dangerous. So now you are just being confusing on purpose to muddy the water.

But if you bother to READ the whole article you would see he agrees with you:

"Natural EMR/EMFs (cosmic microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, gamma rays) and several forms of artificially triggered electromagnetic emissions (such as from light bulbs with thermal filaments, gas discharge lamps, x-rays, lasers, etc.) are not polarized. "

You know we were talking about EMFs from data communication types of man-made EMFs/EMR"s, but you are being ignorant on purpose, becasue you cannot even read anything that is new and conflicts with your ideas.
That is crazy. Restaurants don't get any notice for health inspection, why are drug factories treated differently when the risks are larger?

edit: The parent comment is flat-out incorrect. Not sure where you are getting your information from.

> FDA inspections are generally unannounced,
with a few exceptions.
From FDA's "What to expect during an FDA inspection" https://www.fda.gov/media/142762/download
It wasn't. It perhaps should've been, but instead, it was just "legitimate marketing practice".

This is another facet of a larger phenomenon, that I just commented on in another thread[0] - there's a lot of harmful activity that's considered legitimate, thus invisible to our legal and cultural immune systems, yet no less harmful than the slightly less legitimate scams.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42401894
I was not aware of it!

As far as I can tell, it has some similar ideas (and seems pretty nice!), but I noticed the following differences:

- I don't _think_ it supports "concurrent" iteration [1]

- It doesn't have a "reducer" concept with composition and what not [2]

- It doesn't have a concept of "optionals" [3]

[1] https://lfi.dev/docs/concepts/concurrent-iterable

[2] https://lfi.dev/docs/concepts/reducer

[3] https://lfi.dev/docs/concepts/optional
One of the reagents (a byproduct actually of the curing process for silicone caulking) is acetic acid (vinegar), which stabilizes the plasticizers. Just a hair more makes it a little more "pliable" for a little while longer while you mold the final product in my experience. You only need a tiny bit, a dilute spray bottle of white vinegar is enough -- It's useful for other things too.

YMMV, it appears to be dependent on what style of silicone caulking you use.
> 2A types are interested in deposing tyranny when its directed against them by their own government

The NRA's complete silence on the murder of Breonna Taylor by government agents, as retaliation for Kenneth Walker exercising his 2A natural right to self defense (at home at night!). I'm unable to find a kind way of explaining that away. "Freedom" culture seems to have become just as post-reality detached from effective values as everything else.
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If your doing 1080p, looks like a good price per fps.
But at 1440p like other mid cards, its a "maybe".

Would be nice if 16gig mem was the default to give some future headroom and for people wanting to do AI.
> Bonus point your fried eggs get a delicious wok hei.

Ok, convert me:

What is "wok hei," and why can't you get it in a Teflon pan?
Note that Apple Silicon is TSO.

Apple Silicon supports both Arm's relaxed memory model and Intel's TSO for backwards compatibility. Microsoft is doing the same for Windows on Arm.
Infinite PDF Generator
He certainly has created a bit of buzz.
Scaling Test-Time Compute for Embedding Models
Wood is safe, but since it's organic has the potential to fuel the growth of molds, bacteria, and other microorganisms. I'm not sure the best way to sanitize wood from these elements? You could light the wood on fire, but then you wouldn't have any wood leftover.
You’re totally right, but that was just an example I picked from the linked post. GitHub in my experience is pretty good.

But I’ve done a lot of exploring of social media marketing API, and you usually can’t rely on any amount of consistency or convention.

At work we have a running doc called “API weirdness” for each platform, where we document the many many undocumented behaviors that will throw you off for a day or two.

Reddit is particularly bad. Most of the useful “documentation” is found deep in threads in Reddit itself. Critical bits of information, including the very existence of some endpoints, are only explained in replies written by users!
https://loankundli.com/

I built this for my personal usecase to estimate savings by prepayments done during my home loan tenure. I didn’t find this feature where you can select choice to reduce emi or tenure for each prepayment. Not making any revenue but hopefully trying to make it helpful
> that Rayalseema is lumped with Kosta Andhra,

They share a common language ?
> Calling UI=F(props) twice with the same props would not produce the same result given the different sets of states embedded in them.

Correct, but you as the component writer don't care. From your perspective, you are writing a purely functional component because you have no control over the injected state. So your function is "pure" with respect to the props that are passed in and the state that is injected by React. It's actually UI = F(props, state)

React can (and will) run your component function multiple times with different values before rendering, so it is extremely important that you have no actual side effects. Otherwise, these "intermediate renders" will affect the final render, which breaks the contract that your function return the same values for the same inputs.

> the local variable myState is const but the state is mutable

It is "mutable" in the sense that it changes between invocations of your function. But no, it is immutable within a single render of your function. The fact that you can treat all state as constant is one of the massive advantages of using React. You literally don't have to think about state mutating within a render cycle. You just write a function that spits out JSX given props and state.

> Third, I'm interesting in learning what kind of bugs mutable state would cause in React

You're going to run into issues where:

* the order that your function is called somehow affects the final render. Now you need to worry about how your function is called, and with what values. Not an issue with React.

* the underlying state is out of sync with the UI, because you changed it but didn't trigger a re-render. Not possible in React (except for refs).

* the internal state of the component ends up in an invalid state because of the ordering of set-state calls and renders. Again, not possible in React because all set-states are batched together and applied consistently to the next render cycle. There's no such thing as a "partial render".
(shameless plug) maybe it was us?

https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
Rust's borrow checker?
Making a thing and sharing it is definitely worth supporting.

Obvious credit should be given to the source of the core functionality of the project (e.g. "Powered by TRELLIS") and using "Blender" in the name was a bad idea.
Every clip in that video looks like an aircraft to me.
Thanks, good idea, this should be possible.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810507
>> it's any unwanted unsolicited contact

> unsolicited advertisements

Note the critical difference of "contact" versus "advertisement."

It's not just advertisements that are SPAM, it's newsletters, wrong email addresses, marketing. (For example, I've been subscribed to all kinds of weird stuff merely by attending political meetings. I once was sent a LinkedIn invitation to a party clown business because I attended my senator's information session on a bill he was promoting. Another time, I got a "guess" email from a high school kid trying to contact a school faculty member who had the same name as me. I've also had government demand letters for people with the same name as me, and COVID test results for people with the same name as me.)

Some people don't mind this kind of stuff. (Edit: If it's not 100% clear, I really, really mind this kind of stuff.)

> Am I an outlier for not wanting any?

I doubt it. Spend some time listening to other people, though. Some people are more tolerant of it than we are.

Personally, I think the way to reign it in is to ban all unsolicited contacts to email / phone and require that they go through a 3rd party mediator. (Kind of what happens with LinkedIn or Facebook Messenger) This way, if the 3rd party mediator sends you junk, you can cut them out.
That's about showing something to someone in the first place, not about [over]explaining the thing you just showed them.

If I was criticizing mmiyer's comment that xkcd might be appropriate, but that's not what I'm doing.
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Ok, you missed my point, but also the Wikipedia link shows that often US Presiddents don’t often get it.

Eisenhower won in 1952 and the person of the year was Queen Elizabeth the 2nd

The endangered earth won in 1988 HW bush got it in 1990.

Maybe it should have been a repeat of 1969 where the person of the year was middle America / the silent majority who elected Nixon
Not sure exactly what you have in mind as a solution for small businesses, but I’ve been working on enabling small businesses to achieve a high level of customization with minimal effort by leveraging Google Sheets and the Google Apps Script environment.

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> When I entered a credit card number and a random username / password into a Windows Notepad window, Recall captured it, despite the fact that I had text such as “Capital One Visa” right next to the numbers.

That undesirable outcome doesn't surprise me at all. Even if someone coded up logic to look for surrounding clues that X is a secret, that other data ("X is a password") might only become available seconds or weeks later.

For the foreseeable future, these idiot-savant systems (especially with append-only autocomplete at their core) will continue to be smart enough to get into trouble but not smart enough to get out of it.
Suppose someone called you and said "I would like to give you $10,000. Here are the private keys you can use to transfer to your wallet w/o me needing to collect any of your information."

I want no unsolicited advertisements but I want that one.
I just found another one:

> A depsipeptide is a cyclic peptide where one or more amide groups are replaced by ester groups.

Depsipeptides are not necessarily cyclic, and I'd probably use "bond" instead of "group".

https://imgur.com/a/YslvJO2

These errors are happening all the time.
In general embedded controllers like this don't have a lot of people working on them. They also have rules (enforced by review which isn't great) about when they can be accessed. In an embedded context you are not allowed to allocate memory (except at startup), so a lot of these globals are just arrays/buffers only used by one function or pseudo class (a class by intent but not actually a class by the language if the language even has a concept of class)
I think its less "digital everything", and more "digital everything at the expense of analog somethings".

Just about every in-person social structure is experiencing falling numbers. For a lot of these (church, especially), there's good reason for why that particular structure needed to change or fall, but there's been nothing to replace the old structure. But for others, they experience failing numbers because modern society has become incompatible with unstructured, non-productive in-person interaction with strangers. "Where will I find the time to go to this singles mixer for bird watchers, I have to work 70 hours this week just to make rent?", etc.
"Food is much more fundamental than healthcare but isn't really provided by any nation state."

This is simply false. I get that the US state in which I live is not a "nation state", but it absolutely does provide food directly to folks on a variety of levels.

And jeeze: why is -your- (evidently poorly informed) opnion worth any more than another random persons?
Apparently Grainer thought Derbyshire's contributions were sufficient to warrant co-composer credit, but BBC rules didn't allow it.
Texas Legislator Introduces Bill to Establish Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
Yes, of course, but at the moment the site is only there to try out my idea and evaluate its potential.
There are other reasons for reducing the intake of fat. Some people can only digest very small amounts of fat (excluding MCTs)
Thought I was the only one.
That’s fair, I picked a bad example from the linked article. GitHub is actually pretty good. But if you’ve done any digging around LinkedIn/twitter/Reddit’s API, you’ll know that there are many many quirks that will pop up and cost you days of frustration. Quirks that are not inspired by any particular design philosophy, unless that philosophy is “let’s fuck with our users” lmao
These are the least-bad theories, but if an agency is desperate enough to deploy the drones night after night even after being noticed, then that's extremely foreboding. What would drive them to do that, a dirty bomb that needs to be found with drone sensors?

Personally I'd rather have evidence of this before dwelling on all the possible tragedies here.
PBS, back in the 70s and 80s used to broadcast so much British stuff. Not just Doctor Who, but Monty Python, The Two Ronnies, Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served and so much more if I were to dig into my memory to find it. I still have the Tom Baker Doctor Who scarf my mom knit for me back around 1980ish. My kids love the new Who, but I’ve not been successful in getting them to watch any of the classic era stuff.

Fun fact: my older brothers and a friend of theirs made a transcription of the theme for four-handed piano and were selling the sheet music at cons until they got a cease and desist letter from the BBC.
Might as well establish a strategic reserve of tulips while they're at it.
Same reason it was Nepo and Ding last time. Combination of he wants to give other people the ability to compete for it, him not having the same interest for what it takes to prepare for such a tournament, and FIDE refusing to adjust the format to make for what he thinks would be a more interesting tournament.
3 sales representatives, each sending 20 cold emails per day. Yeah, it should be 3 * 20.
An average of 1 person per week over a period of 7 years? Impressive. Is it fair to assume you're using a relatively shallow definition of "value" here, or was there something else you had in mind?
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> FBI says they're rotary and fixed-wing drones

The FBI simply repeated what public reports and eyewitness have said - a rather massive difference.
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As a South Indian My name (in public school records) till I was age 21, was <name>. <initial>

I was forced to pick the last name for passport purposes and typically i either have the option of attaching my dad's name or my dad's town name.

My wife, didn't even do that and when she migrated to US, she was <name> LNU (short for Last Name Unknown). While applying for greencard we decided it was too much of a hassle for her and she attached her father's name
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ChatGPT now understands real-time video, months after OpenAI first demoed it
US taxpayer as bagholder-of-last-resort.
Norwegian here.

Just read [1] that our local telecom authorities (NKOM) report good progress when it comes to preventing people from abusing Norwegian telephone numbers to spam/scam Norwegians.

[1]: https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/jQgEl0/nytt-digitalt-skjo...
surprised guke.sh isn't taken
You can use ® for registration in other countries/regions too. In UK/EU it's not registered until the end of the opposition period.

GPT and Blender are both generic terms, unless the combination is already being used or is registered then it appears - and of course this is not legal advice - that there is no infringement.

Indeed I think registration of GPT before USPTO has been refused because it is generic.

You might be breaching contract, assuming you're using ChatGPT behind the scenes, no idea; in theory they could require you not to use GPT in your product name.

Of course, being in the right is not enough. Companies/organisations can still go after you.
I am intrigued by this product, but the video is, frankly, terrible marketing.

People want to know two things:
1. Is it quick?
2. Is it easy.

Demonstrating the first is easy, but your product will live or die by whether you can demonstrate the 2nd, and its already working against you: First impression is an overwhelming matrix of letters. The video's demonstration ignores this, and explains "type the letters in the cell", and then the video moves on within a second, when he should slow down and explain.

My recommendations:
Don't say cell, say box. Its less technical.
Don't assume people realize that each box has a unique combination of letters, tell them.
Say: "Each box has two letters, and no two boxes have the same two letters. Type those two letters and your cursor moves to the box."
(We detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400471 since it's a good top-level comment)