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by dylan604 | 2025-06-11 22:28:43+00:00
some people read HN in their free time. this person has decided to draw pubs in her free time. i don't see her making shit posts about how you choose to use your free time.

if it were not for this article, I'd never have known that someone was trying to draw by hand every single pub in London. so it was successful in delivering news to me
by CMay | 2025-06-11 22:28:47+00:00
No, because it doesn't work that way. What people thought January 6th was and what they thought it meant, are not what it was. That event might be meaningful in any other country, it was not meaningful here in the US except in whatever meaning media decides to give to it.

Media kept calling it an insurrection which made no sense to me, and even the FBI determined that it wasn't an insurrection.

Just because a process like that is interrupted, does not mean the process does not happen. Regardless of interruption, the process continues by law.

That entire building could have been nuked and the country would still go on just fine, with presidential elections and new presidents. I mean that absolutely literally, just so you know the US is not like some country you can just walk into the court house and take over. The US doesn't work that way.

Now that said, there is the parallel matter of whether Trump could run for a 3rd term. Well, there is precedent since we have had a 3 term president before during war time. If China attacks Taiwan and we get dragged into a war, I don't think it's outside of the realm of possibility. Nobody has the taste for a forever president though.

If I looked around me and saw lots of people wanting some kind of one-party one-leader system for decades then I might be concerned, but I see that nowhere.

Actual constitutional crisis as more than a phrasing used for emphasis is a high bar.
by skywhopper | 2025-06-11 22:28:55+00:00
Yes, there are ethical differences to an individual doing things by hand, and a corporation funded by billions of investor dollars doing an automated version of that thing at many orders of magnitude in scale.

Also, LLMs don’t just imitate style, they can be made to reproduce certain content near-verbatim in a way that would be a copyright violation if done by a human being.

You can excuse it away if you want with reduction ad absurdum arguments, but the impact is distinctly different, and calls for different parameters.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-06-11 22:29:44+00:00
> What about the Windows monoculture in business?

...yes? Obviously?

> What about the seemingly Apple monoculture on HN?

I don't think that exists, but if it did then I would object to it.

> What about the OpenBSD monoculture with OpenBSD!!!!!

What would that even mean? ...Actually, no, even if I sort of pretend that the concept makes sense it's not really a thing; OpenBSD constantly exports their software to be usable on other systems (ex. OpenSSH is an OpenBSD project) and imports general unix-like software to work on it. So no, there is no OpenBSD monoculture and wouldn't be even if it was that popular.

> You know what Linux needs? Another audio stack. Be sure it's backwards compatible with all the others, just like the last dozen were.

See, the real reason that this is funny is that PipeWire is a new audio system, is mostly superior to its predecessors, and largely is successful because it is backwards compatibile. So... Yes, actually, exactly what you said but unironically and without the slightest bit of sarcasm.
by deafpolygon | 2025-06-11 22:31:32+00:00
> is obviously making things harder to read

I don't think it's hard to read, honestly. I checked all the photos, videos, etc. of the new UI and it looks great.

But, training the users? I don't know - I think they wanted to before (the translucency in iOS 7) but couldn't- so they waited until they could.
by landl0rd | 2025-06-11 22:33:14+00:00
Flip side is a solution where I can have a book without an audiobook auto-generated (or use an existing ebook rather than paying audible $30 for their version) and it's "good enough" is a legit improvement. AI generated isn't as good but it's better than nothing. Also, being able to interrupt and ask for more detail/context would be pretty nice. Like I'm reading some Pynchon and I have to stop sometimes and look up the name of a reference to some product nobody knows now, stuff like that.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-06-11 22:33:44+00:00
> I don't think c is a good candidate, because it's not really a parameter.

dont be so sure! there is no way to experimentally know if c is a parameter or not. there are consistent physics formulations which have variable, even anisotropic c. physicists dont usually explore them (e.g. tangherlini relativity) though because the math is considerably harder.
by kwillets | 2025-06-11 22:35:11+00:00
Kakao ended the English names a year or so ago due to inevitable confusion, but now people are supposed to add the "nim" (dear) suffix to each other's Korean names instead, which sounds creepy.

The funny part of the Kakao CEO asking to be called Brian is that there was a K-drama (Search WWW) with a fictional tech company, but they also made the CEO name Brian. I suspect if this idea had gone on every CEO would be called Brian.
by goatlover | 2025-06-11 22:35:24+00:00
Did the historical Jesus really say that? He wasn't one of the religious authorities who had a deal with Rome. Many Jews didn't like Roman occupation as seen by the revolts. If Jesus had issues with the Jewish authorities, he probably did with the Roman ones as well. Apocalyptic Jews would have believed God was coming soon to overthrow the kingdoms of the world, which were controlled by evil spirts.
by xenadu02 | 2025-06-11 22:35:53+00:00
In the USA as a low-level employee address the company CEO as "heya phil, hows it going?". Then address your friend with "Hello Mr. Smith". In most cases you won't get a positive reaction out of either one of those (yes exceptions exist).

How about this: address your husband/wife as "Mr/Mrs <lastname>", especially after a fight. Similarly when the kids have been doing something or you are frustrated with your partner say "your son did X".

Every language has explicit and implicit rules for expressing honor, respect, and closeness. Informal systems can vary more often and be more fluid but they always exist.
by smeeger | 2025-06-11 22:36:22+00:00
my life is miserable even though im not sick. i would not qualify for assisted suicide. what does that mean? but if i got a terminal illness i would. so my life is motivated by the idea that i will someday achieve something that will make it worth it… and if i became terminally ill then i would no longer be able to achieve that goal… so i should end it. maybe i should reorganize my life so that i am not miserable. im not sure thats possible. i had a little early retirement before and i was still miserable. i am miserable dealing with people in this country. everyone is petty, mean and ready to stab you in the back
by ckdot | 2025-06-11 22:36:31+00:00
I’m not the one you were referring to, but I have similar experiences. I’m living in Germany, and most bigger companies here have such issues. I also worked for companies in Netherlands and Island, so I assume it’s an European, if not global problem. No one is concerned about keeping people busy. It’s a systemic problem. And there are multiple reasons for it. One reason is that the bigger a company grows, the more hierarchy is necessary. But increasing hierarchy will lead to people doing the work are not the people that are most responsible for it. So we have people that should do the work but they aren’t too motivated because they are not responsible enough - they are too low in hierarchy level. And we have people that are responsible but don’t do the work. They delegate. If something goes wrong or takes too long, they will have enough time and skill to find an excuse. Another issue is that you need more people to get specific things done. At some point in time these things have been done, and you actually don’t need the amount of people anymore. But you can’t quit them because of worker’s laws. You maybe even don’t want to quit them because you think you still need them. People, of course, tend to find reasons why their own work is important. And they will communicate that. And the chance is good you’ll believe that and don’t question it enough. There are more reasons for that. But it’s a fact that in many, many companies the economical results of a lot of employees is almost zero. If you don’t believe this, just google the biggest companies in Germany, pick one, apply for an office job and start to work there. It won’t take a month until you’ll find out. Btw. I don’t want to criticize the situation too much. Probably it’s good that people are employed, even if they don’t work efficiently. Otherwise the unemployment rate would be much higher. Then again, Germany‘s economy is flatlining and a crash is not unlikely.
by jmholla | 2025-06-11 22:37:02+00:00
If your distro comes with plocate or you have it installed, you can use it through the `locate` command. It will setup a service that periodically (usually daily) updates the database it sources for that information.

`find` is the canonical way to do it, though it will take a while, and like @teaearlgraycold mentioned, you'll likely want to redirect stderr to /dev/null.

find / -name "name here" 2>/dev/null

This handy function should help if you plop it in the rcfile for your shell:

dir/s() { find / -name "$1" 2>/dev/null }
by dylan604 | 2025-06-11 22:37:14+00:00
Good writing rules can still be used even for repo READMEs where the first time an acronym is used it is spelled out to show what the acronym means. Too many assumptions being made that everyone is going to know it. Sometimes the author can be too inside baseball and assumes anyone reading their README will already know about the subject. Not all devs are literature majors and probably just never think about these things
by vunderba | 2025-06-11 22:37:52+00:00
Pairing speech recognition with a LLM acting as a post-processor is a pretty good approach.

I put together a script a while back which converts any passed audio file (wav, mp3, etc.), normalizes the audio, passes it to ggerganov whisper for transcription, and then forwards to an LLM to clean the text. I've used it with a pretty high rate of success on some of my very old and poorly recorded voice dictation recordings from over a decade ago.

Public gist in case anyone finds it useful:

https://gist.github.com/scpedicini/455409fe7656d3cca8959c123...
by Aachen | 2025-06-11 22:37:58+00:00
> security groups also have a vested interest in making their findings sound complex

Security person here. I always feel that way when reading published papers written by professional scientists, which seem like they can often (especially in computer science, but maybe that's because it's my field and I understand exactly what they're doing and how they got there) be more accessible as a blog post of half the length and a fifth of the complex language. Not all of them, of course, but probably a majority of papers. Not only aren't they optimising for broad audiences (that's fine because that's not their goal) but that it's actively trying to gatekeep by defining useless acronyms and stretching the meaning of jargon just so they can use it

I guess it'll feel that way to anyone who's not familiar with the terms, and we automatically fall for the trap of copying the standards of the field? In school we were definitely copied from each other what the most sophisticated way of writing was during group projects because the teachers clearly cared about it (I didn't experience that at all before doing a master's, at least not outside of language or "how to write a good CV" classes). And this became the standard because the first person in the field had to prove it's a legit new field maybe?
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-06-11 22:39:18+00:00
I am pretty confident that my learnings have massively sped up working together with LLMs. I can build so much more and learn through what they are putting out. This goes to so many domains in my life now, it is like I have this super mentor. It is DIY house things, smart home things, hardware, things I never would have been confident to work with otherwise. I feel like I have been massively empowered and all of this is so exciting. Maybe I missed a mentor type of guidance when I was younger to be able to do all DYI stuff, but it is definitely sufficient now. Life feels amazing thanks to it honestly.
by currysausage | 2025-06-11 22:39:31+00:00
There are, of course, web email services that purport to encrypt messages. But they store encryption keys (or code and data sufficient to derive them). These systems obviously don’t work, as anyone with an account on Ladar Levison’s Lavabit mail service hopefully learned. The popularity of “encrypted” web mail services is further evidence of encrypted email’s real role as a LARPing tool.
by tomhow | 2025-06-11 22:39:49+00:00
We're getting complaints about several of your recent comments, and this is a prime example of the kind of comment that is not right for HN. It takes a swipe at the whole HN community (on the false pretence that the HN audience is concentrated via country/region or mindset), and makes a moral judgement based on region/culture.

We've asked you several times to stop commenting in this inflammatory style on HN. We don't want to ban you, as we want HN to be open to a broad range of views and discussion styles, but if you keep commenting in ways that break the guidelines and draw valid complaints from other community members, a ban will be the next step we'll have to take.

If you want HN to be a good place to engage in interesting discussions, please do your part to make it better not worse.
by oofbey | 2025-06-11 22:40:09+00:00
How much of the huge file size is because you need tons of splats to simulate a hard surface? Conceptually the splats seems flawed because gaussians don't have hard edges - they literally go to infinity in all directions, just at vanishingly small densities. So practically everybody cuts them off at 3 sigma or something, which covers 99.7% of the volume. But real-world objects have hard edges, and splats don't.

Would the format work better if you made that cut-off at something like 1 sigma instead? Then instead of these blurry blobs you'd effectively be rendering ovals with hard edges. I speculate out loud that maybe you could get a better render with fewer hard-edged ovals than tons of blurry blobs.
by TrackerFF | 2025-06-11 22:40:10+00:00
I just want to chime in here.

Getting a heart transplant doesn't necessarily mean buying yourself 40 more years. Could be 5, 10, 15. If I recall correctly, the average is around 10-15 years.

You also have to be on immunosuppressants for the rest of your life, with all the added risks that come with that (infections, cancer, organ damage, etc.).
by vunderba | 2025-06-11 22:42:21+00:00
Most of these TTS systems tend to fall apart the longer the text - it's a good idea to just wrap any longform text into separate paragraph segmented batches and then stitch them back together again at the end.

I've also found that if your one-shot sample wave isn't really clean that sometimes Chatterbox produces random unholy whooshing sounds at the end of the generated audio which is an added bonus if you're recording Dante's Inferno.
by woopsn | 2025-06-11 22:42:29+00:00
What is an important question in the objective sense? Is life, or no because that just matter to life? It seems oxymoronic, "objective question", "objectively important".

I don't follow GP's sort of solipsist (?) take, but would say question of whether big bang took place in a black hole is pointless compared to life/experience and how they arise.
by dpifke | 2025-06-11 22:42:37+00:00
I have a very common first name (Dave) and a very uncommon last name (Pifke, pronounced PIF-key). The majority of my close friends call me by my last name, since there are several other Daves and Davids in our friend group.

My brother's friends do likewise, since his first name is Mike and he runs with a bunch of other Mikes and Michaels.

There's a naming collision when my brother and I hang out together, but since we live in different states, the system usually works.
by IggleSniggle | 2025-06-11 22:42:43+00:00
Sure, but that license doesn't include the requirement to host in perpetuity, and anyway, I wouldn't expect a hobbyist to need to worry about this. If I decide to make my gamer-profile private / offline or something and that breaks your crawler, even though I previously granted unrestricted public access to that data, that's really not my problem.
by teraflop | 2025-06-11 22:42:57+00:00
> Every audio file generated by Chatterbox includes Resemble AI's Perth (Perceptual Threshold) Watermarker - imperceptible neural watermarks that survive MP3 compression, audio editing, and common manipulations while maintaining nearly 100% detection accuracy.

Am I misunderstanding, or can you trivially disable the watermark by simply commenting out the call to the apply_watermark function in tts.py? https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox/blob/master/src/ch...

I thought the point of this sort of watermark was that it was embedded somehow in the model weights, so that it couldn't easily be separated out. If you're going to release an open-source model that adds a watermark as a separate post-processing step, then why bother with the watermark at all?
by joshdavham | 2025-06-11 22:42:59+00:00
I never truly understood linguistic formality until I was teaching a class and one of the students addressed me as “Josh”. My full name is “Joshua” and students virtually always used to call me that, but that semester, the computer system put my name as “Josh” and it felt weirdly disrespectful when a student called me that even though I know none was intended.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-11 22:43:27+00:00
> For what it’s worth I’ve been in this business 15 years and can’t name a single incident of your influence scenario.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_proprietor

Its mostly a business with very little profit, why all these wealthy men buy more and more newspapers ? Media is the third power after politician and justice, it’s a well known fact.

And they don’t need to intervene directly, the lead editor in these companies just know that there are some subject he shouldn’t speak about or speak in a specific way if he wants to keep his job, get bonus, etc.

Believing it doesn’t interfere with the editorial line is naive, they wouldn’t build empire of news media if they couldn’t benefit from it.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-06-11 22:44:30+00:00
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09211

I am thoroughly unimpressed by this paper. It sets up a vague strawman definition of "thinking" that I'm not aware of anyone using (and makes no claim it applies to humans) and then knocks down the strawman.

It also leans way too heavy on determinism - For one thing, we have no way of knowing if human brains are deterministic (until we solve whether reality itself is). For another, I doubt you would suddenly reverse your position if we created a LoRa composed of atmospheric noise, so it does not support your real position.

> https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinkin...

This one is more substantial, but:

"While these models demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scaling properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. [...] Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. [...] We found that LRMs have limitations in exact computation: they fail to use explicit algorithms and reason inconsistently across puzzles."

Starts by saying "we actually don't understand them" (meaning we don't know well enough to give a yes or no) and then proceeds to list flaws that, as I keep saying, also can be applied to most (if not all) humans' ability to reason. Human reasoning also collapses in accuracy above a certain complexities, and certainly are observed to fail to use explicit algorithms, as well as reasoning inconsistently across puzzles.

So unless your definition of anthropomorphization excludes most humans, this is far from a slam dunk.

> They don’t even always output their internal state accurately.

I have some really bad news about humans for you. I believe (Buddha et al, 500 BCE) is the foundational text on this, but there's been some more recent research (Hume, 1739), (Kierkegaard, 1849)
by kccqzy | 2025-06-11 22:44:41+00:00
Got it. So basically you want writers to use their own lock to coordinate writes. Okay, then this makes it inconvenient to deal with readers that could possibly but infrequently become writers. They have to do a second read under a lock to write. And if one chooses a data structure for which copy isn't a cheap operation, this can be slower than classic RCU.
by funky_tek | 2025-06-11 22:45:33+00:00
Mikeal was simply an amazing human being. I'm writing this wearing my NodeConf shirt right now—one of the best times I've ever had in any community. Being friends with Mikeal was incredible because you could always pick up where you left off, no matter how much time had passed. During our time working together on ProtocolLabs projects, we talked almost daily about work, open source, ideas, philosophy, spirituality, and of course, hip hop.

He possessed a unique and brilliant intellect paired with a compassionate and generous spirit. His interpretation of Buddhist sutras and other sacred writings through an engineer's lens was insightful and inspiring—the foundation for many great conversations. I had just moved back to the Bay Area around the time of his diagnosis and was looking forward to reconnecting in person. Things happened so fast. Sending love to his family.
by Terr_ | 2025-06-11 22:45:43+00:00
> Just slice up the damn state.

Not that simple. Other states, the small ones, will not permit [0] it to happen, since it would dilute their own unfair influence on the federal government, [1] the relic of an ancient join-up bribe from 1788.

[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIV-S3-C1-4...

[1] https://medium.com/qri-io/youre-probably-underrepresented-in...
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-11 22:45:48+00:00
It is indeed hard to assess from the video at 19s? (Relatively impressive thru-the-glass perspective ntheless!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6w5kAA22TsP&t=19s

Is it me or is there some dynamic here that could/should be further exploited to implement what you suggest
by ognarb | 2025-06-11 22:46:16+00:00
Another open source app with a bit of similar goal: https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/

The collaboration part is not that developed (but does exist based on Matrix as decentralized and end to end encrypted storage). That works very well is ticket extraction for hotels, train or flight + search for connection using public transport APIs.

Disclaimer: I'm involved with that app
by toast0 | 2025-06-11 22:48:33+00:00
The rate of creation is like meh, but being able to enumerate all of the repos might be problematic, following new repos and scanning them for leaked credentials could be a negative... but github may have a feed of new repos anyway?

Also, having a sequence implies at least a global lock on that sequence during repo creation. Repo creation could otherwise be a scoped lock. OTOH, it's not necessarily handled that way --- they could hand out ranges of sequences to different servers/regions and the repo id may not be actually sequential.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-11 22:48:48+00:00
In the 50s and 60s, the population was smaller. Towns/cities were smaller and not as developed as now. It would have be so much easier to build that infrastructure than it would be today. As it is now, to add rail cities are having to lose some streets to replace with rail or have some mixed use rail/car type of use. It makes no sense to compare today to the 50s/60s