skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are baby steps towards what I think will be the eventual "disruption" to the film and tv industry. Directors will simply be able to write a script/prompt long enough and detailed enough for something like Imagen (or it's successors) to convert into a feature-length show.

Certainly we're very, very far away from that level of cinematic detail and crispness. But I believe that is where this leads... complete with AI actors (or real ones deep faked throughout the show).

For a while I thought "The Volume" was going to be the disruption to the industry. Now I think AI like this will eventually take it over.

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/1225599-the-volum...

The main motivation will be production costs and time for studios, of which The Volume is already showing huge gains for Disney/ILM (just look at how much new star wars content has popped up within a matter of a few years). But i'm unsure if Disney has patented this tech and workflow and if other studios will be able to leverage it.

Regardless, AI/software will eat the world, and this will be one more step towards it. Exciting stuff.
Actually - I’m absolutely looking for a cofounder with a decent business background at the moment for a tech/physical product-based business I’ve been putting together.

I’d love a thread like this! :)
That’s basically where we are at, with the exception of big businesses and institutions often refuse to deal with you except for in-person or over the phone.
I don't care about private companies, if they want to operate with people they must follow a standard and so the news is good. All the time these companies do whatever they want like ditching headphone jack, fixed batteries, even if people don't want it. They force the change and we have to comply.

So yeah it's great for long term.
Explain how it is not a democracy.
> SQlite's Code of Conduct

Well, I had never seen that before. As an atheist that was quite a, well, revelation.

I am not militant in any way and have a generally lax stance about these things. For example, I have had believer friends ask if they could pray over me when I was going through rough times. My response was "I would be honored". No sense being a complete asshole when someone offers something out of love.

The rules page includes this:

> No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea.

> The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish.

In other words, for me, very much my stance with regards to religious belief (or not). It's a "live and let live" position. Something I sometimes feel is sorely needed in today's hatred/outrage-first society.
This is exactly what Germany thought it was doing when it forged energy deals with Russia.
Just, Nix Shell and Podman Are a Killer Combo
Oil is a global market. India buying Russian oil means they aren’t buying it from the broader market. If they didn’t buy Russian oil they would buy it from the broader market increasing overall oil prices and inflation in Europe.

More importantly, India is buying oil at a heavily discounted price, which at current prices means Russia is likely selling at a loss. This is working so well that Europe is trying to emulate something similar with their price cap idea, which is functionally similar to what India is doing, except India’s discount probably means an even lower price for Russia and India has been doing this successfully for 200+ days while it’s not clear Europe’s price cap idea will ever get off the ground.
Agreed, but is anyone arguing that the team shouldn't decide?
Can you specify which parts have gone stale?

I wonder if rochacbruno will accept a PR.
I like your approach. Thanks for posting an informative reply. You provided some valuable insight which, while intuitive, is much more useful when codified.

I work one job, make a bit more but not a lot, have house and boat payments, and bank most of the rest. Just started collecting SS. I could retire, but with the uncertain US economy, I'm looking to go part-time, or work remote instead. Remote would give me back the ~10hrs/wk of commute time to do other things. But virtually no chance of going remote without a job change.

I had an AWS interview which looked great, sounded great, nice increase, and was mostly remote. I aced the pre-interview(he told me so), thought I aced the interview (8rs over 2 days), but was "not selected", and "no specific feedback". Since, they've invited me to interview for several other positions. I've ignored them as 1) large expenditure of time and energy to prep and perform in the interview, and 2) I think there may have been some age "consideration" on their part. Not sure I'd want to stay long enough to be fully vested in the stock compensation. I can play that from the outside.
There are literally USB-C cables with fiber cores, right now... on the market.

A USB-C cable with fiber core is what Oculus Go suggested to connect to a PC.
There will be a fusion plant in space, because to build an interstellar vessel you need a source of power that is not dependent upon wind (which is absent in space), nor solar (which decreases in power the further you are away from stars).
Did no one read beyond the first paragraph?

This is an article about the effectiveness of large language models, which have learned to do tasks beyond regurgitating text despite only having been trained to regurgitate text.

As long as you are able to describe the task as a text stream and are ok with having a text stream as output, GPT-3 might actually be able to do the task with just a couple of examples as context. I saw a talk at Black Hat about using GPT-3 as a spam filter. Because GPT-3 has trained on so much spam, it knows what spam looks like. It just needs a couple of examples, and off it goes.

> The most complicated reasoning programs in the world can be defined as a textual I/O stream to a leviathan living on some technology company’s servers.

The references to the UNIX philosophy feel a bit tacked on, honestly. Probably just there to grab attention.
Neat! However, I wonder if they are fit for purpose still.
The Internet Archive is building a library of amateur radio broadcasts
> and there it was being driven by military needs (submarines) and not civilian.

I'm surprised that support for fusion isn't part of US DoD policy; abundant, cheap, clean energy would be a huge military asset. Those explosives zooming back and forth in Ukraine are really just energy balls.
Add this to your uBlock filter:

treasurydirect.gov##+js(remove-attr, readonly, input.pwordinput)
This seems to be in the ballpark, although the podcast "methodisch inkorrect" cited (years ago and in german) a perhaps too ideal number of 99%.

Lets agree on a factor of 20 between burning fossils and using fission as an energy source for a further guesstimate.

Solar and wind are better than that, since they have primary energy requirements for production, but no warmth is generated: the albedo of solar panels is as good as grass, the warmth generated by a wind turbines would be generated by the wind slowing down on a tree, house or mountain as well.

As which is cheapest, that could vary between those three technologies. None are regulated as fast as gas turbines, but fission power output is perhaps faster to scale than fusion or even coal.

Having energy at one tenth the cost (solar/wind is supposedly already half to on fifth to cost of fusion) we could feasibly consume ten times the energy by replacing fossils, traveling more, consuming more and giving 80 % of mankind the final lift to 90s-level western accommodations.

So perhaps no net change at all in the ecological balance of heating our space ship if we really switch to fission and keep the our mind set on growth by more technology.
A great many Dr’s offices can’t even provide a billing estimate or handle the mess of insurance. Do you think they’ll handle something like that on top of it?
To ~rectify some problems caused by the really large gap between the release of 2.3 and the next minor/major, the release of Nix 2.4 in November 2021 marked a move to a 6-week release cadence. Since they're driven by a calendar now, some will inevitably be bigger/smaller.
I really doubt you’d be able to have the fine grained control that most high end creatives want with any of these diffusion models, let alone the ability to convey specific emotions.

At that point, we’d have reached some kind of AI singularity and the disruption would be everywhere not just in the creative sphere
Birds aren't real.
My stereo plays all day every day for over 40 years now :-)
AI will also be able to fill in dialog, plot points, etc.
Oppenheimer is rolling in his grave
It's not for all that reason. But to make companies follow standard. So it's a great decision.

These companies have been doing what they want for far too long like removing headphone jack, removable battery etc.
Looking at that benchmark, marking a function as "static" was enough to make the bounds checks be optimised away.

One difference between C++ and Rust (yes, I know they seem to get compared a lot) I like is that the "default function" is the safe one. In Rust you disable bounds checking for a particular, but [] does bounds checking. In C++ you can do "bounds checked access", but [] does unsafe.

In my opinion, it's best if the "default option" users reach for is the safe, but possibly slower option. Then, in a situation where a user is sure about what they are doing, and the boost is worth it, they can reach for the less safe option. In a program I'm currently working on we have disabled bounds checking in exactly two functions, as benchmarking showed it was worth it, and we carefully checked it would be safe to do.
Looked through the comments briefly and couldn’t mind a mention - but wouldn’t the Fossil Watch PDA have been the smallest, by definition; PDA?

That thing ran a full-fledged version of PalmOS. Way, way ahead of its time. (No pun intended. :P)

If you haven’t seen this little wonder - check it out here:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fossil_Wrist_PDA
Interestingly, TreasuryDirect's terms of service are codified in the Code of Federal Regulations:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/part-363/subpart-B

From a brief reading, having a third party access your TreasuryDirect account does seem problematic:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/363.22

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/363.17
Not really. Russia put enormous effort to bribe German politicians. Ex chancellor for example. I don’t think, that China is bribing Apple. They go there voluntarily.
> it's safe to say that this is not kanban

But that's the problem with agile.

Nobody can or wants to pin it down. When it fails, "you are not doing it properly". The stated goals are iterations, early feedback, people over processes... except when they aren't.
Even if the two types of interfaces share strong similarities in their most commonplace usage, they are nevertheless accessed through two distinct mediums (from which they get their names (TUI / VUI)). Text is not speech, and speech is not text, and the possibility space of what can be realistically (in a human-friendly manner) provided as input or output on each is quite different. On VUIs, for instance, you can do things like query for a song by humming it [0], which would be very difficult to provide a purely textual alternative for for use in a TUI, whereas text-based interfaces make it easier to do things like looking at large swathes of structured content or copypasting a long piece of text to use as input.

[0]: https://blog.google/products/search/hum-to-search/
Well colour me updated! That's nice to hear.
VSCode is my choice for a fresh codebase.

But if I'm shoved into an old codebase and I need to grok it fast, Jetbrains tools are a lifesaver.
Engineers create molten salt micro-nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy
> Meanwhile, China exports a lot of things that people don’t need. You can turn those off quicker.

It's not like that's all they export. They export a lot of essential things, and cutting them off would probably far more economically disruptive to their customers than to them. They're store shelves won't be empty, and given their political system they can probably deal with the fallout much more effectively.

There are also a lot of alternative producers of oil, while there's no other advanced manufacturing giant on the scale of China that people can shift their orders to. It would make the COVID supply chain difficulties look like a joke.
Building a large-scale distributed storage system based on Raft
Yes, this is the one I reach for always. It works reliably AFAICT, runs on all platforms, is simple enough and still has the necessary features.
> It will be interesting to watch this unfold from a code licensing perspective. Will Clickhouse Inc. move to a more restrictive license to block all these other ClickHouse services?

I don't see it as a reasonable move.
False.

There is exactly zero need to devote any land surface at all exclusively to the solar panels that will provide for all our needs. Solar coexists nicely with numerous other uses. Similarly, for wind turbines.

Storage may consume some area, but nowhere near what existing fossil fuel extraction activities do.

There will be no fusion.
The trick is let your dog lick them clean.
Time and again I tried getting into Rust, I always fail because the error messages don't make sense.
I'm always trying to write a simple http crud api.
Nothing makes sense.
I wish it wasn't so and no matter who or where I ask with my problems, I never get a response.
These threads are a great example of the problem with open source. People will complain no matter what. Even if there’s no new code, one could say being on GitHub and being able to track the changes are worth it alone, but alas.

If it works out, great, if not, we’ll SQLite isn’t going anywhere.
I have to ask, what features?

As a profitable company, assuming they have competent developers, they could get what they need to built. Figma's "secret sauce" is using WebAssembly [1] to do their rendering.

The reason I harp is that everybody is complaining about the demise of Figma while completely ignoring its demise was precipitated by massive venture capital investment.

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
I imagine OP means the mining and production of batteries at grid and transportation scale will require an enormous amount of energy expenditure and resources.
I think long-term, yes. If you include the whole multimediosphere of 2D inputs and the wealth of 3D engine magickry, yes.

How long? Could be decades. But ultimately, yes.
yes, they implemented the resulting algorithms and have charts showing real world performance on GPUs and TPUs
You don't know the half of it.
Yes. Love this.

Here's the observation I've made in getting lost in these rabbit holes:

Remember what the computer is good at vs what the human is good at. People like us get drawn to systems that try to replicate what the human is good at, but we're so much better that many of these things are pointless.

Specifically, I'm thinking about note-taking systems that, for example, generate fancy looking dependency graphs. They may have some use, but your human brains is WAY better at this task of "making immediate connections between disparate ideas."
This is exactly my point. We started from a discussion about the availability of ultrasound sensors that the overwhelming majority of new cars don't even have and now we're on to "Tesla is unsafe" ... "Making changes to car configuration is an irresponsible business practice" and (sigh) "It is in the public interest that I be pissed off about this".

It's just exhausting. Can't you find something more productive to be outraged about?
Yeah, as somebody has to tell me they are not saints...
There's a scifi book series where a stable government is maintained by exclusive monopolies that the other provenience are dependent upon. Any provenience trying to break away will quickly find they are in an economic collapse because they can't supply themselves.

Fascinating idea, until the monopolies break everything. I'll see if I can't find it.

It's The Interdependency Series by John Scalzi: https://www.goodreads.com/series/202297-the-interdependency
From that perspective, does anything exist to give you an accurate model of reality? Education? It's only to the control the masses and also makes money for book sellers? Science, just makes money for grant writers and equipment sellers? All that is somewhat true but doesn't really encompass the actual reality, which is plenty of journalists are interested in communicating what is happening, even while some are just pushing their vision or making money. Same is true of scientists, teachers, etc.
Ha, found the practical engineer! I didn't think of that. Brilliant!
Price hedging. Doing things that would also be environmentally good (and encouraged by the EU), higher efficiency kilns, electric kilns.

I'm not in the glass making business so I don't really know what the possibilities are, and the answers are different for different companies.

Point is this situation was foreseeable, and slot of the things companies should be thinking about anyway.
Is it? Has anyone actually tested sending a QR code over iMessage? Because doing that does not generate a link preview, and so there is no reason for Messages.app to be decoding it and fetching the URL.

If macOS really is background-scanning all images, and if Messages.app actually writes all received images out to disk as individual image files, then the background scanning could conceivably scan it. However I haven't seen anyone make this claim, it certainly doesn't seem necessary (why write it out to a file on disk?), and if this scanning is triggered by e.g. Spotlight indexing then it wouldn't be indexing cache files anyway.

So, has anyone actually demonstrated that sending a QR code over iMessage causes the recipient's device to fetch the URL? Because so far this just seems like complete speculation presented as fact.
Indeed, it's also not $1.5 billion per launch.
This whole holier-than-thou moralizing strikes me as trying to steer the conversation away from the real issue, which came into spotlight with Stable Diffusion - one of authorship/violating the IP rights of artists, who now have come down in force against their would be tech overlords who are in the process or repackaging and reselling their work.

This forced ideological posturing of 'if we give it to the plebes, they are going to generate something naughty with it' masks the somehow more cynically evil take of big tech, who are essentially taking the entire creative output of humanity and reselling it as their own, piecemeal.

Additionally I think the Dalle vs. Stable Diffusion comparison highlights the true masters of these people (or at least the ones they dare not cross) - corporations with powerful IP lawyers. Just ask Dalle to generate a picture with Mickey Mouse - it won't be able to do it.
Actually no, there are companies [1] that sell whole ride-hailing infra, apps etc. Customers just customize them (logos/phones) and have their own Uber.

[1] https://onde.app
Yep. Just another example of why we should never trust google.
I'm glad you liked VS for Mac. I personally do not like it, it's a reskin of the Xamarin IDE that Microsoft acquired. Visual Studio on windows is IMO the real Visual Studio experience for C# and you should try it if you get a chance. There's tons of extensions for the IDE (including a Vim one!) and if you're bought into the MS ecosystem it has widgets for EVERYTHING:

- Azure

- SQL Server

- All the Windows UI frameworks

- Office development

- Windows debugging

- etc...
JTR and hashcat cover many hash brute-forcing patterns but I would bet money on neither of those ever cracking the above example if using more than a few words and if the hashing method used a combination of BCrypt+sha512crypt. Saying that I have no idea what algo's are used by virtual currency wallets. I believe there are still some standing payouts available to people that can crack some wallets that people lost the password to.

I will not however bet money on this protecting someones diary/journal unless it had the same protections as wallets. Are hardware diaries a thing? I guess one could learn an unused language to keep notes as a layer of obfuscation. Let's make Sumerian pictographs cool again. Or perhaps Elvish Sindarin.

If we attempt to compensate for every pattern used by JTR and hashcat then we end up with 450+ character passphrases that can't be memorized and we are back to using some application to store it and protect that application which I am not opposed to but I tried to give OP an answer that is a viable trade-off and that did not require storing the password. i.e. in the spirit of their question and methodology

For remote brute force with something like THC Hydra the above examples the account should be locked out long before anything comes close.
The answer is "no, nobody read the article".
shhhh don't tell Coppersmith... or Alman&Williams
As amusing as it is to see an inverted shtick of the Fusion Energy Foundation that matches the same tenor as that organization, most proponents of solar and wind probably don't see R&D into other methods of power generation as a zero-sum game that detracts from their own favored approach. Not to mention, research into fusion, and indeed any type of nuclear power, is likely overwhelmingly dwarfed by all of the efforts spent into greenhouse gas-generating fossil fuels. Given that, the aforementioned tenor is rather quixotic and misplaced.