skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. There's joy in making kids happy. Here's actual feedback from kids:

"Hi richardfeynman and Merry Christmas!
Carissa enjoyed her story and decided after that she needs to submit another one
She couldn’t tell a difference. My husband and I could tell it was different, but still pretty impressive how the AI works! We will share with friends this week!"
"Thank you so much for the story of Anders and his goat Gizmo. We love Maked up Stories and listen to one every evening, so it really made Anders’s day to have his own story. We have shared it with family and friends."
• Basic concepts of dynamic programming and precomputation.

During lockdown I attended a course that prepared students for IOI. I couldn't focus/follow at home via web conferencing. One year after I attended some lectures from the same course, but physically. I understood everything when it was explained in person.

• Basic concept of buckets in distributed hash tables. After reading BEP-0005 I was left puzzled and left the topic for some months. Reading a Wikipedia article about Kademila, first understanding static buckets and transferring this to dynamic buckets with splitting was way easier to grasp.
I agree with this, fwiw, and do this too. Interrupting is often also a tactic for keeping me engaged, given the ADHD. My advice in the above comment is meant for tangential interruptions rather than clarifying interruptions.

My brain is a stack, and most people are queues, so if I don’t write it down, I have already forgotten it; but that’s only really important for interruptions that lead to tangents.
Love the concept! Would love it even more if you could opt out of seeing the album art which can give huge hints.
Not necessarily SE, there's been tons of 0days exploited against stuff like WHMCS, Hostbill, Kayako and many other systems used by hosting companies to manage this kind of thing.

Colocation and epoxy in any relevant ports is the obvious way to avoid this.
Narcissism.

My grandmother was a terrible narcissist. I loved her dearly and she had a lot of wonderful qualities, but The quality that stood out the most, sadly, was narcissism.

My mother was also a narcissist to a somewhat lesser degree. It didn't occur to me that I too was a narcissist until I was about 35 years old. It took waking up in the corner of the living room in my friends one bedroom apartment Early one morning to see it.

I had pushed away my wife and kids because in my mind all of my problems were their fault. I had blamed others for every thing that had ever happened to me or every feeling that I had felt. And in that moment I realized:

It's ME.

Everything changed in that instant. It was no longer just about me anymore. I stopped seeing the people closest to me as opponents and started seeing them as what they were, family. My support system. The love of my life.

As the years have gone by since then I have seen more of my past through that light and things have become so much more clear.

Understanding that my grandmother was a very damaged person who turned a narcissist to deal with it, then raise my mother similarly, help me understand two things. The first was that the things I blamed myself for in the past weren't my fault. Secondly, it helped me forgive them for some of the awful things that happened. I'm not saying it's okay to be a narcissist. But recognizing that their narcissism affected my life, and it was something that I could shed in my own personality was a serious life changer. And the funny part is that after I realized all of this, my debilitating depression essentially went away. And that was a big deal.

I also learned not even 2 years ago that I have ADHD which was like a light bulb moment for me as well because it explained so much of my life.
That's pretty long, they'll have forgotten about you in the meantime.
Does anyone have experience with anything like this on android?
This is like Cartiesian scepticism [0] justified by attempting to reject the fixed points of the prior in Bayes' rule [1]. The implication is that your belief in something should always be an epsilon away from 100% (and presumably 0%).

[0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/#ArguForCartSk...
[1]: https://www.austintripp.ca/blog/2018/08/21/bayes-no-certain-...
They’re paid for eyeballs not genuine interactions
Actually, one day we will be able to do this not just with sprite sheets, but whole games.
Someone put out a really compelling one a couple months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/yj1kbi/ive...
You’re confusing a handful of Twitter leftists that had to be coaxed into voting for Biden with the fact that Biden assembled a larger coalition than Obama did in 2012.

Biden is and has always been popular among Democrats and he won independents in 2020.
As far as I can see, It uses LiDAR. Unlike photo-based PG, LiDAR does not get confused by lighting conditions. It is also good for large scenes and environments. The downside of apples lidar is that the mesh is too low resolution for most practical uses.
The thing that made it really click with me was the quote (two whom I'm not sure it belongs to) that is roughly "code to abstractions/interfaces, not implementation".

The idea that I take advantage of good abstractions and I send those objects into my classes that need to perform actions via those abstractions made a lot of sense. Helps enable good polymorphism, as well as unit testing and other things.

I don't think I'm doing it justice, but the idea took a good while to understand there reasons behind it. Some books that helped me grok the idea were

- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- Clean Architecture
- Architecture Patterns with Python

along with running into problems that could be easily solved with a decent abstraction at work and learning to apply it directly.
You can add as many functions as you like:

https://www.sqlite.org/appfunc.html
"This is why lack of consumer protections suck"

So, rather than the consumer being responsible for their actions you support consumers engaging in whatever risky behavior they like as long as someone else is there to protect them or give them a do-over?
This doesn’t answer the question, but let me plug my entirely unrelated product. Remember to like and subscribe and turn on notifications!
“Carbon Neutral”
On the one hand, there's clear empirical evidence from parents that this helps improve kids' imagination and storytelling ability, and on the other hand we have your pure conjecture that "spoken audio which lacks emotional depth" can harm kids. I'm not buying it, but even if it were true it's pretty clear by the rate of improvement in voice cloning that soon there will be more emotional depth in this form of audio.
> Sad thing is, the fines aren't really harmful at this scale

Technically, they aren’t even fines; there was recently an attempt to pass amendments the NLRB Act which would have allowed fines (IIRC, up to $100,000 per affected employee if wrongful termination was involved, $50,000 otherwise) but it didn’t pass, so all NLRB can do is order make-whole remedies for affected employees.
Nice, loses all its charm and turns off my imagination.
Just store them in a Synology NAS. The NAS has an app to sync the files to a free 5 TB google drive account that I was given.
This is a common mistake, and I’ve been known to make it too.

You cannot predict what someone is about to say, ever. You can make guesses, and sometimes you’ll be right, but the worst case of “I know what you’re going to say so let me cut you off” being wrong is far, far worse, than letting it play through and being right.

In the former case, you reinforce that this person will simply stop talking to you or telling you stories because they think you are rude. In the latter case, you’ve wasted a few minutes of time but continue developing a relationship and building trust with which you can ask clarifying questions without coming off as rude and alienating your conversation partner.
Ironically, despite the fact that I run into Cloudflare blocks frequently, I could read the original article. On the other hand, your archive.is link does result in a CF block for me.
What percentage secure would you say it is?
I'm not exactly trying to grow my kids stories podcast by plugging it to a developer audience. My comment is relevant because it's a cutting edge use case of text-to-speech.
What are useless eaters? You’ve put it in quotes, but I don’t see it elsewhere.
Writing peer reviews at work
Others have mentioned Lex had already read some (all?) of it previously, and that he's a native Russian speaker. So not sure this takedown is itself well informed.
I think what you are describing is called super-resolution https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/high-fidelity-image-genera...
This is absolutely stunning. I'm beyond curious what is possible in this space. Could we potentially start regenerating and even redesigning lifeforms, including humans? How about inducing growth of a second brain? Or perhaps we could learn how to merge multiple already existing brains together and see if we can create one more effective brain
Or the notes app on your phone, or an open text editor on your laptop, or a nearby whiteboard, or the URL bar of your browser…

It’s doable; it’s not easy, but it’s doable.

(I also have ADHD)
Aha! Yeah, that would likely be around the time they were making the last set of breaking changes to get into GA. It's been GA for nearly a year, so it's a good time to jump in for tracing.
Battery is a good point. I will run Slack in a browser tab if traveling. I use an actual desktop 90% of my time.
In our experience, a user with one phone doesn't really need this key. You'll always be able to log from that phone into that phone's vault with just the password.

It's only if you're adding another device or logging in online, or replacing a lost first device with no backup, that you need the 2nd piece of key material.
Create GIF Animations in Matlab/Octave
That's not an unfair assumption to make, but it is an assumption, since no records pertaining to conditions in Africa or South America are mentioned (or Australia and on Pacific islands, for that matter). That's where my despair comes from; a consideration of the peoples of those regions was not included, even though the headline seems to be a general statement about human life on Earth in 536.
I have no recommendations, but I'm curious if someone has tried to train a TTS on the data made by one of the commercial services. Generating data would be very cheap, labels perfect, and there would be less noise than in the human datasets.
> The repeated blows, followed by plague, plunged Europe into economic stagnation that lasted until 640.

Islam first appeared on 610. I wonder if these events had any effects on that.
This was in django, where a good such test would set up the database, call the function, then check that the new state in the database is as expected.

(Which IIRC is what I changed it to)
Seems like something the Soviets would have done.

E.g

The Lada, Combine, T42, and Mig 17 all being designed knowing they would have to use of the shelf "Soviet standard spring #2"
New to me me, interesting problem and origin story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Thanks. I just watched the entire video though this documentary pins the culprit on Krakatoa and not an Icelandic volcano. It was interesting nonetheless.
Basics of software planning by reading phoenix project.
It’s not, if you explain why. It’s quite easy to say “I have ADHD, so if you see me taking notes it’s because I don’t want to interrupt but also don’t want to forget my thoughts, so please don’t be bothered by it” and I do this all the time when I strike up an important conversation with someone new.
The UK normally has one, maybe two gambling machines stuck in a corner of a pub.

Australian pubs, restaurants, hotels have “vip” rooms. Rooms filled with gambling machines. They can’t advertise “pokie machines”, the Australian term for gambling machines so instead they renamed them to “vip rooms”, advertising under another name instead. Walking down a street you see pubs with separate entrances with big bold signs “vip room”. I’d guess “vip” rooms are the main income for Australian pubs as they’re such a prominent feature.

Gambling is a massive industry in Australia. Australia gambles more than anywhere else. With so much money involved it seems it’s bit of a dark murky industry. A YouTuber journalist/comedian got firebombed just the other week after a series of investigative videos on New South Wales gambling corruption https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/friendlyj.... The same journalist has had his house raided by terrorist police on direct command from politicians for getting on the wrong side of them with corruption videos.
Probably not. This is usually because the airport you are dropping off at doesn’t have storage, hanger, mechanic, fuel, or some other thing you need for a jet this size.

The drive from airport to airport could be 45 minutes even if it takes the plane only 6.

I did this on a private jet, pilot never shut the engines down while unloading. It was a stop and go.
This is the feature called System Integrity Protection (SIP)
I only just recently started building things for fun again (Thanks AI) so I haven't had a blog in many years.

But I'll be launching one on alexbrown.io sometime in the next few weeks to document my projects.
No I haven't seen that!

On its own, I don't see much point in "contracts" annotation-style syntax - it looks like a complex solution to a problem I don't have. Whats so wrong with assert!() that we need to invent syntax.

MIRAI looks wild though. Thanks for sharing!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210583.
I’m not trying to plug my unrelated product, I’m just explaining how my unrelated product is cutting edge!
While we shouldn’t fall for junk science, we also shouldn’t fall for cynicism as an excuse to stick to our priors. It might not replicate if you try to do so, but until someone does, we shouldn’t write it off.
What? Do you have a source for this? Most kids give zero fucks about politics, much less what their parents care about.
Apologies for a silly question, what exactly are we looking at here? I've seen the inside of an F-91W, and I always imagined that under the black epoxy blob was some kind of off-the-shelf microprocessor (most likely 4-bit) with a mask ROM containing the watch's logic. Is the entire watch run from this IC, with no processor? If so that's really interesting.
Wow, the Tonal Bitcoin guy got hacked!
Ubuntu isn't peak Linux desktop anymore. Linux Mint has taken that crown. There is a reason it's 4 spots below Mint and one spot below Fedora on Distrowatch.com.
Oh wow, I wasn’t but this perfectly sums it up! Learned it the hard way. “Fact-value” is another good way of putting it.
Please don't post like this to HN. Perhaps you don't feel you owe devs who lose their Bitcoins better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
A bon mot I saw on a sign outside a liquor store: When I was young I thought a $1000 was a lot of money. Now I’m older I realize that $1000 is a great deal of money indeed.
Musk hate is the new Trump hate. They will tell you no matter what the topic is, the hate is completely warranted because reasons.

What no one asks themselves is when they first noticed they hate this person, and why everyone else they know started hating them at the same time.
Consider following John von Neumann's advice "in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." Write down the first 100 equations involving sin, cos, tan, log. Use those equations in 100 larger derivations. Visualize the functions in 100 different ways (2D, 3D, animated).

It's a lot of memorization and "getting used to" the math, punctuated by a few "aha moments" of insight when you realize the 100 examples can be compressed into say only 50 examples. In retrospect its tempting to think the insights led to understanding, but really they were just the dopamine hits on top of the real stuff of understanding: tedious acclimation to a new abstract realm.
Ubuntu was a good desktop but they've let that go. Now Linux Mint has taken the crown.
Is there a way to have current AI tools maintain consistency when generating multiple images of a specific creature or object? For example, if there are images of 'Dr. Venom' they need to look similar, or if there are images of the same space ship.
If Elon could use one of those instead of some of those poor pigs or monkeys for Neuralink it would be great.
MIS is a great way to end up underpaid and overworked compared to CS.
100%. Took me a very long time to learn this, but if your partner does not assume good intent, by default, and give you a chance to explain yourself (and vice versa), you’re in an abusive relationship and should get out.

I’ve been in it, and it was awful and destroyed me for many years, and I couldn’t be happier to have found someone who treats me with respect now.
I agree.

What I've learnt from the last few years (decade?) is that you can make pretty much any claim on the internet, and you'll find an audience that agrees with that claim. If you dress up your delivery, your persona, your appearance, or even just evoke strong emotions with that claim, it'll amplify that audience. You'll find strong supporters of your claim even when evidence to the contrary is provided to them directly (sunk cost, difficulty in changing opinions because of human psyche etc).

I wonder where the Carl Sagan's and George Carlin's of this generation are. I have a sneaking suspicion that social media just doesn't allow such talent to flourish in today's world. It makes me sad to think about this and it would make me incredibly sad if that were true.

wrt to Lex Fridman, he's a dressed up persona for spouting intelligent sounding thoughts, without any actual meat or gravitas behind them. I personally rank him in the same category as Joe Rogan and any other random interviewer podcaster, who put in low effort to research content but put in a lot of effort to produce large quantities of work.

And with ad-supported social media, quantity over quality seems to be the name of the game.

Hopefully GPT4 will make the Lex Fridman's of the world replaceable more easily? I still don't think we'll get to an era of high quality content by public speakers any time ever.

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan are the only interviews (other than maybe some ones on PBS) that I've been able to watch and recommend to peers.

Any interviewers you all like?
Vouched since I don't get the downvotes and want to respond.

The author sort of conflates two things in this section of the article; lack of interest and lack of knowledge.

The author's lack of interest in drinking adventures is actually their faux pas in my opinion if it's a story from a friend wanting to share a story. My friends have tons of interests I do not share, but I love to hear them talk about their interests because it's something new and they're my friends. I would not be as open to listening about beading or car mechanics from someone I'm not close to since I lack the knowledge to really participate and I just don't really care about someone I don't know very well and their hobbies unless they're a really engaging story teller (then I'm all ears)

The author's article in general sets a lot of weird social rules that they seem to prefer but this is not really some universal standard, it's just some social rules that the author abides by and is positioning as a good set of rules to follow.

Some of the advice is okay; if someone is visibly bored and not engaging, don't keep going on with the same topic, switch it up or move on.

Other advice is weird, like the positive disagreement; disagreement is fun! You have a chance to learn something new and as long as you aren't positioning your entire self worth on a position, probably it's a fun discussion. I disagree with people in a friendly way all the time, most importantly my friends, and we're better for it, not worse. We say how we feel and feel more.relaxed that when there is a disagreement, we understand it's normal and natural.

The article weirdly tries to position some nice advice, but I think it does more confusion than good.
I recommend Linux Mint over Ubuntu. Ubuntu isn't focused on the desktop anymore.
AMD uses TSMC. Apple’s cores are still faster than AMD’s. Regardless, ARMv8 isn’t exactly RISC.
Aw crud... I completely forgot about Stack Overflow @.@. I think because I'm off today, and don't have it opened in 17 background tabs...

A Stack Overflow profile is another wonderful thing on a resume. It demonstrates you're curious and/or helpful (among other things, I suppose).

A note on your Stack Overflow profile... I don't care if you don't have a lot (or any) points from answering questions. Points for asking is just as good (to me).

Tips on actually building up rep on the site (hope they're mildly useful; I had a hard time TBH):

* If you're legitimately stuck on a problem, and have actually tried finding the answer elsewhere, take 30 minutes (or whatever you can spare) to write up an intelligible question. You [usually] won't be downvoted for asking a question that is well put together and hasn't been asked before. Most of my rep comes from asking esoteric questions about Git or Visual Studio, rather than answering them.

* Don't be afraid to answer old questions with new answers. Just make sure it's actually useful, and not a copy/paste (or rewording) of what someone has already said.

* Don't feel bad if a reply is blindingly obvious in hindsight (most of mine have been). You're asking an extraordinarily large number of nerds for help.

Cheers.
If you are making millions of units for a RT application you definitely want custom silicon.
Doesn't this mess up your YouTube what-to-watch-next suggestions?
Lithium isn't supposed to be flammable but gasoline is in your mind? What kind of logic is that?

Both are flammable and both take as many precautions as possible (with our knowledge) to not be in a car, but still can in extreme conditions (crashes).

The main difference is chemical fires are harder to put out, but you just have to carry the right suppressant.

But with Tesla, yes they make the news than other cars, including other EVs, because... politics.
Definitely hyperbole. I dabbled in competitive programming many years ago in high school. There's are only a handful of people I know that might be able to correctly complete 3 leetcode hard questions within one hour (they're the ones that end up in ICPC for example). There's no way the bar is actually that high, otherwise they wouldn't be able to recruit many thousands of people every year.
I have to think that the governor weighted the pluses and the minuses before he sign the bill. I'm one that believes that making everything illegal eventually leads to people ignoring the law so this is not a bad thing.

Unfortunate we will see a lot of news about people dying because they jaywalked. I hope they start a campaign to make people aware of the dangers of jaywalking before that happens.
Also curious as it is wildly against intuition for an immutable install to do a lot of writes (or even a lot of reads)
I’m still in LastPass!

How at risk am I?

If I move to something else, are those services not just at risk too at some point?

I’d hope LP would be doing more at this point.

IDK! Help!
Fun, and shows how little I know about language.

Few nitpicks:

- Some videos are blocked on copyright claims, would be nice if they would auto-reload
- sometimes my mouse would reveal the title of the video (alt text)
If talking very fast in a way packed with information isn't working, have you considered changing that? Perhaps it's very hard for others to deal with.
I would really, really like to see a recording of his “perfect game” because that story sounded like BS long before we knew he was full of BS.