skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my mom had one when i was growing up and it learned to mimic the squeaking our washing machine made when it was on. very annoying heh. It also learned to call our dogs by name and would get a kick out of them running to its cage. very annoying to the dogs too.
The classic glibc int nonsense with the isXXX() checks, and their unchecked array access. This comes up every 2nd week or so, and they refuse to fix it.
SBF should've spent some of his loot onto influencer marketing - he had all the other bases - politicians, regulators, broadcast media, competitor organisations - adequately covered
> It can't ever rigorously conclude whether anything was ever divinely inspired, though.

https://www.catholic.com/tract/proving-inspiration
Source code is stolen to explore vulnerabilities and develop zero day exploits.

More in this podcast https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/19/
We already know that humans are human-level intelligent, so we don't need to devise a test to prove that they are.

If AI >= highest level of human intelligence, then AI > human intelligence. It is less accurate because it will miss any AI that achieves a precisely human level of intelligence, but it is probably also an easier test to define than others.

Of course simply increasing the scale of the model does not count as an improvement, there is nothing novel in that suggestion. But you are right that it opens a can of worms as to what an improvement is. Does an improvement count if it improves the model in the 80% of scenarios that only appear 20% of the time, while similarly reducing its performance in the 20% of scenarios that appear 80% of the time?
> I'm not sure you can find such examples for things such as Stable Diffusion or DALL-E

DALL-E 1 will sometimes replicate watermarks (without being promted for it [1]). I'm not sure anyone has ever shown a 1-1 replication like what's shown with Copilot, but it's easy to get image models to create clearly derivative works (just ask for the Mona Lisa, or even a well-known modern work).

1: https://ibb.co/gz5RDkB
France’s prized nuclear sector stalled in Europe’s hour of need
> I’m EU and it was enabled.

This is pretty certainly a violation of GDPR in that case.

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
Cohere AI's Large Language Model for Semantic Search [video]
Context matters.

Do you engage in discussion with white supremacists or their victims/targets? Do you use triple parenthesis all the time while describing other people?

If none of the above, then what you are doing is the equivalent of making irrelevant noise.
I think I remember DREADCO* proposing holographic sundials in the Daedalus column sometime in the late XX? Nice to see them enter the "make at home" category.

* https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23531413-500-what-did...
I'm not dismissing everyone, but those people the post referred to are all in this category.

People with money to put behind an idea will either open with "I'm looking to hire an ML engineer with experience for a startup idea" (keyword being "hire") or maybe "I'm planning to found a startup and am looking for a technical lead/cofounder". That is, in the unlikely case that they'll hire by pinging Reddit mods instead of going to a known job site.

There is maybe a minuscule chance that there's indeed someone in there who had a windfall, is willing to invest money and has a good idea but no clue on how to hire people, but this is a bit like responding to every spam email in the hopes that you indeed have a deceased Nigerian relative, which inherited you millions but was unable to afford a lawyer that actually speaks English.
Agreed. This is social media style moderation being applied to a website that is more similar to infrastructure or a library. If I were a member of a private, professional library* and a colleague was found to hold racist views or had submitted a racist paper, I would still find it unacceptable to see that all of their books and papers had been indiscriminately pulled off the shelves overnight. In fact, such a thing would be unthinkable.

* Do such things exist? I'm just trying to keep the example out of the public or academic spheres.
Is your haskell prototype available to try
I just reduce consumption, because 1.) that's better for you anyway 2.) most media is drivel and always has been 3.) can't be arsed to do illegal shit for such a petty reward
TIL? a pair of buttocks is just one butt? So a buttocks is just one cheek? I had no idea.
It would be great if these voices were Siri options. The new Siri choices are quite bad…
Is there optimization being done by AMD to locate the best performing chiplet on the best possible place on the bus?
There's a correlation but it's not a dependency.

A woman with very small breasts won't have the tissue volume to have nipples pointing at certain angles, but in average to large sized breasts, they point in many different angles. It's more dependent on tissue density + how self supportive the breasts are.

I'm a bra fitter. I look at a lot of boobs.
I propose that where possible we avoid the term "piracy" and instead use the term "commons".
Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies
Nope not open to piracy. I'm not going to pirate a movie just because I can't afford the streaming service.
I was using Java on Symbian devices already, Blackberry was JavaSE based, and if it wasn't for how Google ripped off Sun, I would probably be using a SavaJe OS device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SavaJe
Any chance of re-purposing PiZeros for this? That might be a softer approach that can be tried relatively cheaply.
It depends. Games and music - no, I'm glad to pay for Spotify subscription, and I'm happy to buy a game every once in a while. Movies and TV shows - yes, if I cannot find them in Netflix. Sometimes I want to watch something, and it's not available in Netflix in my region, or not on Netflix at all. What choices do I have?
I pirated a lot when I was younger and couldn't afford it. It's a headache I don't need anymore - worrying about VPNs or seedboxes, torrent sites moving to different domains or being shut down, maintaining ratios, letters from your ISP...

Nowadays entertainment is quite accessible through subscriptions and I just wait for decent sales on the games I want to play.
yup, qbittorrent search tab never fails me
I've never abandoned it. Why pay for that crap if you can pay put.io?
> Sure, I'd love a drug that lets me eat more calories and not get fat

I think the deal is that the drug suppresses your appetite so you do actually eat less
Except when it comes to virtual reality display technology.
I use Soulseek. It’s actually a better discovery layer if you find someone with the same tastes. I find Netflix flashy and diluted. So much content but most isn’t quality.
The context is literally that parenthesis are token weight multipliers, so he's multiplying the importance of "disfigured feet" to the negative prompt by 1.1 three times. There are even other tokens in there that he multiples with less than three layers of parenthesis
How about going from master to main?
Salient Women: biographies of extraordinary women
I wanted to make a human-like reading feature for our language-learning software. Training a model isn't too hard using something like https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS.

The weak link was the available free/open datasets. You needed a single speaker with a pleasant voice, 20hrs+ material from varied sources, recorded in a good recording enviroment with a good mic etc. For English, the go-to was LJSpeech, which doesn't fulfill all these requirements. I say 'was', as I haven't followed developments recently.

Last year we decided to make our own dataset with a Irish woman, Jenny. She has a soft Irish lilt.

Never got around around to training the model, but I will upload the raw audio and prompts here in a few hours (need to pay my internet bill in town..):

https://github.com/dioco-group/jenny-tts-dataset/blob/main/R...
I'm not going to speak about my personal practices, but I find the current landscape of streaming services unusable and unsustainable from a customer perspective. I share a Netflix and Prime account with my parents, and support for that is soon going to end. I don't feel like either of those services provide enough value to me to consider paying for them entirely by myself. The content is mediocre at best, finding anything good to watch is like going through a haystack, and once you find something remotely interesting you feel so exhausted that you'd rather turn off the tv and go to bed.

Don't even get me started on "there's this movie I heard about and I want to watch, but I need a subscription to this obscure random service and then also pay a rental fee on top to even get to watch it". It's just absurd.
Huh? The professionally narrated audiobooks don’t get memory hole’d from the earth because Apple announced this service. The sentence you quoted is intended to emphasize that professionally narrated audiobooks will continue to be available on the platform.
Agreed, I'm trying to see if there's anything in my profile that could have been confusing, but I'm a paying customer so they definitely have the correct country on record for me and I'm paying in €.
As a person who has listened to a number of non-fiction books narrated by Microsoft Sam I don't really mind "subtle variations of tone" :-) This Apple thing will already satisfy me if they release it as an offline app for converting plain text files into audio files.
Globalization (the definition) comes to borderless states with transparency and intercommunication.

Which will not happen because of individualism, nationalism, and war. Democratic, liberal ideals push for globalization for their one world agenda but they fail to understand libertarian views for personal and property rights.
That’s one of the reasons I kind of gave up on, but it is 2023. I wonder how streamlined piracy has gotten.
I mean, if scrolling is your use case, they're probably not for you. High refresh rate is mainly worthwhile for gaming, being nicer on the desktop is a pleasant bonus but hardly the reason to pay for one.
20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery solved by London furniture conservator
Net profit margin is down 21% and diluted EPS is down 10% though. Increased revenue with decreased profit/earnings would indicate a loss of efficiency. I imagine layoffs are one signal to shareholders that they’re trying to get that efficiency back.
Well, the issue of access is not a technical one for the manufacturer, only moral one. Fines for now rarely work, since they are so low and take so long to happen, management can comfortably sail away on their golden parachutes. Add jail time, properties confiscated and it will be a different topic.

Basically we all have to trust forever some money-focused multinational corporations that they will keep being nice 'because its the right thing to do', or some similar marketing mantra. Look at any corporation and lawsuits around it and you will see very little morality anywhere.

For me, cloud is dead for most of my purposes, regardless of data stored. The idea looks nice on paper but then so does communism.
Please don't conflate consensual with nonconsensual.
Ahh yes the obligatory “we must never use humor here on HN” comment has arrived.
I don't pirate, purely because of the risk of malware. If there was no risk of malware, I would definitely pirate a lot more. Personally, the risk of getting all my accounts/PC hacked isn't worth saving the $X per month to me, and just the inconvenience of trudging through dozens of torrents/trackers/etc.
Probably not, but animal planet isn't made explicitly for human sexual gratification, so the comparison is a bit disingenuous
VRML was a technology that was way ahead of its time. Hardware of the time just could not deliver a good experience with it. Even high end SGI hardware (the land of VRML's birth) struggled with it. By the time commodity hardware got to the point it could deliver, interest and support of VRML was long expired.

Contrast VRML to a game like Quake. One of the key optimizations in Quake was a very computationally expensive pre-processing of the game map to determine surface visibility. The map environment was also a simplified set or surfaces rather than a giant tree of arbitrary primitives.

VRML had almost the opposite Design leaving the client to do a ton of work just to construct the usable representation of the virtual environment and then figure out what to draw. It also didn't help the client software often had terrible UIs and were implemented as browser plugins.
The only real issues that have "encouraged considerations of piracy" for me are the drive toward subscription for things that don't involve recurring costs to service me, and the generally abysmal quality of everything in the absence of a free trial/sample.

Beyond that, piracy must be among the top 3 motivations for companies to senselessly subscription-ify everything, so engaging in it is at least participating in incentivizing that behavior.
I already gave up and installed Plex along with the *arr apps on my home server.

I still pay for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube premium etc. but I find myself many of the times I want to watch something, I just use my home server rather than even checking if they exist on Netflix or Prime video.

Can’t give up YouTube premium, but probably will stop having Netflix as soon as they block password sharing.
Or that it’s downsizing the Alexa and other retail r&d ventures.
While it is impossible to predict if and when humans will become able to make other more intelligent humans, there are good chances that during this century, maybe already during the first half of this century, it will become possible to make versions of humans with various simple improvements, for instance with the ability to make vitamin C in the liver, like all our more distant ancestors and relatives, in order to no longer be dependent on an adequate daily intake from external sources.
“Entire Body Is Shaking”: Why Americans With Chronic Pain Are Dying
Open source, can be self hosted, you can secure it yourself and how you want (for better or worse)
@gnull is there a github repo of your haskell prototype
That comment was brilliantly constructed.
I see no moral problem with file sharing. Personally it's rarely worth the hassle, though I occasionally convert a youtube video to and mp3 for niche songs I can't find on spotify. I'd say it depends on how you value your time and how difficult it is to find what you want.

"Piracy" is the legitimate competitor of streaming services. It seems like we have had a period where streaming offered a better product, but having a credible threat of competition is important to keep the streaming offerings competitive and relevant.
Can it pronounce ”Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buff...
I have a Prime account, but I'll soon be cancelling it I feel. The same products can had on eBay for less money with no shipping charges added.

Prime video is quite unique, but I'm very much past them putting pre-roll ads on the content I want to watch. It's universally an advert for their own craptastic, homegrown version of an existing well-defined format. If I was interested in watching Law & Order I can start from Season 1, not from their knockoff version of it.

Amazon Music would be another great service I'd be willing to pay for, but all the available clients are so buggy it's an impediment to me using it.
Voices have a race?
As I've gotten older, I think my morals have gotten more defined. I no longer think that piracy is acceptable. Someone spends time and money to produce something, and I think they get the right to sell it however they like.

My choice, of course, is to pay for the content, or just not to consume it. I don't believe I have an inherent right to consume any content I want for free. The counter argument is usually that a copy of creative content doesn't take anything away from the author, but I don't really buy into that one.
Why pay when you can take for free, is the idea?
No alien life discovered on Earth, Pentagon says, but search deepens
Apple is big enough to have the EU dictate what port to ship their phones with, too. The regulatory landscape requires careful navigating.
You could potentially have that as another dimension.

But imagine you have two TVs, identical sizes. A 4K TV that uses 900W and a 8K TV that uses 905W.

Which is more efficient?

You have two TVs, one only supports stereo sound that uses 800W and one that supports Dolby Surround, Atmos etc. that uses 801W. (for the sake of argument, we're talking about passthrough to an external audio device with its own power rating)

Which is more efficient?

It's hard to create non-subjective measurements/comparisons between TV outputs that can be compared as they are potentially multi-dimensional comparisons.
Is Lithium the only barrier to EV's? Are there any global supply chain logistical issues that may arise should ongoing conflicts escalate? Do the same supply chain issues affect ICE and EV's equally? I honestly do not know but I see this get brought up when people discuss EV's more so than Lithium.

Could the existing coal mining companies transition or relocate to locations rich in Lithium, possibly offering their employees relocation bonuses? Some of the coal mining companies are in the process of shutting down and it seems like money could be saved by repurposing some of the equipment and utilizing some of the coal mining team experience. Could states offer financial incentives to relocate and switch to mining Lithium?

Are we still reliant on Cobalt as part of the Lithium battery? There is an interview with Siddharth Kara that suggests all lithium batteries contain cobalt and thusly depend on child slave labor. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWvk3gJ_7E [video][14 mins]
I gave up on trying to access movies and series legally anymore. There was even a website where you search for a movie and it will show you on which service/subscription its available and for which price. Last straw for me was amazon prime that forced me to buy an older movie which was in a very bad quality and ONLY in one language and NO subtitles. Few google searches away Ive found a pirated stream with full HD quality and in language of choice AND subtitles. Screw all of this. Fuck all of you, who works on this shit at making your customers life miserable.
So you could benefit from security by compartmentalization and start pirating, it seems. You may be interested in Qubes OS: https://qubes-os.org. Can't recommend it enough.
True but look at their earnings, when they came up with their cloud crap in their product lines their revenue jumped through the roof. Clearly people en masse don't care enough, despite a very vocal minority like me who were cursing at cloud-anything from day 1
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A few weeks ago I rented the Alien: Covenant movie on youtube because I didn't even know it existed. About 2 minutes in I noticed it was playing at 480p. I paid the extra dollar for HD rental. Lo and behold, if you want to watch rented youtube movies in HD (which you paid for) you can't do it in chrome browser on mac but hilariously safari did let me watch it in HD on the same computer... Those 15 minutes of debugging added about 3 cuts to the 10000 caused by silly restrictions that exist.
I usually choose not to watch.And not because of morals, but because the life is sad when so much effort goes into consuming content.
Popcorn time was quite slick when I tried it maybe in 2015 or so.
Usenet is the answer :)

Also, media piracy is much more convenient these days thanks to the excellent media server options (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin) and the *arr suite of apps.

You simply add movies and shows to your library and have them “magically” appear in your media server app on release - like a personal streaming service.
Humans are bad at big numbers.

I wouldn't have guessed that was 1% of their workforce, nor the turnover rate.

I would've guessed 150-200K, and 25%/year turnover.

Even though this means more people. 18k still sounded huge until I wrote this comment.
I'm doing a bit of both.

I think it's fair that artists are rewarded for their work, so I pay for one global service per type of content : Netflix for movies and TV shows, Youtube Premium for music.

However, I abhor the game of 'selling rights to certain platforms for certain duration only in certain countries', and I don't want to have to handle half a dozen subscription just because someone in the marketing team somewhere decided that this movie was going to be exclusive to this platform.

So my go to is, if I want to watch something, I first try to find it on my legal paid platform, and if I can't find it there, I'll pirate it.

Works pretty well so far.
Alternative viewpoint: Their (movie, song, game and book content producers) problem is not piracy, it's being ignored.

Right now there is much more competition for eyeballs than there ever was in the past (social networks, video shorts, etc). People only have so many hours in the day for entertainment, and these alternative eyeball-grabbers are can only gain eyeballs at the expense of traditional eyeball-grabbers.

For example ...

I've got Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+, and the last time I saw a movie on TV was in 2021, the last series I watched to completion was The Boys (and Umbrella Academy).

I'm literally paying for tons of stuff I am not going to see; is it reasonable to think that I am going to go out of my way to search for, then download something?
100%, and I have hulu, netflix, hbo max etc. I pay for YouTube premium because the amount of savings I've made from it is 10 fold higher than the cost.

It's software that has switched from pay one time per version to subscription only that causes me to feel this way too. And let's not forget what TurboTax has done to the US.
I wish the UX of streaming services wasn't so horrible. That is what makes me most want to go back to a Kodi box.

I want a personal collection of movies, imagine a bookshelf of my favorites.

But all the streaming services are like having a messy Blockbuster Video in my living room, which I don't want.
I'd like all of the subscription providers to provide an API so that I can have a unified front-end, in order to improve discoverability & just save my sanity.

I preferred the old days, with just a single cable/sat set-top box. Might not have been able to stream on-demand, but at least I only had to look in 1 place to record (series link etc) or work out what was available.
I find this division on "hobby" and "toys" very strange.

I participated at local "airplane modelling club" at my 9-11 years and we had these control-line planes with ICEs (hand-built from scratch). Only "glowing plug" ICEs were very high-end and rare in my country and we used compression (effectively 2 stroke diesel!) engines which required very specific fuel: 1/3 of kerosene, 1/3 of castor oil and 1/3 diethyl ether. Ether were hard to get by, but my grandmother was surgeon nurse ;-) And, yes, 9-year old flight these planes under supervision of club's instructor.

R/C planes were known, but electronics for them were available only in very big clubs ("Pioneers Palace", one per city in best case, if you live in big city).
An amazing article.
I am curious. As I understand it, both RISC and CISC processors are implemented in microcode for the actual hardware gates on the chip. And perhaps different hardware generations make it easier to build different micro-code machine architectures.

So why not just offer an instruction set that matches the base hardware architecture? Rather than have all that decoding done on the chip, why not by a compiler? I understand that branch prediction can only be done at run time, but presumably there is some "closer to the metal" instruction set that would be faster than instruction decoding. Or is instruction decoding very low cost?
Warehouse and fulfillment already has pretty aggressive turnover rates already too; rather sure it would be suboptimal to make the position look less secure when you’re already churning through bodies so quickly.