skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term."

The comparison with web3 is very excessive though. This AI stuff is at least somewhat actually useful. Web3 was a gigantic billion dollar bubble that produced very little in the way of things that are useful for any purpose, even playing around. It's one of the most vapid bubbles in history outside pure financial instrument bubbles.
I have the following in my .zshrc that I'm sure I copied from somewhere. It allows the use of Ctrl-z to also resume programs runnings in the background instead of manually typing fg.

# Allow Ctrl-z to toggle between suspend and resume
function Resume {
fg
zle push-input
BUFFER=""
zle accept-line
}
zle -N Resume
bindkey "^Z" Resume
That's very different theory than what I was anticipating. I feel that I have internalized a similar concept in my learning from a very young age. It intuitively makes sense, but can be easy to slip out of particularly if I'm not in an optimal mood. My inconsistency might be mitigated from a deeper reflection around a framework on when to recognize that we might be in interference with ourselves.

Scuba is one I have some experience with and can relate to, but I think can serve as both a good example and a counter-example. It is an area where meticulous review of your conditions before getting in the water is crucial. Your intuitions from other pursuits overlap with these checks, but they can also lead you dangerously astray in uncommon situations (nitrogen narcosis, disorientation, and other ways where our instincts above the surface are orthogonal to what happens under water). How do we determine when our transference can unconsciously be relied upon?

I'd like to learn more if have any further resources on it.
Yes, and Snap On is nonetheless thriving, selling US-manufactured goods at a significant price premium compared to cheap imports.
Are these text-to-speech models manually controllable in terms of prosody, etc., or is it all transformer-based text-to-audio?

I've followed some of the research on prosody transfer, etc., but it still seems bad in the TTS systems I've heard.
TIL: Blackballed. It has nothing to do with the Blue variety.
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> Mercury is literally the only body in the whole solar system in any sort of more complicated "lock". So, no, it really is about word games.

How would you even begin to demonstrate this is true? There are so many bodies in the solar system, and we're still fairly frequently discovering new minor planet moon-systems..
The pope reads in phonetic alphabet to speak a big number of languages and most people do not consider it cheating. I do not se the problem.
Yes, it's good shorthand.
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I did actually mean build time. I figured there could be optimizations within the build process which allows some specific style of code to build faster because it has to check things. Perhaps around memory safety, which could be a big deal in the line for line translation.

And I totally understand being tired of it by that point. You did an extremely detailed and well documented process, and it was quite impressive. Thank you for sharing it.
I’m a firm believer that the UX of reading physical books beats every other alternative. Looking forward to when this is no longer the case.
I use ziplock bags and boxes. I try to distinguish between stuff that's "in use" and "in storage". For your needs I'd add a DYMO label maker and a spreadsheet.

Future preservationists will probably thank you for sticking labels to (or writing on) bags and boxes rather than their contents.
I have 3 questions about SGP41:

1. Is SGP41 (the one in your website) something that I can just insert into the PCB like how we could connect a computer case fan into the motherboard header or will it need soldering? Also, I saw in your build instructions that 2 tiny resistors have to be removed for SGP30 sensor. Is that the case with SGP41 as well?

2. Do you sell the "PRO Pre-soldered" kit or any other products/devices that come with SGP41 prebuilt? If not, is there an option to buy the "PRO Pre-soldered" one with SGP41?

3. Will the software automatically start reading SGP41 values or are any changes needed on software side?
As a college student looking for FTE a couple of years ago, putting my SaaS on my resume definitely helped me.

Every interviewer asked me about my side projects and the tech aspect of it. The fact that it was used by 5k+ users at that time was always met with amazement and appreciation.

At my current employer, I was told that me trying things out and learning things on my own (demonstrated by me growing my SaaS) was one of the big factors in me getting hired there.

[All my interviews were at startups]

Of course once you are employed you should follow this advice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34305919
This was the setting that I always cranked up in game graphics settings. The performance hit was negligible but the quality improvement was dramatic.
also consider that average beef consumption in the US is much too high - cutting it in half would be great progress
(Tennis at Madrid Open, 2012)
Right now, there is already a list of around 60 plants that you can choose from. So now in this first version you can't add any plant you want, but have to browse among the existing. So if you have a plant that is available in our dataset, you can select it and create a watering schedule for it.
So shit, did a vessel run aground? This headline is garbage. It could be a firm said it, but it didn't happen. Did a vessel run aground or is it just a rumor started by a firm?
Im thinking this is probably because GPT exists separately in a query mode and a training mode. If one were to query GPT while it is in the training mode, then maybe it will be able to articulate time, or maybe consciousness.
Some do, e.g.: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_3932413-2337994-16
This should probably link straight to page of the paper https://valle-demo.github.io/
Yes, you can. That's what I and almost everyone with Nvidia cards do. The big caveat IMO is if you want GSync/FreeSync, you can't use Wayland. It is also in general less stable/polished with Wayland. I'm ok using Xorg though, at least on my desktop.
It's on them if they're dumb or lazy enough to do that.
> Zürich accent based which is what most of the complaints are about

I've given up on this a long time ago. Ads are almost always in a Zurich accent, except if the ad is for extremely regional stuff like secret cheese recipes or tourist ads for Graubünden.

Zurich is the tech hub of Switzerland and the accent seems to be the default. Then again, who in their right mind would want an AI to talk with an accent from Thurgau (/s)
You are very fortunate. https://rpilocator.com/
Can we measure things like metallicity? My impression is that this shows mature looking galaxy structures indicating that those types of structures can form very early, but the stars should be very low metallicity right?

You'd also expect very few rocky planets, but that's firmly beyond the ability of JWST (and maybe anything else) to directly measure.
Perhaps digital signatures will help with authenticity issues. It may become necessary. Transcoding presents an issue I wonder how it may be solved
There is more. Epilepsy medications, obesity, antidepressants, flaxseed, alfalfa, St. John's wort, Crohns, Celiac, IBS, the list goes on and on.
Age 21, Level 11 - I remembered the last digit of level 12 but I fatfingered 3 instead of 4.
I no longer read blog posts because they got worse. There are no longer any active quality bloggers like Steve Yegge or Joel Spolsky.

Employee blog posts from Big Tech now push the corporate agenda. Stepping out of line "has consequences", so no one speaks freely any more.

Self employed people are afraid of being crushed by Big Tech if they dissent. The result are blogs that are as interesting as reading the Pravda.

Purely technical blogs got unfocused in presentation, are largely self-promotional and rarely address interesting subjects.
3D studio or lightwave 3D?
Native Americans didn’t kill them so willy-nilly and are also humans, so I wouldn’t necessarily accept this as human nature
I'm taking a break from a few social media sites right now (not hn). I've noticed I suddenly have time to listen to books, read my email, text my friends. When you don't have a dumping ground for every thought you have a lot more to say. Similarly when you aren't reading other people's thoughts or ads constantly you seek out things to read. Only a few days in but it is nice.
GPT-3 is great at producing nonsense, so in that sense it'd be a good lawyer.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230108160419/https://www.washi...
Generative AI is good for SEO copy because it’s an AI talking to an AI. Google looks at text generated by ChatGPT and is like “wow, that’s exactly how I think about things.” They were trained on much of the same content: the web.

The biggest challenge for generative AI is its willingness to make things up. It’s fine when you’re playing around. Not so fine when you’re expecting it to actually help you in a real way.

I suspect this is why Google has not debuted such an interface despite literally decades of work on AI. You have to be able to bolt a “truth filter” onto the AI, which seems difficult.
Afeelu
I think I’ve unconsciously started to “plant” books around the house and it works as a primer like - oh that book was interesting I should read it again/something similar.
I started learning with Code acedmy courses for web design and then just started working on my project with first designing everything in Figma, and converting the design into react native. Backend is firebase.

Yeah, I would just launched it as soon as possible and start building in public sooner. So I would get the market validation a lot faster and could improve the app and what I have to add / change based on user feedback.
Blocking radio signals is harder than just adding some aluminium. I'm pretty sure most "RFID blocking" wallets don't actually block RFID reliably.
FYI, there's the following trick I read here some time ago:

The scammer starts a video call with the person they want to impersonate and record it. When that person takes the call, the scammer doesn't say anything. This creates a 5-10 seconds video of the person looking at the camera waiting for the scammer to say something, until they get fed up and hung up.

The scammer then calls the victim. They offer a video call as verification straight away, and they play that short video.
This is in the pipeline already!
On PBKDF2 iterations
Actually the author has another post about dealing with negative self-talk: https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/how-i-attained-persistent...

And later posted about jhanas.

Having read those, I do think his understanding of meditation is deeper than it might appear from reading this article alone. I don’t think his position is really that different from what a lot of critics here are arguing.
It is easy to see through bullshit... ex-post. But not so easy in real-time.

> Or do you think you yourself will fall for this as well?

Yes.
As for Tetris storage, see also: Harder Drives - https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

The Tetris part starts at 15:00, but I'd highly recommend watching it all.
I can't think of a single VOIP system that sounded good. Of the ones I use regularly, like Messenger, Teams and Skype, they rarely if ever sound better than just making a regular phone call with the same device.
If you're employed and only have one job, it's actually pretty easy - in fact you don't have to do anything. For many if not most people in Germany, filing taxes is pretty much optional.
Audio-Based Deep Learning Algorithm to Identify Alcohol Inebriation (Adlaia)
All of these advances in technology have made the internet much less trustworthy. I wonder if we'll eventually hit a threshold where nothing is done virtually anymore because you can't trust it.
Maybe not the world, but the us government contracting process is broken and wastes trillions of dollars. The way it is set up does not favor quality but instead, shoddy work, cost over runs, late deliveries and perpetual renewals.
Also the phrase “we have to use this budget or we won’t get it next year”
The author of this opinion piece is a contributor with the Federalist Society[0]. Use this information however you want.

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I've been voice-cloning using tortoise-tts and I'm very happy with the results, but it is indeed very slow. It's also free and open-source though.
Thank you for these comments!

It's great to hear that the compatibility situation isn't that bad in Korea. Have you considered submitting the apps to https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...? Otherwise people might make the same mistake as me (look at the list and assume it's impossible to use an alternate OS)
An interesting level of this scene is that it implies neither terminator is able to identify a fabricated voice even though they have a full understanding of each other's design. The T-1000 cannot tell it is talking to a T-800 until it realized it has been tricked and the T-800 cannot tell it is talking to a T-1000 until it tricks the other machine.

Of course, it happens over a pay phone so perhaps with the full vocal range in person it would have been different.
If you'd actually checked the site you'd know it wasn't NSFW.
Are they putting in these Formula 1 type of steering-wheels just because Tesla is doing it and it looks cool, or is there an actual reason why these steering-things are better than the ones we have for ages and are actually usable. Are the manufacturers leaning on the fact that the cars will drive themselves and park themselves so you will never actually have to steer the car with something that you can actually grab and turn no matter the orientation of it?
Its not exiting, its suspended. But yeah
Ah but you didn't go. You just watched a documentary about it,I see. I know people that went and lived there back in the day.
There are good books and there are bad books... both subjectively and objectively. If a book is still bad (for me) after a few chapters of reading it, it stop reading it, because it's a waste of time. Usually I do atleast some research before starting reading a book, but sometimes even really high goodreads scores and recommendations from friends don't mean i'll personally like the book, and I'll still stop reading it.

Blog posts are another thing where there are many, many, many of them available, but basically zero reviews and recomendations from friends, and maybe, sometimes you get some quality-indicator if it's reposted here or on reddit and you see the upvote ratio... otherwise you never know what you'll going to get.

So, as with books, you read the first paragraph, sometimes you stop reading there, sometimes you scroll down and "read" vertically while scrolling (just looking at text to see if it contains something interesting) and many times it doesn't, so when you scroll to the bottom after 7 seconds of scrolling, you just close it and move on.

I don't see why this is a bad thing.

Some bloggers have gone to SEO optizimation schemes (as with recipes, where instead of a recipe, you get the authors childhood story first, then his family situation, what s/he likes to do on saturdays, etc..), some keep it short, some insert unneeded politcs everywhere, and some also manage to write something interesting and readable to the end. If you started reading books so often and unselectively as you do blogposts, you'd stop reading a lot more books too.
Thank you for the suggestion, but it's unfortunately not in French :(
Not when a sophisticated organization owns the device running the app.

Of course obfuscating the APIs is still an attempt to trust the client, which is not secure in a strict sense, but might slow people down.
I agree, but I think it will be difficult to quickly have something that will bring value (and interest) to him if I dive too deep in the technical part too soon.

(But I'd be almost ready to start some kind of course based on his need and improve it for others :p )
Excess management can be seen as a form of Universal Basic Income? For people in management. Just that to get this UBI, one needs to sit on an office chair and be in pointless meetings.

And if society is partly built on this for-some-people UBI, and it's suddenly removed and there aren't enough jobs, then yes I suppose some chaos would ensue?

... Hmm but what if there was real Universal Basic Income. Maybe then it'd be simpler to keep organization more slim and effective (not "the end of the world" if a manager lost his/her job and there was nothing else).

@Gary H -- yes thanks for your work and thanks for linking to the book :-) I'm checking it out
But then how do the humans coming up through the system gain the breadth of knowledge and experience required to carry out the more complicated senoir roles.
I already talked in my previous posts that I’m looking to build micro products and ship them as fast as possible. Basically, using the basis of an MVP (Minimum Valuable Product) for all my new products. The goal is to test multiple niche markets with small costs and ship them fast, so, after I identify which markets work well, I will start to put more effort and focus on those ones.
Show HN: A web app to make using autocannon easier
What's the flip side? VC's? You know, the people who won't even start a company unless there's a way to try to monopolize the position, buy up all supply with seed money, and then extract ALL the possible rent from the market segment? "Long-term" thinking with precisely the same anti-competitive, anti-consumer end result.
Maybe, but why? We have everything from archaea to mammals living and thriving alongside. Why not DNA life alongside non-DNA life?

Is DNA-based life some kind of cosmic inevitability, like gravity? Or substitute for "DNA" any other common property of all life in Earth.
Investment Returns by Asset Class (1985 to 2022)
This analysis covers historical investment returns by asset class (from 1985 to 2022) for a wide set of investments — including stocks / bonds in the U.S., Canada, and beyond.

Some insights on 2022:

* All 12 of the tracked asset classes declined in 2022 (on a real total return basis)

* The biggest driver of these losses was red-hot inflation — with roughly 7% inflation over the year — spurring stern central bank responses via interest rate hikes

* An investment in cash (through U.S. T-bills) was the top performing asset of 2022. However, the real total return was still a decline of 5.2%

* Real estate (through REITs) was the worst investment of 2022, with a loss of 31.1%. Higher mortgage rates and commercial real estate vacancies drove the significant decline

* 2022 saw stocks and bonds drop hand-in-hand by roughly 20% (in most cases), much to the despair to traditional 60/40 investors

* Canadian stocks offered relative respite for investors, declining by “only” 11.9%

Other insights:

* 11 out of 12 of the asset classes have been a top performer in at least 1 year on record (high yield US bonds being the odd man out). On the flip side, 9 out of 12 of the asset classes have been the worst performer at some stage (Canadian stocks, Canadian bonds, and high yield US bonds being the only assets to avoid the dishonour)

* It’s interesting to see how “US large cap stocks” have performed relative to “All US Bonds” over time. While stocks were down in the years of 1990, 2000-2002, and 2008, bonds actually made gains in those years — this provided valuable portfolio protection to investors who were diversified

* However, this inverse relationship broke down in 2022, with stocks and bonds both suffering heavy losses. This meant that a typical 60/40 portfolio fared poorly in 2022

* Over the whole period of the analysis (1985 to 2022), the best asset classes were: U.S. large cap stocks (+8.0% per year), emerging market stocks (+7.3% per year), and US small cap stocks (+7.3% per year)
Well if you keep building houses where mechanical ventilation is required but inevitably only specced to keep mold down, dont be too surprised at this.
SingleFile [0] and SingleFileZ [1] are my tools of choice for archiving pages. Often using an adjusted version of the aardvark-bookmarklet for cutting out unwanted parts.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefilez/offkdf...
Thank you for suggesting it. It seems interesting but it is in English and he won't be able to understand anything unfortunately :/
> ADLAIA was trained on a publicly available German Alcohol Language Corpus that comprises a total of 12,360 audio clips of inebriated and sober speakers (total of 162, aged 21-64, 47.7% female). ADLAIA’s performance was determined by computing the unweighted average recall (UAR) and accuracy of inebriation prediction.

> ADLAIA was able to identify inebriated speakers—with BAC of 0.05% or higher—with an UAR of 68.09% and accuracy of 67.67%. ADLAIA had a higher performance (UAR of 75.7%) in identifying intoxicated speakers (BAC > 0.12%).

Far from be accurately but I didn’t know that these kind of training datasets existed: “ ADLAIA was trained on a publicly available German Alcohol Language Corpus that comprises a total of 12,360 audio clips of inebriated and sober speakers”
With a no phones in the bedroom policy there are always one or two books by my bed.
>It’s that some people absolutely despise the idea of artists and have some irrational desire to erase their jobs and automate it all.

I’ve seen very few people who believe this. On the contrary, most prognostications about Stable Diffusion et al. killing artists’ livelihoods have come from artists themselves, e.g. https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwillin...
> I hope this never goes down.

I'm afraid it just has.

Perhaps it'll go up again eventually. In the meantime, the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230106230031/https://gail.com/
How do bars channel gas into the galaxy core? I haven't heard of that before.
But then it’s not gaining root which is the problem, it’s (as always) what you proceed to do with it.
When language is tightly coupled to cultural identity, using this kind of fake is lying to voters, saying, "I'm one of you."

It's a new use of technology to repeat an old lie. I think it's a bad thing, but it's hardly the most dangerous and novel application of this technology for evil.
The fish used is mostly Pollack.
> The author of this opinion piece is a contributor with the Federalist Society[0]. Use this information however you want.

> [0] https://fedsoc.org/contributors/jenin-younes

We got your opinion on the messenger. What's your opinion on the message?
They might even exist but are so much harder to find nowadays that I ended up on the same spot. I haven't read or followed blogs of anyone for the past 10 years at least.

I've definitely migrated back to reading mostly books and long-form articles. I'm even considering, for the first time in my life, on paying for subscriptions of reputable newspapers and cut that off from my internet usage. It's getting too far into overwhelming territory to keep up, maybe it's my age showing making me very tired of the pull-model for consumption of news/content... I want something curated, well written and with interesting points, anything else feels like a waste of time.