skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Autonomous cars had some very impressive demos, and don't seem to have evolved much in a few years

The problem is we got autonomous cars backwards. We needed multimodal GPT first. GPT-4 can look at a picture can tell you what's happening very clearly. Now, chain this together really fast and you have something that could be used for driving. I'm making no bets on when the hardware/models will be fast/cheap/power efficient enough to support this.

>but it's not changing the world

Eh, no, it is changed the world in a vast number of ways, but not spread very equally. On the scientific/AI side a whole bunch of "20 years away" and "We may never accomplish" have been changed to "now". On the language side things GPT has put any translation service on notice. Summerizers too.

I've never been a crypto fan. I believe there are purposes for it, but at the same time I have a bank that does all the same things.

What I do (did?) not have is an AI that actually solve real life problems that I run into now, and that's something that is both highly useful, and something that many people are willing to pay for.
D is 100% Boost licensed.
Women in strong roles is not propaganda and not new.
> You can have an SPA with a proper router that respects page history, loads html fragments from a server, remembers positions on reload, etc.

In theory.
This is the surprising thing about Brazil, here we have the big corporations as well, and a lot (if not all) corrupt politicians. But somehow these consumer laws passed got approved and will be pretty hard to remove.
Not Tarkov, that's for sure.
Uh, basically all of them? They all show a QR code and never show you the secret which you could copy in to your password manager.
> 1. Make it work 2. Make it good 3. Make it fast

Disagree. The first two objective clashes very much with each other. I have worked in teams that did that. And generally if anything non trivial is done without planning to just "make it work", it would be more often than not, ridden with many design issues which doesn't allow it to be good.
>No, a 486 emulator that I installed Windows on, and "installed" an ATI Rage series "card" into, and didn't even have to look around for a driver CD, because Windows just kinda found it.

~woosh!~
> These far post-date the engineering constructions in Rome and Greece--not to mention Egypt and other bronze age civilization, including

That has zero relevance to the statement about Al Biruni unless he magically travelled back in time and was stuck in some x-00 BC and couldn't see newer developments in India.

Also strange is the fact that around Al Biruni's time Hindu numerals were adopted by Arabs (and that we all use now). Maybe he did go back in time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system

> Its clear from ancient texts and stories like the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Bhagavata Purana that the Aryans were a nomadic, tribal cow-herding people who didn't tend to live in fixed structures

What? No, the Mahabharata has elaborate descriptions of palaces, cities. Even Ramayana mentions palace. And nomads, usually, don't have palaces or cities lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshagriha

https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/history-of-architecture...

Lets leave all that aside and come back to this question:

Was there any objective metric by which ancient Indian engineering was behind others?
Because Smalltalk already shows up the main structure in boxes.
> But we know that the makeup isn't anywhere near that,

No, we don't: the makeup of roles being terminated could be 56%, or even higher than 56%. The article mentioned that 28% of people laid off were HR, but didn't give a breakdown beyond that. Simply assuming that the roles being eliminated are proportional to the company's overall workforce is just as naive as assuming they're proportional to the general population.
1Blocker works fine for blocking YouTube. Are you sure you have the `1Blocker Actions` and `1Blocker Scripts` extensions enabled?
I don't know about banks but eg Wealthfront will do that for you and give you 4.3% APY on cash!

https://www.wealthfront.com/cash-account-participant-banks
> The real tragedy is that Americans have built a country where stepping out of your home once a day is a miserable chore to be avoided at all costs if possible.

This is exactly it for me. The job I've held for many years is in Seattle's city limits and my family has lived in Seattle for even longer. I intentionally looked for a job here because I gave up driving years ago, as did my wife. My children have never learned to drive or have a license.

Meanwhile, many of my colleagues have moved to Auburn or Kent or Edmonds or Snohomish, insisting that it's not possible to raise a child in the city (my kids would beg to disagree) or seeking the "American Dream" of a standalone house. But every single one of them complained about the hours of their lives they were giving away in exchange for that.

I think it's fine to build transit to the suburbs. It doesn't have to be light rail, though there's a well-known rail bias, but we've proven that frequent express buses from regional centers can work. Commuting is a drag, that's why I don't do it.

(My employer also went to open plan spaces for technical and administrative staff before the pandemic. As we are a medical group, doctors still had their own doors, of course. Now, we have sold one office building and given up the lease on another. Technical and admin staff are fully remote but can use a company-paid WeWork account if we like. Medical staff are in the remaining office building and our patient care locations.)
I had something like this happen with a VoIP provider (I don't quite know how to describe them, but they're like Twilio where you can 'code the phone' sort of thing) and my unique email address. Reported it to them out of concerns their system was breached, explained the unique email address situation and was given nothing but denial in return and ultimately got nowhere.

Sucks, but I guess it is what it is :/. This was a while ago so it's fuzzy but I just ended up not using them anymore/not going forward with them.
An incredible example of what's suddenly possible with the View Transition API: https://twitter.com/charca/status/1637832314364497920 (Built with Astro)
Ah, true — if you're talking those kinds of games! It's a real shame consoles don't have better keyboard + mouse support. Then again, I guess game developers would be wary to rely on them since they wouldn't be guaranteed.
Because this is not the approach they're taking? If you read the whole article, you learn this project is AOSP-based
So it runs android apps

In the hypothetical situation that it was needed though, PWAs are probably more common now than when Microsoft tried that
Even better, run locally. That should be the goal.
>Although the commentaries themselves are fairly exact.

Now the problem is that these descriptions are colored by the philosophy and opinion of the person writing it, often heavily because of the lack of cross pollination of ideas.

For example, the ISKCON descriptions of the verses of Gita are often completely orthogonal to the main philosophy of Gita, but the interpretation is technically as valid as the literal interpretation.
Methinks they do protest too much.

The world is already over-populated, with 'Earth Day' or whatever it's called coming earlier and earlier every year. Ground water is nearly depleted, arable land is disappearing under cities by the day, fish are calculated to be wiped out within a decade or two.

At the moment we are living off our future resources, what you might call our 'seed grain', the stuff we need to get our future harvests, the stuff which allows sustainability. At some point, and very soon, that 'seed grain' of future resources will be all gone too. Then, oops, no more ground water left, no more arable land, no more fish. We will starve. And the numbers of humans will drop precipitously.

You might also liken it this way. We are broke. We have no more cash, so we spend off our credit card. When that credit card no longer works, we have to starve.
> There is space for a new runtime, a Python phone.

There's Kivy. Although I made an Android app with it years ago, then one day the build system I was using (Buildozer) was suddenly broken for no apparent reason (I assume something it was downloading changed and broke it), and that was the end of that.
I'm writing a whole thesis right now on the connections between Ancient Indian Philosophy and Psychoanaylsis. It's almost done, maybe I'll post it here for you guys to read.
Diversified as in 55% in 10 companies and 75% in tech and retail? Large cap sure...
Hehe old tos trick. Here it doesn't say "will never use" but say "does not use" and I wager below or somewhere will say that they can change the tos at any time in the future unilaterally
I really dislike those arguments. It's like why bother voting, one vote does not change much.

You can be conscious about your consumption and set great examples. Or you can decide you don't care and keep ordering stuff on amazon every day, shove meat and fish everyday in your mouth, change car every few years while flying regularly and pretend is somebody's else problem.
> There is nothing to suggest this species is capable of planet-level cooperation towards a communally-decided end.

Absolutely. In fact there is plenty to suggest to me that this species is completely incapable of that level of cooperation.
Migration Patterns from Twitter to Mastodon
I can’t find this poem, can you give me another reference please?
As a licensed ham who had to learn Morse proficiency at 13 wpm 40 years ago, IMHO the site sucks. I can use a straight key pretty well, but most of the symbols I sent were misinterpreted. I tried adjusting the parameters to no avail.
I cant even discuss this without going powerlevel 9000+
You should find a copy of Contact for how important they thought extras on a DVD release were going to be. Menu designs were still quite simple, but the production of making of content was longer than the feature.

That trend definitely lessened, but yes, the graphics design for menus went through the roof. There's also a few things a lot of people don't realize, but parents with small kids probably do. For certain DVDs, the looping menus have a bit of extra programming where after looping for so many times, it will switch to a menu without audio. The menus with animated transitions from one screen to the next became popular too. I'm not familiar with the specific disc of Harry Potter, but I'd be amazed if it didn't have transitions
Pete maverick just radioed in. He’s landing in a few minutes.
They are just one national security letter away from all US-held data.
No you are wrong this is good and getting gooder.
I hate this so much but never quite put my finger on it. Thank you.
The lead designers at Ford might drive Porches on the weekends, but I'll bet they still drive Fords into the office.

The more painful it is to eat your own dogfood, the more it's necessary to do so. But it has to be mandated from the top down.

If the only people with the power to actually change the product aren't even using it, the god-awful UI/UX decisions in the latest version of Windows begin to make sense.
Check out rsync.net, it allows you to use git and ssh on its storage infrastructure. Create bare repos there and you can push/pull just like from github: https://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2010/02/git-and-subver...

You won't get any server side CI/hooks or even multi user management, but if you just want a central place to push and pull your private code it's perfect.
I wish that this TUI could integrate directly with gitea or gitlab and wouldn't be a standalone server.
Why the U.S. had to sweeten terms to get the SVB sale done
I strongly disagree. ChatGPT is bleeding into everything. Midjourney is too damn good see the example below.

The avengers if they had 90's actors is going viral.

https://cosmicbook.news/avengers-90s-actors-ai-art

Also the avengers as a dark sci fi
https://www.tiktok.com/@aimational/video/7186426442413215022

AI art and generative text is just astounding, and it's only getting better.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
Every time there is a conversation about obesity on HN, there's always at least 1 person who says, "Calories In Calories out" or some variation on it and will then battle to the death any person who tries to say anything other than "You're Right".

Calories In Calories out (CICO) is the ABCs of weight loss, but it vastly oversimplifies a complex problem.

Obese people tend to stay obese despite dieting. Their bodies and brains aren't wired the same way as non-obese peoples.

Obese people experience things like:

metabolic slowdown (so a BMR calculator is no longer sufficiently accurate for them to accurately gauge their daily calorie requirements)

thyroid disorders (causing inaccurate BMR calculations)

high body weight with low muscle percentage (increases the difficulty of exercise or daily movement, causing inaccurate BMR calculations)

pre-diabetes

diabetes

high blood pressure

difficulty feeling full or satisfied with ANY amount of food

depression

lack of motivation

anhedonia

the side effects of drugs designed to treat the diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, lack of motivation, and anhedonia

hormonal imbalances caused by having additional fat cells in your body

the inexpressible and wearying feeling of hopelessness caused by a years long battle with obesity that has yet to find true and lasting success.

All of that is compounded by the fact that even if you lose a significant amount of weight, you will likely then struggle with keeping it off because you body has created an enormous reservoir of fat cells to store the fat you previously acquired.

For obese people, those fat cells have been noted as being able to preferentially absorb the nutrition you intake, leaving your other organs deprived and your body hungry despite your stomach being full to bursting.

Sure, if despite those obstacles you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will still lose weight. Broken clocks are right twice a day and a car can roll downhill even if it's out of gas.

However, these argumentative people fail to understand that you are not talking about "Calories In, Calories Out". That is NOT the conversation. They can argue CICO all they want, but they're arguing with a brick wall.

The thing you are trying to find is the permanent perfect solution to a problem you are dealing with. That isn't something that even the smartest and most highly respected person on Hacker News can do for you with some words or argument.

I honestly feel like they get some sort of pleasure dismissing everything you're trying to do for yourself. They're getting a kick out of shitting on your efforts, feeling better about some tiny fragment of their jerkish lives because they pooh-poohed someone on the internet with their vain and short-sighted facts and logic.

Don't let them get you down. You don't have to defend yourself from those people. They won't be proven wrong because they're still saying their ABC's while you're working on your Shakespeare.
The FTC consistently has one of the absolute best author voices in all of government. Pick a blog post at random and see what I mean. Their index on tech is probably the area you have the most domain knowledge in and so it’s probably the best area to evaluate them: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/term/1428

Clear, direct, confident, not overloaded with qualifiers, not afraid of metaphor, self-summarizing, signposting, and most importantly it always has an energy of some kind that government communication (in seeking to appear neutral) regularly lacks - having that energy is why it doesn’t feel “bland”. I wonder if they have internal documents to guide their writers, or if it’s mostly information stored in the heads of Lesley Fair and Michael Atleson (who between them seem write most - all? - of the posts).
Stunning the difference in airflow smoothness over the rear wings versus those front winglets. I can see later in the video when they level out and run fully horizontal engines it gets a little better, but one can for sure see any crosswinds they fly through
Four years will come and go.
New security threat unlocked: DDOS for chat agents
https://archive.is/W7Ek3
From my understanding most Americans are centrists and have established a status quo that is neutral on the LGBT+ group [other than the negative social pressure related to that group has pushed]. The newer contracts and deplatforming has been based on progressive idealogy violently put in place.

I would say that most Americans want nothing to do with that in their bedrooms, but when we have to deal with that from our platforms we have to.
Good point: to a board that sees everything through a lense of shareholder value, cost savings from closing an office are quantifiable but "increased productivity and innovation" from RTO is not.
What you're missing is range scales on square of power (or is it twice that for radar? I would think so) and all known forms of radiation have bio effects that scale by linear dose.

So the 60 GHz presence detector transmits at +6 dBmW aka 4 milliwatts or 4 thousandths of a watt. As a side note microwave RF has never been known for power efficiency and I've built many a MMIC amplifier running under 1 percent efficient LOL. Something like a patriot missile AN/MPQ-53 radar transmits at 10 kilowatts, which is 2.5 million times the power of these detectors. If you want to burn thru radar jamming at 350 miles or whatever the unclassified spec is for the -53 radar, its going to take some serious wattage. Of course that's nothing compared to an old fashioned UHF broadcast transmitter or even a modern FM broadcast radio transmitter.

Anyway the point of the above is in theory if RF caused cancer or death or covid or whatever its being blamed for now, the "medical signal" would be 2.5 million times stronger in military anti-aircraft units than in rando presence detector general public, to a first estimate. Seeing as there's no difference in death rates for ADA soldiers vs artillery or any other army branch that I'm aware of, and the rate would be 2.5 million times lower than... nothing... for general public using presence detectors, it seems unlikely that even massive scaling up to a billion users would have a measurable effect.

Similar comedic examples can be generated for broadcast engineers. I'm friends with a couple broadcast EEs and old broadcast engineers just don't die (LOL). If a cellphone (100 times the power of a presence detector) gave even one human being per year early cancer, your average broadcast engineer would be dead in their first five minutes of work or something like that because they're always screwing around with enormous power levels, no matter if its permitted or not technically.

The thing about electronics, is much like radiation, we can generate and measure sources over 9, maybe 12 orders of magnitude every day all over the planet.
Ah yes, at my company many years ago we sold data to law enforcement when they didn't have a warrant but had a case someone really wanted to pursue. They were happy to pay quite high prices, and on a semi regular basis because we were a large "small business" that handled a lot of data.

We'd allow them to come in and image disks, span ports, modify software, you name it.
From TFA, a (somewhat infamous quote from Frank Rosenblatt):

> “[It] revealed an embryo of an electronic computer that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence. Later perceptrons will be able to recognize people and call out their names and instantly translate speech in one language to speech and writing in another language, it was predicted”

The section on "Past Winters" in TFA is a good part of the reason why you might want to not believe what you think you see coming right at us ....
Show HN: Go Validator Playground
Hello HN!

go-playground/validator¹ is probably the most ubiquitous validation library in Go codebases. As much as it's flexible and neat, it's sometimes a PITA to iterate — I have to setup a whole new Go project² to just test some tags.

Hence, I made a WASM³ driven online playground for the same! You can find it here: https://apps.abhijithota.me/go-validator-playground/

You can find the code and more details on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/abhijit-hota/go-validator-playground

1: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-playground/validator/v10
2: Still waiting for a good Go REPL
3: There is an obvious drawback of loading the 6 MB WASM binary upfront over just using a HTTP server but hey, this a half-serious experiment!
I like how I got downvoted, but looking at MSFTs moves the last few years show a company trying to deleverage its users privacy at any chance, and generally fumbling around like clumsy oafs trying to make new product that will have as much heft as its past OS and Office suites did.
Been years, but I distinctly remember I was getting 5ish miles a day. Plugging in some addresses I recall, google is telling me the 1-way trip is 2 miles. So, yeah, with no other walking on the work side of that commute -- I was walking to a train stop -- I am already looking at 4 miles a day.

I'm sure I cheated some days and did the bus. But most days the walk was easier, as I didn't have to worry about timing and such. It was a crazy time, as I had given up on the gym and all other ideas, but that year I just dropped the weight like crazy. All because my car broke and I didn't have the funds to fix it. :D

(Of course, part of the "its been years" is that this is way more effective in your late 20s than it is later in life. At least, I think it is? Seeing how much time I was devoting to this, maybe I should try again. :D )
Too expensive. Eleven labs is somewhat cheaper, but imo there won't be a clear leader in this market until the prices are at least 10x cheaper (which will happen soon enough)
I would love to date someone that was enthusastic about kelp basket weaving.

That's a major positive compared to someone that "is a pam looking for her sam" or whatever that guys name is.
It's an interesting thought experiment to think of where we might be culturally and intellectually had there been an actual exchange of thought, without rulers taking advantage of people for profit. We can say the same thing even now, but back then it seems like those ideas are what built the foundation of our modern world. If that exchange had been allowed to flourish, we might be a much more civilized world.
Docker swarm is a great option too, for production environments. It’s like the production-ready big brother to docker-compose (with better health checks and deployment rollout options). And it has much less of a learning curve than k8s.
Employees have been feeding sensitive data to online translators in the same way.

Not to say it isn't a problem, but it's not an AI/chatGPT specific one.
xev

I pressed and released the F12 key on my keyboard:

KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
root 0x25e, subw 0x0, time 32145541, (2160,238), root:(2611,1142),
state 0x10, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4600001,
root 0x25e, subw 0x0, time 32145717, (2160,238), root:(2611,1142),
state 0x10, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
I definitely did not correctly read that. Thanks for the clarification. Totally misread the 'our API' bit!

It's also in the FAQ: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6783457-chatgpt-general-...

> Will you use my conversations for training?

> Yes. Your conversations may be reviewed by our AI trainers to improve our systems.
Thanks Steve and Eddie. I gladly accept this as encouragement to start using Audio Hijack Pro with Apple Music.

Shame though that they caved and seem to have disabled a video equivalent on macOS.