skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it is not hard to google?

The question about hard-not-hard to google.

Always in discussions about Safari you will find someone complaining about "Apple crippling PWAs" and coming up with yet another random APIs that they absoluely need to finally make a great PWA.

Always in these discussions I hint that Android is 70% worldwide market share, and has none of the perceived restrictions on PWAs. Surely these amazing PWAs that Apple doesn't allow should exist there. Right? Right?!

And invariably there are crickets.

Even your "example" are literally "we made our site not suck and open faster, this increased conversions, yay! It's all because of PWAs".

Of course it's not. Correlation is not causation. If your page load went from 3s to 0.9s (Washington Post) or is now 4x faster (BMW), it's not really PWA who's responsible for people staying on your website. Oh, you pushed your bloated abomination of a website into offline storage on users' phones and now the site opens faster? Yay (not)!

And then there are egregiously bad takes like "Thanks to PWA Telegram's platform cna be accessed from different devices". Newsflash: Telegram's native apps are available across different platforms
I don't have the link, but someone estimated that training a Llama clone from scratch would cost around ~$80k. That's pocket change for most corporations and some individuals.
What would an IPO change? The article fails to explain this..

In a world where most western companies aim to go private, it should be public for foreign ones? I think data privacy laws are the only things needed, if privacy and data locality are considered, then companies like TikTok will be forced to comply, or won't be allowed to exist at all, problem solved!

Priorities seems off..
Thanks. What we've shared here is a demo tool to show our new speech model that can clone a voice with few seconds of audio. You can try that with English or non-English recordings, but the generated voice can only speak English at the moment. If you are looking for high-fidelity cloning, you can sign up and try it in our app here - https://play.ht/voice-cloning/

High-fidelity cloning requires at least 20 mins of good quality audio. The more the better.
Dominance is such a charged word.

We have been corrupted by words like that.

Why should we care about dominance?

We should care about collaboration and people’s well being.

Barring a catastrophe, AI is not going to stop.

At the current rate, by next month we will have some previously-never-seen model/algorithm/chip/tech that will run locally on our phones and computers. At that point is game over for the big server-model companies.

After that… well, pretty much all companies will be at stake.

There’s a much bigger revolution happening right now than just the tech industry.

We will be forced to ask ourselves what it means to be human.

No company is going to dominate AI, AI is going to dominate AI.
Serverless does not necessarily mean lambda. It could be just about anything that runs containers for you. AWS ECS has an offering called Fargate that I've been happy with for our hosting. You are right though that the compute costs are typically more than renting a traditional VPS. There is definitely a tradeoff between labor and compute costs.
This post of yours Zetice is absolutely hilarious. You are actually writing that an office worker, able to string along proper prose, with a wife who is also working, should consider themselves too poor to consider having children?
What society do you want to be living in? Are you sure you would have been lucky enough to get anywhere, well first to even get to being born, in such a society?
What are you talking about? “Work on climate” means “build the infrastructure to enable the transition away from fossil fuel dependence,” not… whatever imaginary demon you’re fighting with here.
> Twitter has a billion custom clients for it as well

Not anymore
Schwab’s $7T Empire Built on Low Rates Is Showing Cracks
> At this point, you can safely assume that anything muttered by a "tin foil hat nutter" sort in about 2005-2010 about the internet, computers, three letter agencies, and the like is correct.

As one of the few software/tech guys for hundreds of miles I get a lot of "I suspect they're doing X, but that's probably not even possible". In regards to BigBrother/BigCo.

I correct them all. Not possible, probable.
> From what I can tell it's extremely difficult to do business without having anything you do touch something based in the US. IE if you do business nearly anywhere, Uncle Sam can (almost certainly) prosecute

If you're doing business in any way that touches people from the US (which certainly FIFA does, one way or another), then it's hard.

But for the rest of us, it's not really that hard. Everything the US has, there is a alternative for that hasn't anything to do with the US, from banking to hosting to productivity tools.
…active well-funded regulation…

…since a common anti-regulatory strategy is to strangle the funding…
Consume less, buy less material stuff, eat less meat/fish, have less than 3 children, set a good example without becoming annoying to family and peers.

Don't over stress it though. You can't change the world but you can set great seeds with examples.
let's take a closer look at the declining "values":

- Religion: we still act with religious devotion, but now it is directed towards consumer brands, not a supernatural entity

- Hard Work: the US pretty much exists at this point to accelerate wealth inequality, so this one is pretty sensible

- Patriotism: would you volunteer to stand around a burn pit in Iraq? me neither

- Having Kids: its a personal choice, but your coworkers will not be at your funeral. I expect lots of folks burned out on careerism will try to backpedal on this one when it's too late

- Community Involvement: oh we're involved in our communities...we go on Nextdoor and scream at each other

the Money trend should be no news to Silicon Valley and HN which basically just exists to pursue $$$$
Hi! Congrats on launching!

We recently evaluated play.ht for TTS but decided against it because you had an async API which was harder to implement. Alternatives have sync APIs (including Google Cloud). Do you have plans to release a sync client for standard TTS?
The word "could" is doing too much heavy lifting here. It doesn't justify the application to this specific case.
The Transformer architecture that powers GPT models is based on a now-famous Google Brain paper, Attention is All You Need. You're right that OpenAI has productized this research much faster than Big Tech, but the research itself came from established R&D in Academia and Big Tech.
There is a HUGE difference between StateCharts and State Machines, yet, the difference is subtle.

StateCharts are the "Strucured Programming" version of State Machines.

StateCharts use parental authority instead of inheritance (my words).

A child state machine cannot override the operation of a parent. A parent can yank children out of their current states back to some known state.

OOP and FP don't encourage this kind of thinking.

The Big Deal concerning state machines is the "state explosion problem". Harel's StateChart notation conquers this problem.

My reading of the original paper is here: https://guitarvydas.github.io/2020/12/09/StateCharts.html
Come up with a shibboleth for your family group(s) and keep it to yourselves. That will help to combat the scammers.
Pretty correct, but it wasn't mine (my comment) but chatGPTs. I just presented the commentt from chatGPT for fun - which might not comply with rules that i dismissed. Sorry, i wanted to publicy show the summarization-feature, but still: it was not my best idea. You can always do your own summ...
> 1. Make it work 2. Make it good 3. Make it fast

Anecdotally, everytime someone tells me Kubernetes is overkill and then follows your approach. In a year they end up building the capabilities that come out of the box with Kubernetes, and of course they aren't as well thought out. Because they were done adhoc and as needed.
Data helped build the knowledge set of a lot of smart people too. Should the people who put the data out there also get paid?
Settings > Audio and Video > Reduce Loud Sounds

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/tv/atvba773c3c9/tvos
> The design of a language has little bearing on the quality of the error messages

Actually, it has a lot to do with it.

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b47.html
I have the Steam Deck, I mean, I had it, because I'm waiting for the RMA because mine had a nasty bug which capped either CPU or GPU at a low level.
And this is my message to you: Beware it is pretty much a beta product, so buy it with this in mind. You will experience lot of bugs and troubleshooting, specially if you want to use it outside Steam's box (custom mods, emulator's etc).
That is exactly right.

The claim from the Greek historian is that this is what caused eastern science and engineering to stagnate compared to Greek/Roman efforts.

I am inclined to agree, of course it is not really possible to prove any causality here.
Quite possibly, I don't know the difference - as a kid I had to have serious orthodontic changes to my teeth as none of my baby teeth fell out and grew to the size of adult teeth.

One of the last surgeries I had, which was breaking off 4 molars, I felt like I was going to explode breathing the gas - like really painful pins and needles everywhere, my eyes actually opened and I felt like they were rolling back into my head (think pain of a really bad migraine but in your eyes).
Fortunately they closed my eyes, and it stopped but I couldn't speak, next thing I know my mouth is being held open with a vice, very painful, but I couldn't see, couldn't talk (wouldn't have been able to anyway with the jaw vice).

Aside from remembering panicking further, and occasional fuzzy memory of pain followed by (I guess) being unconscious again, that's all I remember of being awake.
When they finished I had to be slapped hard across the face at the end multiple times (this was the 80s), probably because the anaesthesiologist had O/D'd me on realising I was still awake. I was later told they were considering taking me to hospital because I wasn't waking up - this was the last time I had dental surgery.

About 5-6 years later they banned the gas they used on me in the UK.

I may need some routine (real, hospital) surgery in a year or so, and now I can't stop thinking about last time I had the above, I even started googling chances of being awake etc etc (because it does happen) and really wish I hadn't.
Many prebuilt component libraries design for maintenance and all possible uses over being frugal. The actual markup can get really ugly with i.e. MUI.

When you put in the effort to build the components yourself, you aren't trying to be everything for everyone, so you get to skip a lot of the cruft.
In my experience, it depends on which game I'm playing. Some games reduce stress but others, like League of Legends, greatly increase my stress levels.

There's a number of games that I either play very briefly or avoid entirely because I feel more anxious and stressed after playing them.
Would be very interesting!
I’m sorry, that was my mistake. I confused usernames and thought you were jmeister. Thanks for clarifying. It’s been a long week.
https://react.dev/reference/react/useEffect#what-are-good-al...
Yes, a lot of SSD vendors scam their customers by releasing the first batch with a lot of SLC, reviews are released, and then months or years later silently swap it out with inferior flash.
I think they meant Netflix, which built the described functionality for (iirc) the Black Mirror episode "Bandersnatch". It was interesting thematically and narratively, but seemed like more of a clever one-off than the kind of capability anyone would be anxious to produce for; I don't know that it didn't go anywhere since that was also around when I quit bothering to renew a subscription I barely used, but my sense is that it sank more or less without a trace.
>Russia is a joke and an international pariah

I guess the definition of "international" here is NATO.

BRICS have a population of 3.24 Billion. B - Billion.

NATO has a population of about 950 Million. M - Million.

BRICS countries are actively Trading with Russia.

America's favorite ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is doing deals with Russia and Iran.
BTW Saudi Arabia wants to join BRICS.

Iran is friendly with Russia.

>India and China despise each other and are becoming more, not less hostile.
China has pretty openly racist views about India and doesn't treat them like equals in any way shape or form.

You are not completely wrong about this.
Still India and China Trade is USD 135 Billion.
That's after many restrictions they impose on each other.

In the Indian and Chinese mindset, it's a very practical relationship.
Don't consider each other friends, do business when necessary.

About your last point.
Chinese don't consider anyone as their equals.

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The world order is changing.
BRICS countries are not dictating to anyone how they should live.
They are just finding new opportunities among themselves.
Yes, it was disappointing to me to learn at some point that you can't actually read much of the great classical and vedic compositions without assistance of a commentary. Although the commentaries themselves are fairly exact.

It reminds me a lot of Greek drama, except there even if the grammar is funky, you can usually deduce how the language is being stretched and why, even if its very difficult and technical. In Sanskrit that isn't always an option, you just have to know from context why and how certain words are being used after having already studied the language for decades.
Did the world become a much worse place when the internet arrived, or did the positives end up outweighing the negatives? There were a few years where Nigerian scammers could convince grandma they were a prince who needed a bank transfer, but eventually grandma figured out the scam. I don't see why AI would be any different - sure, there may be an increase in new scams for a few years, but people will learn and adapt, like they always have. And meanwhile the positive aspects of AI will have a positive impact on society. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater because we can imagine all the ways to abuse new technology.

Maybe instead of freaking out and trying to restrict innovation, we should be working on insurance products to mitigate the financial risk of scams, and educational content to reduce their effectiveness. The fact that many scams are even possible in the first place stems from the absurd idea that "identity theft" is your fault [0], so maybe we could start there.

If my bank uses my voice as my password, or if my phone company is willing to present fraudulent caller ID telling me it really is my son calling to ask for money, then is the problem really the scammers, or is it the easily defraudable systems with no incentives to reduce abuse of their platforms?

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
I discovered back in the early 80's that it was easier to allocate bigger buffers than to have "line too long" messages and recovery.
> I wouldn't say big tech was "trounced" by OpenAI.

I mean not a single “big tech” company is offering any LLM products not powered by Open AI. It’s been almost 3 years since GPT-3 was released. I’m not sure they can catch up at this point. And I think the GPs point was a good one: big tech threw billions and billions at personal assistants. Nothing innovative was delivered.
Thank you for posting these Wikipedia articles. I honestly had no idea that there was this combination of ideas between Greek and Buddhist thought and art, but looking at some of the art, it's much easier to see the influences while having this in mind.
Japan wants 85% of men to take paternity leave but they’re too scared to take it
I don't recall the propaganda in my kids' previous favorites - Cars, Frozen, and Up.

What propaganda was there in those?

My former favorites as a kid were the Little Mermaid and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Did I miss the agenda in those?
I'm doing that since day one. I can't believe people are pasting real data into this corporate black boxes.
The idea of components is fine. I should have been clear, there. The problem typically comes from the authoring tools. To have the hooks necessary to put the decoration that we want, in html, they typically add a ton of div elements. When, realistically, you could almost certainly get what you want with very minimal markup.

And being fair, I'm sure this has gotten a bit better in recent years. But the Rube Goldberg efforts people would put in to get the "flow" of the browser to automatically place things in locations that were easily calculated is frustrating.
> My users frequently reach into struct members even though I really do not want them to.

if as a library writer you don't want me to access your private struct layout and as a user I want to, I promise there is absolutely nothing that I won't try, from casting to bytes and working there, passing things from / to DLL writtens in C, to running your program in a VM, etc. So why try to fight this fight? Just tell your users that go outside of the sanctioned route that you won't help them just like a car manufacturer won't help you hack into their engine but you still can and should be able to if you want to
Let's take something like C++ std::vector / Rust's Vec / Zig ArrayList

Although there's some serious meat in a few places (e.g the growth amortization and associated mechanisms) many of the methods defined for these types are trivial.

In C++ they don't look trivial because of layers of pre-processor cruft, terrible lack of language hygiene, and the perverse insistence that today's code should compile correctly with a compiler that's as old as Shrek (the movie that is).

But they are, ultimately, still trivial, even if writing a *= 2; takes sixteen lines of macros and a dozen structure tricks to ensure that compiler doesn't think we meant the global variable a, or the structural type a, or the function named a, or a dozen other things we couldn't possibly know about because this language is very, very stupid.

Here's Vec's implementation of a commonly used method:

pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
self.len() == 0
}

Here's Zig's implementation of another commonly used method:

pub fn pop(self: *Self) T {
const val = self.items[self.items.len - 1];
self.items.len -= 1;
return val;
}

I expect if I poke around in D I'll find similar, although the last time I did that I found a bug, and the experience wasn't fun so I think I'll pass.
If your code has API keys in it, you have bigger problems than ChatGPT.
AI will dominate but only on huge distributed compute clusters. Local will be able to run models at reasonable speeds only when they're 4 years old.
You can already kind of do this with `pub fn x_mut(Self { x, .. }: &mut Self) -> &mut i32`, but

1. Your function is no longer callable like p.x_mut(); you have to go through `Point::x_mut(p)` (seems kind of dumb that the first argument has to literally be called `self` and can't just be of type `Self`)

2. The compiler doesn't actually use the fact that you're ignoring the unspecified fields of `Self`, although it seems like that analysis should be trivial, given that rust already understands that `calculate(&mut point.x, &mut point.y)` isn't overlapping?
Soft-serve is not really an alternative to GitHub, unless you literally only use GitHub for the git functionality itself, but then you could just use any Linux server + openssh + git to get basically the same functionality. But I see people tend to use GitHub for much more than just Git, for better or worse.
You are not appreciating just how far right some of these small rural outlets have swung. Some of ‘’em make Pravda look legit, and I’m only barely exaggerating.
Right, I don't know it to be the case, but I think we ought to consider the idea that "have kids" is not the answer for everyone.
For reasons of experience, all I ever want from a system is that it’s reproducible.

I had a vanity website running k8s in a managed cloud. I thought I was backed up by my provider and original ansible deployment, which was of course developed iteratively.

I originally did this mostly to do a practice deployment, and get the workflow.

A few years later, it went down and I didn’t notice for a few weeks. It was too unimportant to invest in monitoring, and not worth it to do over. Redeploying gave me lots of confusing errors (note: I also do this stuff for work)

Frankly, I was surprised that the provider doing updates would make my years-stable site fall over. I haven’t tried that one again for funsies, yet. It’s the vendor specificity that was my d’oh!
No, they shouldn't. But various entities under the US government are claiming the authority to force private businesses (even businesses operating outside of their jurisdiction) to enforce their rules and bear the compliance overhead. And as you can see in this thread, whenever tyranny is making gains, """hacker""" news is laughing and applauding like a bunch of circus seals.
>> 2. On Mac it's tied specifically to Safari. I use Safari a lot but if I'm in a different browser then my passwords are unavailable.

> Yeah, this is super fucking weird. You'd think this would be connected in some fashion to "keychain", but nope

No it's not. I don't want some exotic product connect to a domain I have passwords in and prompting me for access. The password should be tied to the product you used to login with.

This is a misunderstanding of keychain vs. lastpass. One is designed to remember "safari passwords" or any swift/cocoa application implementing keychain. One key feature is: once stored in Keychain this information is only available to your app, other apps can't see it.

Lastpass and other similar products are designed as a data warehouse / vault for you security items. From there, plugins in browsers etc. can take over.

I will totally agree with the fact that the GUI is frustrating at best.
Kubernetes is hard because it's over-complicated and poorly designed. A lot of people don't want to hear that because it was created by The Almighty Google and people have made oodles of money being k8s gurus.

After wasting two years chasing config files, constant deprecations, and a swamp of third-party dependencies that were supposedly "blessed" (all of which led to unnecessary downtime and stress), I swapped it all out with a HAProxy load balancer server in front of some vanilla instances and a few scripts to handle auto-scaling. Since then: I've had zero downtime and scaling is region-specific and chill (and could work up to an infinite number of instances). It just works.

The punchline: just because it's popular, doesn't mean it's the best way to do it.
By "grounded", I mean the promises of crypto vs the promises of AI.

IIRC, crypto was a little too idealistic in the promise of providing a digital currency without needing a central, trusted authority to back it. From my perspective, AI as we've seen it in the last few months simply provides a tool that can automate intelligent tasks easily.

I think the distinction is fuelled more by the companies and leading figures pushing the latter. OpenAI's stewardship, concerns for safety and generally downplaying how amazing these tools are while not ignoring the real effects they could have make AI sound more "grounded" than peak crypto was. Or it could just be the folks I pay more attention to.

> I disagree with calling this tech "AGI-adjacent", too, but that's not the part I'm calling out here

I think this rests mostly on the definition of "General" here. Here, I'm talking about LLMs as general task performers, as opposed to models created for more specific tasks. LLMs have proven to be more general purpose, which I'd argue makes them closer to the AGI ideal than, say, a sentiment analysis model.