skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
138 dB at 100 feet. Has anybody considered weaponizing one of these? Applying a little game theory, a prospective supervillain have to use it once to prove it could do very bad things, but after that I'd think the threat of use would be enough
In 2016 I discovered that a mountain on the planet Ceres had officially been named "Ysolo Mons" after the Albanian festival that marks the start of the annual eggplant harvest.

There is no such festival. An anonymous Wikipedia editor had made it up and inserted it into Wikipedia's list of harvest festivals in 2012. Someone at NASA used the Wikipedia list for naming features on Ceres. (Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture.)

I wrote to the US geological survey to point this out. They changed the name of the mountain.

Full story on my blog: https://blog.plover.com/wikipedia/ysolo.html
I feel like most people will instinctively turn away from simulating their loved ones. For the ones who want to try it, my bet is they'll reconsider pretty quickly, but I wouldn't stop them from trying.

Something from the article bothered me more, a guy did this in 2021 with chats from his dead girlfriend. How much worse would the simulation be back then, and how much better will it be in the future?
> inhibiting insulin signalling can delay ageing and extend lifespan in many animals

Does this mean that the newer diet medications like Semaglutide could be accelerating aging since they increase the secretion of insulin from the beta cells?
I can't even figure out what I'm looking at when searching google. I get completely overwhelmed. I remember when I use to be able to craft google searches and get one result.
Purely the existence of an alternative is a must, without it people would be not so happy with the e-money, eg. transatcion fees would became enermous..
The Human Library is a project much like what you are describing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Library
Replace the middle manger with AI. I bet it would be an improvement.
So it does indeed even guarantee that the server is acting in a trustworthy manner due to the public auditing scenario. We will shortly be making our audit logs publicly available to show that the verified crypto proof the client performs does indeed match the publicly available records. The academic works SEEMless (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/607) and Parakeet (https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/parakeet-practical...) jointly outline how this all works from a technical perspective.

While we do maintain the directory, we are held to an honest standard by our audit logs. Should any auditor find invalid records, they can publicly hold us accountable.
It's crazy how many videos and pictures I'm seeing of people driving in those flood waters. I get that it's a very flat area but if the water is near your hood you're:

1. Deep enough that you can't see obstacles in the water

2. Right on the edge of flooding your intake and destroying your engine (which I suppose won't matter if the water's that high - your car is destroyed anyway)

3. Going to get pushed over by almost _any_ current

(3) especially seems extremely dangerous. That much water is going to drain somewhere and it would be easy to accidentally move into flowing water and get sucked along by the current.
> I've seen excellent competitive programmers end up being mediocre engineers

I've seen the opposite. I know many extremely talented competitive programmers (IOI, CCO, USACO platinum, Codeforces grandmasters, ICPC, and the list goes on) and they are all excellent engineers. It's not about having a wealth of knowledge about DSA (although this occasionally helps, depending on the type of work) or competitive programming itself, but rather the skills it teaches. They all know how to learn new things very quickly and thoroughly, and it goes without saying that their general problem-solving skills are incredible. They've interned at companies like Snowflake, Google, Jump, Citadel, Jane Street, Waabi, Uber R&D, DataDog, SingleStore, etc. (all before or during their 3rd year, which is practically unheard of for "normal" students, especially during the tech recession) and have consistently received the highest performance grade (our co-op program requires employees to give them a rating on a scale from 1 to 7). There are also a few I don't know directly who are in fact working on things like Bard, or have founded their own companies (TabNine was one of them IIRC).
What better opportunity to educate!
There is no faith. Either screen real estate matters or it doesn’t. If you have a 43” monitor and think its useful, then you must agree that having 100 extra pixels on a 16” screen is also useful.

You absolutely cannot argue in good faith otherwise. Its a provable mathematical fact that the beliefs are incongruent.

You are free to choose to hold logically inconsistent beliefs though. You do you
This is amazing! Is it also possible to add animation or effects to objects/characters that didn't previously exist? Or update existing ones?
> What happens to the people who bet on them?

I think that's the whole point though. A lot of the products, if they can even be called that, listed in this article are not even possible to "bet on". I mean, Code Jam?? I think it sucks they shut it down, but annual events and conferences come and go, it's not like people had a right to expect it would go on indefinitely.

I only think about half the items in this list are even possible to invest much time on as an outsider, either a customer or a partner: Stadia (obviously a ton has already been written about that), OnHub (classic "I bought an IoT device that isn't much better than a paperweight after they stopped support), and Google Currents (though that one is marginal - I don't know anyone who used it, also I don't know how seamless the transition to Spaces was).

I think the biggest issue with Google products is that nobody trusts them because they won't stand by any roadmaps. If they had clear, discrete classes of products that they actually stood behind (e.g. "these we'll only guarantee to support for the next 18 months" vs. "these are mature products we stand by"), I think folks would be more OK going into things with eyes wide open. But Google has time and again bullshitted ("Of course we're investing in Stadia..."), or even had things been in beta for years and years when they were obviously mature products, like GMail. And since it's clear Google only really cares about ad revenue, when shit hits the fan and they need to "streamline", like now, anything that doesn't directly support ads like Search, Android, GMail, Chrome, etc. feels like an afterthought.
Car doors are unlike any other door in your common, daily life contexts. They are not rectangular. They are heavy and float several inches above the ground. They have hydraulics and/or springs, and typically have two fixed points where they will remain open, even in moderately high winds. They have electronics, power windows, crumple zones, and side airbags. They lock remotely. Their latches and handles are very different from other doors.

A car door is like a bedroom door in the same way a MacBook is like a Cray supercomputer. A door is a door and a computer is a computer, but there is significant variance within that category.
In the same spirit as this we have a “donut buddy” system in slack that randomly pairs you with someone from another org. Some user entered topics are listed such as entertainment and cuisine to kickstart conversations. It’s been a great way to humanize things. I’d love to do this in person.

Minor expansion: The bot handles the calendar coordination, too. Meets are 30 minutes and finish with a screenshot posted to the channel and end of the year there's a collage that's created. I'm fond of the stats.
Thats how i'm seeing it.
Depends on the country of stay. If you are in Pakistan or India then those 20k is quite a lot. Not so much in Italy or Spain.
The privacy policy alone on whatsapp is what is keeping everyone I know off of it. It's egregious. FB is 100% snooping on what is being discussed, and if they are now moving to fully client-to-client encrypted on ALL chats (not just the ones you explicitly choose) it's only because they're losing market share to alternatives that are more trustworthy.
good luck building and let us know if you get stuck.

BoxyHQ is also a fantastic product, and their developers have contributed OAuth providers and patched to Supabase Auth. I highly recommend it if you are looking outside the Supabase ecosystem.
I'm a South Korean woman living in US but I've been traveling to visit family more, and I have a great deal of opposite anecdotes.
There is a huge "trad" blow up on tiktok and other social media in South Korea right now.

A lot of the western reporting on South Korea is highly highly skewed. It's a society that demands a lot from both women and men (for better or worse). For example, in America a lot more women get plastic surgery, however I know many more korean MEN than women that have plastic surgery.
I can't imagine this going any other way than a program dominated by the mostly socially uncomfortable types of people, resulting in "going out out to eat" but going to a cafe and sitting separately and on their phone the whole time.
> easier done with dedicated Controllers instead of one BIG controller

This bring costs and supply chain issues, and we had plenty of supply chain issues earlier this year.
Thanks for noticing, will check with owner and GitHub team.
You've never needed to know what time it will be 2 hours and 45 minutes after 11:30 AM?
Watch how fast this falls out of the news cycle because it doesn’t align with America’s view of San Francisco. So far I’ve heard it was: a homeless person, a junkie, mentally ill, violent criminal common to San Francisco.

Part of me felt this was personal. A stabbing you have to get fairly close. Bob Lee could know his killer. And I don’t know him well enough to know who he hung out with.
How exactly is his/her comment racist?
"Always profile your code to know what is fast and what isn't!"

I'm sure Muratori is aware of this and demonstrating how – if a particular section of clean code measures as a performance bottleneck, and the clean organization is itself the cause – to go about rewriting for performance.

However, Muratori didn't do that in his original post. He took on "clean code" defined in his specific way and used that to grind his axe. I'm not saying he purposely wrote the clean version in a slow way, but it was written in a naive way. It would have been more honest to simply note a personal dislike for clean code and say how he would do it.

Also, Teran's (codef00) point about moving much of the work to compile-time is just the sort of thing someone steeped in writing optimal code would do without a second thought, and forgetting the huge performance implications.
Maybe because people like you constantly make underhanded comments about how “rare” violent crime is and so the crime problem is now partisan. It’s not rare https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime
Nix 2.15 Released
> The new command 'nix derivation add' allows adding derivations to the store without involving the Nix language. It exists to round out our collection of basic utility/plumbing commands, and allow for a low barrier-to-entry way of experimenting with alternative front-ends to the Nix Store. It uses the same JSON layout as nix derivation show, and is its inverse.

I wonder if this could allow future language-specific package managers to easily build on Nix. That could allow those package managers to have a more solid foundation and better integration with software outside of its own ecosystem.
Move fast and break things can also mean "undermine political systems, enable genocide, and damage the psychology of all generations that grow up in the digital era, for profit." So it's not as far of a reach to stabbing people as you want to believe.
crypto on google trends:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=crypto&h...
Nice, thanks. I should dig into this stuff one day. I’ve only got a Zero W handy so I can’t try octoprint, but maybe when it’s possible to buy a pi again I’ll try this stuff out.

It’s so cool that tiny little microcontrollers can handle prints without much trouble (though you can get stuttering if they can’t hold enough instructions at once), but while a Pi, despite being far more powerful, can become unreliable and ruin prints. Given that’s likely because it’s talking over a network, handling a camera feed, running an operating system, etc. I just find it so cool how useful and capable microcontrollers can be in the right settings.
I don’t see it happening (software engineer.)

I’ve been using AI through copilot and ChatGPT for a year now. It’s great, it’s helpful, it’s worth the money. It’s not replacing me. It doesn’t let a junior dev do my job. It doesn’t make me so productive that the company will cut back on their engineering team. We’re still hiring.
Billions of people using it creates a strong network effect...
Who's in charge of naming at Amazon? The product line (Titan and Bedrock) tells me nothing about what it is suppose to do.

I mean, it doesn't have to be Amazon Provided Foundational LLM or what have you, but I just thought it was Amazon cosplaying Gundam Wing before I read the link
Care to elaborate? All I can find is that Meta bought a VPN company under that name.

Was it forced into Whatsapp somehow?
Hah! I was going to do something like this. Not in Livebook though :D

Very curious to poke this whole app building thing.
Yet SMS based authentication still is a thing. Like SIM duplication and fake bases weren't a thing.

Yikes.
As companies reduce their tech expenditure, there will be plenty of excess capacity to collocate and properly connect by high-speed switches. There is also a lot of research (not sure it by Amazon as well) going into better distributes model training.
Next is for React and Nuxt is for Vue...
I drive older Toyotas. These cars will never go into the landfill if I can help it.
I get sick to my stomach reading that thread. It was close to the last straw for me with regards to leaving this community completely, or at least trying to fight my HN habit.

I get a lot out of the things shared here and the discourse, but sometimes we get those threads and I just can't believe so many otherwise smart, intelligent people would believe and say such horrible things.
So... does CodeWhisperer share your code with Amazon and other users of CodeWhisperer?
Most leetcode hard or reasonably complex dynamic programming problems have 10 lines of code or less. It is coming up with the logic and solving for edge cases. Maybe its your confirmation bias that the problem is easy considering you have seen all iterations of it multiple times?
Ok so instead of paying an artist to round those corners why not pay them to make round assets, then let the computer approximate them with polygons when and where appropriate?
It'd depend on several factors, won't it? Those who are already working on OSS projects have found their balance (or willing to work despite challenges). This amount might make small or big difference for them. You should also consider that how much this is worth will depend on where they live too (for example, my yearly expense is less than $2000).
People in retirement live off investments, not wages. They’re exactly the class most likely to benefit.

Unless you don’t have retirement savings. But your not likely to be worse off, your pension doesn’t get automated away.
Which is not really true. German plants were also throttling down significantly in summer. They were just not completely shutting down.
Just learned about the course from this post and signed up for it. Looks like great value from an entertainment perspective.
Why would this be unique to this point in time versus others say, pre antibiotics?

To assume we’ve reached the upper limit of longevity and medicine is a bold claim.
Apple offers a financial incentive to trade in your old iPhone. That is the pure reason.

And you have to say, tossing out the battery is much better than tossing out the entire phone, battery and all
Look around a bit for info on controlnet. You can use depth maps, scribble in where you want objects to be, or place human poses in a scene and SD will use it to generate an image. You can combined multiple controlnet models and control how much they contribute to the scene. The level of control available is pretty awesome. I say that as someone who was in the DALL E beta and used midjourney for a few months (though I guess I don’t know what advancements they’ve made in the last few months).
Sure, network effects are hard to overcome; my point is that Zuckerberg bought it as a competition killing move so they're not likely to put any quality control into it
It does seem a little off that a perpetrator of such a crime wouldn't run, either. Either go straight to the police with "it was self defense" or get the hell out of the country.
Having consulted at government agencies, it’s all AWS and Azure that I’ve seen. There’s a lot of government out there so I wouldn’t be incredibly surprised if somebody somewhere is using GCP but it’s not at all common as far as I can tell.
If it is a different key, wouldn't there be a "keys have changed" notification in my friend's chat window when I add a new whatsapp-web login? If the keys haven't changed whatsapp-web must be capable of decryption of messages meant for my device, no?

edit: Is there documentation somewhere? Makes no sense to me that my friend is encrypting with the same public key (before, during, and after whatsapp-web is provisioned), but somehow it is decrypted on a new device with a different key
Probably because they were caught with their pants down and only have early prototypes of generative AI models.
"People like me." Nice.

The subject is violent crime. Don't cite a page that lumps property crimes in. Might want to look at some relevant data; https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-crime-rate-bob-lee-sf-vio... has a handy chart halfway down, if you're not interested in reading.
No. This is not the conventional opinion in imaging science. We use mathematical models to improve image quality all the time.
> still have biological characteristics that fundamentally influence our behavior and culture.

I suspected as such. In my life, I've often heard this point trotted out to justify "Why men/women are good/bad at X thing", which is why I was asking what they were getting at, specifically. Even if they weren't getting at that, their comment doesn't add much by itself.
no they would not have, be better than this
The argument I made to all my friends in this debate (but not publicly) was along the lines of “tech exec found dead at 2:30am near his home in an upscale neighborhood with zero night-time activity … that doesn’t sound random”

My guess was drug deal gone wrong. But tech deal gone wrong makes sense too, I guess.

edit: my drug guess was before the person was named, not implying anything, just know drugs are a popular hobby in SF
They really do some amazing reporting. Based on the fact that this is the first article I'm seeing on this topic, it seems that Mission Local may have got the scoop [1] on the Chronicle and other big newspapers on this high-profile topic. That is a big deal for journalists (if I recall correctly) because it means you're doing better original reporting and you're more connected to the neighborhood.

[1] https://grammarist.com/idiom/get-the-scoop/
This is a very insightful and useful article.

The impossibility of cost + latency analysis for LLMs
The LLM application world is moving so fast that any cost + latency analysis is bound to go outdated quickly. Matt Ross, a senior manager of applied research at Scribd, told me that the estimated API cost for his use cases has gone down two orders of magnitude over the last 6 months. Latency has significantly decreased as well. Similarly, many teams have told me they feel like they have to do the feasibility estimation and buy (using paid APIs) vs. build (using open source models) decision every week.
Yeah, the more of these (admittedly excellent) security features they add the more glaring a hole the lack of an open source client seems by comparison.

Like, key transparency only helps in a situation where Facebook's servers are compromised, right? That's the most obvious way a man in the middle attack could happen. But if you're worried about an attacker who can compromise Facebook servers, why not also worry about whether that same attacker can compromise the WhatsApp client app, or even compromise Facebook itself at an organizational level?

I don't want to downplay this change too much; it's a genuinely useful security measure that I don't think I've seen any other messaging app implement. But at this point, adding further defenses against external attackers is starting to feel like layering more and more complicated locking mechanisms onto a vault door that's made out of glass.
Computers made people more productive and internet made trade far more efficient. AI makes my job far more efficient (I work in software as well); most my colleagues have been fired now in the past months because now I can do the work of 10+ by using chatgpt api. That says something about my employer, however there are boatloads of the same companies. And my colleagues, some of whom are great humans, are just not very good at what they are hired for and, as such, easy to replace by gpt4 wielded by someone who does understand. Nothing to do with disdain; it’s just the group that will fall first. But then it’ll come for us. I like your optimism, I just don’t share it; this is far more of a change than many think.

Sure maybe not next year (although…) but your taxis, ubers, buses and serving beers might be the only jobs left for you and me. I am worried for my kids, not for me. But this is now within reach, while it seemed very far off last year. Deniers won’t save anything.
But one wonders: the same criticisms can be levied at these other cases, yet one finds that googling about controversies regarding them (well except Oracle) turns up little. Considering how well-established these are, one would expect that if trademarking it were truly unreasonable, we'd see a similar argument already.

The more obvious reason is that you have a couple loud voices who don't know what they're talking about and see that these actions actually either do little harm or even benefit the community (regarding the latter, e.g. making it obvious when a couple blessed and vetted, officially supported high-quality resources are being provided).
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I’m a little confused at the notion that shame doesn’t functionally work. I thought it was regarded as like, mean, not ineffective. But I see people say this sort of thing a lot. Are there studies or something on shame not working?
As long as we produce as much food and as much utilities, why would having less work to do overall bad?