skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve never seen a field with lower adoption than crypto despite billions in marketing.

The actual users on-chain is abysmal and frankly, embarrassing.

Current users onchain is in the thousands. Even when the market was raging, the biggest memecoin in the world could only manage about 1M+ wallets - probably about 80-100k real users.

NFT trading volume is down to under 6-7k active users.

At peak bull market, Tornado Cash, despite its notoriety, had about 125 daily transactions.

Arbitrum, an Ethereum scaling solution, gave out literally free money in the form of an airdrop (I got $15k worth). The airdrop went out to about 650k wallets - under 100k real users.

If crypto were to disappear tomorrow, it would affect a population no bigger than a small Indian town.

An absolute mess. No correlation between adoption and hype/valuation at all.
No. You absolutely need a powerful, preferably NVIDIA GPU for that use case.
Wouldn't your last point be true for any government data, anywhere? That it would have a vested interest in justifying government policy?

I don't think there's generally any reason to doubt Singapore official data in general. Do you happen to know about any source on it being unreliable? Or even rumours that it is?

(FWIW, I totally agree thay killing citizens over weed is batshit insane, even if it was hypothetically proven to be very effective method to reduce drug usage/dealing)
I’d rather boot to ed because ed is the standard editor.
Nothing religious about wanting more than this short stupid primate life.
That is in most countries where they actively seek the moon. There is going to be squabble about visibility. If not visibility, then there is going to be squabble about which other community’s visibility you should align with. Pakistan is the least squabbling country.

See crescentwatch.org
Sure ad sales people want that, and if you let them, they will tank the publication, and then ad sales will be 0. That's the reason you have the edit staff...
This happened to me. No good deed goes unpunished (in this particular case).
He's getting his base excited because he's such a reliable putz, seeing the extreme danger from the existence of trans people. Getting votes is how they claim to serve people. I was just referring to the fact that those kinds of people do get votes, they read the room.
Crypto isn’t the future of money.

No one uses it. Its literally a few thousand people left on-chain.

The DAUs of OpenSea is down to a couple of thousand.

All that hype, all that money just to serve two thousand people…

Frankly, its also completely unusable. Gas cost shot up to $50/transaction on Eth mainnet because every idiot was buying memecoins named PEPE and CHAD. Even L2 solutions like Arbitrum were up to $2/transaction. ZkSync mainnet was $15-20/transaction.

And that’s when there are only a few thousand active users. Imagine what happens if millions actually do come onchain.

The “future of finance” is being held hostage by idiots trading shitcoins.
It's not a security.

It's not a commodity either.

It's money.

You may not agree with that and you may not like Bitcoin, but that doesn't change what it is.
House Hidden Among the Greenery / Engel Architecten
Because words have meanings. Recklessly sharing info with your friends is not a seditious act intended to aid a hostile nation. Neither is whistleblowing or most leaking.

You should think for a second about whether or not you'd actually like to live in a nation where the law is so broad and vague, that a death penalty offence can be applied regardless of intent of the perpetrator or spirit of the law.
Whether it's correct or not depends on the goal. This rule (and others requiring the amortisation of certain expenditures) means that companies need to keep more cash than actually needed for operations.

For a change that doesn't even change tax obligations/revenue, just shifts portions of it in time.

I'm aware of why amortisation/depreciation exists in the accounting context; I haven't found a rationale for requiring it in taxes in general, or for this case in particular. Especially for things that were paid for with cash.
The grammar police is coming!
no, steel is not cast iron

ductile cast iron does now exist but bessemer didn't invent it
I skimmed through the World section; it took 5 seconds to remember why I don't read the news. https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-whe...
Concern about the North Atlantic circulation is decreasing. Concern has just been sparked about the Antarctic circulation. Different parts of the globe. Also, those are quotes, not my own conclusions.

If I read these articles right, I believe the North Atlantic circulation may slow, but it's not going to stop. And what is predicted to happen in the Antarctic is predicted to be worse than whatever happens in the North Atlantic.

How does one find a P-value for the accuracy of a model, when all of the parameters are not known?
Just searched for her name, and the first result was a NBC news article titled "Covid vaccines for children are coming. So is misinformation". Nowhere in the article is her name even mentioned. I'm curious as to how this is my first search result on Google.

Now back to her case, the law firm's page about this case says that doctors initially said "Maddie’s Anxiety Is Causing Her Symptoms". Then, "the hospital referred Maddie to psychologists as they believed that Maddie’s symptoms arose from her anxiety."

This directly matches the dictionary definition of "gaslighting".

I've lost count of how many times I've heard doctors attributing something they don't know/understand to "anxiety". A genuine question - how is the notion of a serious side effect dismissed and considered "correlation", yet anxiety is absolutely ruled as "causation"?
Inform: Past, Present, Future (2018)
> So it matters when wind is providing 20%, but it doesn't matter when it's providing 100%.

Of course. Because when there's no electricity, there's no electricity.

> even though coal use is at a historic low, it's actually increasing

You pretend this is a contradiction when it's not. Germany has just shut down its last reactors. So yes, the usage of coal will increase because when renewable generation is low you still need to provide electricity. Guess what provides that electricity.
> Jagex is powerless against bots.

This sounds natural to me.
> Once AI systems can outperform CEOs, investors and boards will insist they be in charge

And nothing in the rules says that a dog can't play basketball.

What that would actually result in is a complete and utter lack of any accountable entities, which the government would block and stockholders wouldn't want to begin with.
Wrong analogy. Imagine people who love driving must always be forced to use exactly one tyre enforced by the manufacturer - despite other tyres being objectively better for their situation.

Not everything in life requires you to kneel and vigorously lick the boots of a corporate overlord.
Vinyl Sales Surpass CDs for the First Time Since 1987
This is completely false. You validate any password requirements before salting and hashing the password and then store the salt and hash. Even if you restrict usage of previous passwords, you are just comparing hashes.
MongoDB ftw. Even has graph capabilities.
> Only nobody uses php that way since decades.

… in your echo chamber. I know first hand of multiple very large corps doing that (one of them being a bank and this is their payment api) and very many smaller shops. Sure, we recommend against it, but saying it’s decades ago like that is nonsense; many people do this because it’s convenient.
Have you seen any information on how to create the .npy files for custom voices, though? That's where I hit a wall. There must be some process that takes a .wav or similar audio file and creates the (relatively small) history prompt data.

Edit: looking at https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/12udgzh/bark_t... now.
None of these are anywhere near any good as the human delivered one, for so many many reasons. It's a mediocre list even given what you asked for.
Show HN: Writing Personal Messages with LLMs
The cool thing is we can now stop relying solely on human imagination for ideating on futures funnels, and leverage GPT-4 to help us do it, and get a much more realistic sense of what types of things an AI system might conceivably attempt given we can probe these models for what is in them. Granted that's not perfect because GPT-N+1 will have emergent capabilities not present in GPT-N and so it's not always going to be a realistic assessment, but it's an ever closer approximation and it gives much more information than relying solely on human imagination.

I've been doing this a bit lately and despite the fact that I know it's only predicting the next token, I'm still slightly unnerved as I watch a black box computer system slowly type out novel and plausible ways to kill me.
The first time I realised that Americans drop the "h" in herb I thought it was some hoity-toity affectation, but apparently it's the way you say it! (Aussie here and I think Brits and Kiwis keep the H )
These are all very simple low hanging fruit puns. None of these come close to the human example.

That said, I'm not an idiot - AI will get there and probably soon.
Quick somebody PoC this with SMSGTE over APRS! (So you can browse the web over ham radio. Ridiculously impractical but delicious!)

https://smsgte.org/
It should be, unless you're running too much bash/zsh plugin stuff.
yeah, that brunel guy, what did he know about engineering anyway

probably just some loser trying to cut corners on his highway offramp planning

huh what's this

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

or uhhh maybe not

who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history,"[3] "one of the 19th-century engineering giants",[4] and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, [who] changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".[5] Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.

yeah what a fucking tosser
Bitcoin is the future, not cryptocurrencies.

No one is going to use a company's token as money in any meaningful way at scale.

Only Bitcoin will be used as money the way we understand money now because it's an open and neutral protocol. An internet-native money.
I personally am of the opinion that 1) no drugs should be illegal, and 2) corporal punishment including execution should be the norm for crimes as opposed to imprisonment. I do believe that corporal punishment is more effective than imprisonment at correcting behavior, but I don't believe there should ever be victimless crimes. A commercial transaction where all involved are voluntarily participating is a victimless crime, even if what they're volunteering for is bad for them, as long as that fact is not hidden from them.
Hiring a freelancer also costs time. If using an AI tool is faster than the hiring, you already won.
> Like many things, regulation is, in isolation, neutral.

Hardly. As Brunel points out regulation is always biased towards the past rather than the future.

But I think there’s an even stronger and more dangerous bias in regulation, one towards mediocrity. Most people are mediocre, and when consensus or even majority is the norm they have the power. What is in the interest of the mediocre? To outlaw the outliers (like Brunel). It’s sad, but unfortunately part of human nature.
System applications as in the programs that come pre-installed with a fresh install of MacOS.

Updating MacOS doesn't require an Apple account, but not the pre-installed stuff.
So how do you clone an existing speaker's voice? That's the part I don't get.
CoD itself can download some high-resolution textures during gameplay:

https://www.charlieintel.com/warzone-on-demand-texture-strea...

I've never tested how much bandwidth it uses. It seems a little crazy but also neat.
Perhaps I've misunderstood what "flagged" means, then. I've always understood that as an indicator for a comment that you or another moderator found objectional, especially since flagged posts usually get hidden from further viewing. Learn something new everyday, as they say.
Author here. Please show me an example for your claim.
There appear to be several ways to do it, but what worked for me was:

from scipy.io.wavfile import write as write_wav
write_wav("c:\\wherever\\whatever.wav", SAMPLE_RATE, audio_array)

If you want to play it right away, you can use:

from playsound import playsound
playsound("c:\\wherever\\whatever.wav")

What I wasn't able to do was make torchaudio play it directly, without creating an intermediate .wav file. Apparently there is a live-playback backend on the Mac, but not on on any other OS.
Cryptocurrency tech just plain sucks. After more than a decade this is pretty obvious to most everyone. It's not the future of money, not even close, and with LLMs siphoning all the fuel out of the crypto hype machine, most people don't even care anymore - cryptocurrency is a dead meme walking.
Maybe Carbonyl? (https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl) It's a chromium browser for the terminal. You could use it as a backend.
Did anyone actually have a conversation about this topic?

i'm guessing not, because clickbait guy is so anti-free speech.

that said, i don't have any real objection to npr and other government-funded orgs being labeled 'government-funded' or 'state-affiliated media' or whatever -- because they are, right?

or maybe not. npr says they get less than 1% of their funding from uncle sam. what's the cutoff for the 'government-funded' label?

and as for them being state-affiliated -- does it matter if they are formally affiliated with the government -- i would guess getting funding from them means they are formally affiliated with them -- if they support the government's positions > 99% of the time anyways?

maybe just label them based on their adherence to the government's narrative?

"90%-Compliant with the Washington Consensus" ?
If this happened to you: you lost your phone (it was stolen), but you didn't report it (because when someone stole it you were on a date with a colleague from work, and didn't want your husband to know), and then it was used for drug trafficking and then you were sentenced to death in Singapore, would you still be saying that your own behavior "seems rather suspicious"? Don't you think the police case seems rather suspicious, right?
My company is big on hiring designers who can code. We are in the humane tech / hw / AI space. My email is in my profile, feel free to reach out if interested!
The universe is quantized, according to quantum physics. That means living creatures are effectively digital.
Amazingly, compared to the joke in https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html, my copy of vim is about twice as big as Patrick's alleged absurdly large copy of vim in 1991 (plus it uses 17 times more space in support files).
> There is so much less drama in the communities

I'd hate to see the other communities then! I think of PHP communities as full of drama, whether that's fads and dogmatism (which usually changes every 3-5 years) or people lacking interpersonal skills and unable to keep conversations civil.
I base it on common sense and several known examples. The common sense part is that we know that we have to keep managing the waste after the plants no longer produce any energy, or money. Managing the waste costs money, and since we can't make estimates for even a decade into the future it's self-evident that we don't know what 500 years of storage will cost.

Secondly from known examples where the logic has already proven itself in practice.

One example is France, where the taxpayers have recently had to pay over 50 bn euros in costs that were never planned or paid for by the operator.

Another example is the cleanup costs for the German Asse II storage site. Several billion Euros for the cleanup alone, and the things you extract from that site will have to be stored someplace else at high cost as well, so the costs will keep ticking. Operators don't pay that either, taxpayers do.

Another example is Sweden, where they have a storage facility for second-rate waste, (i.e. low-intensity waste), which is mandated to operate for at least 500 years. It is currently employing over 100 highly qualified people and is going to grow over the next few decades.

This facility is currently underfunded for its planned operations, and please note that this is not even accounting for the costs of handling high-intensity waste. This site will only manage secondary waste, like contaminated pipes, pumps, filters and such - so the actual total costs are severely underestimated. Taxpayers in Sweden will have to pay these costs in the years to come.
For story based games (with voice acting) absolutely yes. Dozens of story characters, hundreds of supporting npc and all of them talking as either part of your missions or just to fill in the world.

Maybe 50 hours is a lot for a non story based game but even then once you factor in all the sounds and all their variations to reduce repetition you might be up there.
If you talk about Germany than this has nothing to do with nuclear.
Wouldn't erosion tend to lag exposure by something like an order of magnitude or five? Geological time vs climate time.

That said, I'd also point out that most of these are deep enough we wouldn't see them exposed even if ocean levels dropped a meter worldwide.
-4 karma? should be +420 for being right
> how many jobs did it just eliminate?

Perhaps all, perhaps none. Tests (e.g. in school) are supposed to filter people. So a good test score in a well-designed test "correlates strongly with the human students' future performance" or perhaps "correlates strongly with the amount of work they tend to put in preparing". That's almost completely orthogonal to the test being about or requiring relevant skills to pass.

To illustrate this, very great chess players tend to be reasonably smart (e.g. you might expect them to be able to adapt and learn how to decently run a company). An AI that can wipe the floor with them can do no such thing.

Maybe this fundamental difference will go away with "general" AI and we may then judge it using human tests, but that's not a given.
Google L3 SWE total comp is $193k

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Salesforce&track=Soft...

Base salary is the wrong comparison. As you move up to higher levels and get stacking equity grants, the liquid stock vesting routinely becomes >50% of total comp at FAANG -- i.e. you have to look at total comp.

It's not even close to comparable. Also worth noting: as a PhD with assistant prof levels of experience, you'd typically join as L5 (source: myself), which has total comp starting at $365k according to levels.fyi
I would stick with Laravel or something like that if I were you. The rest is good for your resume, but if you don’t need that, I would forgo the misery that is js/ts dev.
> it's not syncing between devices

> Signal is cooler

Clearly you haven't tried using Signal on multiple devices. It's terrible currently. Telegram / WhatsApp / etc work great on multiple devices.
I wonder how hard it would be to replace FUSE with userspace block driver. That seems to be focused on performance.

https://lwn.net/Articles/903855/
Here is the data:

https://zenodo.org/record/7718512
Some days, I would like a law that applies to digital things the same thing we already have protected by the constitution; the Fourth Amendment should apply to our digital stores but it doesn't.

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I personally believe "papers, and effects" apply to digital things.
iPhone sideloading might not be allowed globally
Is Van Life Sustainable? The Reality of Eco-Friendly Off-Grid Living
https://archive.ph/XyCdF
Climate Change and Super Solutions [video]
No, I'm just saying that there is AI, and it's okay to use the term. There has been for a long time. E.g. SHRDLU in 1970 was/is AI.
and the risks and difficulties and higher prices result in the vast majority of the population not dabbling in drugs. thats good enough of an outcome.
I would afraid of some kind of an Experts system [1] written on Lisp as the most powerful PL [2] using NN [3] as an heuristic for some uncertain situation. I believe AGI/ASI level of an artificial intelligence is an interception of 1, 2, 3.

LLM is NN which is not a true Expert system, so it will never get rid of hallucinations. But one ability impresses me greatly - an ability to read long text and to make a digest, I craved this tool when I was a student.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network
ChaosGPT is a very definitive way to end humanity and is the answer to all these philosophical "how will it do it" questions of Lanier and others.
I don't have any complications with HN guidelines, but I do with the way they are enforced.

I see plenty of posts that call people, both ordinary and public figures, "names" that go unflagged and unmoderated. I see plenty of meme posts that don't get flagged and moderated. I see political threads and subthreads all the time despite politics strictly being off-limits per guidelines.

In fairness to you, you've never claimed HN is a free speech platform so I am perfectly fine with you publishing submitted threads and comments as you see fit. I'd even die, figuratively speaking, to protect your right to those freedoms of expression and association, and I would hope you will reciprocate the sentiment as a fellow American.

However, the reality is the HN guidelines are not enforced equally, fairly, and objectively, so you will have to excuse me for rolling my eyes at all the inevitable noise that will create (including mine). We can get away with calling Trump, Gates, and Jobs among others names but not Feinstein? Please. I realize HN is short on manpower, but that is not an excuse.
Isn't there a way to permanently stop lawmakers from proposing to take away freedoms and rights using terrorism or child abuse as excuses? We can't keep fighting this kind of bullshit every few years.
The other day I heard a podcast interview ( https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-927 ) with somebody from Amprius Technologies, they're also starting serial production of a 1000 kwh/kg battery.

Their main energy density boost is a silicone anode, which we've known "for ages" that it leads to higher energy density, but soaking it with lithium degrades the material very quickly, leading to cracks and thus damage after just a few charge cycles. The main innovation is some kind of nano-structuring of the anode, and that technique was published in the scientific literature in 2006.

I'm sure it was hyped as a battery break-through in 2006, and it has taken 17 years to get to market.

So, maybe we shouldn't go back 5 years, more like 20 years (OK, no HN back then :D).

Batteries do get better over time, fairly consistently so. The development lifecycle is just soooo much longer than in software.
Could be Denmark too.
What formats are better suited? To my knowledge most games use mp3-like compression for all their audio. Console hardware often has decompression support, it’s reasonably compact, quality/bitrate can be tuned by the sound engineers and supports a wide range of content.
"Unbiased" is like absolute zero. You never actually get there, but don't think there is no distinction between putting in an effort to make something decently cold, and hurling it into the sun.
Also, employers dont want quality. They want quantity.