skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Random Movie Maker that looks at my 4 TB collection of personal history... digitized journals, email, photos, digitized cassettes, phone messages, and home videos, and creates a random 15 minute movie. Each video will include about 50 clip sources. It's a crazy trip down memory lane.
We lost that control when CPUs became increasingly multilayered and complicated, with 20-step pipelines, enough parallelism to run a hundred instructions at the same time, with micro-ops and microcode, with branch predictors good enough to unroll some loops completely. What programmer today understands the branch prediction logic used on production system? Well enough to understand what difference branchlessness makes?

And it doesn't seem to hurt. I at least have both worked on systems where I can read and write assembly and on one where I can't, and my "need to control" isn't such that the lack of assembly knowledge makes a significant impact on my effectiveness on the latter platform.
No.

I thought it was clear: openAI devs are asked to disclose their training data. If the prompt say it's sources or not isn't present.

By the way: a gdpr exception exist for AI and research projects. The lawmakers at the time listened to us (I worked for a big data Paas that mostly worked with universities and BigCorp R&D at the time) and were generous as the baked-in exception was pretty much word for word what was asked, because it was in good faith.

Actors like OpenAI risk poisoning the well, or spoil the good apples, or whatever image you want to use. This is not much. It isn't asked that they Gpl their code, or that they put a 'source' under each response. They don't have to change anything to their tech. They don't have to disclose their fine-tuning either. Just, make a list of the datasources you used, and publish it.
True, and on a global scale 20% is even a much larger percentage than I would have expected.

My point however is that when I started working in IT I was the only one at the places where I worked who used something other than Windows whenever possible and also advocated for it.

Then there was a change. And as far as I can see that change started with screencasting and as far as I saw, the first widely popular screencasts that existed was Rails, created mostly by 37 Signals (now Basecamp I guess) and other Rails devs/enthusiasts.

I might be wrong about this but I feel fairly certain these guys drove a lot of the change in peoples and organisations attitude to alternative OSes.

Also: for a long time it seemed Linux adoption was also lower in less wealthy countries as using unlicensed versions of Windows are much more accepted there.
You say you heard me but didn't seem to understand it. That's okay, I notice a lot of misunderstanding of things by anti-nuclear people in general :)

(I'm copying your rhetoric in case you don't notice)

Thank you
Reliable enough, for me. Big fence (it extended as far as the tube station), and I was there for 8 hours. I was on Android, for what it's worth.
Thanks!

If you want to take a look at the source code, here are some pointers:

- The relocation synthesizer for MIPS: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/blob/feature/elfrelocatebleobjectexporter/Ghidra/Processors/MIPS/src/main/java/ghidra/app/delinker/MipsElfRelocationTableSynthesizer.java
- The Ghidra analyzer that leverages this synthesizer: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/blob/feature/elfrelocatebleobjectexporter/Ghidra/Features/Delinker/src/main/java/ghidra/app/analyzers/RelocationTableSynthesizerAnalyzer.java
- The classes that implement the ELF object exporter: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/tree/feature/elfrelocatebleobjectexporter/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/exporter/elf
- The Ghidra exporter for ELF object files: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra/blob/feature/elfrelocatebleobjectexporter/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/exporter/ElfRelocatableObjectExporter.java
So binary search should actually not be binary but... octary?
A scene in the second most recent episode of Ted Lasso, when a character uses Siri on their iPhone triggered Siri on my HomePod Mini in the same room. Siri attempted to follow the instructions spoken by the character but failed miserably. If Apple is going to plug their half baked assistant in their shows, the least they could do is prevent it from being invoked. It may vary by language – I’m in Australia and the character speaking has a British accent, yet sounds nothing like me.

There was also a period of about 18 months where running water in my shower would trigger Siri on my Apple Watch. Dismissing Siri was pointless, as it’d get triggered again 5 seconds later.
I don't think age has to be the defining factor if you prepare well for presenting your idea
I think it is ridiculous to make such a sweeping statement about all of science when there is so much involved in each sub-field of science that brings its own problems to productivity and output.

Take for instance the fact that nobody in Europe seems to want to do a PhD anymore and nobody in America wants to do a post-doc (based on my experience speaking to colleagues looking for both things in the respective places). That means very often you have to settle for what you get and what you get is not necessarily the best people.

With regards to things being less disruptive, there are two issues here. One, the big papers that get published in i.e. Nature usually have extremely difficult techniques involved; something like low-temperature magnetic force microscopy that only a few research groups will have. This gatekeeps replication and further progression behind these few groups with these expensive piece of kit, so most people won't even care that it's happened. The other point I'd bring up is that a lot of research at the moment is not directly relevant to industry (so patents aren't quite as useful). Researchers are making absolutely insane devices to chase higher impact papers and patents that are so far ahead of where current industrial research is and wants to be that they're not going to adopt it easily at all.

All this is to say that more funding is great (always) but I don't buy what the author is saying about a strong-link problem at all. To me this just puts the idea of Nature = good science into people's heads and encourages bad research. The process of good science is incremental steps towards a shared goal, and lots of reports on the way there that tip off other people and help build a bigger picture.
mock - language agnostic API mocking and testing utility
https://github.com/dhuan/mock

I built it because I needed an easy way to set-up API endpoints that weren't implemented yet by some other team. After a while I open-sourced it.

wikicmd
https://github.com/dhuan/wikicmd

Navigating through mediawiki to get pages edited all time requires a bunch of clicks. I wanted to be able to quickly edit wiki pages using any editor program instead of the browser.
Subjective counterpoint to Arc browser; I spent all of 10 minutes getting used to it, and it’s been a game changer ever since. I can’t actually use chrome/firefox again. That’s wild! Maybe it just fits with the way I use the web naturally, but moving to other browsers is like moving back to tabless IE after getting used to tabbed Firefox. Automatic (very important) Picture in Picture mode, and their way of organising/deleting tabs is a game changer.
I really wish there was someone reading this who could donate some hardware.

I would love to but I am not in a position to do it, at least not right now.
In C, shifting signed integers is undefined behavior.
Automatic stand-up message generator powered by GPT-4: https://github.com/golergka/standup_generator

I've only spent about 6 hours on this, but it helps me every day.
Curious why not pump it out of the window? It’s only going to be a few dribbles every few hours.
We really just need a new big social network every ten years to recapture that magic of being surrounded by high-quality, tech-savvy early adaptors creating a culture that becomes the center of all discourse until network quality decays as Facebook-level boomer-brainers come flooding in and, well, there goes the neighborhood.

Musk did something of a service in this regard by pandering to the only people who find his 420/69 jokes funny and antagonizing the old-guard aristocracy, causing human capital to flee what seemed like a permanent home. Thanks, I guess.
Would alternating the polarity work?
Twitter hate speech surged with Musk, study says
I'm sure you know this, but trouble focusing could stem from many issues, the vast majority of which can be treated. ADHD is a big one, but there's others too, some behavioural.

If you haven't already seen one, I'd book an appointment with a psychiatrist and/or a psychologist. I wish my parents had done so when I was the student with trouble focusing so I could have received the help I desperately needed but never got, which made school miserable.

Your kid is going to have internet connected devices around him his whole life, so figuring out how to focus in spite of them is important, and there's nothing wrong with asking specialists for help.
I spent all my time online, barely passed high school, and skipped college to start my career. School doesn't work for everyone! If your kid has the space to freely explore his interests, I bet anything he'll be fine.
I can now get personalized ads in my operating system in a memory safe way! Great
EFF Now Has Tor Onions
Haskell uses keyword "where" for that. So the example corresponds to the following Haskell code:

f a b where
f = \x -> \y -> x * y -- or f = (*)
a = 1
b = 2
I built a home brewing system with an Arduino, a 4G router, mqtt/pyton stack and a grafana frontend :D
Remote editing on Emacs isn't a mere "technical possiblity." It's available out of the box, is no harder than working with local files, and crucially, doesn't require you to install anything on the remote host unlike VSCode.

Furthermore, Emacs still has the best tooling for remote development. They're worth using even if you use other software for text editing, like I do. Dired, the file viewer, makes working with both local and remote files easy and seamless. Org mode, which can be used like Jupyter notebooks, can run code blocks remotely using any language, and can even pass data between them.

It's nice if software professionals were more open towards software that they're unfamiliar with. Software can be useful even if it takes some effort to learn. Not every feature of some software is worthless just because it isn't a clone of a more popular alternative.
Building a small quadcopter back in 2012 or so (before cheap toy/consumer drones were everywhere) was a fun project.

Back then, it involved an Arduino, the internals of a Wii MotionPlus (cost effective way to get the gyro sensors), a plywood frame, and the open-source 'MultiWii' code.

That first build never flew well, but soon afterwards it started to become much easier to build a very stable quadcopter, as all-in-one flight controller boards started to appear, along with more knowledge of which brushless motors, props, and ESCs worked well together.
Surely they threw in the trowel?

I'll see myself out...
The sentence "I'm afraid the cat was hit by a car" is not inherently ambiguous, as it clearly conveys that the speaker is regretful or apologetic about the fact that the cat was struck by a car. However, there are a few aspects that could be considered ambiguous:

Identity of the cat: The sentence does not specify which cat was hit, so it could refer to any cat – the speaker's, the listener's, or a random cat.

Time of the incident: The sentence does not indicate when the cat was hit by the car, so the incident could have happened recently or in the past.

Severity of the accident: The sentence does not describe the severity of the accident, so the reader cannot determine whether the cat survived, was injured, or was killed in the incident.

The speaker's emotional state: The phrase "I'm afraid" could be interpreted as the speaker expressing concern or worry, but it could also simply be a polite way of conveying bad news.

-- GPT4
As much as I am impressed by Apple Silicon, I haven't seen the buying habits of people I know change.

Windows laptop owners still continue to buy windows laptops.
Very nice! This should definitely get some more attention as this space needs some serious competition as Storybook is terrible at the best of times.
An example output from ChatGPT4 is:

>The ambiguity in the sentence "I’m afraid the cat was hit by a car" is that it is not clear who is afraid. It could be the speaker who is afraid, or it could be that they are expressing sympathy or concern for someone else who is afraid. Additionally, the sentence does not specify whether the cat survived or not. //

However, that doesn't mean that any output that follows would be consistent with that, ChatGPT doesn't "know" anything.
There's a concern that a service like this would purchase a monitored domain to try to resell it to the interested party at a premium. What does this site do different from the existing services?
That is completely wrong. People have many names in practice, especially historical persons. Even living people often present themselves differently in different languages.

For some examples:

- the famous Romanian/French modern sculptor Constantin Brîncuși (which uses a vowel that has no direct correspondent in either French or most dialects of English, and it pallatelizes the ending sh, so that it's pronounced in two syllables, brîn-cush with a slightly pronounced ee at the end), but also Brancusi (in French, roughly bran-cu-see).

- in Japanese, since Japanese speakers have relatively few syllables they are familiar with, almost all foreign names are expected to be Japanized; for example, if your name is "Stephen", you would be expected to present yourself as, roughly, "su-tee-ve-n", and write your name with the corresponding katakana characters in certain official documents
I didn't claim the bot was doing a good job. Who was this reply supposed to be aimed at?
The FCC allows personal FM transmitters to operate with a maximum power output of 250 microvolts per meter at a distance of 3 meters.
Other countries are more permissive, so this is not a problem. As long as you don't interfere with anyone and emit in a band that's not used in the area, it's perfectly fine.
Apple Silicon is certainly impressive.

But it remains to be seen if Apple can scale that hardware to servers, AI, etc.
Aren't you worried about ChatGPT downloading all of the IP from Wolfram?
VS code is a hodgepodge of plugins badly tied together which constantly spam you with change logs each time you open the app. Hopefully that’s not the future of IDEs and a Visual Studio replacement

Luckily Rider exists
The project started a few years ago adapting generating functions to Complex waveshaping, with the waveforms correspond to certain constructions in optics, celestial dynamics, etc.

This has since been extended with an algebraic/modular approach to building more complex textures and rhythms. So the aim is to create totally novel sounds, but the traditional waveforms tend to pop-up from time to time!
I kind of like it.

It's so curious to visit sites and look 20 years into the past, where not everyone was on Facebook or whatever and we didn't even quite know what works and what doesn't. Just experimenting with new ideas that sort of could have been a thing (fediverse/web rings), but didn't pan out.

Of course, people might prefer to keep the particulars of their relationships with others a bit more private than XFN would have you do. Regardless, it's very interesting when even old sites like that stick around and you can see those old ideas in great fidelity, perhaps sans a CRT monitor.
I have a rail line right under my apartment, so I built a small computer vision app running on a Rasperry Pi which records each train passing, and tries to stitch an image of it.

It has a frontend at https://trains.jo-m.ch/.

Edit: it's currently raining and the rain drops are disturbing the images a bit.
One of the worst takes I've ever seen on this site
The ability to play games is what makes it so good. It provides an incentive to learn the tool, and then an incentive to try to alter the games written in it.
The G-Seat as part of my sim-rig. 9 AC Servos, borderline dangerous, beast of a simulator. The G-Seat I decided to do better than commercial offerings (had tried "the best" and it was pretty average). CNC brake folded aluminium seat with moveable flaps controlled by AC Servos - had to 'de tune' as they were literally at rib-breaking speed initially. About a year worth of development designed and prototype in Fusion 360, through to this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnnqonpcAU

And another vid at max rpm on the servos...

https://youtu.be/eMZC0ekEXQ8?t=39
There’s still a huge gap between google’s voice recognition and siri.
I was thinking more of a situation where you have a good understanding of the subject, just using GPT to generate a solution for you.
Do you think Shakespeare would have written Hamlet if he was given an iPhone on his 12th birthday?

:)
Yes. Body movement is very strong inverse kinematics. This is why personal trainers exist: "lift thing" is intuitive, "lift thing with specific muscles along a specific path" is not.
I built a website to track the generation of electricity in Spain since I couldn't find a single page from the official provider that contains all the information I wanted to look at at a glance.
https://energy.antizone.site/
It scrapes different pieces of data at different intervals.
> Luckily that book is available to borrow online from the Internet Archive

Awesome. And sad that corpos want to ruin it.
Glass or plastic: which is better for the environment?
Solid state is better for some (maybe most) things.

Racks of spinning rust still exist rather than SSDs because sometimes capacity is better than speed. I don't need my MP3s to run at multiple GB a second. Different tech still has its place.
I think since they already sold tractors in CO they should be compelled to release manuals/parts and if they don't just be fined with escalating fines till they do or go out of business.
I built a simple software that generates immersion of artist studios.
Example (please refresh twice to visit) here:
https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

- Why ?
As a parisian living in Belleville (poorest area), where artistes
build things, I used to visit a lot of "artists studios". I have always loved this places. "J'aurai voulu être un artiste", in a way.
I always thought that no photography or 360-photo would feel the
Space, the immersive feeling.
There's more than two countries in Asia. Could be one Indian and one Sri Lankan, which is what the old dude looks like to me.
You were correct!

It is really impressive and up to date.

It feels a little less precise than ChatGPT but given the fact that it is up to date means it is a tradeoff I guess I will often want to take.
Exactly. I'd rather have a way that guarantees this algorithm to be branchless regardless of the compiler and underlying hardware. Although I suppose it depends on the underlying hardware whether or not being branchless offers any advantage at all.

Of course compilers should be optimising for the hardware they're compiling for, but this article shows that can be very hit-and-miss.
Brave already has access to a large pool of (from what I can see) enthusiastic users because of their browser : )
And yet Apple still has a massive moat around Siri because there is no official way (as far as I know) to replace Siri by another assistant when pressing the side button or saying "Hey..." I believe if you want to use Google Assistant your best bet is to say something like "Hey Siri, use Google Assistant." (honestly haven't even tried because of how ridiculous that is).

So they're clearly still in prime position to make their product better, even if they're behind right now. That's unless they get an antitrust lawsuit for unfair monopoly, which they probably should get considering this seems to me similar to what Windows was doing forcing IE as the default browser back in the days. Just like people should be able to choose their default browser, they should be able to choose their default voice assistant.
A proper iDeal integration doesn't break in that scenario. I'm not entirely sure as to how it's implemented technically, but if you do iDeal right it works even if you never click the "back to merchant" button.

E.g. when working with stripe to integrate iDeal you'll want to listen for payment complete webhooks, in addition to dealing with the user coming back from the iDeal page.
> it's a name of a concrete person which has only one correct pronunciation.

This is an insane standard. The [x] at the end of the German word doesn't exist in English; most English speakers wouldn't be able to pronounce it if they wanted to. When the demands you're making are literally impossible, the problem is you.
I would say that its adoption was mainly driven by iOS development, the meme of Year of Desktop Linux hardly coming true as the desktop story keeps being rebooted every couple of years, and the fact that many folks don't really care about GNU/Linux per se, any POSIX environment will do just fine.

As it turns out, the remaining 78% users (taking out the usual 2% from Steam surveys) that cared about POSIX tooling, were happy to use SUA, cygwin, mingw, Virtual Box, VMWare for their needs, and now have WSL in the box anyway.
Oh for sure, the internationals are catching on slowly but surely. The main reason no one wants to bother with anything but iDeal of course is because iDeal works so well. The convenience factor is incredible.
You don't really want branchless in security. The requirement is constant-time and side-channel resistance. The branchless algorithm is an implementation detail.
> Why couldn't this have been done through market competition? Is

Contrary to popular belief markets don't solve everything. They are just price and exploit discovery mechanisms.

Apparently taking away consumers ability to repair is something that can be exploited and giving them right to repair is something that almost cannot.
See the referenced Nature article for a series of brain maps.

That's largely what the authors are presenting as an alternative. There is no straightforward homunculus, though Figure 4 shows an approximate body-regions mapping.

<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05964-2>

Fig. 4: <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05964-2/figures/4>
That's got to be so much fun to drive :)

Triumph had the 'Stag', I suspect this is much the same effect.

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

(talk about problem cars...)
We built a company around this very problem- indoor farming (including vertical indoor farming) is pretty complex and by default it's energy hungry. In theory, indoor farming is very efficient for commercial food production though. I thought we could be the company that does all the plant biology, automation complexity magic for growers, and growers just do seedling and harvesting in a super basic mechanical setup.

We are working with growers in EU, and they are all actually profitable growing normal veggies (lettuce, kale, etc.) as usual. But whenever we talked to some of the fancy VC-backed vertical indoor farming companies, they would usually not entertain us and would always claim that they were going to build everything by themselves. Almost always, the leadership in these companies was the type that didn't know anything about plants, software, status quo of AI, etc.
Thanks for sharing this, sounds like a cool activity to do with kids (and I didn't expect to find one on this thread!), will definitely steal that.