skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are witnessing the arrival of the technological singularity in slow motion.

It is becoming possible for AI systems to rapidly design hardware and software systems from the requirements of individuals who do not necessarily understand the subject matter.

I give tech 10 years before most of it is accomplished by AI and most people in tech will be forced out. Like DC elevators, some will remain, but not like it was.
> The libertarian extremist model that you're suggesting doesn't resemble a society at all

Prior to Woodrow Wilson, and more explicitly prior to Franklin Roosevelt's four freedoms[1] (specifically, the 3rd and 4th), most (legal) liberty was of that kind. Whether that's better or worse is arguable, obviously, but it certainly counts as society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms
Aren't memory bugs in I/O layers the most common source of vulnerabilities?
I truly wonder how Intel is going to survive all the government subsidies to build new fabs they have signed up for. Fabs cost money to operate and require volume to generate profit. Intel does not have a track record of becoming successful foundry despite trying more than once to head down that path.
I mean so's Mars. I'm not sure what the incentive to land on Deimos and deal with the microgravity is, vs just landing on the planet itself where you at least have some atmosphere.
I mean that's obvious nonsense.

Even in ML, which I work in, optimizing a data pipeline or model code to be 3x faster means you can run 3 experiments a day instead of 1.

There's a huge chilling effect from slow code in research iteration. But par for the course as academic code tends to be absolute trash.
I didn’t say it wasn’t!

However, if I was MS, I would look at the prevailing winds: it’s good to have one flagship, and even better to have another that doesn’t have the historical (technical, sentimental) baggage of your older one.
They're the people who killed Travis too, right?
What does an ML-on-the-edge system chip do differently from other chips? Does it have a gpu or other accelerator on it?
Good developers tend to embrace tools and automated constraints which prevent whole classes of bugs, and treat those “bumpers” as sensible defaults which can be opted out for well justified reasons. I’m not a rustacean, but that sounds like an apt description of Rust’s value proposition to such developers working in the problem domains it targets. And when good developers choose to work “closer to the metal”, whichever “metal” that might be, they tend to develop similar tooling and automation (“bumpers”) for themselves.

IME, the developers who eschew these kinds of abstractions usually have a higher estimation of their ability than the work demonstrates. And that’s to be expected, because software of any reasonable complexity is more than a human can reasonably fit into their brain to establish a mental model. If that wasn’t the case, we’d presumably see the most talented among us flipping bits directly.
The majority of CVEs are due to memory exploits. For C/C++ code that holds true across companies and OSs

Microsoft says 70% https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

Google says 70% https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
That already exists.

https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg
Heh in the ~10min I spent typing up my response you condensed it to a six word sentence. Well done.
i give AI at least another 500 years until the I in AI actually stands for intelligence.

See what I did there? Everyone can make outrageous claims without backing them up whatsoever :)
> If she pretends to be a man instead, she isn't challenging gender roles, but is implicitly agreeing with the harmful idea that women must adhere to some roles, men must adhere to other roles, and anyone who doesn't do this is defective and must change themselves to fit this mould.

I appreciate your rational input. And to be honest, I don't completely disagree with this part. Trans people are not unaware of it either. However, [I must explain that] I was using "gender roles" in a very broad way, including pronouns like "she". This person doesn't need anyone to use specific words to describe their sexual phenotype if they don't want it. We don't have different a different form of "he" for children vs adults, nor for black people vs white people. It is a societal construct and they're allowed to opt out.

> Even worse is how such non-conformance to gender roles has been medicalized, so she may end up taking opposite-sex hormones, having her breasts removed and other cosmetic surgeries to appear as some odd facsimile of a man. Rather than rejecting this malignant, cultish ideology that advocates physical destruction of the self in lieu of bodily acceptance.

This is an extremely disgusting and transphobic thing to say though. I hope you didn't realize how hateful it sounded. Gender-affirming care is widely supported in the medical community as a life-saving intervention. As for whether or not you think it's appropriate for another person to have their body surgically altered, what do you think about tattoos? About facial reconstruction for burn victims? About a mastectomy for cancer? And why do you even care what other people do with their bodies?
This is symptomatic of modern software development practices which, with excessive planning, "user stories", and recursive mangling down of features into disparate sprint tasks, manages to inject a stymying amount of beaurocracy in an effort to typecast developer ability into interchangeable cogs and embrace attrition instead of fostering craftsmanship.

How many 10x engineers are being forced into a 1x mold just so a sea of 0.7x engineers can be shimmed into the same 1x mold?
You're bang on the money with

> exposed to Deere’s propaganda and believed it.

and I feel we can add a dash of smug superioty over presumed to stupid farmers.

I worked on sheep shearing robots in the 1980s at UWA and went on to have a global career in geophyical data aquisition, processing, and interpretation with a sideline in developing "Google Earth" pre current Google Earth .. all funded by part time work in 800 million tonne per annum iron ore mining projects.

Now I'm hanging about with farmers in rural WA.

"Giant John Deere tractors" are small fry compared to mining machines .. and many farmers here have FiFo (Fly In - Fly Out) minesite experience working as electricians | mechanics | operators on mining operations.

The bulk of local area mechanics that come to fix tractors have that same background .. understanding the technology is not the issue with agricultural machine repair, it's gate-keeping by the companies and system protocols designed to hinder part replacement, board updates, diagnosis, etc without a commission going back to oginal manufacturer.
Are you saying it was targeted or Wikipedia, or you happen to know they have offices there?
"Get better" has never worked in the history of programming. Systemic problems require systemic solutions (although using value semantics in modern C++ has practically eliminated memory bugs for me)
This looks interesting. We use Convey APIs to connect to LTL carriers, and I built integrations for our system to connect to FreightClub, Standard Logistics, Convey, UPS, and FedEx.

I love seeing more options in this segment.
We have more pieces of the puzzle now. The more industrialized a nation, the less the fertility. Even developing nations are no longer safe. Every area but central Africa is affected now that includes China and India. We are living in a slow and boring version of Children of Men, except it’s men who are infertile and not women
At least for imgur it should be possible for forum operators (and users, if they use some browser to redirect URLs) to search and replace old imgur links with links to the Wayback Machine as the Archive Team is saving many of the files.

Some info on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_the_Wayback_Machine

Random example: https://i.imgur.com/t8UbDz1.jpeg can be redirected to https://web.archive.org/web/202304id_/https://i.imgur.com/t8...

Looking at the URL:

https://web.archive.org/web/

- The base domain for the Wayback Machine.

202304id_/

- 202304: the year and month the archive was done (2023, 04). It will redirect you to the copy closest to that date instead of showing the latest, which might be a good backup or not (eg: a 404 page).
- id_: shows the file as it was saved, no wayback machine toolbar, can be hotlinked.

For pages, instead of "id_", either don't use it and you'll get a page with the toolbar or use "if_" as it corrects the path to css/js/etc without displaying the toolbar.
No personal offense, this is a very common affectation that has just personally been a bugaboo for me lately due to technical documentation containing these non-technical statements.
If you’re booked 3rd party you’re much more likely to be the one bumped I. The first place. You’re also likely to get the least desireable rooms on the least desireable floors.
Just optimizing the "hotspots" is not the only strategy to improving performance. As Daniel alludes to towards the end, it's about maximizing effort versus payoff.

E.g. you might find a hotspot that indicates 20% of the time is spent in a very small function. Yet that small function might be already close to optimal. After intense effort, you improve this function by 25%. Great, you saved 5% overall. But there might be a 5% somewhere else in the program that shouldn't exist at all, and if you remove it, you also get a 5% speedup.

Another example is that maybe you have a loop around 10 function calls that calls each of them 5 times. Each of them might show up as 10% of the execution time. But then you discover that the entire loop only needs to execute once. So you can speed up the program by 5x by only iterating once. Yet the proportion in the profile doesn't change; the program just does 5x less work.

Profiles can be deceiving.
Isn't it funny how humans are allowed to keep copyrighted material in their minds, but A.I. isn't?
Do you think I could offer a custom-built Windows PC under the registered trademark "Gordon's Macintosh"?
Wow, you totally get my vision!

This is pretty much my plan for the next few years, with some added surprises :)

I really want to rekindle the days of geocities and flash. I call this "the cheap web" haha

I've also been working on open standards for authentication and payments within the ecosystem, but I'm not quite happy with the results yet. I don't like this world where we have to use companies like Auth0 and Stripe to build something worthwhile. I'm open to ideas!
Homer, apparently, doesn't specify, wine-colored. Is it possible he intended, "intoxicating?"
People say that but it doesn't ring true in my experience. Let's face it, you're just paying more for the same service if you book directly.
I'm curious if you fine-tuned a GPT model with specific hardware-related examples. Based on the OpenAI docs it seems like a pain to get enough good prompt:response pairs for fine-tuning (A few hundred minimum).
Apple's stance of "it never leaves your device" seems to be working so far.
I like your app! I can't find a way to export all my content. It's on the roadmap?
This is a description, not a prescription. Also do note the adjectives.

I'd say it is universal for any group, but given particular circumstances in the actual state of the world its salience varies widely.
Tracking Issue for experimental yeet expressions (Rust)
A brief history of LLaMA models
I don't know if this is pedantic, but op indicated "attacks" not "vulnerabilities". I would not be surprised if statistics in vulnerabilities are different than statistics in realized attacks?
The font is Fira Code for anybody interested!
I would agree that there’s probably no match for talent+passion, but the fact is that there aren’t enough people with those attributes to pull an entire economy. Far better to live on the ground (not in the clouds).

That said, processes and technologies don’t have to treat each employee as a newbie. Example: I remember Facebook had a deployment process which gave each developer a reputation. Getting a reputation for deploying code that requires hot fixes to revert broken code meant penalties. Penalties required additional pre-merge / pre-deploy reviews and proof of testing. I remember that as a good combination of treating developers as adults but also providing targeted procedures when they are needed.
Our whole society is a Ponzi scheme
And perhaps Uber has some heuristics (ancient English for AI) or competitor intelligence to detect if a driver has accepted a Lyft ride. Uber can then offer a carrot to that driver to get them to cancel the Lyft ride. They could offer the best fare that turns up in the next 2 minutes. Costs Uber little, causes three damages to Lyft (Lyft lost profit, annoyed Lyft customer, driver happier with Uber).
They’re often not even cheaper these days (and are usually pay in advance with no or limited cancellations, vs booking direct usually being pay on site and cancel able to to a day or two out.
My interest in offline TTS is actually entirely unrelated to the automation space:

I'm interested in Text to Speech for creative pursuits, such as video game voice dialogue and animated videos.

This is one of the reasons why the range & quantity of available voices is particularly important to me.

After all, you can't really have scene set in a board room with nine characters[3] if you've only got three voices to go around. :)

I've actually been spending time this week on updating my "Dialogue Tool"[1] application (originally created to work with Larynx to help with narrative dialogue workflows such as voice "auditioning", intelligent caching & multiple voice recordings) to work with Piper.

Which is where I ran into the question of how to navigate/curate a collection of more than 900+ voices.

The main approaches I'm using so far are:

(1) Random luck--just audition a bunch of different voices with your sample dialogue & see what you like.

(2) Curation/sorting based on quality-related meta-data from the original dataset.

(3) Generating a different dialogue line for each voice that includes their speaker number for identification purposes that also (hopefully) isn't tedious to listen to for 900+ voices. :)

I haven't quite finished/uploaded results from (3) yet but example output based on approaches (3) & (2) can be heard here: https://rancidbacon.gitlab.io/piper-tts-demos/

The recording has two sets of 10 voices which had the lowest Word Error Rate scores in the original dataset--which doesn't mean the resulting voice model is necessary good but is at least a starting point for exploring.

I'd also like to explore more analysis-based approaches for grouping/curation (e.g. vocal characteristics such "softer", "lower", "older") but as I'm not getting paid for this[2], that's likely a longer term thing.

A different approach which I've previously found really interesting is to use voices as a prompt for writing narrative dialogue. It really helps to hear the dialogue as you write it and the nuances of different voices can help spur ideas for where a conversation goes next...

[1] See: https://rancidbacon.itch.io/dialogue-tool-for-larynx-text-to... & https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/larynx-dialogue/-/tree/featur...

[2] Am currently available/open to be though. :D

[3] Will try to upload some example audio of this scene because I found it pretty funny. :)
Harvey bird man. Attorney at law.

Please be a reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Birdman,_Attorney_at_La...
Oh I didn't even realize they spun the asteroids for gravity. I'd assumed they were relying on the natural gravity, which would have no Coriolis but would also mean only 0.03G on Ceres and even less on Eros.
> Writes can be faster because only the modified attributes need to be written to the delta undo log, not the whole row.

what is delta undo log?
Fil (one of the Plot developers) made https://github.com/Fil/plot-cli, and Michael Keller has https://github.com/mhkeller/plot/, which supports Plot (and Vega-Lite and Plotly). Could probably be more robust; feel free to make feature requests, I know a few other people have asked me about this.
I mean convergence was a 100% goal internally when I worked at Apple 8 years ago. afaict they’ve been gradually bringing the experiences and software stacks closer and closer together and they’ve been locking down MacOS more and more.

Not sure why you see it as an irrational fear. What timeline are they actually working under / how are they prioritizing that convergence? I don’t know but it’s clear it will happen. I’m sure there’s a lot of unification going on of background services (radio stacks, security hardening, etc) in addition to more visible UI pieces.
Why is std:hardware_destructive_interference_size a compile-time constant?
How is it too late when they are continuously producing new products?
2000 acres is a "small" "family" farm?? The myth of farming in the United States far over-estimates the where the _value_ in farming lies. Yes, John Deere is exploitative - but what about the wealthy land owners that profit off the backs of poorly paid _farm workers_? Or the huge government subsidies paid to growers of commodity grain? The idea of the "family farm" as a productive and legitimate sector of the economy is mostly a myth[0].

[0] See "Farm and other F words" by Sarah Mock for a more complete treatment.
You're not particularly wrong, I've just found working with alpha-geek Prima Donnas gets old really fast. If they don't mature as they come along, their antisocial behaviour typically outweighs their contributions by a large measure.

Personally I'd much rather work with bright folks that are empathetic and work well in teams, and trust that they'll learn what they need to when we need them to. Seems to work out pretty well.
> You have been free to love whoever you want for centuries.

Um, no. It was a criminal act to be gay in the US earlier this century.

> Im a male that loves my father

Oh, I see. You're either practicing illegal love, or you're being purposely obtuse by conflating two different meanings of love.

> Because that's the only distinction I see between me loving my male friends and me being gay.

You hold hands with them? In public? You kiss and cuddle with them? In front of children? Because gay people have been murdered for that in living memory. I guess they just should have avoided touching sexual organs (in private) and everything would have been fine.
A majority of CVEs are memory exploits. A majority of attacks don't use CVEs. It's a common misconception among people on HN who don't work in the field.
Visual Studio is on its way out, and I say that as someone that uses it professionally every single workday. They've been monkey-patching in features now for years, and it remains slow and bloated.

VSCode is the future and Microsoft's future. The current limited .Net support on VSCode feels like it is intentional to give Visual Studio another few years.

PS - Obviously Visual Studio will never ACTUALLY go away. I am talking about as its flagship product for current/future development, it will remain for things like Windows Forms and other dead-end tech.
> On a Raspberry Pi 4, Piper can generate 2 seconds of audio with only 1 second of processing time.

> On a Raspberry Pi 4, voice commands can take around 7 seconds to process with about 200 MB of RAM used.

Have you looked into supporting something like the Coral Accelerator[0], which can drastically speed up machine learning inference on a Raspberry Pi?[1]

It used to be available for $60, but it is hard to find in stock at the moment except for way over MSRP.

[0]: https://coral.ai/products/accelerator

[1]: https://www.hackster.io/news/benchmarking-machine-learning-o...
Cloudflare removes limits on serving non-HTML Content
Thanks for the info. I have been taking good care of the car from a fabric and paint perspective. I might be 500 miles over when my lease is up. Whats a good way to check out the terms as I didnt look when I leased the car?

Ill be mindful of the tread depth as well. I'll need to find that out.
Does anyone know why I have this problem with Siri on my Apple Watch?

“Set a timer for 15 minutes”

Siri: “timer app is not installed”

Excuse me? It most certainly is.

Try again later and it works.
You are misusing the terms yield and return, and seem to have a misunderstanding of how a muni bond works.

A muni bond would have yielded $.50, but you still have the underlying asset, so it isn't a loss, its a guaranteed return of 50% every 10 yrs, until the bond matures (you get your $1 back) or is defaulted on.

The SP500 doesn't guarantee anything, and there are 10 yr periods where it has negative growth.
Both new and used. Foreign and domestic. Sales.

Thanks for those ideas, I'll be looking into them.
>And they prevent taking software licenses to a new machine by embedding the license in the device and tying it to magic numbers in hardware.

Windows 10 and 11 (they're both one and the same in license terms and activate each other) can be activated with Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 licenses of similar or equivalent editions. The only catch is you need a proper retail license. OEM licenses have always been tied to the first mobo they're installed on. I have no knowledge if volume licensing licenses qualify for the upgrade-activations.

Though I have a feeling this gravy train will end with Windows 12, since activating the latest Windows release with a Windows license purchased in 2009 is pretty ridiculously generous.
I don't think the article is about Anna
Let's all just pretend AI is not about to fundamentally shake things up.
AI is useful for making suggestions, but you shouldn't blindly trust it like that no matter how advanced it gets. It helps you work faster, not beyond your abilities.
http://archive.today/6lwYp
That does not match my experience. IME the bumping is first and foremost dependent on the time of arrival. While the hotel has rooms, they will give them out to those who booked and show up. Should the hotel run out due to overbooking, how the next guest booked a room is not going to matter. My 2c.
It is self service and pretty self explanatory. It is pretty niche and specific though so not sure how many people would be searching for it on google, I'll look into it. Thanks
Sure, I agree with that. Trauma can definitely be generational.
> Yeah I don’t think it’s common knowledge in the west that our governments are doing the color revolution dance in Sudan.

But Wagner (a Russian PMC) is arming the RSF which are the ones trying to overthrow the current government.

So I fail to see how your assertion holds any water.
Fedora sometimes has a newer kernel than Arch if the release times line up just right.
> Really are getting the government you all deserve.

By this I take it that you're not American? No offense, but your analysis while logical from an ends justify the means perspective, is just a fantasy. It's not a realistic, as it ignores the entire cult dynamic of the MAGA movement, which is well-documented at this point. Republican inaction on the worst aspects of Trumpism and the MAGA movement are not explained by "they just didn't want to end up the losers if they helped the Dems". It doesn't explain the retconning of the January 6th insurrection from Republicans at all levels of government, and the media. It doesn't explain the lunacy of the 118th Congress.

Sorry, the idea that, but for Democrats, Republicans would have reigned in the worst and most powerful within their own ranks is simply preposterous. Republicans are responsible for their own party, plain and simple.
AI doesn't have a mind.
>Sometimes companies will always make more money by not giving consumers what they want.

This statement needs more qualification
Is Krita ready for HDR painting?