skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of early cuts of movies and other media are really hot junk, plot doesn't make sense, forgettable events or characters, lots of cruft and junk scenes, confusing dialogue, imagery doesn't make sense, etc. You would be surprised at how a seasoned producer can turn a pile of disconnected footage and have the actors rerecord some dialog after the fact and then turn it into an entirely different, much better film.

I bet GPT-4 and others can easily make an early cut movie. Nothing great, but just a collection of scenes that someone who actually has some taste can piece together into a completed work. That sort of work is obviously scary for the industry where you have writers rooms developing this sort of stuff. Imagine it going from all the animators and writers required to write the Simpsons every week into just an automatic script where Matt Groening does some quick editing before it goes out. That would mean a huge reduction of jobs especially at the early career level. On top of that, how would you even become another Matt Groening caliber producer in that environment? The entire context of how the senior talent got their talent has been made obsolete, so once they are gone there's no one to fill the shoes quite the same way.
New UK Cybersecurity Campaign Leads Kids Directly to Pirate Apps and Malware
Is it BS in this case though? VPNs are the best tool in this scenario, and when you want to avoid geoblocking in general.
Who knows, we might have something better than a networked document format masquerading as an application delivery platform. Something in spirit to 3270 or X/RDP and programmable with a single language.
Ah yes, in fact looking for free costs the providers something, so it's clearly an ongoing campaign to drive them out of business, hallelujah.
"Designing the app’s menus was trivial — just drag and drop with InterfaceBuilder. The code framework of the app was generated automatically. "

User Interface development has gotten more complicated since those early days.
god of the gaps, but for aliens.
And I've absolutely seen some "meh" videos. Apropos of nothing, I met Jim Blinn a month ago which got me thinking about "the mechanical universe" (from '85-'86) which was one of the first videos I saw that really "nailed it" in terms of using video to teach technical concepts.

So good videos aren't a new thing. But I think there's MUCH more decent and excellent content coming out these days.
Whichever party has short duration assets to match short duration liabilities. Matching long assets to short liabilities is idiotic.

If you can’t find someone with short duration assets then you don’t lock into 10+ year fixed rate bonds. Maybe you don’t leverage up your balance sheet as much.

I think implicit in your comment is that this was unavoidable, and I am vehemently against this stance. Just like 2008’s financial crisis, this was entirely avoidable.
Only 19 GPUs with 30+G of VRAM in the entire North America.

I might be misreading it. It might be just 12 GPUs.
There's got to be some more regulation around advertising in general. I just don't see how it adds anything to the world that even begins to compensate for the damage. It should be like cigarettes, something we used to see as a legitimate business but decided we're really just better off taxing the heck out of and boxing into very limited places.
Alacritty being so slow is surprising to me here. I only use it on macOS, but it feels faster than kitty when I'm looking at application logs scrolling quickly across the screen. Perhaps responding to typing events has different latency than tailing a log file or listening to stdout?
There's a site that caters exactly to Mormon-themed porn, and having been a "Mormon," or a "member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" for a couple decades, I can vouch that it is truly hilarious. Here's some stats per state, in case you were wondering about any others:

https://wour.com/nsfw-pornhub-reveals-most-popular-searches-...
Robot vacuum maker Neato Robotics is shutting down
You clearly don't teach at MIT, where the professor's role is to be a glorified test proctor.
Blame the Irish.
> They really can't raise interest rates much above 5%

They really can.

> this follows straightforwardly from observing how much of the national budget is consumed by debt service as a function of the interest rate.

Decoupling monetary policy decisions from that kind of fiscal concern is a substantial part of the reason for an independent central bank setting monetary policy.

> If they go above five-ish percent, this implies that they'll need to either A) raise taxes to a level that would likely inspire mutiny, B) greatly reduce borderline-impossible-to-cut parts of the budget such as the military industrial complex + welfare spending broadly construed, C) increase productivity by a lot, D) monetize the debt or E) default on the debt.

Note that the first “they” is the Federal Reserve and all the other “theys” refer to Congress.

Also, while government borrowing costs tend to move in roughly the same direction as the fed funds rate, they very much aren’t the same thing and can be very widely separated.
> There is a snapshot library for pyecharts that allows you to convert the HTML produced by the library into formats like JPEG, PNG, PDF and SVG.

One alternative is Pygal: https://github.com/Kozea/pygal/

Even though the library is not actively "developed" but it is a complete library in my opinion.

I feel like with d3.js and eCharts, modern data visualization requires you to run analytics processes first then outputting a JSON then writing the visualization code with JavaScript.
Betting that rates would never ever rise again is idiotic. Regardless of whether it is once in history (hint: it isn’t).
Yes, Aducanumab may very well have had mild efficacy in the high dose group. But clearly the two newer drugs appear superior. Especially, when considering the side-effect profile.

It will be exciting to see how efficacious these amyloid-beta antibodies can become and there is also clearly a small mystery (or at least a lack of consensus) in why the newer drugs show efficacy and the previous ones all failed.
FoxyProxy gives each user a dedicated server for the same price as NordVPN shared servers.
It's in reference to your comment about "emotions, motivations, behaviors, or goals".

Why would any of these emerge?
This could be good in the long run. I think one of the problems in HPC is that a lot of libraries and tools are very ossified into a particular design that doesn’t work as well for new use cases (like genetics) and that’s partly because a lot of people are building off very old software. When that software is migrated or abandoned, what replaces it will be fresh in people’s minds and able to be modified to generalize past the openmp+mpi paradigm.

It’s like in professional software, ignoring that we’re generally too willing to decide on a rewrite, one of the main benefits of a rewrite is your current team builds expertise on all the logic or behavior that predates them (and usually uncovers hidden knowledge like implicit behavior, subtle bugs, the code being ugly because it needed to be to solve a bug).
Why not call it a private key then, we've been handling those since the 70's.

They don't need to be rebranded, they need to be taught in high school with the same words we've always used to talk about them.
So where do you think the current research on the negative effects of pornography get it wrong?

I’m always a little leery when someone says something like

”I personally don't think there's any case where I think legislation like this is appropriate”

It usually means either someone’s mind is closed to considering new information (I.e., they have a dogmatic position) or their mental model isn’t open to nuance (I.e., they have dichotomous thinking)
I read it, but I didn’t assume the article was about a single sentence literally found halfway in to the article that mentions the word “rent” (along with “buy” BTW).

At any rate, you want to complain about the problem, and claim that what appears to be a working solution for an employer and it’s employees is somehow spurious, but have offered zero solutions other than outrage.

We get it, you are mad about housing affordability and want to comment about your anger. Post a solution, both here and elsewhere in the conversation you seem to avoid that. So be it.
Mechanics of heat energy in a quantized system
I guess compared to blackout curtains/blocking leds/draft stopper/synced partner when you wake up you could have natural sunlight in the room. ( "Participants were asked to sleep with open shutters/curtains for the entire duration of the study.")

But they didn't test for that here.

The studies conclusion seems to be blackout curtains either cost $$$ or take a bit of effort to install, mask is cheap/easier.

Sleep is good, people sleep better when as much light is blocked as possible. It's a conclusion that is known.
You're likely thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Strip

There are "springloaded" folder tabs as of Mac OS 8.0, originally planned as a Copland feature, triggered by dragging any Finder window into the bottom edge of the screen.

As of Mac OS 8.5 it is also possible to drag the application menu out into a floating palette that can be rearranged by clicking its zoom box while holding various modifier keys. One of the combinations bears a striking resemblance to the Windows 95 taskbar :)

Here's a photo of me using all three at once on my TAM if it helps jog your memory: https://i.imgur.com/sVVbMun.jpg

edit: Almost forgot about At Ease which I personally never really used but does fit your description of having app buttons and being purple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
Thanks for an unusually clear exposition of how things can and do work in a functioning, federated system of democracy.
Sorry, did not mean to imply that Mac Plus is the only System 7-compatible monochrome Mac; only that it is the longest-supported and (as you said) oldest such.

I do wonder how many Mac Plus owners would have upgraded to System 7 as opposed to staying with, say, System 6. I imagine there is a significant performance handicap.
Apple deliberately obfuscates files - their names, where they are stored, how they can be accessed. You have to jump through hoops to access your own data.

Now compare that to the ease of free access to any file of yours (and others when permitted as well) in the filesystems of other operating systems (even Windows).

Even getting your photos off your iPhone can be a pain in the neck. And that's just one example.
It’s not favoring a particular religion, and even non religious people (including for ex some radical feminists you may find) can unite against pornography propagation. It’s also not just about think of the children, but any society that cares for people will want to limit negative influences on the most vulnerable and those growing up who will become the future adults.
Maybe you can consider that on HN you are talking to experts who in their lives experienced dozens different UI paradigms and frameworks including deep experience with React, its ecosystem, its benefits and its warts. I am pointing out that the problem of "how can I scale this UI" is experienced by a very small percentage of apps. For Meta or Uber it makes sense as they need to coordinate overlapping real-time feeds where dependency graph is insane; why should however most apps bother jumping on this paradigm? There are complex yet performant apps like draw.io that never touched anything reactive and aren't missing it in the slightest.
People do seem to forget about things like Verizon forcing camera phone vendors to disable Bluetooth on their devices to prevent you from being able to transfer image files off the phone without going through Verizon and paying a per image fee.
Been using eye masks for almost a decade now. Current fav is the Manta Sleep with the big cups but always looking for something better. Any recommendations?
macOS Ventura 13.4 beta 4 has connection problems
how are ruby and perl better solutions to how appalled you must be given your first sentence? if anything, they're just _different_ solutions that are based on personal preference and nothing more
We're starting to be able to tell the humans from the bots because the bots can consistently demonstrate better social skills.

Of course, it will be trivial for such bots to emulate humans if they find that useful.

Fun times.
Wow, that's the most misogynist (non-flagged) piece I ever read on HN.
spies doing remote work
You're not alone! Georg Cantor was deeply concerned about the theological implications of his work on transfinite numbers, to the point that he wrote letters to Pope Leo XIII to explain why the new infinities were consistent with a God of an even higher order of infinity.
The study is worth perusing [1]. (This title is nonsense.) It suggests an all-woman crew could save "additional food (+ 3993- vs. + 5688-kg) and storage volume (+ 5.4- vs. + 7.7-m3)" on "a 1080-day mission." Some of this is due to stature, but independent of that women astronauts "are lighter than theoretical male astronauts at equivalent statures and have lower relative VO2max values."

It's just one among many mission planning parameters. But it's undeniably interesting to be able to trade off e.g. the stature and gender of an individual astronaut against a piece of scientific payload or shielding.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31713-6
Ah, confusing names!

iCloud as a service has several aspects, of which Dropbox-style file sync is only one. I actually don't use that part AT ALL, in part because I was an early adopter of Dropbox and continue to find it meets my needs well, even when I have to use Windows.

However, iCloud is the best choice for me to use to sync what we used to call PIM data between desktop and mobile devices.

iCloud for iOS backup has also been really good to me. I trust it fine. But I also trust that all the key data being backed up to iCloud from iOS is also being backed up from my desktop or by other means, so I mostly just use iCloud for "pim data" sync and, obviously, to move into new phones when I buy them.
That should be okay though, 10 good answers will still report the score of the best one chosen. I think the GPTs are using beam search which is projecting out a "beam" (looks more like a tree to me) of probable answers each of which has a score of accumulated token probabilities, and then just picking the highest.

https://towardsdatascience.com/foundations-of-nlp-explained-...

In this case, it doesn't matter how wide the beam is or how many possible answers there are, the score is still the accumulated token possibilities of the best branch.

However, others have noted in the thread that RLHF might hurt this approach severely by scoring polite responses high regardless of false answers (for example). Then you have to access the model pre-RLHF to get any idea of its true likelihood.
Be Nice.
Replication does not help in managing completely. That's why we use abstractions, even with the problems they have.
> phrases "what it is like to be a bat", or "there is something it is like to be a bat",

> are simply a linguistic sleight of hand masking a

> plain old dualistic standpoint

philosophers have differentiated these into three different questions

"What is it like to be?" has to do with the nature of consciousness.

"word games" has to do with any use of language, nothing to do with consciousness. You could make a word-game critique of any statement.

"dualism" comes in a number of forms, not clearly related to one another (physical body vs soul/spirit, earthly realm vs heaven; mind-body, consciousness vs quantum chemistry) but all having a similar problem. Any place there is posited a dualism, then what is the interaction between the two duals, how could one even perceive the other?

but declaring "there is no dualism", while eliminating that problem, does not eliminate the question as to why it was posited in the first place: why (or how) does it feel like anything to be conscious, feel pain, etc. Saying "that's what evolved" is just hand waving. What's the difference between being alive and dead? Do rocks have a little bit of consciousness?

My personal preference (lifelong atheist-science type) is that the "abstract" world is all that exists, there is no physical world. Everything we study in physics and chemistry we arrive at via abstract mathematical values, relationships and computation. I think that is the nature of the universe, and while it doesn't "solve" the consciousness problem, I feel like it moves the goalposts in the right direction.
I don't have a well thought through opinion on what the resolution should be, but it seems hugely inconsistent that pointing my camera at whatever in my environment, with little thought or care or creativity, produces something copyright covers while carefully picking a prompt to get the sort of image I want out of a different sort of machine does not.
As a restless sleeper, I use a headband-like bluetooth headset for ambient sound to help me sleep.

I can imagine a slightly larger one that extends over the eyes - if I can find one, I will buy it.
> I do wonder if one might get those same benefits in another language without the problems which seem to crop up with Haskell

Not until other languages raise their game. Nothing compares to Haskell for productivity and I've tried many different languages professionally over the years (including Haskell).
But yes, reasoning about what happens operationally is the big problem.
I actually think some major commercial use cases of the OpenAI API are a) fake reviews on Amazon etc and b) SEO spam.
It's hard to get a good photo in the moment. If you tried to take a picture of a helicopter overhead before it got out of your view, I bet the photo would turn out like junk too. These things do turn up pretty well on certain cameras, like the ones on military jets trying to follow these objects.
> But anyway, in my dataset of about 1,000 acquaintances, the only one under 50 hospitalized related to Covid was a friend who was a 38 year mother of 2, in top shape, who had a heart attack within a month after her second dose, and to this day is still recovering.

There's a reason we don't use anecdotes as a substitute for medical research. Not least because they're subject to the post hoc fallacy. Just because one event follows another doesn't mean there's a causal relationship.

There's every chance that mother of 2 was going to have a heart attack anyways. It happens. The fact they had a vaccine first likely isn't relevant, clinically speaking. If you give a few billion people vaccines, you will find literally every effect that follows. Car crashes. Broken arms. Death by mauling. Syphilis. Turbo-cancer of the elbow.

In that age group, a boundary group, your risk of having a heart attack are somewhere between 17 and 97 per 100,000. [1] The risk of a heart issue from the vaccine is about two orders of magnitude lower than that.

> I do not think these vaccines are that dangerous—I would say they probably cause as much harm as one night of heavy binge drinking— ...

You have no basis to arrive at that conclusion.

> ... but I saw zero evidence of any benefit ...

It's in the data.

> ... and yes I saw one very bad case of severe life threatening side effect.

You saw one anecdotal report of a bad thing that happened to someone after they took a COVID vaccine, without any evidence they were connected. I'm sure more than once someone took a tylenol and got hit by a bus. That doesn't mean taking tylenol causes getting hit by a bus.

> The proportions of participants who reported at least 1 serious adverse event were 0.6% in the vaccine group and 0.5% in the placebo group. [2]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32111640/

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/pfizer...
Same but I also use their overused cups as well. Really helps move the pressure further from the eye.
I suspect it will be the horse that comes in first.
1Password explains scary Secret Key and password change alerts
A lot of what gets released as a final product is your description of an early cut. Most studios aren't making cinema anymore, they're making content for the sake of having something new to offer.
Don’t forget about the Mother of All Demos [1] with Douglas Engelbart! Windows, hypertext, graphics, navigation and command input, video conferencing, the mouse, word processing, dynamic links, revision control, and real time collaboration; all that in 1968!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Finetuning models and LLMs (and any model) is going to a be common practice . Each company is its own domain, which domain knowledge and data to specialize open sourced models or used other models to distill/teach their own proprietary model (home grown or modify someone else's).
People have made harmoniums with modifications to play the 22 shrutis of carnatic music, and with those you can probably more or less approximate the right tones for most hindustani raags too, but it's rare, your average harmonium probably just does bog standard western-style equal temperament.

As the article says though, the main limitation of this kind of instrument is that it cannot generate glissandos (meend) and ornamented notes (gamaka).
Now a bunch of OGUsers kids can hijack Discord handles and make a bunch of money in the process. Why would any company willingly adopt the scarcity model of usernames today knowing all the problems it invites?
The odds (money bet) to win are a good probability estimator.
I was surprised to hear this so I went searching. Yep. Wow. [1]

I use GitHub all the time but I never expected it to be mandatory if you wanted to publish a package for a popular open source language.

But as the top says, “If you are interested in helping with this work, please feel free to get started!” (Though only if you’re a contributor or open a duplicate issue)

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
Isn't that the purpose of the internet? I mean, besides porn.
"And... am I the only person completely dreading this system? Passkeys sound... like a nightmare?"

It's already a bad dream for me. I can't stand all the 6-digit code I have to fetch to do things like: check email, schedule appointments, pay bills, just plain buy stuff. I'm glad we're long past the days of emailing users forgotten passwords in plaintext, but I'd prefer to accept less security for the convenience of being able to log into an account without proving my identity via phone.
Three different pull requests were opened to fix this typo already, presumably in response to this Hacker News post.
People can also be familiar with the insane work load of trying to support a family on three part time jobs as a single parent that don't provide insurance
My uncle's business got a $600K+ PPP loan. They had at least 10 million in cash and did not need the money. Why did they get it? Because they could. To be fair, they did pass it all out as employee bonuses.
Banning VPNs would be very difficult for a US state.

In China VPN restrictions are somewhat effective because of compliance from consumer platforms, ISPs and cloud service providers all operating inside a largely isolated pocket of the internet.

If any of those stakeholders refused to play along or could operate outside of enforcement range then the VPN ban would fail.

A ban isn’t truly impossible, especially with support from courts and the federal government, but I think it’s similar to the difficulty level of banning pirated content.
I wonder how much of the effect is: you can't stay up with your phone with an eye mask on
TOTP Authentication with Free Software
The scientific Python stack (numpy, scipy, matplotlib + a plethora of more specialized things) were definitely a very big thing 10 years ago. Deep learning was just on the cusp of taking off in a major way, but in traditional numerical computing python was very big before that.