skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in other languages you can have issues where a rogue regex or bug or whatever can cause runaway CPU consumption and either crash the node, or starve resources from other processes; well, this isn't as big of a deal on Elixir because the BEAM uses pre-emptive scheduling to prevent individual processes from causing big issues.

Right, so where other languages would rely on external cloud infra to kill nodes that are seizing, BEAM does it out of the box. That's cool. Though I do think eg Kotlin coroutines are probably capable of similar things. (but they are only recently coming out, vs BEAM which has had this out of the box by default for ages)
I don't think the statistics are really communicating what you think they're communicating. I have hundreds of games in my steam library, a lot of which I've either not played at all or only played for like 30 mins or so.

This doesn't mean I actually want games to only have ~ an hour of playtime, it's just that they were all either very cheap or free through things like humble bundle. So I grabbed them with the intention to play them later when I feel like it and maybe messed around in them for a little bit to see if I felt like properly diving in now.
bard is insane. like wow. like what Google was to anything that came before it. whether it can show bare JSON or not plays down the insane power of the fact that this is an LLM with full access to the current internet. I just asked it who won the presidential elections this year at the (relatively obscure) university I went to and it gave me the exact correct % results from the top 5 candidates. seriously wow
I think when I was a kid I could probably have named the canonical list of moons known at the time. I'm pretty sure that would be a very impressive feat today.
So what's AI then?
The act is about automated processes, "AI" or not.
Yes. Also in not so delightful way.

https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2023/luxembourg-busines...

This is the case that shut down the public access to Companies House registry, as oligarch’s handyman was complaining access to companies ownership data violates the privacy of his businesses. Might be a net loss for the society in this case.
Musk isn't magic or genius. He's had more failures than successes, like everyone else.

I can only think of two successes, Tesla and SpaceX (and I think I'm being generous by including SpaceX because it isn't a success yet)
So you sent a letter saying “Mr Congress save my job that is putting others jobs at risk.”

You think voice actors and writers are not saying the same?

When do we accept capitalism as we know it is just a bullshit hallucination we grew up with? It’s no more an immutable feature of reality than a religion?

I don’t owe propping up some rich person’s figurative identity, or yours for that matter.
I like the idea. It would definitely make me test out more games that I'm hesitant of buying today, especially with a game library of close to 1000 games. It's crazy how you get multiple games for free each week nowadays. On the downside, I'm certain it would lower my tolerance in new games. If you buy it, you kinda need to give it a proper chance. Now you can try it for 20 minutes and just throw it away.
Nope. I wouldn't. Not for production.

• Bun is not stable yet (0.6.0)

• Zig, the language Bun is built upon is not stable either (0.11.0)

Nothing against these awesome projects, I'm all in for a streamlined toolchain (TypeScript, bundling, binary generation...) and other excellent goals driving the Deno and Bun teams.

But...

• Node.js is a powerful piece of software, it's stable and full of battle-tested buttons and knobs

• NPM and Bun/Deno are not real friends at the moment, just acquaintances

• Take benchmarks with a pinch of salt. Real-world app performance depends on a well-greased system, not a particular 60,000 req/s react render benchmark. Remember the adage: your app will as fast as your slowest component.

On a side note, lately I've been extending Node.js with Rust + N-API (ie. napi-rs or neon) and it opens up excellent possibilities.

https://napi.rs/
https://neon-bindings.com/
I have the same issue, but I blame the absence of good package management. If it had that, one of the thousands of these libraries would have won out and become quasi-standard.
Very different. Intel Macs had separate system RAM and video RAM, like PCs.

Apple Silicon doesn't just share address space with memory mapping, it's literally all the same RAM, and it can be allocated to CPU or GPU. If you get a 96GB M2 Mac, it can be an 8GB system with 88GB high speed GPU memory, or a 95.5GB CPU system with a tiny bit of GPU memory.

Apple's GPUs are slow today (compared to state of the art nvidia/etc), but if Apple upped the GPU horsepower, the system arch puts them far ahead of PC-based systems.
I'm very interested in how this interacts with Valve's standard policy of giving refunds for games you've played for less than two hours.

I suspect there will be more demo downloads, but fewer total (non-refunded) purchases with this modal. The question is where do you apply friction, before download or after 90 minutes of gameplay.

I'm also generally concerned with demo-hacking. Putting all the novelty in the first 90 minutes. Placing one large cliff hanger or achievement near the 90 minute mark. Building a starting place that takes just over 90 minutes to get out of. I do get the impression PC devs are aware of the 120 minute mark and try to make the first two hours strong. This lowers that bar.
Expensify is the main user from what I could gather. They've been using it for awhile now.

https://bedrockdb.com/
ChatGPT writes bedtime stories for my kid.
Oh, wait, the question was about -good- parenting…
While many think it’s a hype cycle, which it is to some degree, I think generative AI is about to pour gasoline on economic growth.
Ah, I see, String.prototype.normalize() is in ES6. I remembered that Duktape (which has its own, even slower Unicode library) can’t do it[1], but then it doesn’t try for ES6 either.

[1] https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/issues/1718
Prometheus explains their Reverse Combustion machine
You dont lose access. Just repeat the process to get a human review.
You can buy mustard oil but without the same erucic acid content. Also ghee is definitely available at the Indian shops I've been to? Not sure where you're getting your info from
It did the literal opposite: the TLS Heartbeat Extension was itself a bazaar (and bizarre) random contribution to the protocol. The bazaar-i-ness of OpenSSL --- which has since become way more cathedralized --- was what led to Heartbleed, both in admitting the broken code and then in not detecting that code regardless of the fact that it's one of the most widely used open source projects on the Internet. It comprehensively rebuts Raymond's argument.
Yes, they provided several examples, and then you attempted to tie them all together and claim they were conceptually simple. No, that won't fly.
> distributed training

Unfortunately this isn't a thing. Eg too much batch norm latency leaves your GPUs idle. Unless all your hardware is in the same building, training a single model would be so inefficient that it's not worth it.
It's still absurd Steam has done nothing to the refund rule when games are around or under 2 hours long.

There are zero consequences to "buying" games like Superhot, A Short Hike, Journey, and Before Your Eyes; completing them, and refunding the game. None. They do have an abuse warning system in place, but I have never seen validation that it works for short games, just frequent refunds/odd cards used.

EA has 10 hour trials, but we haven't heard anything about how successful they are. EA likes to boast, so one can only assume it's not all that successful in getting people to actually a) stay subscribed to EA play or b) get people to buy the games. We also know generally that demos, especially for lesser known games, can negatively affect sales.

I can see publishers only supporting this for already very popular and well received games to secure every last potential sale, but everyone else has little reason to.
It seems to me every licensing regime begins with incumbents lobbying for protection from competition, then goes down in history as absolutely necessary consumer protection programs.
Please give all lengths in Rhode Islands.
>2 hours isn't enough

MS Flight Sim comes to mind. Apparently game content is downloaded in-game, and it's in the region of 120GB, so many folk blow through 2 hours before they even get to play the game.
> Hopefully one-off cases don't significantly affect the chances of getting a serious neurological disorder later in life -- it seems we'll find out in the coming years...

My father and grandfather were anesthesiologists. We kind of adopted an older nurse anesthetist as a surrogate grandmother when I was a kid. She told us stories of back in the old days, sitting there with a stopwatch with one hand on the patient's wrist taking their pulse, and a dropper full of chloroform in the other hand, placing drops on a gauze mask over the patient's mouth when the pulse rate started going up. She always got significant amounts of second-hand anesthetic exposure.

She said it was pretty common after a long day of work to drive home quite high from all of the chloroform exposure. I presume TCE anesthesia was similar, and nurse anesthetists likely got at least 10,000 times the lifetime exposure that you got. Granted, there can be differences due to age of exposure, and often non-linearities of exposure. However, if the risks of a single surgery under TCE anesthesia were significant, I'm pretty sure someone would have noted absurd rates of parkinson's in nurse anesthetists.

Certainly, read up on the early signs of Parkinson's, and talk to your doctor if you think you might start showing symptoms, but don't get hypochondria over it.

Cyclopropane as an anesthetic on the other hand... particularly with electrocautery pens... I have no idea how they were ever allowed in the same operating room, at least not without some kind of fume hood around the patient's head pulling air rapidly out of the room using a non-arcing fan.
Mesh Bluetooth Chat – Anonymous decentralized chat
Сhat without internet with people more than 330 feet from you by connecting through other app users found in the middle. For example: person 1 can talk to person 3 if person 2 is in the middle, making the possible distance 660 feet (200 meters). The same goes for an unlimited number of people in the chain.

Mesh Bluetooth Chat works completely off-grid. You don’t need an internet connection to register your device on the network, nor do you need to provide personal or contact information like email address, phone number, etc. When you launch the app for the first time, you’ll only need to enter your username that will be displayed in the chat.

Download:
https://anonfiles.com/n3X3Bfq5ze/Mesh_Bluetooth_Chat_release...
https://web.archive.org/web/20230511151117if_/https://cdn-14...
For anyone who is jumping to the comments to complain about how more rules from the EU is going to make innovation difficult, I highly recommend you to read the summary presentation: https://www.ceps.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AI-Presentati...

Basically, as I understand it, it divides AI systems (in the broadest sense Machine Learning sense) into risk categories: unacceptable risk (prohibited), high risk, medium/other risk, and low risk.

Applications in the high risk category include medical devices, law enforcement, recruiting/employment and others. AI systems in this category will be subject to the requirements mentioned by most people here (oversight, clean and correct training data, etc).

Medium risk applications seem to revolve around the risk of tricking people, for example via chatbots, deepfakes etc. In this case they require to “notify” people that they are interacting with an AI or that the content was generated by AI. How this can be enforced in practice remains to be seen.

And the low risk category is basically everything else, from marketing applications to ChatGPT (as I understand it). Applications in this category would have no mandatory obligations.

If you ask me, that’s a quite sensible approach.
> ForgeFed aims to define a vocabulary

Aw yeah there’s the good EU grant milking shit.
The number of players is probably very different
Possibly, but literally no other laptops sound anywhere near as good as Macbooks.[0] Apple has done some real magic in the laptop speaker space, and they've kept their secrets to themselves. Shame I always wear headphones.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYB931iUjc
AI and machine guns aren't comparable. Machine guns will never ever decide to autonomously fire.

The shared point of both AI alarmists and advocates is that AI will be highly resistant to being subject to regulation, ultimately. As dictated by the market for it. They won't want to regulate something, assuming they could, for which its free operation underlies everyone's chance of survival against competing systems.

I only find that danger is inherent in the effort of people that casually label things as "dangerous".

I'm still exploring whether its the laziness aspect, itself, of the alarmist vocabulary in the absence of required explanation. Or whether my issue lies with the suspicion of emotional manipulation and an attempt to circumvent having to actually explain one's reasoning, using alarmist language absent required explanation.

Already, AI pessimists are well on their way to losing any window where their arguments will be heard and meaningful. We can tell by their parroting the word "dangerous" as the total substance of their arguments. Which will soon be a laughable defense. They'd better learn more words.
Isn't European tech regulation basically a billion dollar income source for them now?
Is it a losing strategy if the revenue increases? Consider how encouraging gambling on in-game items instead of making better games has served the mobile gaming industry.

Unfortunately the world is not just and consumer-hostile behavior often ends up being more profitable.
A la Google wave circle sharing. I think the lesson from that war was that humans inherently are bad at pre-judging their own relationships. But now we're in the LLM era so I would hope it would be automated for me.
I think it is the same instinct in humans which made Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fall for seances and mediums and all those hoaxes. The need to believe something is there which is hidden and unknown. It is the drive to curiosity.

The way Peter, Musk, Sam and these guys talk, it has this aura of "hidden secrets". Things hidden since the foundation of the world.

Of course the reality is they make their money the old fashioned way: connections. The same way your local builder makes their money.

But smart people want to believe there is something more. Surely AI and your local condo development cannot have the same underlying thread.

It is sad and unfortunately the internet has made things easier than ever.
Thanks for that, there's a lot I don't know. I still don't quite understand what they are talking about with "Laptop 13". Is that just a new motherboard in the same chassis? that's not clear from the marketing.
There is a link what appears to be part one in the article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hx8RixhoOM
No, demos negatively affecting sales has been known for years now. Even studies as far back as 2013. This isn't some "your game is just bad" situation.

Besides, even if it was, it's not like developers set out to make a non-compelling game. Like woops, let me just press the "compelling" button before shipping!
They are not as of 2023. I just got Indian Alphonsos for $50 a box. You have to reserve it in advance. They come through air cargo.
Do you think it’s coincidence that it came about during the middle of a massive hype wave with widespread talk of how AI will figuratively take over the world? Automated processes have existed for nearly 100 years.
In a group of 100 - if one person is violent, and the other 99 are peaceful would that be a protest or a riot? What is violence? Throwing an egg? Ice cream, rocks?
I was responding to your confusion as to why someone might think you were writing a parody.

You ran into the tech equivalent of poe’s law. You said something that makes perfect sense in your technical sphere, but it read as indistinguishable from parody to an audience unfamiliar with the technologies in question.
That reminds me of the guy that cooked some giant squid that washed ashore (which had never been seen outside of carcasses when this interview was done) and ended up researching why it tasted so bitter https://youtu.be/0z5oziSqQOs?t=703

So there may be some scientific value? I am NOT volunteering.
I've played it so often that I have it memorized (it helps that it's a fairly famous model of jet airplane too)
Mitochondrial Transfer as a Novel Therapeutic Approach in Disease Treatment
http://www.vicemo.com/

Sadly looks like it stopped updating.
RedMonk has said they use the Stack Overflow Data Explorer tool but I don't know (though perhaps they've written about in the past) the exact queries they use.
how come? Requires a LOT of flying hours and some luck to get a job at a big airline company. Many days spent away from family. Responsible for 100+ lives every time they fly. If there’s a problem mid flight (rare but happens), it can be extremely stressful and 100’s of lives can be at stake. Think on-call at a tech company is stressful? I’m glad I don’t that have THAT kind of on-call lol. And obviously the fact that learning to fly a plane is not an easy skill to learn…
You've probably got similar taste to me—I like a table that's a bit relaxing to play, at least once you've got a feel for it. Black Knight (and 2000) are a lot more challenging than my usual sweet-spot, but do at least feel fair, which is why I still like them. Lots of alarmingly-fast losses when you're starting out or if you aren't really feeling it that day, but fun if I feel like being very engaged (and after a couple dozen games to learn how to not lose within seconds, LOL)

You might like Attack from Mars, which shares the "knock down the barrier on a high-central target, hit it, move on to the next" thing from Medieval Madness. It has less fun with its theme and of the two I'd say MM is unequivocally better, but if you're out and about and run into one, might give it a try. I'd especially look for Theater of Magic, if you haven't played that one. It's not quite as clean as Medieval Madness, but in roughly the same difficulty zone and has a lot of fun shots and gimmicks, and really runs with the theme. Might enjoy Whitewater, too—it's in the same ballpark, difficulty-wise, but with a more complex playfield than MM despite looking fairly simple at a glance, but is still quite legible once you've given it a look over and a couple plays. Theme's less obviously-fun but I find it really nails a kind of kitsch appeal that works for me, at least. Both the Elvira games I've played have been in that zone, too—one's better than the other, IMO, but I forget which. [EDIT: Oh, of these, Whitewater probably has the most unfair-feeling losses when you're starting on it, just to calibrate expectations]

Oh, and find Monster Bash. Learn it. Get good at it. There are few things better in mid-difficulty pinball than finally getting the whole monster band together so they can rock :-) Fun, goofy theme like Medieval Madness.

A step up the difficulty level, I like Addams Family (doesn't everyone?) and Junkyard a lot. Everyone seems to love Twilight Zone but I can't get into the damn thing. It's got the same thing Addams Family does where if you don't have precise and well-planned shot control (looking a move ahead, if possible) you'll end up with lots of drains down the sides [EDIT: which is one of those things that feels unfair, because you can make an apparently "good" shot and lose the ball, but can be overcome if you learn the table's patterns well and keep things under tight control], but is just enough harder to learn that I've not managed to enjoy it yet.

There's another level that's easier than the ones I like, that I really despise. Like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I practically have to try to lose that one, to get the game to end. It's just boring and feels like it's patronizing me.
Apple is way out ahead of the pack on this point. No (?) trad PC laptop is on the same level so it seems like kinda a high bar to clear.
So, the US pre-1950s.
Article 10 does not apply to low risk AI systems like ChatGPT.
Didn’t Facebook / Meta also do something similar during the whole “fake news” controversy?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/15/facebook-ceo-zuckerberg-call...
There's very little cost for the inclusion of an AM detector into a radio set. And low-frequency AM radio tends to have far better area coverage than the FM stations do with their use of VHF 'line-of-sight' frequencies.

That's just what's necessary in emergency situations, like tropical storms or wars.
The only thing engineers love more than a TLA is an ETLA.
AI Porn Videos Or how Pornify just changed the game
The realm of adult entertainment is no stranger to innovation, often being among the first to embrace new technologies. As the curtain lifts on the latest act, it’s AI taking center stage once again. This time, it’s not just about static images. It’s about motion, narrative, and a whole new level of personalization. And leading this charge is a familiar name — Pornify.

A Groundbreaking Move

In a bold and pioneering move, Pornify recently introduced AI video generation to its platform. This marks the first instance of AI-generated adult video content in the industry, a step beyond AI-generated images. This isn’t just a new feature; it’s a seismic shift that has the potential to redefine the landscape of adult entertainment.

What Does It Mean?

So, what does AI video generation entail? Imagine your personal digital artist from earlier, now armed with the power to create not just still images, but full-fledged videos. The videos are based on user preferences and inputs, resulting in personalized content that’s unique to each user.

Implications and Possibilities

The implications of this advancement are manifold. On the one hand, it promises a level of personalization and user engagement that static images simply cannot match. On the other hand, it raises new questions about the ethical boundaries of AI-generated content.

A significant concern is the potential misuse of this technology to create non-consensual explicit videos, an issue that already plagues the deepfake community. As the technology advances, it’s crucial to establish guidelines and safeguards to prevent its misuse.

The Competitive Landscape

Pornify’s move has undoubtedly set a new bar in the industry. How its competitors — Made.porn and Pornpen — will respond remains to be seen. Will they follow suit and introduce their own versions of AI video generation? Or will they chart their own course, introducing different innovations to their platforms?

Personal Thoughts and Future Directions

From a personal standpoint, I find this development both exciting and a little disconcerting. It’s a fascinating glimpse into the future of adult entertainment, and I’m eager to see how the industry evolves in response. At the same time, I believe it’s essential to have open conversations about the ethical considerations that come with such advancements.

As we venture further into this brave new world of AI and adult entertainment, one thing is clear: The future will be anything but dull. Whether we’re ready for it or not, the AI revolution in adult entertainment is here to stay. Let’s navigate this path with open minds, thoughtful dialogue, and a shared commitment to ethical standards.