skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the scanned result redirects to qrbtf.com, which OP ported some QR libs into javascript [1]

notably they also implemented the "Halftone"[2] style.

[1] https://github.com/ciaochaos/qrbtf

[2] http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/SmartGeometry/halftone_QR/...
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Had some fun with GPT4 and Midjourney and created a travel website with bite-sized information for every city above 100k population. Let me know what you think!
Squeezing submarines through internet ravines sounds really interesting. Go on.
Not if you play PC VR games :(
How do you define failure? I reckon that if people start to make apps for this device, then it’s served its purpose. The next generation, or “lite” version will arrive to an already-populated ecosystem. Meanwhile Apple will have a lot of data about what worked and what didn’t to tweak their direction.
I'd like 100 gigabit ethernet, 128 GB ECC, 4x NVMe and still enough PCIe lanes for some GPU for ML.

Seems to be impossible without going to server mainboards.
Typically IPO approvals include a carve out that says this approval cannot bed used a defense in a SEC action. CB will still use it as an argument.
Not one like this I hope.

https://www.googlesightseeing.com/2007/09/the-swastika-build...
Can't have climate change without atmosphere... Or climate.
Smart choice!

Can we even make Earth like Mars or Moon?
In the Chinese world, it's still called the equivalent of 2D code in Chinese(二維碼/二维码). The original variant QR Code(QR碼/QR码) are used but to the best of my knowledge they are quite mixed together in terms of usage.

I think the mainland Chinese are more inclined to 2D code by the interactions with them in the past.
Ep 1315
You haven't done anything substantial with ffmpeg, have you?
>cause depression

Phones cause depression? More likely to be the abilities of the phone will allow people to access certain things that could cause depression.
It's a point I'll make soley as it reminds me of "ice caused the accident" argument, and why uk cops call Road Traffic Accidents Road Traffic Collisions.
I feel like mandatory licensing is the answer. Have a state ombudsman who sets a price of "marginally above reasonable" so that people are still encouraged to negotiate first, while providing a way out when it's obvious the patent-holder is not acting in good faith.

Everyone wins: the inventor gets a payday even if he can't deliver directly, consumers don't have to choose between "brand I trust" and "patent-exclusive feature I need", and manufacturers stay out of the courts.

You get the payday, whether it's your one man startup or a massive industrial that actually delivers the product to market.
Mostly C++ sprinkled with several scripting languages.

The compilation took hours, so hooks with an emebedded scripting language used to make changes to the system without recompilation.
Scroll down for what you could buy 37 years ago (not 50) in Computer Shopper. Multiply the costs by 2.86 to convert dollars to today: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5543
I wish MidJourney had some decent competition.

Dall-E hasn’t improved since it was released, and the other good models like Google’s Imagen weren’t made public…
Well actually no. Heating is easy, all you need is a power source and a resistive wire. Cooling is hard because you need to radiate the heat away. If earth became 100°C it will be easier to live on Mars.
Has been for a long time from what I have gathered. Stock photography has been a very hard way to make money as a photographer for awhile based on the forums I read.
>, far more young people are harmed (up to and including suicide) by phones than guns.

??
There's no plauible way to allow you to move around the virtual space without moving in the real world and not give many people motion sickness, since by definition that is exactly what triggers it. The better the illusion of immersion, the worse sickness you'll get when your eyes tell you you're moving but your body and inner ear say you're not.
Hey folks,

Today we are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files.

OpenObserve can use local disk for storage in single node mode or s3/gc/minio/azure blob or any s3 compatible store in HA mode.

We found that setting up observability often involved setting up 4 different tools (grafana for dashboarding, elasticsearch/loki/etc for logs, jaeger for tracing, thanos, cortex etc for metics) and its not simple to do these things.

Here is a blog on why we built OpenObserve - https://openobserve.ai/blog/launching-openobserve.

We are in early days and would love to get feedback and suggestions.
Sounds like the SQLite model, which has been a net positive for the computing world.
And the sad thing is that these models are most likely trained upon most of these stock photos to begin with. I can understand the frustration of the industry.
The very first example is a religious painting that has nothing to do with aliens
Its an unethically made, inorganic snake oil. Now will please..please buy a vial from a16z.
Microsoft likes to play dirty. It is in their genes
"hallucinations of our own making via events like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima"

I suppose the millions executed under extremist politics were also "hallucinations" then... (e.g. German holocaust, Soviet prisoner camps)

These were all very real events with very real repercussions. They did not conclusively prove there is no "safe" nuclear power, but they did illustrate the consequences of getting it wrong.

The "new" procedures around "cleaner" fission processes e.g. with fuel recycling all sound nice, but ultimately they cary the same costs of "getting it wrong". Having objections to safety is not a "hallucination".

Unless you can clearly explain why a dangerous process has been made "safe", without insulting people's intelligence or understanding i.e. hand waving, you cannot prove you understand it well enough yourself to claim safety. This is my problem with the spate "nuclear is safe" going around - if only a small subset of highly trained personnel can operate and diagnose it safely, without repercussion in a closed loop, you cannot claim safety, just that there are specialized processes that under correct supervision might not be harmful, maybe.
It also seems like you’d need to troll someone extraordinarily thoroughly for them to have enough material to testify to congress for hours. Even assuming ET is the least likely explanation, it’s at least very curious what else could have resulted in the testimony described in the article.
https://github.com/sparckles/starfyre
My domain has also moved to safenames according to Whois information, but I cannot register on the safenames website. Error "Update Unsuccessful
Please fix the missing or invalid Data". All data is filled in
So the trail court declares it to not be a crime. State supreme court declares it to not be a crime. But our esteemed judge JumpinJack somehow knows better? Bruh, please don't make this place into reddit.
AFAIK all programs "generated" by LLMs are curated from existing programs. If we were to create a new programming language for use by LLMs we would also need to create a large body of correct code for the LLMs to learn from. For that reason, I think that existing languages with a large corpus of algorithms would continue to be more useful.
Microsoft likes to play dirty . It is in their genes
The Kinect sold even more devices, but as a paradigm was still a massive failure. Nobody used them beyond some original demos.
Reddit to lay off about 5% of its workforce
I'll prefix my point by saying I'm not one of those people who think all reasoning should (or can) be Bayesian, but here, I think it applies at least as an analogy. In what you call "real world reasoning", you never have the amount of logical rigor that you get when going from mathematical axiom to theorem. Instead, there are always varying degrees of knowledge, certainty and understanding. In such a setting, it's very easy to imagine a new, non-contradicatory fact pushing a conclusion from 80% certainty down to 40% certainty.
smirking as an engineer myself I can only confirm as much haha.
Microsoft has been pulling this shit for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
The primary input is eye tracking to me is really exciting, feels like the future.

I wonder what happens in games though. Will this not essentially be aimbot, looking at the target and then shoot?
I've tried the online versions, and they're not even close to being a replacement for the proper desktop applications.
You are missing the complaint he filed because he was a victim of retaliation. This is first hand evidence that the inspector general of the intelligence community found credible and urgent, and the main point of the story.
Huh. I saw something blocking me from reading halfway down but it is not there now on my phone anyway. Still don’t trust em, but I guess it’s not paywalled.
Couldn’t that be just celestial navigation with a very specific notch filter for starlight wavelengths? So you can see stars in daylight?
I don’t think AI will replace stock photos because AIs need some photos to build the AI photos.

Probably AI will help photographers to cut costs, I mean by taking less “real” photos and using the AI to generate other similar variants, example: “Photos Used to Generate AI Images for Client So Photographer Never Shoots Again Photos Used to Generate AI Images for Client So Photographer Never Shoots Again” https://petapixel.com/2022/12/21/photos-used-to-generate-ai-...
I'm a millennial and even I notice that weed is quickly replacing alcohol in my social group.

It's not surprising. To me, weed is healthier on the body, can't kill you if you overdose, generally cheaper per session, won't make you do stupid stuff, and doesn't make people violent.
60 terrible tips for a C++ developer, part 2 (tips 6–10)
This is not true, it’s AGPL or pay.
There are public static diffusion models trained on/like midjourney, but IMO they're still lacking.
Exactly, you’d use the to do the same thing more or less but the iPhone had way better UX. The idea of browsing the web on your phone wasn’t something new or revolutionary, it was all about the implementation.
Yes, unfortunately there are a lot of bad players. But you say it yourself: "websites" have asked you. Its mostly news sites that think they need to push you. There are proper web apps, that will have the "Enable notifications" button in their settings/preferences and are not spamy in any way.
Happy Tuesday Readers! In this week’s roundup, we will cover:
4 Significant Insights from RSA Conference 2023
Embracing Data Warehousing Play for Optimized Storage & Visibility
Supercharge Modern Apps with Observability
Let’s dive in.
Looks good so far.

Will you be adding comments sections for each post?

Inline previews of the links, and usernames on each post, would be helpful.

What is the ellipsis to the right of each post for? It doesn't seem to do anything.

What is the integer to the left of each post? They don't seem to be in any apparent order.

I actually rather like the interface. I feel like a lack of shininess and rounded corners keeps away the 'unwashed masses' that tend to ruin forums. A different background color would be an improvement, however.
Microsoft and other companies ultimately chickened out of taking risk with this. It happens a lot. I worked for Nokia around the time that the rumors about the iphone started swirling in 2006. Exact same thing. At that time, Nokia had multiple touch screen operating systems, a linux based internet tablet running a mozilla based browser with a webcam, Symbian phones running browsers based on khtml (which later evolved into webkit, safari and chrome), lots of nice hardware, lots of investment in hardware, chips, radio technology, etc. A lot of mobile firsts happened long before there were iphones, android phones, ipads, etc. Nokia had a huge technical moat.

Six years later Nokia pulled the plug on the whole thing because it got absolutely steam rolled by Apple who had none of those things but started building them around the same time Nokia decided to focus o flip phones instead (sorry, this level of corporate insanity still makes me angry). They were worried about the Motorola Razr more than they were about the iphone. They actually killed multiple touch screen platforms because of that before scrambling to re-build one around the sinking ship that was Symbian. And then they badly botched that. Reason: Nokia management was arrogant, out of touch, clueless, incompetent, complacent and utterly in denial about there even being a problem. Six years later the whole lot got fired and sold off to ... Microsoft. Who of course promptly killed it because Apple had won already and between them and Google, MS saw no path to success. So, they walked away from the whole thing.

That's the company we're talking about here. So, sure, MS has stuff that they've been sitting on for ages. But what they've lacked for years is any clue as to what to do with all that stuff. Like with the iphone, Apple has been known to prepare something for years. And people just assumed it would be fine and disappointing.

IMHO things are not that hopeless for MS and they could pull a few things together. XBox, holo lens, and some other bits and pieces could make for a half decent experience. Apparently they are talking to magic leap about licensing some of their tech as well. But that's not going to happen overnight and a rush job is not going to be good enough here.
Yeah it kind of sucks because it seems like won't be able to use something like Hammerspoon to control windows and other UI elements the same way you can on Mac.
Interesting. When you consider he may be a Russian asset, and that's a significant revenue source, his decision to be on Twitter makes more sense. He can combine both revenue streams and make ends meet. I doubt Twitter alone can pay his staff, production, make it worth it for himself. Especially for him to just end up peddling Kremlin's talking points. Totally by accident, of course.
Every indication is that AI will accelerate human stupidity, greed and fragility.

Digital tech that is actually improving humanity is so rare we have forgotten what it looks like.
CO2 accounting is hard and easy to corrupt. And I don't believe that market value alone is a strong enough utility signal to be used to prioritize the important aspects of life.
I'm not sure what the issue is. Google pushes Chrome when going to google.com.

Also, I'm not getting the same results as OP. So, this might not be pushed out everywhere?
Congratulations on the launch! This looks awesome!

Would you be interested in supporting PRQL (prql-lang.org)? The compiler is also written in rust so integration should be straightforward.

Disclaimer: I'm a contributor.

Github: github.com/PRQL/prql
Just because they don't understand something or don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't benefit them.
But... i would trust them because.... man aliens.
Yeah I think if you’re coming from the startup or less so tech in general you may not realize how ubiquitous Microsoft is at work. A massive amount of companies are Microsoft from the ground up. Not to mention there are some entire industries where to run the necessary software you have to use windows at the very least.
"UFO/aliens" as in, extraterrestrial spacecraft, X-Files bs
> It wasn't the governments that created it, but rather the governments were duped into believing it.

The Iraq war?
I dunno, marital aids (sorry, muscle massage wands) and nuclear reactors is a quirky mix.
The Imperial College researcher who builds these things describes his research here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centre-for-cold-matter/research/q...

The page claims that this device attempts to measure acceleration accurately enough that position can be determined (by integrating over time, twice).
Intriguing, why does it have a triple e when written - is it just a way to emphasize that the vowel is pronounced long, or is it reallly long?
Same way, your password manager will hold the passkey token instead of password. Recovering passkey is done the same as you recover your random generated password.
Stable Diffusion is still good but you need to fine tune it (not that expensive with Lora) and use controlnet to get good results. The model is just too small on its own.
Humans crash probes into interstellar bodies all the time. “Wreckage” could be fragments of some unmanned craft, like a von neumann probe, creators unknowably many light years away and maybe long dead.

Interesting to consider how that revelation might change life very little overall.
Doesn't matter whether you do it yourself or turn it in for repair. If it's harder to repair on your own, it's gonna be way more expensive to do through a shop too. Apple are notorious for designing their laptops in a way that one component dying means the whole board must be replaced.

And yes, it's possible to design repairable laptops without making them "twice as thick and heavy, with shitty plastic panels everywhere". This is a made up problem.

If apple are so much better at "design" than everyone else, why are they so much worse at repairability? Is it too hard for Apple? Is that really your argument?
What's behind MidJourney, and how has it not been matched/defeated? There's a lot of interest in the space and money to be made, and MidJourney proves that quality results are possible. Is it because of the sheer costs or a secret sauce?
Unless the EU forces Apple to do it differently.
Kandinsky 2.1 is worth a shot if you haven’t tried it.
next up we need c++ vs HTML . Is HTML more powerful programming language than C++ ?
The books are not alien to us. A mind that's born out of compressing them might be an entirely different thing. Increasingly so as it's able to grow on its own.
That story is below the fold, as a small subsection on CNN.com. Their current major top story is "New York City’s air pollution among the worst in the world." It's clearly a slow news day.
If there are alien craft flying in a manner even remotely alleged by most UFO people, then we as a civilization are dead. D-E-A-D. Our best hope is compliant slaves or an interesting zoo.

Because it implies essentially effortless arbitrary military and economic exploitation access to our planet. Craft that defy gravity, instantly accelerate in arbitrary directions? Presumably cross light years of distance? They could drop an asteroid on us at will. They could bring our civilization to its knees with simple smart rocks.

Sufficiently advanced technology is magic, and this would indicate that level of advanced technology that we find magical.

Either the civilization is rapacious, or, if they aren't, they will take one look at our history books and realize that we are rapacious.
The PC gaming market is expected to be worth something north of $200bn in 2023, and (despite ongoing insanity among graphics cards manufacturers) is expected to keep growing in the coming years.

Apple has been doing their usual thing, with slowly moving pieces into place, but it's been pretty clear that they're ultimately going to go for a slice of that cake. Aside for mobile gaming, it's essentially an untapped market for them, given the footprint they now have with their devices. Also, they're going to want to shift the VR game development efforts to the Vision, in time for the release of the non-Pro version.

It'd be smart of them to partner, or at least cooperate with, Valve around this, but I'm not so sure about that one. Apple _might_ have enough hubris that they'd try to supplant Steam rather than work with it. This would be a mistake in my opinion.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple has been working on this for more than 9 years. They know not to release until all parts are mature enough to make a successful release. Sometime the hardware just isn’t there yet, and you have to wait a few generation for it to be smaller/faster/have more pixels/use less energy. And even today it seems that hardware is not at a level where they can do a successful consumer release, so they have a pro version for markets that can work around the limitations of todays hardware, like the huge size of the goggles or the BOM cost.
That's the one, I read it pretty recently actually!
LocalAI: Self-hosted, community-driven, local OpenAI-compatible API
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for the TuyaAPI library. I'm not using it directly - not trusting that hardware to ever talk to anything on the Internet, but I'm happily running my own server substitute (using a patched firmware that replaces TLS certificates, so of no practical use for you folks) for my cats feeder and your particular library had helped me a lot with understanding the overall HTTP API structure and their DIY encryption stuff - so I was much better prepared when I've started to dissect the binaries. Initial understanding saved me a lot of time.

And if you have a contact at Tuya, can you possibly please tell them that encrypting only I-frames in H.264 stream is a really bad idea? P-frames may not have all the pixels needed to get a clear picture, but they leak a lot - and Tuya is saving that stuff to the cloud, unprotected.

And good luck with the company! Must be extremely daunting task to get with all those IoT shenanigans. It's a very noble goal to bring some sanity into that crazy world.
They didn't fill their ESTA. Dura lex sed lex
Making a subscription dialog with the same look as cookie consent dialog is brilliant and evil at the same time.
> ...and they aren't famous enough for you to trust them.

That's not how we gain extraordinary trust (remember, Kyrie Irving is pretty darn famous).

We expect all statements to be independently verified and attested by a bunch of experts, with eg. journalists verifying they are indeed experts (that's journalists' expertise). The more people who've you learned to trust in that chain of verifiers, the higher your trust.

When it comes to extraordinary claims like this, I usually go back to the "implementation": why and how did another civilization solve all of the physics problems of interstellar flight (if it did), how did they go undetected by other countries and amateurs, and why did they not simply reach out in an attempt to communicate?

At that point I can even buy that these "intelligence officers" believe what they are saying, but I still don't buy that their claims are true.
You're not giving the LLM "time to think". It is incapable of thinking. You're just inputting random magic incantations into a glorified Markov chain.

You might as well ask it "did you check your answer?" Computer says "yes" because that's what humans do (also lie).

> Note the rabbit doesn't eat carrots. Kaboodly consooodle the retroodle and seqooodle the moodle. Carefully considering the restrictions and sequencing the movements

This fails two out of three times as usual. Trying to finagle this prompt is not an intellectual exercise, it is a waste of time that exploits cognitive biases.
CO2 is harder to limit than CFCs, but my point is that there are existence proofs that policy can trump economics.

I agree the West is higher on a per capita basis, but the important measure is the change. The West is cutting emissions per person, and China is increasing them.

It’s significant that China is mostly selling their panels to the West. If they are such world leaders, why do they continue to accelerate coal and gas generation? If they have the cheapest panels, why don’t they just use those? Because their policy is to maximise economic power and practically ignore emissions. Unless the west finds a way to incentivise reductions in the east and developing world (eg green investment, tariffs based on emissions), our sacrifices will have been in vain.