skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on how you view it. If you want to show flags, use the region to annotate the language. If you want to show the script variant (Traditional vs Simplified), don’t use flags. I don’t see how you can naively come to the conclusion only one of these is acceptable.
The big three carriers are offering (actually) unlimited data on their flagship plan, and unlimited data (with soft caps) on the others, I know because I checked the websites for each of them while I was making my comment.
Given Apple’s market share, BSD is actually extremely popular!
Yes, but something like that costs productions a boat load of capital to pull off. They can't really half-ass it either because then you run up against Uncanny Valley and people end up rejecting the movie or show, wasting your investment. So the bar is high.

Second, I'm not yet worried about this for credited actors, as audiences right now go see movies because they actually have the real actor of their choice in it. It asks a lot of your audience to be fine with a movie that "stars" someone who wasn't actually in it, and it's too early to see how well an AI credited actor would bring people to the theaters. My current guess is that it would cost a lot to make, not really bring anything new to the screen and turn off a sizable chunk of the audience.

HOWEVER, the actors strike is calling out that background actors who have only a line or two of dialog are getting paid for 1 day of work so that their likeness could be scanned in and they are used in perpetuity. You're diluted if you think this benefits college film projects, or your favorite YouTube channel. This stuff is expensive and time consuming to adopt. I mean, it is super cool that scenes like in House of Dragon, where they need to fill stadiums of citizens, can use this to make worlds seem much richer and larger than life. Still, it's not about compensation from what I understand, it's that actors worry this is gating off new actors from getting experience and exposure since many of them started out as background characters.
Multiple factors. The grid infrastructure isn't always there, the upfront cost is often higher (even if it is cheaper in the long run), production capacities as well as the fact that battery storage is just starting to catch up.
I came across slackware when I was 10 years old on an Indian computer magazine cd, pcquest.

I ran into a ton of issues installing sound cards, running X11 on a cyrix mediaGX card. And learned how to compile kernels, ask questions on mailing lists and debug C programs.

Truly the start of my serious engineering career haha.

Loved seeing how others have similar experiences and are all on hn. Small world.
"“trust the science” or “trust the experts” is usually right."

This statement and general belief is antithetical to science. Dr. Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying talk about this misconception of science on their Darkhorse podcast all the time. Dr Brian Keating nicely summarises this issue in this short video https://youtu.be/gAqq72m-ipo

You should "trust the scientific method" when done correctly.
Ok well the text of the literal article we're commenting on seems to contradict you, but all good.
Do you guys not have phones (to google the reference)?
I was referring to lead time on orders for existing products, i.e., those for which TSMC already has manufacturing capacity online, like current iPhone chips. I wasn't referring to the time it takes to go from design to manufacturing!
Are we gonna have to do the FOSS vs. 'source available' thing again? Also, while I think your 'source=training set+model, binary=weights' analysis is correct, I'm not sure we have 100% consensus on this yet?
The only reason actors and Hollywood exists is it's very expensive to make films. If it's not very expensive then it's democratised.

So the only question is: Are your skills something a computer/robot can't do yet? And will people pay for them?

Wheat picker? No. Fruit picker? Yes for now, but no one's paying much for them.

If you can't act better than a computer, why are you an actor?
Provide links please.
> Going carbon free on a big enough scale to impact the climate, according to existing models, requires getting these petroleum reserve holders to give up their massive wealth in exchange for little to nothing, and large developing economies to destabilize themselves to go carbon neutral.

The climate will continue to change even if humanity goes carbon free. When it comes to climate, the only constant is change.

> Poor Indians and Chinese aren't going to give up their opportunity to secure better lives for themselves for the sake of the climate.

Or fall for the NeoColonialist trap of paying taxes to financial markets to "save the world". Instead, the producer nations will leverage their positions as commodities become more valuable.
Experts, politicians, and CEOs are also humans with mouths to feed and bills to pay: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-msg-got-a-bad-rap-f...
I haven't heard about Aussie Broadband before. I take it you would recommend them then?

I hadn't known about Internode going downhill either. I'm still using them as their support is great. Price-wise looks like they both charge the same. Unfortunately no great connection here, so it ends at $100AUD for 100Mbps on a good day.
Thanks for sharing! Could you elaborate more? I was unaware there was any Linux distribution that was compatible with anything but 386-class processors?
Not everything you disagree with is greed or unethical.

The parent clearly explained physical constraints of small dial-up ISP's and their Telco providers.

The early internet and it's ISP's were vastly different than today. It wasn't uncommon for your local city to have several, or dozens of small startup ISP's available. Few, if any, were big enough to just let anyone do whatever they wanted - these were tying up phone lines, a more-or-less physical resource at the time.
We don’t have zero evidence:

- we know of the US funding collection of coronaviruses at WIV; and research on them using humanized mice

- we know that the closest genetic match is a thousand miles away

- we’ve been unable to identify the precursor in an animal, unlike other pandemics

That strongly implies that directed evolution on a collected sample via repeated infection of humanized mice is responsible for COVID.

Contrary to your claims, there’s evidence against a zoonotic origin — no precursor, high human infectivity (of alpha) that rapidly decreased in the wild (in delta and omicron), unusual genetics around the furin cleavage, etc.
Of course we are missing out. Why would one make the effort to study if there was nothing to gain?
The issue is that journalists could do better if they wanted to, but they don't want to and there's no system of incentives in place that would make them want to. There's no such thing as a journalism license they could lose, and publishing nonsensical science articles doesn't hurt their careers in any way because nobody expects better of them. After all, they're just journalists with no STEM education...

Even if you somehow forced science journalists to all get STEM dual majors, it still wouldn't make them care. They'd still take the path of least resistance and pump out slop. The only way to make them care is to put them under editors that enforce standards. But how do you make a publication care enough to hire editors that care? Even state funded university press departments notoriously sloppy. If they can't uphold standards, I doubt any organization can.
i still want use-anywhere sunglasses that plug into my laptop and give me monitors at an ergonomic height to use in libraries/cafes/parks. Like sightful without the weird computer
I loved running Slackware. It is still the only distro I got to feel "right" and was able to trust it to stay that way. The configs were all well documented and approachable, stored in obvious places.

I feel like Arch Linux has taken up that mantle in today's world to a certain extent. I'm glad there are distros like these.

Happy birthday Slackware!
> the words they are using give me a hint of high pride, high ego, arrogance. Feels a bit like militaristic zeal.

Really? I didn't get that sense at all. Can you give an example?
He's got a compelling voice, but it's not an objectively good singer.
Thanks! It was discussed at length a couple days ago:

What Happened to Dolphin on Steam? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798092 - July 2023 (193 comments)

There was only one comment in this (quasi) dupe thread, so I've merged it thither.
Of more interest is how high the daily low. Being in a desert area, there are large temperature swings between the lows and highs. Midnight shouldn't be the low -- that would be about the hours before dawn. Basically, we're looking at a situation where the temperature had not cooled off enough during the night before the sun starts baking things again.

Metro Phoenix where I live, has been having lows in the mid-90s these past couple weeks. Part of that is the heat island effect from all the asphalt, concrete, but it means even after the sun is down, we are having 100+ degree temperatures here during the evenings.
Can anyone recommend some paper or overview on how "sampling" / "decoding" is done in the e2e neural network age? I know how decoding was done for machine translation and speech recognition back in the HMM times (i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_algorithm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_search). These days I get the impression people just do "greedy" - but I don't really know. Any recommendations for info on that topic?

Edit: Forgot Viterbi
I’m impressed. I had it simulate a conversation with my wife about being a “digital nomad”. It’s something we are already doing. I didn’t use those words. It did pretty well.
Somebody should sell an AI voice filter that edits the gulps
I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit flies, then sit back and observe no change in the number of flies in the air.

They either throw out decoys when you swat them to fool us, or there’s a large queue of them waiting to take their turn to keep the number flying constant
> battery storage is just starting to catch up

Wait a minute. I thought solar is cheaper. Now you are telling me they need batteries? I would've assumed that the batteries are part of that cheaper claim, otherwise you wouldn't have power at night at that claim would be very disingenuous.

Sounds like the developing world still needs fossil fuels to escape poverty.
> how do we protest this?

Probably the privacy angle is best. Given that this uses an "attester’s public key", this enables to uniquely identify a given device repeatedly over time with no margin for error. It's essentially "perfect fingerprinting".

There's also the option that devices don't use a per-device key. If all the devices from a vendor use the same keypair, then this would be broken by just extracting the key from a single device (AFAIK, in the US this would likely not be legal to use).
Depends on your home's location, I guess. I don't have fruit flies.

Where I am, pantry moths are the problem. One of the few genuinely useful ideas I've ever gotten off NextDoor is this: Dr. Killigan's Premium Pantry Moth Traps with Pheromones.

The pheromones attract the moths, and the glue makes them stick to it and die. You can put it out of site in a cabinet, and after a few weeks it's covered with dead moths.
Perhaps you would prefer an analogy to law where there are things which are illegal and they may not precisely correspond to the things which you personally consider unethical?
Would "completely illogical" be better?
Ah finally, this was discussed a lot and is well overdue. Remains to be seen how well the models will adapt to this new constraint, though the demo seems promising.
would the guillotines reach them if they had armies of killbots guarding them?
I'm referring to the insinuation about faking his own death.

I might not be up to speed with a particular instance of that in his life though. Perhaps that's where my lack of understanding stems from.
Funny. This reminded me of the old saying "Two of the most famous products to come out of Berkeley are BSD and LSD." Turns out, as a tech person, I'm (very) tangentially involved with BSD and my landlord was pretty deeply involved with LSD decades ago. ;)
Yea, its tragic. When I was a kid I would often just go to GameFAQs because that was the only real source, and the guides would be surfaced in google. Its still around but Google gives me 20 crappy ad riddled sites that require a new page click, listicle-style, to get through a 5 minute area
i.e. showing up to work, doing well at school, dressing properly, keeping the correct company, filial piety...
This sounds somewhat similar to ‘dynamic personality concept’ by Hlomov, which states that a developed personality has 3 parts: schizoid, borderline and narcissistic. All those parts can have different adaptation issues and if one part constantly consumes more energy and starves the others, that’s a personality type. Hlomov often uses a metaphor of 3-headed dragon, like ‘clients borderline head is now talking to therapists borderline head’. Also, in this concept any person can be in a totally borderline state in the moment, if his borderline part is taking control.
How much do you code in your free time? Like average hours per week?

If it's zero (and no judgement from me if it is; plenty of other things to focus on), then it shouldn't be surprising that someone for whom that number is (speculatively) 10-20 hours per week on average for years has impressive side projects.
> You don't have to understand it to write a story about what they said.

Pretty much the silliest thing I've heard today!

"Dr. Scientist, you said that vaccines promote herd immunity describe your evidence for that claim"

"Dr. Scientist, you said that mRNA vaccines aren't going to mutate humans, describe your evidence for that claim"

"Dr. Scientist, you predicted this year is hotter than ever, but back in February it was -20. Why did you lie?"

There are an infinite numbers of terrible questions you could ask as a reporter, if you don't have expertise. You need some degree of knowledge to talk about a subject, the only debate is how much.
GUI layout can be done by solving constraints, like in Cassowary, which is used in iOS and has implementations in many languages

> Can I specify a list of statements, constraints, prioritisations and the have it solve it for the best possible solution? Is that it? If so, I need it to figure out my optimal workout schedule given a handful of constraints (a problem I’ve been thinking about since I started university twenty years ago :) )

Yes!
define journalist:

1. an independent youtuber, who gives their opinion, can admit their bias, and is able to operate on good faith while allowing open discussions with people they disagree with

2. a corporate "journalist" who's integrity has become second rate in the age of the internet, who uses language as an instrument to get people to admit what they want them to admit in the most petty way possible

i can agree with 1, i don't think 2 fits the definition anymore. it used to be the best we had for a few decades, but that age is over now. i don't think 1 has any problem with admitting what should be an area of skepticism. however, i don't think that 2 is actually a journalist as they're not motivated to share information, they're instead motivated by the narratives of their employer
worse sounds like a topic. You haven't explained why btw.
It will be interesting to see what happens to HN in the long run. I hope it's shut down and archived if it no longer serves it's purpose as opposed to either being left to decline or shamelessly monetized like what happened to slashdot.
The highest quality tshirt I own is from Rocawear. Circa 2004 and still looking better than half my collection of much younger shirts.

The 2nd oldest shirt that's still in rotation is a 12 year old Carhartt.
https://www.chargebee.com/
Apart from billing, helps you solve recurring revenue related use cases.
They definitely did. My brother was happy to get my ibm branded palm pilot (WorkPad) because it would interface with serial obd-ii dongles. And the ice rink where my kiddo plays hockey has a scoreboard that was sold with a palm pilot to control it (someone in the beer league built replacement software for a PC when palm pilots became hard to source)
Your words

> My concern with native apps is only sometimes about privacy

An app at least on iOS has no more access to information on your phone than a website unless you give it permission.
Ahh okay that makes sense. Just updated it, thanks.
I always miss the live Discord call and never realized they were published to YT! Thanks for the notice.
It might be time to abandon that half of the web. Radical software freedom ideology is looking less radical and more rational by the day.
Yeah. I do occasional contract work these days and $1 to $1.50 a word for stuff I'm not being paid for anyway by my day job is OK--and pretty much my floor. Ends up being a couple hundred dollars per hour.

But that's really not a random online pub rate.

Journalism was pretty much never a super high-paying profession for most but, as you say, it could be a solid middle-class job which it mostly isn't today absent other or related income sources (which tend to be difficult given ethics rules). And working for the NYT, WSJ, Time, or Newsweek certainly had a cachet as an often Ivy League grad.
I mean, you know this, but 3 or 6 weeks isn't going to help if your problem is unrealistic micromanagement.

The underlying management problem there is they're more concerned about hours worked than work completed.
My favorite Slackware memory was how the version I downloaded disksets of (on a 14.4k modem, yeah) had a broken bootloader. Not sure of the Slackware release, but it was kernel 1.2.8, before the ELF transition. Anyway, every time I reinstalled, the bootloader hung on `LI` because the config was just broken, and I had to remember how to fix it.. every time.

So many hours recompiling kernels. My 4MB-equipped 486 took about 8 hours per. I only realized many years later after somehow finding the $400 for a memory upgrade, that it was only slow due to swapping. Going from 8 hours to 10 minutes was eye-opening.

X11 failed to run, for the same 4MB reason. I mean, it would launch, but I want to say it took 20 or 30 minutes.
I'm curious how this view works out when trouble comes up. If you have a friend going through a rough time for a few months or years, do you just say I'm not going to get caught up in the sunk cost fallacy and cut ties? Even when I've had friends with difficult times and we spend less time together. I still feel for them and my heart hurts, even if I can't be around them as much to protect myself if they're spiralling.

Similarly what would you do if a friend was dying? Sorry I just don't see the ROI here, don't think I can get much out of your last few months?
I've used OptaPlanner in production, it was pretty straightforward and coped perfectly well with the few-hundred-variable problems we needed it for (we ran it with a timeout, and its solutions were good). If you're comfortable programming Java, it should be easy enough (note that it relies on mutating objects in-place; which took some getting used to since I was using it from Scala!)

I've used MiniZinc too (in a different project), where I wanted some optimal results to compare against some heuristic algorithms I was developing. MiniZinc requires more careful thought when it comes to encoding/representing the problem (i.e. sets of integers, rather than familiar Java objects), but it's not too difficult. Since it's optimal it can take an age to run; I could only scale my problem up to N=11 before it was taking more than 24 hours (that was enough for my comparisons though)
> It's more comparable to illustration or photography, or even to a written body of html or js, than it is to the programming languag

Yeah again I can download about a few hundred thousand open source tools like ffmpeg, git, Linux, Chromium, web servers, databases, queues, web libs, etc and almost always the best stuff is open source. Almost never is there some kind of per user fee just for copying code, and if it is, almost nobody is using it.

It's not shitty for me to call out greedy excessive licensing practices.
I think "don't use Chrome" is really not the best way to fight this - instead, make it known. Get out to as many people as possible that this thing exists, spread awareness, explain the consequences, make a stink.

Google is absolutely in a position to implement this and I figure a good number of sites would immediately join. However, the image of "tech" is tarnished enough already and the general population is more aware of the importance of having control about their online experience.

So I'm kinda optimistic that more public awareness of this might lead to a larger backlash and might make Google think twice in continuing this, lest risking a PR disaster.
I mostly agree.

As a small-scale game-designer I sometimes ask myself: how I could create a Diablo given the right budget? But the problem is that you cannot recreate the magic of Diablo (2). There is nothing inherently magic about Diablo which sets it apart. It's all about the impeccable implementation of a simple idea. A perfect storm.

I think a combination of Diablo and Souls-like would be a fascinating endeavour.
You could take the core souls-gameplay, scale up the enemy count and turn it into an isometric game. High Stakes, high reward.

Or you take a Souls-game and just make it a bit more casual/accessible. On top, Blizzard has the talent and manpower to create breathtaking environments that could shine even more in third-person.

Blizzard should go back to formula. Because their original recipe is still stuck in the 90s.
My personal test for this is: what percentage of the company's total value is comprised of the intellectual property their software source code holds.

The higher the percentage the more of a "tech" company you are - the lower the more "traditional" you are.

No company will ever be 100% - all companies have other assets that are worth money and even a company that sells software as its main product might have lots of value tied up in their brand or their sales book of business.
> A deepfaked, gender-swapped image of Donald Trump, created with Unstable Diffusion

Here's the real scandal: techcrunch didn't blur out the nipples!
Mostly because it wastes time (and money, for the company.)
Amazon and Google are hardly innocent players. One could go on to point at the effects of Uber, Yelp, AirBnb, Palantir, so on... all "Big Tech".
I mean, I understand that laws and professional ethics are enforced. But that doesn't make any of them anything other than opinions.
Reddit expanded the r/Place canvas, and users wrote messages cursing the CEO
I would agree that it is not a prerequisite to play popular music, and music theory will not necessarily make you a good player (theres so much more to it, including feeling as you say, as well as fine motor control).

> Improvisation is about feeling the music and interacting with it, it is not about finding the best scale and writing the notes on paper.

Knowing music theory is not about finding the best scale. It is about being able to talk and write about the building blocks that give rise to musical expressivity in a common language that is communicable to others. In other words, it is descriptive, not prescriptive.

> in fact it may hinder you ability to discover by yourself

As someone who has taken 6 semesters of music theory, and still stumbles upon things that surprise me musically, I would disagree. The difference is when I stumble upon a new sound, I can remember it not only by feeling and how it sounds but also by it's harmonic, rhythmic, melodic, structural characteristics. Which would allow me to use it in greater contexts.