skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems nuts to me. I grew up in Colorado and have also lived in several other states where people are more comfortable and likely to bump into each other in public spaces than NYC. In NYC, people are nearly all strangers and in a big hurry. Even living in Mountain View was better.

In terms of serendipity, I'd put a college town far ahead of a large city.
This got me mulling over what would happen if AI became better at writing pop songs than humans.

So let's game it out...

Most of the pop hits of the last 30 years come from a small handful of songsmiths. Most pop stars already don't really write their own songs, they are more the 'Figurehead' of the whole experience. Their overall look and stage presence are the major selling point (some of them can't really sing without autotune, looking at you Britney).

So a handful of songwriters will be out of work, and nothing much will change. Mayyybe a few artists will sign away their likeness and voice to churn out album after album, hoping the public is none-the-wiser. Pop music may become still more homogenous, since part of the huge pop hits is the unexpected twist worked in that makes it "pop".

It'll be kind of a reverse Hatsune Miku, but things won't change that much. I think the appetite for a completely synthetic pop star is not there in the West - they'll have to be tricked into it. Pop stars are already arguably artificial in some form.
> If what I'm getting is just a synthetic, semi-random découpé, then that is lost.

It certainly comes down to perception, interpretation, and a blind assumption though, right? Before generative AI, the blind assumption was that some human made a piece of art. That might be changing now, but if you didn't know (and couldn't know) a piece was artificial, feelings may still be evoked and you might still infer some meaning from it.

With that said, not all art need be about human connection. I still enjoy mindless dubstep music on occasion despite not caring one bit about the artist or any meaning behind it (if any even exists beyond "it sounds cool"). The only value there is my enjoyment of it, but then again, I think enjoyment is the most valuable aspect of any piece.
Kyle Hill also made a video on the topic. Different video styles if Plainly Difficult isn't your jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap0orGCiou8
I just started using Unreal 5 to prototype a VR game (lots of quirks but this engine is amazing). I’ve been writing C++ for 5ish years now and am pretty comfortable with it. I’ve also been slowly converting all the blueprints in the VR template provided by Unreal to C++ for a few reasons and was curious if these effect you.

I tried using blueprints for awhile, but it just feels so cumbersome and time consuming. I can bang out 10 lines of code basically as fast as I can think, but converting those same 10 lines of code to blueprints often involves much more time. You have to click around a bunch, rearrange the routing wires, make it look readable, abstract a lot of stuff into functions that usually don’t need it just because it helps condense the blueprints. Then the blueprints end up sprawling a large area and are very difficult to keep in my head at once (whereas it would normally take less than a page of C++ code to write it out and you can easily hold that in your head).

Basically, I was wondering if these downsides to blueprints effect you much or if you’ve developed suitable workarounds? I want to like blueprints, but the time it takes to click around and make it readable is painful, in my opinion, more painful than compile times for the C++.
"I think it can be taken further; rather than "spot the errors that ChatGPT made", you could flip the script and make it "survive 20 turns of conversation without making a historical error", so you'd need to know things like local traditions, perhaps the geography of the ancient settlement you're studying, contemporaneous history like "who is the emperor and what's the sentiment towards him" and so on."

Yes, exactly. This is where I've been heading with my planning for assignments. For instance, when confronting Ea-nāṣir about his poor quality copper, I'd want my students to actually show some knowledge of the geography and political dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia.

The "Fall of the Ming Dynasty" simulator I link to at the bottom of post is probably the most well developed example of this that I've come up with so far. In that one, I added a "political intrigue minigame" in which ChatGPT is supposed to assess the human player's ability to deploy rhetoric appropriate for a minor courtier in 1640s China (from the prompt: "success depends on your luck score + rhetorical skill, tested via a series of open-ended prompts that HistoryLens will assess and grade; only the highest scoring responses will allow you to succeed in the minigame.")

Here is the full prompt for that one if people want to try it: https://chat.openai.com/share/86815f4e-674c-4410-893c-4ae3f1...
This can come up in other interesting ways.

There are human behaviors that appear to be entirely selected for (and then kept around via culture) [0].

In this case a population may do something like have pregnant women avoid eating sharks which are otherwise a normal part of their diet. They don't know why they don't eat the sharks, they just don't. It turns out the sharks contain something that causes birth defects. Commonly people think someone must have realized this and then that original knowledge was forgotten, but it's quite likely it was never known and the behavior was entirely selected (pregnant women that didn't eat the sharks more successfully reproduced).

When you press the women to answer why they don't know, if forced to answer they make something up (it'll give my baby shark skin).

You could imagine someone thinking that's stupid and then eating the sharks and getting a baby with birth defects.

I think this explains a lot about why superstitious belief is so common in humans and animals.

Reason is obviously selectively advantageous, but a little reason incorrectly or over confidently applied can also be harmful, most people are bad at individual reasoning (endless conspiracy theories) and are often better off with consensus.

For every contrarian that unlocks massive value by being contrarian and correct there are ten cranks that just hold false beliefs that potentially harm themselves and others.

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...
In the UK and most of europe, dry ice is limited to industrial/scientific uses. No retail shops sell it.
Had the same thought, 0-100kmph in 3sec gives so much wheel spin.
Must be a whole lot of electronic trickery ever invented from launch control, traction control to power management plus the mechanical stuff sticky tyres, down force.

It amazes me how much faster we have got the last 6-7 years.
What about before the machines are sealed off and air gapped? What stops tampering with the software in advance? As long as something about the configuration lets you know it's a real election, your payload can be triggered.
> Respectfully disagree. At this point you start refactoring your monolith into components and actually look at performance measurements via tracing.

No matter how hard you modularize and instrument your service, that won't give you regional deployments, which you absolutely need to have ti be able to drive down customer-facing latencies from many hundreds of milliseconds to a few tens of milliseconds.

How do you pull that off with a monolith when you have a global userbase?
I think the problem with what you have now is that the feature comparison values "built in" above any other qualities. Obviously would require a much bigger article but I think the only way this is useful is if there is a comparison of tools in each runtime and "built in" is simply a pro in that comparison.
Aren't you describing the exact problem that Page Rank was supposed to fix?

We've come full circle.
An "A500 Mini" is basically the same emulator you could get for basically free, plus a case which is reminiscent of the actual Amiga A500, bundled with some video games.

Probably if you are interested in writing software for an Amiga, rather than nostalgia of old video games you might better begin with just the emulator.
I stand corrected, the Bugatti is a hypercar. It's a bit embarrassing considering that I was in the workshop where they make the Bugatti engines just a few weeks ago. Awesome experience btw, seems to be part of the standard factory tour at Volkswagen Salzgitter currently.
It's also ironic that he is all for increased funding, but not paying increased prices.
*offline
So almost everyone? From desk job to truck driver.
Google Infrastructure Manager: Provision Resources with Terraform
Well congestion pricing improves vehicle traffic in tunnels, that's the point.

And trains can be ramped up and down mostly in response to demand, no? It's not a question of underlying track capacity, is it?

I mean I've never heard of someone driving from NJ to NY instead of taking the train because the train was too full. It's usually the opposite -- they take the train instead of the car because the traffic is too slow.
I don't really get the connection between the scenarios - and trying to think through it I just ran into one more realization of how LLMs have changed things. If I was sure a human wrote this I'd probably put some more effort to see things from that perspective, maybe it's a good way to think about it.

But unfortunately now that this type of comment can be the rambling of an LLM, I don't want to put in the effort when it could simply be a mechanical fever dream...
This has been an open secret for years.
Great point. It's fascinating that the trend of the pop music industry has been towards more and more electronic control over vocals and instruments and everything else for a very long time... and now that AI can basically replicate it, and with all the auto-tune that we got used to, we can barely tell if it's 'real' or AI-generated.
> "Lazard" is apparently a French investment bank

There are a few Lazards. This one is in New York. (Its modern lineage traces to André Meyer and Felix Rohatyn [1].) It’s as French as Bank of America is Italian.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Meyer
Wayland sounds a bit like what Vulkan is to OpenGL? Am I anywhere close?

I'm a novice when it comes to the implementation of compositors and display servers, but as a user it's been a far better experience than X11/Xorg ever was. Seeing this robustness video just proves it to me even more.
Because content farms give Google money and the official documentation doesn't.
> Pit stop times matter, and supercapacitors exist.

Imagine a pit "stop", where you keep your speed to 300km/h/200mph, and you have your on-board supercapacitor charged in 1 second, using a power transfer system borrowed from electric trains.
It is a good idea. When WebAssembly becomes more widespread, it is likely we can drop fixed encoders altogether. Though at this stage the performance impact might be still too much to warrant anything like this.
In fact, there's a museum of forgeries in Vienna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Art_Fakes)
I have zero interest in this idea, business-wise - it is already a crowded space, Apple are mere new-comers to this - as the more you see these sensor nets grow, the more you realize we are making a big, big psycho-social 'smog' around the ways they can be used ..

So yeah, I'd rather make musical instruments. If anyone wants to talk about that idea, I'm all in.

:)
Rather than teaching a separate utility, I would recommend qalc which has unit conversions built in :)

$ qalc -t 100km/h / 0.956s to gee
2.9629132 gees

(where -t is for terse mode; by default it expands unit abbreviations and adds parentheses so you see whether it did what you wanted)

The reason I recommend it is because it does so much more, I really love this utility since discovering it about a year ago. Example of using time notation combined with uncertainty and unit conversion:

> (18:41 - 09:00+/-00:30) hours * 250 W to kWh
(((1121 / 60) - (9±0.5)) * hour) * (250 * watt) =
approx. (2.4208333±0.125) kW*h
Voice cloning is a surprisingly underdicussed area of generative AI. It's also much more thorny: while text-generating AI and image-generating AI atleast help expand the creative sphere and tend to be more obvious, voice cloning intentionally blurs the lines, which also professionally and impacts the source of the voice being cloned: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/24/ai-voice-actors-victoria-at...

Last month, there was an incident where a prominent voice actor had their voice cloned for an AI parody video and the actor asked them to take it down; in response, the voice actor was harrassed off of social media for a bit.
What you have to do is make it worthwhile for people. Steve Keen's idea of a dual price is imo a great idea. How it works is everything has both a dollar price and a carbon price. Everyone in society gets the same amount of carbon credits. You can sell these credits for dollars and vice versa. Those who use a LOT of carbon have to buy them from those that have the credits. What this does is create a wealth distribution down while at the same time capping carbon usage. Those who use very little carbon benefit because they can buy things they previously couldn't, while those that use a lot are punished. Since the vast majority of people are at the lower end of carbon usage, I believe this would be a very popular program.
I have never heard of this before now, but what I instantly like about it is what a great way to learn about old games that might be worth a spin. Anyone can recommend an old game, but when someone goes the extra mile to add achievements it's a much clearer signal that it's worth a look.
Red gooseberry is somewhat less sour than the green one though.
Their funny little language is really close to Python so it's tapping into a huge base of Python developers.
For real. So one can go run for 1h / day, go to a desk job and still have a higher risk? Welp, guess I'll just die...
Why would you go down for deploys? That's just wrong. One way around it is to have a load balancer that points at the old one until the new one is ready and able to serve requests, and only then does it switch over.
Any comparison between the middle east and Ukraine is entirely disingenuous, because they aren't even remotely comparable. Ukraine is most comparable to when a coalition of western states freed Kuwait from Saddam.
This has absolutely no relevance to housing prices. I can't go to a store, see that 2k square feet is too much, and ask for 500 square feet. Housing is all or nothing. You either rent or buy an entire unit, or none of it.

There is no option to rent 500 square feet because it's illegal in most cities to have units smaller than 600-750 square feet.
I once had to find some for the sixth form Physics labs where I was temping.

Chemistry lab at Newcastle University had a freezer full that they were happy to share from.

Theatrical suppliers may help too.
A Man Keeping Musk, Zuckerberg and Big Tech in Line in Europe
Makes sense to me. I don't find it at all impracticable to avoid the retailer chains that are callous about exploitation.
You should build something you want to have (or to learn how to make), not something you think someone else will be impressed with.
Only popular though! We can't reasonably consider projects with only 8 github stars as part of marketing statements.
Apple Event Live Watch Party
You can self-host Gitlab CI runners and use them even in the free community version.
> These "widely-respected values" (by whom actually?) make sure that you can't implement an app that allows dragging tabs from one window to another because windows are not allowed to know their absolute coordinates.

I don't understand why they would need to for a DND operation (or why a custom protocol would be needed - X11 didn't need one for the same use case either).

> Wayland as such has zero value. I still can't decide that is designed by retarded morons ore geniuses as means of sabotage. Either way it destroys the FOSS ecosystem very effectively. Good job!

This comes across as very irate and emotional. I'm glad you care about the FOSS ecosystem this deeply. I do as well, and have spent 20 years of my career working on making it succeed. I'd rather we don't presume malice in each other.
Because it was not JS, it was UnityScript which is what happens when someone read "JavaScript: The Good Parts", and thought the title was "... The Bad Parts" and threw all those away and kept only the actual bad parts.

It was just about fine if you were doing very small projects but quickly got very hairy, and their compiler was full of bugs.
Yeah, slow news day.
Cool project. Thanks for sharing the details!

So the harvester sustains itself, keeps filling up the bucket, and periodically reports out the progress.

I guess it's a balancing game, as the filling up process is probably slow, so the target's draw needs to be low too.
What about the fact that Unity is changing their business model and making it retroactive to fuck over people?
Ah, now I get it, thanks for clarifying.

Well, this could be solved by sending a notification on all transactions. I already get these for my credit card account (I wish they did this on my checking account, too). When paying with Google Pay, I even get three notifications. This was very useful once, when I woke up to a $50 transaction to the XBox store that I supposedly did while sleeping without even owning an XBox.
TCP Authentication Option “TCP-AO” Support Nears for the Linux Kernel
Thanks for the reply! I'll keep researching.
I think the emphasis is on "first-class" support. I don't think they'll be able to really pull over Unity devs until C# mobile is nicely supported.

I know every time I personally go to take a peek I see that C# support is still a good bit behind and decide to let it keep baking. I'm still very excited for it, though.
Most languages I know allow killing a thread, or at least unblock a system call.
Salesforce introduces new AI assistant, Einstein Copilot, for all its CRM apps
Even with the Internet, people regularly believe questionable things, so I don't think it's down to availiability of the Internet.
Ah, I haven't explored any extensions yet!
Minor and pedantic: should this instead be “Ternary Decision Tree”?
It's software, bugs happen.
It's not a "cost to Unity" thing. It's a "you're using our code and we're entitled to our share" thing.
Definitely signing up for this one. It looks like the community is going strong over there. Also fun to have more achievement stats than Steam, there's so much you can do with that kind of data
(Quiet founder here) Yes! Onboarding in a p2p app can actually be easier than onboarding to a centralized app like Slack, and much easier than onboarding to a federated app like Matrix (where users need to have a notion of what a homeserver is to not mess up.)

The catches are many, but inherently solvable!

1. You have to be online for invitees to initially join your community. We have a release planned this week that will relax/mitigate this.

2. Sometimes it will take 20 or 30 seconds to connect to a peer over Tor, and this is longer than most users expect.

3. Mobile is much harder than desktop and our mobile apps aren't in as polished a state as the desktop app. iOS background tasks and Android long-tail device support are hard!

4. iOS will almost definitely depend on a centralized push notification service for reliable notifications.

5. If you send a message and nobody is online, nobody will get it until you and someone else are contemporaneously online.

And there are more. But your point stands! Quiet can offer a superior onboarding experience in a lot of ways, and it can be snappy for day-to-day use. And thanks for taking the time to try Quiet and relaying this lovely impression to everyone here!
Hopefully there is no way to drop a contaminant into a star to affect its output. A +/-10% change in brightness over a sustained period would probably neutralize us.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is disrupting Antarctic science
Try buck2
Sean Michaels on Collaborating with AI to Write a Novel
For me, the value of art is in the communication between the artist and myself. If I don't care about the artist, the art has little meaning to me. In the case of music, it transforms art into just a sequence of interesting noises.
Tl;dr they made the mistake of assuming that since 95% of the time CI jobs spend is ‘running builds’ that a build system is 95% of a CI platform.

This turns out not to be true.
On Halloween, my grandma (I’m in the US) would dress like a witch and use dry ice carbonate homemade root beer she’d dole out to kids from a giant bubbling black cauldron. I thought grandma was an actual witch for a while there.
One thing these tools should do automatically is at the end log to the console (or whatever system) what was compiled and what wasn't.

This made debugging so much easier for these issues. They're bound to happen, because we're all human and bugs are a thing. Automatically being able to audit the build as step 1 makes this easy to spot
I'm not convinced. The human brain is an organ like any other- evolution had vested interest in keeping its function adaptive, and to this extent even social stress induced depression and vulnerability are adaptive responses. Most severe chronic illness - mental or otherwise - isn't.
So You Think You Know C? (2020) [pdf]
OK but does IT exist to serve the business by accepting responsibility for stuff that doesn’t meet their standards and they can’t really support? Why have qualified people at all then?
It's *roughly* the gravitational acceleration at the surface of an Olympic-size swimming pool of electron-degenerate matter from a white dwarf star. Hope this helps!

(Note: the swimming pool has collapsed under its own weight and is now a sphere).
So much of art's value is in originality, and what separates originality is first vs rest.

There are likely thousands of people who can paint extremely high quality Monet-alikes, but they weren't there at the beginning of the impressionist movement.

Granted, there's also name weight and limited supply due to creator death, but that "first!" can't be ignored.

The artistic-economic tangle around originality wasn't something I'd thought about deeply until I saw some of Warhol's "X of Y" prints in person. Because he used an inexact process, there are subtle differences from frame to frame, which to me begged the question of whether a specific selection of frames and composition of them together was sufficient to re-establish a unique, original artistic work.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah it seems like hypertension is right up there with fatigue as one of those more general symptoms that can be really hard to nail down a fix for. I'm glad it all worked so well for you.
Some day I'm going to start paying these people:

https://kagi.com

DuckDuckGo is a bit better than Google at avoiding content farms and semantic web spam, but I think it's mostly for the same reason Linux and MacOS used to have zero malware.
Awesome! Will be there ;)
> HSA is tax deferred, grows tax free once invested, and is tax free withdrawal at 72.

Careful. They grow tax free at the Federal level, but if you are in California, your HSA gains are subject to state tax. If your HSA investments pay taxable interest or dividends, or if you sell something at a gain, you'll owe additional income taxes in California.
Not a denier, but rosy retrospection is a thing, and there are other factors at play. I'm in California, and human development in high-risk areas and forest management have both been contributing factors to wildfire severity. I don't find one-off, localized events especially swaying. Sea water temperature and average temperature are much more interesting.
Popular nasal decongestant doesn’t relieve congestion, FDA experts say
Most blue collar jobs are not seated.
Kani: A Lightweight, Highly Hackable Framework for Building LMs with Tool Usage