skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a guy at work who has started using an AI avatar of himself, and an ai voice generator trained to his voice. He writes his daily standup notes in a text file and then lets his robot deliver the standup for him. I could tell something was a bit off with him, but after going through the "shitty zoom filter", honestly it was subtle and most people didn't notice.
A Rebuke to Biden-Tech Censorship
Seems related to "Attention Is Off By One " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36851494
You and Your Startup
I'm not sure feature withholding has traditionally worked out well in the developer space. The churn rate for tooling is so high that if Earthly were to intentionally cripple their product I'm sure the majority of developers would just move on to other inferior, but free, options (eg. taskfile). Maybe those that remain could be converted successfully but it's quite a gamble.

A great turn around story in recent times though is probably Docker. But that required them to abandon strict open source and make controversial license/product changes.
The USB-A -> USB-C cable that charges my sennheiser headphones can't charge my iPad, but a longer USB-A -> USB-C cable can (using the same USB-A port on the same charger).

Also, the majority of USB chargers that came with my Apple devices can't charge my M2 laptop (even when it is suspended), assuming it's not a cable incompatibility issue.
My oven can be used to prove bread dough at 30°C
In certain modern arts (esp. the visual ones) the connection between the art and the artist is valuable in itself. The creation is considered primarily in relation to its creator. It is curious why some arts are more susceptible to this thinking than others. I think it is a consequence of maturity; when technique is exhausted, the art seeks development in other avenues.
One of my craziest learnings as a non-Chemist taking my basic college chem was that liquid nitrogen is usually much cheaper than milk on a volume basis.

It makes sense ofc - nitrogen is our most abundant gas after all, but it still really blew my mind for something that seemed so exotic.
> T-Mobile has a real bad problem with their internal tooling

Oh, yes. 100%. I remember about 10 or so years ago about people selling guides on how to get access to WATSON (one of the dealer systems that let you provision accounts etc) by basically abusing a common username/password convention and making guesses based on the Store Lookup tool. IIRC it only let you set up new accounts (eg, take a stack of blank SIMs and just make infinite lines) but was still just an absolute WTF that it was... somehow a thing.
Thanks for clarification. That wasn't immediately clear to me from the website.
>What do you mean by ... winning out?

Symbolic AI has been less performant than NN AI for decades now and by a large margin. Language, speech, images etc.

>It seems to have made one novel diagnosis

Ok so let's get this out the way. GPT-4 is good at diagnosis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10425828/

>Six patients 65 years or older (2 women and 4 men) were included in the analysis. The accuracy of the primary diagnoses made by GPT-4, clinicians, and Isabel DDx Companion was 4 of 6 patients (66.7%), 2 of 6 patients (33.3%), and 0 patients, respectively. If including differential diagnoses, the accuracy was 5 of 6 (83.3%) for GPT-4, 3 of 6 (50.0%) for clinicians, and 2 of 6 (33.3%) for Isabel DDx Companion
If their sales margin is the same, but fewer users buy and install their game because it's now 20% more expensive, that reduces their overall profit which definitely matters to them.
This was really interesting to learn. Thankyou!
I guess it depends what reading material was available. You could've had Amiga C for beginners published by Data Becker in 1987. Not to say it's a great book, but it's a good start if you're keen. Or perhaps a book like Amiga Graphics Inside and Out that starts with AmigaBASIC but goes on to include programs in C. Some of these books are preserved today so you see what you missed out on [0]

Buying the RKRMs would be expensive, but I borrowed them from my library and read them entirely (... I had a lot more free time then). You could also have written to Motorola and got them to send you the 680x0 Programmers Reference Manual and other books for free!

There are all sorts of "what-ifs". If books like the 1980s Usbourne books [1] weren't available, might so many people have become programmers at all?

[0] https://amigasourcepres.gitlab.io/page/books/ccplusplus/

[1] https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
it might not exactly be a waste, when you are inputting your training data you need some context on what the source is and then add a weight to how valid it is. That is how we learn, if i talk to a phd on some topic, I would pay close attention to what they say and give it more significance, maybe even write it down, compared to a youtube video on that topic, compared to a guy on a street talking about that same topic, ill probably nod my head and walk away and try to forget as soon as i can. but there probably still is something valid to learn from that last conversation, how a certain type of person structures sentences, responds, the words used etc...

do these llms get trained with something like a credibility weight on the training data? that was it seems they did in this paper, just manually curated that
I've had good results with the newish antihistamine levocetirizine (generic for Xyzal), as well as guaifenesin extended release pills for general mucus relief. Both are OTC and cheap in generic form.
Then I guess I misunderstood "GitLab restricts CI/CD to paying customers"?
Zettlekasten seems popular with the Obsidian crowd. I think it's interesting but only partially following some of the ideas.

I use a single large note (log) with timestamps for each entry.
Each entry is default h2
I use tags per entry
Sometimes I split out a category in a dedicated log/note or even directory (e.g. math)

Having a better search is great, but the process of organizing notes is for your brain (i.e. structure your knowledge).
I tried it once or twice. It was great for the first minute or so, until the lady in the car behind me started honking, screaming, revving her engine, and pretending like she was going to ram my bumper. People HATE when I try to reach average traffic speeds instead of just cramming my car as close to the one in front of me as I dare.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25934511-300-from-tim...
> It'll be kind of a reverse Hatsune Miku, but things won't change that much.

I don’t really agree with this for two reasons:

1. It is understood that vocal synths (e.g. Hatsune Miku) are not humans and that humans are not vocal synths. There are also humans covering songs originally sang by synths and vice versa, but everybody still understands what’s going on. (Heck, there are even synths based on the voice of real human singers, e.g. KAFU; it’s still understood that the singer and synth aren’t the same thing.)

2. Vocal synths are not fully AI and require a significant amount of ‘tuning’ to sound good (with various producers generally having their own ‘sound’ due to differences in tuning style). They are also just a voice, they don’t generate any instrumentals. Therefore, a human-produced song sang by a vocal synth is still a long way off from a fully AI-generated song.
I think something can be valuable and abundant, what you really mean is what makes the value capturable. If truly good songs were cheap to create then people making good songs won't be able to charge as much as they do, but consumers will arguable experience more value through an abundance of good songs.
Lack of accountability is one. Supporting each other at the management level is another. Just like you support your team members, they support each other.

The level of support the company affords managers and up is measurably more than the support they give an IC.
Even within our own solar system, anywhere beyond the moon is likely to end up as a one way, dead end trip.
Fewer lines of code, perhaps, but in terms of explicitness, clarity, and ease of maintainability I find myself strongly favoring the functional approach for this case.
I've used Earthly for a year and absolutely love it.

It allows you to have two dependencies on the host system for any project -- just Docker and Earthly.

I've used it to build cross-compilers, system software, web apps, my resume, school projects.

The speed up is real. You can definitely get caching and parallelization and containizeration with other build systems, but Earthly's value is that it comes for free with a familiar syntax.
I think that the Apple Vision Pro might claim to have something _like_ this in audio raytracing?
The difference between good and bad managers is a good manager manages while a bad one reacts. A bad manager will do practically nothing until something happens (a request from his/her boss, an angry customer, etc) and then everything else stops to handle the manager's new emergency.
Obsidian supporting properties is the beginning of it's attempt to replace org-mode for me.

Something I do wish they did was take the plugins that are clearly ubiquitous, and just make them default. It's weird to think that Obsidian might be marching forward nicely, but the maintainer of the Tasks plugin decides to bail.

Emacs has recently been much better about just including by default popular libraries/plugins.
Unity wants to get into the premium space and shake off the shovelware engine stigma.
Watch Generative AI Design a Customized Protein in Seconds
I don’t think people always do deductive reasoning when they attempt to do it. In fact I think people largely do abductive reasoning, even when they attempt deductive reasoning. Machines are better at deductive reasoning because sans some special purpose approach they can do nothing but follow the rules.

This is specifically why I think LLMs are so enchanting to humans, because it’s behavior and logic is more less sterile and more human in nature precisely because it’s a “most likely” based on its training data approach. With lots of examples of deductive reasoning it can structure a response that is deductively reasoned - until it doesn’t. The fact it can fail in the process of deductive reasoning shows it’s not actually deductively reasoning. This doesn’t mean it can’t produce results that are deductive - it’s literally unable to formulate a sense of rules and application of those rules in sequence to arrive at a conclusion based on the premise. It formulates a series of most likely tokens based on its training and context, so while it may quite often arrive at a conclusion that is deductive it never actually deduced anything.

I feel like you feel I’m somehow denigrating the output of the models. I’m not. I’m in fact saying we already have amazing deductive solvers and other reasoning systems that can do impressive proofs far beyond the capability of any human or LLM. But we have never built something that can abductively reason over an abstract semantic space, and that is AMAZING. Making LLMs perform rigorous deductive reasoning IMO is a non goal. Making a system of models and techniques that leverages best of breed and firmly plants the LLM in the space of abstract semantic abductive reasoning as the glue that unites everything is what we should be focused on. Then instead of spending 10 years making an LLM that can beat a high school chess champion, we can spend two months integrating world class chess AI into a system that can delegate to the AI chess solver when it plays chess.
I'm not sure I understand your position here. If he doesn't care about his handwriting, and his school doesn't care about his handwriting, what's the point of improving it?

I honestly can't think of the last time I wrote anything down except my signature, and I doubt this trend is going to reverse.
Godot is easily my favorite game engine. The node system is simple yet powerful, truly a joy to use. For the most part, I feel like I have a good level of control over my projects without having to get too low-level. It doesn't feel like I have to organize my code around the engine's architecture, like with Unity or Unreal. Godot is also free and open-source and very lightweight. Support for C# and 3D has been improving, especially with Godot 4.0. And it has pretty good cross-platform support.
When you should handle tech debt
I actually think Firefox is better than chrome and use it as my main browser. Not sure why you say it’s not decent.

I also think they do a lot of great stuff around Firefox, the email spoofing is good, the sync function is good, their podcasts and studies are good. Not sure what people mean here.
a college student wouldn't pay anything until they are making money
Stand alone portable music players - nowadays that's niche product for audiophiles.

PC sound cards - for most people integrated HD Audio is enough.

SLI, AMD Crossfire
You Must Construct Additional Pylons
Minor releases (and plenty of not minor ones) are moderated away as mostly offtopic on HN since they turn into generic discussion of the project itself which is more often than not, a dupe. The saner thing is to just not post them/flag them.
Thanks for the explanation.

That quote is extremely terse and would have taken a considerable amount of time to understand.
I Created Yacrb (Yet Another Code Review Bot)
YACRB is an opensource automation tool that leverages OpenAI's GPT models to streamline code reviews using GitHub diffs.

It requires both a Github API key and a OpenAI API key to use. It cleans minified files (css, js, and bundles) and other junk out before submitting to save bandwidth.

I wrote this instead of using / updating one of the other popular projects, not because there is anything wrong with those, but because I wanted something really simple, and didn't want to install a node server, or allow a Chrome app access, etc.

Feel free to star (or make pull requests) it if you like it.
These is the recipe for burnout in 3-6 months.
We haven't been over excess mortality since January according to the CDC. People will always be dying of something, today it's with covid.
Cities in Europe, Japan, and Korea still have vibrant and central "third place" cultures, perhaps because the apartments tend to be smaller. Loneliness in Europe IMHO seems more to occur outside cities where density is lower, though even there people our "out and about" more than I see in the US suburbs.
It is good to question everything as everything aside from nature is a creation of another man; meant to be questioned, debated and understood.

The universe of thought is a free-space, where anything and everything is possible.
Google isn't here to help you find stuff, it's here to mine you for money.
This is great and showcases Django's talent for basic CRUD apps with handy admin interfaces.

One catch: I like to deploy static sites to GitHub Pages. It turns out the Django ecosystem has an answer for that in the form of Django Distill [1]. Distill adds a new management command that generates static content by repeatedly invoking your views.

I've used Distill to build quite a few static sites. It's great to be able to deploy to Pages but use Django's admin UI locally. Typically, for these sites, I check in my 'production' SQLite database directly to my git repo.

(Combine this pattern with GitHub actions and you can do a lot with a little. For instance, here's a toy I built to summarize upcoming Seattle city council meetings [2].)

[1] https://github.com/meeb/django-distill

[2] https://scc.frontseat.org/ -- source at https://github.com/front-seat/engage
I'm looking into chatgpt to convert my libraries to godot.
I think a lot of people are just fundamentally rejecting the structure of a deal like that. The numbers will matter a lot to individual org's decisions but at least to me the emotional reaction here is unrelated to the specifics of the thresholds and rates. It's just "game engine company should not be doing that."

Probably true since it doesn't appear like they're a game engine company any more. The enshittification machine is rumbling to life.
Basically, clay or any other condition/material that insulates the body from oxigen (ground burials or sealed tombs).

I wouldn't dare to say that weeks or month after death a corpse can still be "fresh", but in some places when/if you open a buried coffin after 5 years or so it is not rare that there has been not enough decomposition to allow the transfer of the body to an ossuary.

There are "aerated" tombs devised to accelerate the decomposition:

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6756/2/3/37
You are right.

I was actually expecting pushback on the second line :)
Can you point me to some text-adventure engines? I'm hacking on an in-browser local llm structured inference library[1] and am trying to put together a text game demo[2] for it. It didn't even occur to me that text-adventure game engines exist, I was apparently re-inventing the wheel.

[1] https://github.com/gsuuon/ad-llama

[2] https://ad-llama.vercel.app/murder/
Why do you think there will still be pop-stars? I'll just be able to generate music I like. Quite possibly I'll be able to provide AI generated avatars to help my meat brain associate menu options (with images) with a particular music. Possibly there will be curated such avatar/music generators, and more than likely, many of them will be naked. Hatsune Miku is a red herring I think. I expect we'll see more Milli Vanillis too.
Fat Cells Never Disappear – Making Future Weight Gain More Likely
More info on the campaign on https://tbfighters.org

Tldr: a corporation is price gaugung tb tests while 1.6 million people die of the disease each year
> How would you sell Node to other old guys? Especially compared to Go.

JavaScript has a huge business case in the front-end. Going another direction is possible, but you're really fighting against the grain to do so.

Go node/bun/deno and you can build back-end and front-end with one language. This has pretty significant advantages. Particularly if your goal is small teams (or solo) with "full stack" style devs. There are fewer siloed specialists required in the org.

Language concepts, syntax and patterns are a significant part of the cognitive load needed to develop.

If you're in a siloed org with specialists anyway, there is minimal draw.

I've done things like have a backend I brought into the front end to mock an immature system. Shared code between the back end and front end for offline-first systems. You just can't do that kind of stuff when you don't share a language between front-end/back-end.
Nice collection of graphs. But looking closely, you can see that all those graphs conflate multiple trends and not everything happened exactly in 1971 but sometime in the 70's, or even 80's.

1. Ditching gold standard - this obviously happened in 1971 and had a big impact. But there were other equally important changes.

2. Women entering workforce - this started in late 60's and continued throughout 70's and 80's. You can see "Dual-income working couples" graph, which plateaued in the late 80's

3. Reagan revolution - Reagan changed the discourse both culturally and from a policy perspective. He enacted tax cuts, deregulation, deficit funded growth etc . See the "income growth, from 1917-2012" chart. Income for top 1% earners starts ticking up from mid 80's. Or the "income share of top 1% relative to bottom 90%" starts picking up around 1980. Same with the uptick in "Income inequality in the United states" - starts in 1980.

4. Inflation - oil shock of 1973, with rest of the decade spent fighting it. Interest rates were jacked up to 18% or beyond at some point. Only in the early 80's did things stabilize (Reagan's "morning in America" campaigning). This is also reflected in many graphs with notable changes around mid-80's.
GitLab is open sourced. You can self-host GitLab (and their CI solution) yourself.
Speed = ∫(acceleration) dt
This. It's only a "near monopoly" because everyone else hasn't got a minimum viable product yet to launch with.

It's almost as if it's some kind of rocket science.
>I think the key is that nobody "wants" to spend any time at all on CI or their build system.

or if they do, they're hosting their own.

if you're selling a hosted CI platform, your sales pitch is "pay us $$ instead of paying your staff $$$ to do devops". if your pitch is "pay us $$ and then also spend $$$ on staff hours to manage our service", it's very unlikely the CI is doing anything useful enough that the staff couldn't just run their own thing in-house.

it doesn't take much configuration to be more difficult than an EC2 instance running a script on a webhook from your version control.
I think a fully automated battlebots arena might be more fun but I'd still watch track racing.
Now do pandoc
This is fantastic news. I recommend listening to Rob Reid's interview with Kevin Esvelt on the topic.

The gist is the program was designed to find potential viruses, then share them openly so countries without resources for this research could still prepare for future viruses. Obviously, open access to recipes for pandemic-grade viruses means they could also be used for nefarious means.

It's worth listening to the analysis as Rob Reid is an excellent interviewer and Kevin Esvelt is an expert in the field (he's at the forefront of gene drives).

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr28XeVYm8U

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qWiCan9lAMnVrWqzpdHoI?si=0...
> If you're in that situation, buying USD on the black market is still better than Bitcoin

Pretty much what I suspected, yeah. So it sounds like BTC would be a truly decent money storage vehicle only for the scenarios where you straight up only have a choice of a hyperinflating unstable currency and BTC (not even black market USD access). Which, I am not sure if the case anywhere.

> Argentina has been living like this for decades, so don't tell me this is a crazy notion.

Aye, makes sense, wasn't gonna tell you that this was a crazy notion at all. If anything, that's how it's been operating pre-crypto in a lot of places of the world for a long time, and I don't hear of crypto upending it anytime soon (outside of extremely biased pro-crypto takes that don't have much ground in reality).
Doesn't everyone who goes through a military academy study to be a manager of people? (Or for that matter OCS or NCO school, if for a shorter time.)
I think HN will eat this up because few of us enjoy being sold to but like most absolute statements it's probably only applicable in specific circumstances. Enterprises sell tons of developer tools and move millions because of demos done well. AWS and Azure are definitely getting on planes and doing demos.
The space was destined to collapse these two products not because it makes sense conceptually but because their implementations are almost identical and maintaining fewer systems is great. One was always going to eat the other and CI systems are turnkey, hosted, and live close to the code that it will be running.

I wish they had either remained separate or gone the other way but it's not worth swimming upstream for it.
Definitely could do it in sub 0.2 seconds quite easily.
Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the ocean
Does Datasette Cloud also run on Fly.io? How is Fly.io stability nowadays?
The US has no moral obligation to prevent the best and brightest from coming here.

You can always over-analyze everything to death, but at the end of the day, it's the responsibility of the leadership in that organization/country to fix the problem. If they don't, or can't, no one else is going to take responsibility for it.
Seems like someone should make a Scientology-free alternative.
It was Unity until today... They just canceled the Plus tier, making the cheapest paid plan $2000 / year.
You mean W4 games? Their purpose is more about consoles, as far as I remember.

https://w4games.com/
I've resisted moving to Godot because I already know Unity so well, but I guess they've finally forced me to switch.