skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading all this, it feels like these basically do the same thing as drinking an energy drink, minus the 20point blood pressure spike and tooth destruction. I am theoretically very much against all of this except in absolutely extreme cases.

https://www.reynoldsclinic.com/why-french-kids-dont-have-adh....
I gotta be honest, I don't understand how this is possible. Like aren't systems like this chaotic? Shouldn't this be impossible to predict?
The real realtime preemption end game
Claiming that everyone who didn't sign up to kill people thousands of miles away from their society, were just "sitting at home their whole lives doing nothing to help maintain society", seems a bit dismissive.

To avoid a flame war, I won't explicitly say they do more for society than iraq war volunteers, but teachers and doctors do plenty for society, for example.
I've gotten the Winix ones from Costco and they work great. I really notice a difference now that it's getting cold and my windows are shut most of the time.
By “people” you mean organizations with budgets and stakeholders.

Very few people, even few programmers, would be able to take on maintaining complicated software like tofu alone, for example.
The Wikipedia article on "walking simulators", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_simulator, suggests it's not just you.
There are actually pumping losses due to things like ERG valves. Modern car diesel engines have very strong engine braking as a result.
> we spend a very small fraction of our time on building things that are unique to our business.

I usually see this in places/cultures that value code-beautification projects rather than delivering value to the customer. Sometimes, they even want to do the latter, but actually do the former.

If you work somewhere that focuses on delivering value, the devs constantly complain about technical debt that will never, ever get fixed. That's the only sucky part.
I've been in the same boat. Earlier this year I wanted to up my game as well with an improved website and blog to go along with it, not even sure which frameworks to use.

Using ChatGPT has been a hit or miss experience, helping me maybe 30% of the time as well. But when it did help, it helped me massively, especially for quickly setting up Wordpress PHP designs and accompanying CSS. I can honestly say I couldn't have done my web and blog redesign if it weren't for ChatGPT. Not because I wouldn't have been able to get the knowledge without it– more so because I wouldn't have had the patience to figure all of this out in my spare time.

Using ChatGPT has certainly been a more fun experience than browsing documentation, but I did have to do the latter about half the time anyway.
The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris
This is true but I also would caution against thinking we need to solve everything all at once. For example, EV charging is a real concern but a pretty small fraction of people need to drive more than 60 or so miles per day, so even a regular extension cord will work for them. That doesn’t mean we don’t need to address the others but if everyone who has access to a plausible EV charging situation, take transit, etc. now actually did the resulting plummet in emissions would buy many years in which to solve the harder problems. (As would not subsidizing SUVs, etc. – every bit counts)

This is going to be a huge transformation so we really need to make sure perfect isn’t the enemy of the good.
Really interesting to learn about your solution for you daughter, great to see it works and appreciated the comment of my approach being an underrated one.

My case isn't anything as relevant as yours and maybe that's why I did not much of research, easy going for a crude trial.
> The information and idea here is what matters, no?

Yuval Noah Harari goes into this in detail that this is actually a huge risk. Imagine an AI controlled by a single with a hidden motivation. But also imagine it is a really good AI that 99% of its communication is towards building a friendship long term relationships with particular users on hundreds or thousands of forums.

You now have an intimate relationship and when political season comes around and they make a recommendation you trust what that 'person' says because they don't generally talk about politics. And so do thousands of other people.
“They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.”

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
whisper.cpp runs locally and can output .srt, I’ve been using it a lot (takes a while though)
My theory - based on nothing - is that a lot of people "think in video" now. They don't read writing, they read subtitles.

So when they write, what they're doing is narrating the images and ideas playing out like a movie in their head. Unfortunately most narration needs pairing with an image to make sense.
> it's sad that Linux developers waste time developing the Linux desktop

Hey, that's unpopular statement on wanna-be hackers resources like HN or Reddit - people feel being creative using Linux on Desktop and feeling control over machine, famous System Administrator Of LocalHost experts ;)
I think a big part of the problem is that a lot of companies are cost-plus government contractors first and sell rockets to the civilian market as an afterthought. Which means that their internal structure and processes are optimized for that use case - not really caring so much about costs, but putting a lot of effort into documenting.

So when someone comes along that optimizes on cost and velocity and eschews cost plus contracts, that can be very difficult to deal with.

Also, as other people have mentioned, they pretty clearly do have exceptional tech - they routinely land orbital class boosters which has only been done with prototype rockets (it's very different landing when you can hover vs when you can't). And Raptor and Merlin are among the best rocket engines that have ever been made.

And even more impressive than specific components is their production and operational expertise. Being able to launch so many rockets flawlessly is a truly astounding feat. In a couple of years, Falcon 9 might even beat out the RD-108/107's total accumulated flight time record, which I thought wouldn't happen for a very long time.

Edit: for context, the RD-108/107 are the engines used on the Soyuz, which (as a family) has a truly astounding number of flights. To be fair to SpaceX, though, Soyuz accumulated those over many decades.
There is a fun to be had with games divorced almost entirely from any storytelling though. For example various abstract strategy games I play like rule the waves, or games like rocket league. The fun there is not largely enhanced by the fantasy of it, I think. The mechanics themselves are the challenge, and overcoming them and creating things using them is the fun, something that is more abstract with books (you'd have to go to fanfic or fanart etc)

I do appreciate though that this is written for a prospective author thinking of making the leap to writing for video games. They'd probably be interested more in the creation of narrative games. But maybe its worth considering how what I mentioned before can contribute to a narrative. An example that comes to mind is how in some simple games, items have a description that has some lore or a little joke. It reinforces the already existing player desire to explore and discover items, and makes it fun to see what each new one says. The key point here is that the descriptions don't even have to be good for this to work
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I've got a 1000$ iPhone and I'd prefer performing extra computations if it means I can open gmail in super slow internet.

Every byte counts when internet is slow. This repo finds header data and compresses it. If people are interested I'll add more features.

Contributions are welcome!
Done forget all the “open source” LLMs based on Meta’s llama.

We have neither the source code nor training data.
I think it is from RLHF. If you ask Mistral for something that doesn't exist it will create fantastical but plausible sounding explanations
In what way? The subs are the script (often translated) + timestamps. It’s the definition of a derivative work.

The subs wouldn’t exist without the original work.

Edit: Yes, it’s a subset of the script and not thee script itself, and being a pedant about that isn’t a useful point. It’s just pedantic.
> Squarespace, Wix etc have already taken the bottom of the market

Meanwhile most SMBs don't have an app/website or have an useless one. There is so much space for niche markets and good tools.
Apropos the first examples given in TFA, I have a friend who worked at Oxford Scientific Films, back in the '70s and' 80s. When Jim Henson wanted to make a Serious Movie, with puppets, he hired OSF (or artists from - I don't know the exact business arrangement) to build the sets. They had experience with natural materials, which Henson wanted precisely because of their fractal detail. My friend has a credit somewhere towards the end of the reel on Dark Crystal, which I thought was cooler than he did when he told me.
I'm mind blown because it's already so good and I do imagine that it will get as good as you need it to become.

And yeah as you said with domain knowledge it works very well
I think you're missing my point. I'm highly suspicious, or let's say intrigued, under what conditions one can come up with such conclusion. Therefore I asked for a clarification.
“Open” != “free”
On collaborative blocking of bulk mailers who spam
Like I suspect most people with a long-running email address, I get a lot of spam. Lately, a huge chunk of it has been political -- from both sides of the aisle. I've never given my email address to any campaign, so I have no idea how this happened. Needless to say, none of these organizations have opt in.

I submit abuse reports, but obviously too the mail providers don't care. So I wonder:

Why isn't there a shared blacklist of bulk mailers that we could all contribute to? It's largely but not exclusively political-only groups like NGPVan, campaigner, etc, but MailGun is also a huge offender.
I didn't see mentions of MMPs like Appsflyer or Adjust?
What were the hardware failures on your machine?
Bazaar supports using Whisper as a provider. I don't know how well it works.

https://wiki.bazarr.media/Additional-Configuration/Whisper-P...
In theory, its sustainable, because the fuel is being created from CO2 captured from the air by photosynthesis - so burning it doesn't add to the overall atmospheric CO2. Unlike fossil fuels where you are digging up CO2 and adding it to the atmosphere.

In practice it's rather more complex than that.
Yes, those are the ingredients I would expect in a potted meat product from around the globe.
This is why I love technologies like BitTorrent and IPFS, where it's not a single server bearing the brunt and costs of being popular, everyone is contributing. The more popular it is, the more performant it is.
My favourite conspiracy theory is that fringe conspiracy theories are a conspiracy to discredit conspiracy theories.
Yeah, especially since elementary particles don't have detail almost by definition.

And it's a missed opportunity for the article to also point out that there might be a temptation of trying to go way too deep than it's worthwhile for that specific situation - meanwhile if the levels of detail were literally infinite, you wouldn't try. But I guess it would muddle the message ?
According to TFA, the same kind of telemetry is available for the other charging station operators too.
For me this is where Apple's walled garden shines - my work laptop is a MacBook and I own an iPad for personal use. The iPad can connect to the laptop and function as a (high quality albeit small) secondary display. And then I have an entertainment device the rest of the time instead of just a monitor taking up bag space.
There’s even a version of whisper.cpp that compiles to wasm.

Really quite amazing
Think of talent as genetics. The 6’6 guy naturally will have a much easier time playing basketball than the 5’6 guy. The guy with long, flexible fingers will likely be a better piano or guitar player than the guy with short stubby fingers. Etc. Can the difference be overcome? Somewhat, but the person with the advantage + effort will always beat the person without the advantage but with the same amount of effort.
That's actually a very interesting paper.
Lessons from Scaling Byword to 7 Figures
> Basically, engineering management is a no win game and not worth the stress if you’re a good person

This is what soured me on being an EM.

I stumbled into the role over time and was very much team-focused over company-focused. Over time I realized that's not tenable. At the end of the day your first team (borrowing a term from 5 Dysfunctions of a Team [1]) needs to be such that you're more beholding to the company than your reports.

For me I couldn't handle the inner turmoil & stress that created. The times where one can't both do right by their reports *and* the business ate at me.

[1] https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/teamwork-5-d...
Great little device, and you don't need to 3D print a case : )
Creating the front-end of a Bootstrap form with no backend logic isn't particularly impresssive, it's something that would be taught halfway through any bootcamp course. Source: me, a person who built BS sites for years until I finally got around to learning Flexbox and CSS Grid properly.
Either LLM / ai becomes perfect or we will start writing code/frameworks which makes it much easier for LLM/ai to use them.
So a Twitter fight? That doesn't excuse anything.
The Whisper API provides timestamped subtitle files, so that's a non issue, all you have to do is extract the audio, split and upload
«[The leaf] has rounded serrations along its edges» - uses a picture of a leaf not showing the edge :(
Only Six EVs Qualify for the $7,500 Tax Credit
You have to love the revival of things like "Let's render the html on the server!", "Lets create the whole page with just one request!", "Let's use SQL, and perhaps just ONE server!", "Try using a server in your office to save on cloud bills", "Put all your microservices in one process so they are cheap to run and easy to deploy!".
Hamas does, but bunch of protestors for a cease fire carrying „from the river to the sea…“, are they?
A new business already has a laundry list of "I need to ${thing} to survive". Being able to move one such problem a couple of years in the future is already an attractive value before considering most businesses won't last that long anyways (for reasons unrelated to how optimized the database was). I mean if you already have the know how, confidence, and experience to do it right in the same amount of time then duh. If not, is spending precious extra time that early on really going to help you survive long enough to reach where how optimized you infrastructure spend is seems like an important problem for your cash flow?

Sometimes I think this then gets conflated with more established businesses where continuing to start every project so heavily this way does tend to create more problems than it solves.
When I see "open" I read it as "I can do what I want with it". I don't read it as any obligation on the part of the provider/creator to incur ongoing costs on my behalf.
That's a good question. There are Tigress transformations [1,2] that seem highly relevant to this goal, but they're harder to work with because the resulting C code isn't always compilable without errors.

In my work I'm not looking for intentional spoofing, but the obfuscations I do use [3,4,5,6,7] end up building very similar control flow structures for different functions. Maybe that fits the spirit of your question... Let me know if not.

So far I'm doing purely static analysis and control flow, but the broader field of reverse engineering includes dynamic/symbolic analysis where you track values through a running/simulated program. Great results but very costly to run.

I've been focusing on making cheap/static analysis better, so I haven't explored the dynamic/symbolic side at all yet.

[1]: https://tigress.wtf/virtualize.html

[2]: https://tigress.wtf/jitter.html

[3]: https://tigress.wtf/flatten.html

[4]: https://tigress.wtf/split.html

[5]: https://tigress.wtf/merge.html

[6]: https://tigress.wtf/encodeArithmetic.html

[7]: https://tigress.wtf/inline.html
I can defend Hiroshima and Nagasaki as military targets. I actually have a greater trouble defending the firebombing of Tokyo (though, its pretty clear to me that the capitol of a combatant country is probably a valid target for bombing in a declared war) because of the sheer number of casualties.

One of my gripes about WWII in the Pacific Theatre, is some folks get very bothered by use of nuclear weapons, while ignoring or downplaying the use of incendiaries, which often killed far more people.
Apple Music is hilarious for this.

No matter which is your starting track, if left to their own devices the "For You" and "Music Station" features will start veering into Top-40 pop music just after a few songs. They should be renamed "Six-degrees of separation from Bad Bunny generator".
> but the real world is far worse

Do you have an example? I’ve also found in-person interactions to be significantly better than what you’ll find in online communities.

In my experience, the Internet seems to magnify our worst tendencies, and brings out a side of people that they would not otherwise show in public.

The Internet was once the place you describe, but has rapidly decayed, and I’m intentionally spending less and less time using it as a result.
Is there anywhere to get a giant stash of subtitles for data science / academic purposes?
Why is writing a better UI a waste of time?
This is easily measurable. Measure handshake success rate, station usage, station availability. Keep them high. It's not hard, just expensive.
So here's the story.

After all the buzz around GPTs, I wanted to find some good use case and build one. I already have a database of over 10000 prompts, so I decided to give my GPT access to it.

Now, you can use GPT to find any prompt from my database.
Are you sure that’s the sewer? Even in China, the goal of sewer management is to keep things flowing at reasonable cost.

In the US, there are two widespread solutions:

1. The ultimate in cost reduction: a 55 gallon drum out back. When it’s full, someone collects it. It’s far more cost effective to dump your oil in a 55 gallon drum than to dump it in a sink and hope you don’t immediately have to call a plumber to clean up the mess.

2. A grease trap: a not-particularly-expensive device like this:

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/4235/grease-traps.html

Are you sure the tricks weren’t collecting oil from drums and grease traps?

I’ve never looked at oil collection in China. But here’s a Wikipedia article showing what looks like 55 gallon drums:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
Wow this is really cool. Make sure to get this repository into those "Awesome Python" GitHub lists. Would also appreciate some video demos in the README to demonstrate what the repo does
I almost agree except that I may have in mind a different kind of engineer than you do: people who don't think about the instruction cache even though they are writing performance-critical code. This post won't change that, but I hope that people writing about performance know that audience exists, and I dearly hope that people in this situation recognize it and strive to learn more.

At a large enough scale, even line of business code can become a bottleneck for real-world business activity. And unsurprisingly, engineers who don't think about performance have a way of making small scales feel like large ones because they use architectures, algorithms, and data structures that don't scale.

This happens even in the FAANG companies famed for their interviewing and engineering. I've seen outages last for hours longer than they should have because some critical algorithm took hours to run after a change in inputs, all the while costing millions because one or more user-facing revenue-critical services couldn't run until the algorithm finishes (global control, security, quota, etc. systems can all work like this by design and if you're lucky the tenth postmortem will acknowledge this isn't ideal).

I've had to inherit and rework enough of these projects that I can definitively say the original developers weren't thinking about performance even though they knew their scale. And when I did inherit them and have to understand them well enough to make them as fast as they needed to be, some were at least written clearly enough that it was a joy, and others were a tangled mess (ironically, in some cases, "for performance" but ineffectively).

See also: the evergreen myth that "you don't need to learn algorithms and data structures, just learn to find them online" resulting in bullshit like a correct but exponential algorithm being put into production when a simple linear one would have worked if the engineer knew more about algorithms.

There's so much wrong with how many people do performance engineering that I don't think pushing fors down is even in the top 10 tips I would give, I just think that folks posting and commenting in this space recognize how large and impactful this section of the audience is.
Sorta. It was more of a 'fight me' comment versus slander. The issue is that the unprofessional congressman tried to fight a witness _during_ a hearing in progress based off comments from Twitter.
There is an extremely weird juxtaposition between the idea of watermarking the outputs so AI-generated samples can be detected if they make up even part of a song (which is arguably considerable as fair use of even copyrighted material if only a single bar is sampled), and the statement:

> Within the experiment, a limited set of creators will be able to use Dream Track for producing a unique soundtrack with the AI-generated voice and musical style of artists including Alec Benjamin, Charlie Puth, Charli XCX, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Sia, T-Pain, Troye Sivan, and Papoose*.

So... we're watching you and we'll know if you so much as sample one bar to create something of your own. But our preferred creators are having so much fun using AI exclusively to make the entire composition, directly ripping off the personal style of these artists who said it's OK!

I also found it hilarious that they claim the idea of embedding a watermark in the audio by adding the image to the 2d spectrogram is a "novel method ... unlike anything that exists today, especially in the context of audio." Considering Aphex Twin did it in 1999...

* Apparently it was removed from the game, and his Wikipedia doesn't even mention it, but, yes, Papoose, of the "You just mad cuz I'm stylin' on ya!" track from GTA IV.
So instead of being replaced by a an embedded SBC, they could be replaced by... an inexpensive modern PC?
I wouldn't exactly call it "powerful" with respect to LLMs applied to biology. It reads more like an opinion piece with some background context (which is not bad) and fake references.

Even though it was published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, it really doesn't have anything to do with Cellular or Molecular Bioengineering.
> Israel has the means to kill Palestinians and it doesn't.

This has to be one of the most startling claims I've ever seen on HN. Here's a graph that slightly contradicts your claim. https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/charts/

This makes it very hard to take anything else you say at face value.
>the power of LLMs applied to biology

Could you substantiate this? There is no connection to biology/bioscience/etc. in the text. That is why its embarrassing that they published it - it has nothing to do with the journal. There are so many other journals where it might make sense to publish such a thing (AI/education/science studies/etc.). But here it just seems like they couldn't manage to get a proper editorial for the issue.
FWIW the article never says to join at the app level. GP read wrong or something. The article says to shift logic to the application.