skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to data visualization, I appreciate actually being able to see the data, but many of the "better" examples make it more difficult to discern between the different colors. Higher contrast, please. Beauty is subject to the eye of the beholder, but I certainly hope the data aren't.
https://archive.is/14gDa
This is the kind of quality shitposting I come to HN for.
Are these videos renders? They look good.
For home electricity? Maybe during the peak of '22, certainly not now: I pay around 0.25€/kWh on average per month via Tibber in Germany. Most new contracts are closer to 0.28€/kWh according to the Zeit Energymonitor at the moment.
The title is deceiving. Israel didn't "know", it was shown a plan and the plan was dismissed by officials as not gonna happen.
Floor 3. It goes to floor 3. At least in my building, which I think has 5 floors. So I guess it wants to wait in the middle to be equidistant to all floors, but I suspect there is a flaw in that math because ground floor probably gets more traffic.

Also, my wife is the same.
There is still benefit in shooting laser at a speed of light, instead of a guided rocket which travels at 2-3 Machs at best.

2 machs is ~0.686 km/s - vs 300k km/s for laser.

and laser can be mounted on a plane, which makes it even more dangerous for air2air combat
Self-hosted version of OpenAI's new stateful Assistants API
EDS: Elon Derangement Syndrome
looking at the prompts in https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts

Now i am a bit sceptical of this whole prompting business, still some of it is doing something (otherwise people would not put their work into it)

Also not clear to me how this steering of the automcpleter in another direction is working.
Great advice! Thanks. Do you have any ideas on how can I do that?
Yeah, a lot of engineering talent went into supporting faster and faster clocks. I linked to an Intel presentation from 2005 that discusses their clock circuitry in detail, and it's complicated. The slide on page 2 is interesting: it shows desktop clock frequency going up exponentially in a nice straight line from 1985 to 2003, looking to hit 10 GHz in 2005 and keep going. Of course that didn't happen at all, and clock speeds have been essentially flat since then. It's surprising how wrong this graph was at predicting the future.

Link: https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/ClockingInMic...
That could be interesting. A recursive cat, so to say.

The problem would be this: In the picture at hand, the big cat is rather simple. Just a portrait of a smiling cat. While the 9 smaller cats are doing all kinds of poses to adjust to the form of the big cat portrait. So the subcats are more complex than the main cat.

When doing the recursive cat, it would be hard to make a subcat from 9 subsubcats because the subcat is already a complex image that is not as easy to recognise as the main cat.
> They're just banning the automation of it. The automated facial recognition service they currently offer also isn't mandatory. Anyone that uses it is doing so voluntarily.

For someone concerned about mandatory face scanning, there is a good argument against permitting the TSA to do voluntary face scanning, which is that the voluntary often becomes the mandatory. As an analogy, consider doing business with the government. Many government agencies will only do business with you if you have a phone number (increasingly an app) and pay with credit or debit card, all practices that started out as voluntary conveniences but morphed into requirements.

You could describe this process in a variety of ways, depending on how much agency and malevolence you want to ascribe to the decision makers: "ratchet effect", "slippery slope", "boiling the frog", etc. Regardless of name, the process tends to look like this: first give people the option to do B instead of A. Then give people an incentive to do B. Then, once most people are doing B, deprioritize A (which makes it inconvenient). Finally, remove option A when there are only a few people left to complain. The TSA is already pushing the envelope with PreCheck and adding more categories to the No Fly List.

It works very well. Consider your comment: "but for better or worse, the TSA inherently has to use facial recognition because they're required right now to check your ID" (emphasis mine). Your logic isn't wrong, but it's starting from the premise of how to better serve what is being done right now rather than what should be done. Consider that the US only started requring airlines to check IDs a few years before 9/11, and personal identification is only indirectly related to the security of an airplane (why there's all those people checking your shoes despite knowing your name and face). The effect of airport IDing is mainly as a tool for law enforcement interdiction and to bolster airline profits by preventing ticket switching. Similarly, after the TSA has built a national database of face models, there is no reason this data has to be used primarily for airline security.
It is pretty bad for classical composers - groups together completely unrelated, very different people: I typed Monteverdi and the closest neighbors shown are Scriabin, Britten, Poulenc, Faure, Schubert. It does not make any sense.
False-Flag Cyber-Attack Against Banks in 2024? – Whitney Webb (27 Min. Video)
Even at $4 or $5 that's not twice $3.30.
I think I broke it. I found Peewee's Big Adventure, clicked through a bunch of movies to TV shows, found Starcraft and finally SUS, Amongus, Barack Obama and Walter White.
I have now tried four different artists and all show very bad matches. Vaguely artists in the same genre, but still clustered by overly broad features.

Artist and music similarity is an incredibly nuanced area, I don't think any of the modern attempts worked sufficiently well (apart from the Music Genome Project, that's still in a different class to this day).
Stephen Jay Gould made a very similar argument about the disappeared .400 baseball hitter:

https://sabr.org/journal/article/can-stephen-jay-goulds-theo...

>Gould then supposes that the decline in batting average peak (the .400 hitter, the outlier) is due to decreased variation in the population of hitters. In other words, as the skills of both hitters and pitchers improved, and as the pool of talented players to choose from increased, the variation in talent (the difference between the best to the worst batting averages) should decrease. Therefore, players in Major League Baseball in more recent period are arguably reaching the “wall” of human performance. Gould’s analysis of the data supports this idea, as the standard deviation of league-wide batting averages has decreased steadily since the early 20th century.
why not just detach the warhead and save the drone?
Not sure about “scramble” in this context, but “stroad” is an established term to describe certain thoroughfares.
It's way less than $2M, since they don't bribe people to be evil, they just buy the tool and make their own alterations.
We just have these stupid unpressable buttons near me. They're big with an embossed arrow on them, but if try to press it it might budge a quarter of a millimeter. I still don't understand how they work, if they're supposed to be capacitive or just have really tiny press windows. But they give zero satisfying feedback that you've successfully pressed the button. I hate them so much. And if you hit them hard they will murder your hand.
Since it's not allowed to use ChatGPT in China, there is a huge opportunity to build a local LLM.
> Imagine if we required cars on the highway to keep even a 1 mile spacing

Distance doesn't matter, what matters is time.

Planes traveling at say 500 knots obviously need more safety margin distance than cars traveling an order of magnitude slower.
Keeping Python 2 for long was a mistake, it had too many inconsistencies.
Slight off-topic but I still can't believe Apple engineers are not able to fix stupid green dot flare when shooting with direct sunlight in the frame... Super easy to fix computationally but for some reason still there for years...
Tool to Find Google Search Volume for Keyword Research
A Holistic Guide to Fintech Compliance
Depends on the refractive index of the lens [1].

[1] https://gebseng.com/media_archeology/reading_materials/Bob_S...
Yeah I immediately thought of the blorange hell of modern movies: https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...
Realism, unfortunately, as most places in the US are even more hostile towards pedestrians.
No but if you can't find a contact email hn@ycombinator.com which will probably work.
Then again, the original ideal for OSS is that (just like owning a home is having the tenant and the landlord be the same person) devs and users are the same, so:

(dev = ops = user) ≹ (biz).
I know it's really bad form to quote the first sentence of an article and say you stopped reading there but...

> entirety of knowledge and that didn’t trigger a golden age

Assumes facts not in evidence!

I think that we are so inundated in amazing things and have so much access to amazing things that instead we're just forgetting how to be amazed!

The metrics given in the article aren't convincing. So the number of "geniuses" per capata is down. So? The absolute numbers of people are way up! And what it takes to be "accomplished" has accordingly increased.

I'm just a random guy and tooting around with recreational mathematics I've from time to time made a discovery I found that I thought was really interesting only to find on further research it WAS an interesting discovery ... in the 1940s by some big name (or in the 1800s by Gauss). This is only possible-- for me-- because I'm standing on the shoulders of many greats and I have tremendous tools available to me that didn't exist even decades ago.

To me that sounds like the renaissance the that the author presumes doesn't exist!

Now this stuff isn't usually resulting in published work-- but that's because it's already published (and well enough available that I know it's published). The bar is higher now.

So it's a darn good thing that we have all these advances because they're whats needed to continue making progress and accelerating, even if it doesn't look that impressive when divided by our exponential population growth. With so much amazing happening people are off doing stuff that isn't captured by the metrics. Some of that stuff could be amazing in it's own light too, but in ways our historical perspective doesn't capture and appreciate.

As far as singular genius goes: As we all become better, due to better tools and better access to knowledge, it makes sense that our accomplishments will become more compressed against the ceiling of what's possible given our current technology. Moreover, we work on more things today that are of a scope greater than any single human-- and this work depends on the collective effort of large teams.

These change likely decrease the importance and visibility of singular genius.

Even if we accept that it's less common now, due to rarity singular genius is difficult to rigorously study and probably impossible study so ethically: Maybe it's down because incest is less common or because child abuse is less common! There are a lot of things which have changed in recent errors which we would not reverse for the sake of more outstanding geniuses.

Instead of looking back and lamenting the that the concentration of singular genius seems to have decreased there is probably so much more to gain from growing into all the new possibilities that have opened to us recently, many of which we've only barely begun to comprehend.

(and, if it isn't clear-- I didn't actually stop reading at the beginning ;) )
Too complicated.

My understanding is that you have an defensive area with ~20 of the hangers scattered around.

1. !!Incoming threat!!
2. LAUNCH ALL THE DRONES,
3. One intercepts,
4. Other loiter a while in case of additional threats,
5. Remaining drones return to base.

Get the operational advantage of having many vehicles in the air, all controllable by one operator, but you recover those not used.
Ah, Tsutomo, my learned disciple!
Delphi strings were really well implemented. Garbage collected (RC), multithread safe, length in first integer, fast, make them as big as your memory could handle. Reduced bad memory pointers a lot compared to competition at the time. Didn't handle the Unicode transition well: but virtually no languages did.
If it has not already happened, evidence will get thrown out of court because the image no longer represents the reality. Too many filters and other AI improvements.
he is! ive learnt so much from his talks
> On the other extreme, Apple is guilty of breaking things too aggressively without enduring compatibility.

Apple views that as a good thing.
Sider 4.0 introduces group AI chat to reduce hallucination by comparing answers from different AIs like ChatGPT, GPT-4.0, Claude, Bard in a group. You can also chat with webpage, image, PDF in every tab without switch tabs between ChatGPT and the current tab.
> Plus, isn't he simultaneously playing 70+ tracks with a CPU-intensive filter on each one? That's not a realistic workload.

I linked this in another comment, but here's a real video of a Skrillex single and it has 180 tracks loaded with plugins.

He mostly uses virtual synthesizers, but you'll notice the track is mostly composed of audio clips and not MIDI running a real synthesizer. Because he does the synthesis in a different project and renders the audio out. Because it would be impossible for a project like this to run in realtime with the synthesizers being calculated.

https://youtu.be/2dYFJdQf7rs?si=rsBc8gCtz5DQYGI9
Never meant to imply anything against your model. The fact that you released one at all is still more than I have to say for myself.
very harsh angular lines == faddish design?
All real footage!
I don't disagree on any particular point except the notion that a medical AI represents an advancement. That claim would have to be studied extensively over decades.
Palmer Luckey was the founder of Oculus VR

Very cool aesthetic - https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FGAPMRBva0AAiF0l.jpg

Cost claim - low hundreds of thousands of dollars (I find it unlikely it'll be this low, we'll see if they can pull it off)

Not sure I see the point of landing suicide drones at such a low price point.
Are people "speculating" when they pursue higher education? People, overwhelmingly, are not purchasing houses to make a profit, but rather using the perception of endless appreciation as a misguided justification for taking on increasingly absurd levels of debt. And that is the core problem that needs to be solved. You can try to change perceptions, or you can change the ability to take on unreasonably high levels of debt. Same with higher education.

As for LVT, you can't expect me to go read a book to appreciate your argument. And I'm vastly more inclined to read than average. Owing to that I did at least check out the Wiki on the book. The excerpts section [1] seems to offer an argument that is either false or highly outdated. Any look at San Francisco, NYC, and other places will clearly show that the areas with the highest level of economic development also offer the highest wages, by an overwhelmingly wide margin.

What drives the prices up is not some conniving and far-sighted bourgeois, but rather economic development driving defacto unlimited levels of demand. In a place like San Francisco you can earn $70k for labor that would pay $30k in a less developed area. Because of this you will never have affordable housing, because that $40k delta would otherwise drive everybody over to hoover it up. This is the scenario literally everywhere in the world.

When you look at what few exceptions there are, they tend to not be exceptions. For instance Tokyo is often cited, yet it seems most people still have an obsolete image of Japain in their minds. They've gone through a 30 year period of stagflation, have a shrinking population, and a declining economy. So housing seems cheap in Tokyo by Western standards, but it's extremely expensive by Japanese standards which is where the overwhelming majority of the demand, and thus the price equilibrium, comes from.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty#Excerpts
So the emergency services use-cases seem obvious and straightforward, but rare. Can't be that big of a market for that, at least for repeat customers. Maybe I'm missing something, but I'd figure that those emergency services organizations would buy 2-3 and keep one in the field and the balance in inventory.

The armed HE variant, that one does not seem that straightforward to me because I don't quite see how this is better than a small missile. Is the benefit loitering? Because a larger drone can carry several armed payloads, and loiter for much longer. Is the benefit detection? Maybe that's it, given its size. Is the benefit autonomous deployment? That probably is pretty useful. Very curious who the government customer is (JSOC?).

Anyway, very cool and slick looking engineering.

Edit: Luckey with some additional comments[1]. "[I]ncreases the operator’s engagement decision space" is I think maybe the key thing here, now that I think about it. The battlefield today is saturated with sensors, so giving the operator just an extra bit of time to understand the data probably is a key innovation for drone warfare.

>Roadrunner-M's performance capacity is far superior than competing air defense solutions and is already an overmatch capability against current and emerging threats. Its employment methodology significantly increases the operator’s engagement decision space which is critically constrained with current capabilities.

>Roadrunner-M innovations include faster launch and take-off timing, three times the warhead payload capacity, ten times the one way effective range, and is three times more maneuverable in G force, compared to similar offerings on the market. A single operator can launch and supervise multiple Roadrunner or Roadrunner-M squadrons.

>Roadrunner-M can be controlled by Lattice, Anduril’s AI-powered software suite for command and control, or be fully integrated into existing air defense radars, sensors, and architectures to provide immediately deployable capability."

[1] https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1730466711412052138
Anduril is one of these companies I would leave my own startup for to work for. I love what they are doing.
The worst example of this is the "founding engineer" role. I get a lot of these offers, and it just feels like a scam every single time. Founders often sell that as some incredible opportunity, zero-to-one, full codebase ownership, huge scope, no eng team, etc, etc. All of that for an amazing 1% equity.

So yeah, the expectation is that I will build the whole project, drive product decisions, help hiring the rest of the eng staff, spend the next 1-2 years basically working on this project 24/7. They keep 99% and I get 1%. Great, thanks.
AI language translation models that preserve expression and improve streaming
Do you work for the company?
You're focusing on the details of my examples too much. In our universe, you cannot create a system of any kind unaffected by the world around it, this is a fundamental law. No system you build can be entirely isolated from the world around it. You can isolate it in this way or that way, but you cannot entirely prevent interaction with the outside world. A computer is not some magical foam that insulates software running on it from the universe if the programmer so desires. If you run a program where some entity inside is even capable of investigating that it is just inside a program, there will be indicators, period. That is in our universe. It doesn't matter if it is a computer or some other method of running the simulation, from inside, there will be detectable effects to any entity that tries to investigate enough.

In a universe where this is not true, that is, systems can emerge that are entirely isolated from the rest of it, even so far as not having to obey the physical laws of said universe, that would be the stable state of emergent systems within that universe. Systems generally would not interact with one another. So even if an entity in that universe could construct a simulation of some kind, and the universe around it had no impact on it whatsoever, it would not be able to observe the simulation and so it would be either pointless or not a simulation at all which both amount to the same thing.

I should note, I'm not saying that we aren't in one, I don't think we are but if we are, it is fundamentally falsifiable and if the more we understand our universe we see no indication of it, that means we aren't in one.
Depending on what's being targetted, sacrificing even 5% of your reliability of hitting the target would be a bad tradeoff.
This is a good point. If you think about it Kissinger was just an intern that passed notes back and forth. As a man with zero influence in any real outcomes he should be remembered for his ability to take dictation with aplomb. It is a mystery to scholars why he is regarded as anything at all
Faculty may not care about this at first, but if they suspect a cheater in their midst can become pretty aggressive in pursuit of information to make their case.

The adminstration, likely not having also not thought about it hard enough to have any policy or procedure around sharing the information, will then bend over backwards to support the faculty however possible.

This capability now established then becomes as you suggest, great fodder for building rapport and demonstrating your commitment to protecting the school's interest.
We have some that don't move much, but the make a beeping noise when you hit them, and an LED lights up.
Exactly. The media needs a new villain. Ask CNN.
Anybody in charge of making purchase decisions for Enterprise SaaS and going for a full-Broadcom stack should be fired.
Good catch! I had a look, and it didn't work because of the flags, moving them after the country names fixed it. Thanks!
That throws me back. Being a teenager without any real understanding of compilers, interpreters etc., being able to create my own EXE file in TP4 felt like having superpowers - like being a real(TM) programmer :)

A few years later at 16, I actually got paid for developing a small app for managing my dad's customers, paid by the company he worked for. Part of that money went into getting a legal version of TP6.

Good times :)
Technically you also have to use it more than 50% of the time for business.
Addiction and substance abuse are complicated topics, but ideally somebody partaking of tobacco, drugs, or alcohol is aware of the risk to their own person of doing so, and has freely chosen to partake regardless. Unfortunately, though I'm well aware of the mortal danger excessively large and powerful personal vehicles pose to me and my family on the road, the only ways I can opt out of that danger are to a) not drive (edit: or walk, or cycle, or...) on public roads, or b) drive a very large and heavy vehicle myself, thus putting yet more people in mortal danger. Neither is acceptable.

In short, yours is not a good analogy because the danger posed by the use of harmful addictive substances is to the self, while the danger posed by driving an F-450 XLT Cummings Power Stroke 8.0 Liter Ranch King Harley Davidson Edition is to others.
Oh good, I have it off. I was pondering that feature years ago when I set it up. Couldn't remember where I landed.
The article explicitly specifies orthogonal matrices.
Right.

I am all in on retrofitting a 1973 Ford Country Squire faux-wood-panel-in-green station wagon with a set of Kia uniwheels.
What does this mean for the future of the product?
Second issue might be funding of research. Where new ideas aren't getting funding.

On other hand this likely leads to lot less waste and as society we are already tight on money as things get more expensive. So we cannot just waste it to any random idea or apparent crank... Or pseudoscience...