skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wow. This is the first time I've seen AI generate convincing human movement. (And the folds of fabric in dresses seem to move realistically too!)

Of course, the actual movement skeleton is coming from presumably real motion-capture, but still.

I'm curious what the current state is of generating the movement skeletons, which obviously has a ton of relevance to video games. Where's the progress in models where you can type "a burly man stands with erect posture, then crouches down and sneaks five steps forward, then freezes in fear" and output an appropriate movement skeleton?
One difference I've noticed is that with Magnet, if you have a window 'maximized' by dragging it into the top of the screen or pressing the shortcut for it, when you start dragging it down from the top of the screen to unmaximize it, it instantly returns to its original size, whereas with Rectangle it stays maximized for some time after you start dragging it which is pretty annoying.

Another thing is the way Magnet moves and resizes windows seems to create less visual 'flashing' than Rectangle's method, for instance Rectangle will resize, then move, then resize again when maximizing a window, which can create a really pronounced 'flashing' effect. That's not to say Magnet has no 'flashing' ever, there's certain situations where it does and to my understanding it seems necessary due to the limited nature of moving and resizing windows on macOS (I guess you have to do one then the other and can't both move and resize simultaneously?), but to me Magnet's methods often look visually better.

Rectangle is great though, I've switched to it from Magnet and these are just some minor gripes.
A SBOM is for the producer at this time, not the consumer. It is about requiring the producers to at least try to figure out what they put into your soup. The sort of engineering 101 processes that almost all software development lacks. It is about making it possible, though not necessarily easy, for somebody to know what they are making.

The next step is exhaustiveness and automated production. At this point it will be accurate and exhaustive, but not necessarily easy to use. This is about making it possible, though not necessarily easy, for the consumer to know what they are getting.

The next step is then regularity and consistency to make it easy for the consumer to know what they are getting since it follows common, standard rules.

After that point we may get to a full reproducible build/linking manifest that allows automated validation that the SBOM matches the delivery. But this step has a good chance of fizzling out as a standard practice in general industry.

The first three are clearly where this is all going and constitute a very minor cost relative to a very outsized benefit. We might not even get to the third step, but even then at least general software development would have reached engineering 101 process sophistication which is a massive improvement over the status quo.
Golang for fast critical services. Web stuff can be rails or laravel. Or you can do everything in Go if you want a single language. Also stop thinking of tech stacks. The word stack should make you feel icky. Also consider pocketbase which is written in go.
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I first read this as "translate to Norwegian"
This is pretty well said. I tend to agree and as a founder of multiple companies, as a well an engineering-background co-founder myself, I have definitely had interactions with "non-technical" founders looking for people (like me) and totally got the vibe of the needing a "technical co-founder" because they just need some "coder" as if that's the missing key to success (or whatever).

That said, there are plenty of very smart, driven, people who are not software engineers who don't think of a technical co-founder that way. So it'd be wrong to paint with a super wide brush on this.
Is there some way that this or similar can be copied by all automakers, or is this all patented by Kia/Hyundai in such a way that most improvements are completely locked in?
RELEASE THE HYPNODRONES
The board had the right non-profit long-term focus, but it didn't have the willpower to communicate and realize their vision. Ilya is a wonderful scientist, but not a great leader.
Yes, when ChatGPT came out, I instantly thought its makers must have read Lem, since it's essentially the same thing as Trurl's Electronic Bard from The Cyberiad.
> have literally seen people justifying lying on the resume

> prolific open source contributors...struggling to get a job

The market selects the best, if it's best at lying, who are we to tell the invisible hand that it's wrong? /s

I've seen environments where a certain amount of manipulating the truth is expected. Individuals eventually figure out what's expected of them.

You know it's not the truth, they know it's not the truth, and you know they know.
Well the analogy was more at the introduction of the automobile the people who were familiar with horses were able to point out all the ways that horses were better than cars by some measure. Cars ended up being used in entirely different and arguably more powerful ways. You didn't even need to contradict the people who held the horses in higher reguard. Horses just became irrelevant. It's an incremental value proposition. AI will keep hitting various plateaus, but it's already pretty fucking amazing. It's not going to get worse. And pointing out specifically how it differs from the human mind to me honestly feels like clinging to the wreckage.
some people take benzos to the same effect, or at least for the same reason
I can't comment on the question as I'm not a designer and not in Germany, but there's a typo on the GitHub page: "tought" -> "thought".
Yes. In the story it sounds like they talked their manager out of putting them on Pivot (aka PIP):

> I wasn't put on Pivot. My manager wanted to work with me a little bit to see if I was going to commit to the job. So they sat me down and said I could go on Pivot and leave right away, or they would work with me

So the manager probably put someone else on Pivot to meet their quota and when the author left now they are down two people. If they knew the author was leaving they would have ranked them dead last, put on PIP, and then part of their quota is met.

Also this quote shows the farce that Pivot is. It sounds like the manager did a PIP-before-the-PIP because they actually wanted them to stay and Pivot is just CYA performance for someone on the way out.

I've never worked at Amazon but people talk about Pivot coming with severance, but the author chose to leave for free. Maybe there's some disadvantage to accepting the severance? Not eligible for future rehire if you accept? Maybe it's just too hard to time getting a new job right at the conclusion of the PIP?
The tri-motor 500 mile range was probably the aspect that I found most exciting, seeing that removed hurts as well.
Saw one on the street yesterday. It looked enormous and out of place.
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With success?
100kW+ chargers are insanely expensive. It is cheaper to drive ICE than charge on those.

Uh... Where in the world are you seeing this? And what kind of mpg, miles / kWh, $/gallon, and $/kWh are we talking?
Once my college professor was working on her research paper and told me she was struggling get text to stay underlined. Assuming a simple user error, I expected to help her out in 5 minutes.

Over three hours later, we discovered that the combo of her specific video card driver version along with her specific printer driver version would keep text from printing out underlined.
Being disabled scripts like these really help me, I can’t sit behind a computer as much as I could before, but it’s still my main hobby.

I do a quick look over of the source to make sure it’s ok. It saves me so much time and pain.
My employer might be flexible, but I am sure my daughter's school wouldn't let me just pick when her bus picks her up and drops her off.
If the law says you need to be able to opt out you need to be able to opt out...
Exactly - there is no way to win. America is vilified whether it is interventionist and also when it is isolationist. They shouldn't believe like the world's police, but also they have to stop all conflicts everywhere.
You might enjoy the Urantia Book.
He's not wrong.

Source: Have around a dozen varieties of chicken.
There is a (very small) link at the bottom for "Add Listing". Looks like you have to create a login to submit and manage listings. I'm not sure if it's intended for business owners to do it since that also seems to be for managing events.

I can say that at least one of the entries likely isn't from a business owner. The map has one of their locations, but is missing several of the others.

As a whole, I also really like the idea. I know of a lot of places that cater to retro stuff (not just gaming) in my area and it has taken me the better part of a decade to find them. I can only dream of the places that I haven't found. Sadly, several of my beloved places have closed down and I can't help but wonder if a directory like this might've saved them.

The categories don't make a lot of sense to me, to be honest. For example, there's "bar/pub/eSports": I don't think it makes sense to lump those together. Should an eSports lounge that doesn't serve drinks be tagged with that? Should it be a cafe instead?

What about a barcade? Is it an arcade or is it a "bar/pub/eSports"?

I am also entirely confused why half of the filters for the map are things that only have a digital presence and, thus, no geographical location.
2023 ChatGPT Wrapped (unofficial version)
As somebody who worked on the Gecko side on this, there absolutely was a need for a rewrite.
Absolutely, but as intelligence increases so does the likelihood for it to have an alignment that isn’t congruent with that of its “operator.”
When I was a kid, a kindly computer store owner (who also made me a great deal on an PC-semi-compatible running MS-DOS 1.25, for approx. a hundred lawns mowed and babies sat) sold me a copy of Turbo Pascal for generic MS-DOS (no PC BIOS assumed) on 8" floppy. He transferred it to the 160KB 5.25" format that my semi-compatible used.

I hope I was appreciative enough at the time, as I am now. That helped bootstrap my career.
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This is it. Why are there three birds (crows?) above that field in Van Gogh's painting?

The answer is: who cares — they bring something to the painting, and no explaination would greatly change that. Maybe a definite explaination would even hurt the mystery and thus the reception.

The value of some art lies in what it means to you, the mental doors it opens or the emotions it tingles. All of this can be so subjective that any explaination is ultimately without any real value.

Sure it is interesting to know if Van Gogh used those birds elsewhere, or what they might represent for himself, with his moving biography. But when I am looking at that picture, all of that is not important.
I think this is entirely incorrect. Vipassana meditation, the type focused on breathing, require intense awareness of your breathing and physical body. It’s a similar state to when you intensely focus on what’s around you and everything gets brighter and more vibrant and you pick out a lot of details you normally don’t notice because you’re distracted by your thoughts.

If you’re doing it the way intended you would 100% be aware of your irregular breath or pausing. In fact beginners vipassana often advises counting the breaths individually in a cycle 1..10, and resetting the count when you lose track of your breathing. You intensely focus on the sensation of the air moving through your nostrils, the muscles contracting, your clothing shifting.

However it’s not about controlling your breathing, so it’s not the same as breathing consciously. It’s observing passively. Often you’ll notice that you are breathing irregularly, not because of the meditation, but because you typically are stressed and tight in your musculature due to the way you’re thinking. You can then loosen and reset your patterns of breath to be more natural, deep, and complete.

A goal isn’t to stop with observing the breath though, and you work towards having a total awareness of the entire body at once, shifting your center of existence from your head to the rest of your body. You then incorporate sounds and events in your environment. This requires an intense amount of mental power, and is entirely different from your description of oxygen deprivation. Thought ceases because it interferes with being aware, not because you are experiencing brain death.
Ableton Live already has Microtuner (https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/microtuner/), I haven't heard it being used much though. Also, Bitwig released the Micro-Pitch device years ago.

I am curious whether a better Live integration is going to lead to more usage.
It wasn't the Grammarly extension, it was the desktop app.
> Exactly. 5 years ago, we would have said what GPT-4 is doing now would be AGI.

okay, and 500 years ago we would have said it was magic, that doesn't make it magic. people who don't understand the thing often are confused about the thing. as soon as you explain how the whole mechanism works it's obvious that it's not that thing.

> People are forgetting how stupid people are. GPT is already better than average human. Most people can't do what we claim GPT must be capable of to qualify as AGI. The only logical conclusion is that many people are also not conscious and don't qualify as being able to reason.

citation massively needed, this sounds like it was written by someone who thinks idiocracy was a documentary and not a comedy.
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Firefox mobile is the only reason I barely use my laptop for browsing anymore. I only need noscript and ublock origin keeping the modern web bearable.

Now, if only there was a powerful computer device with the physical dimensions of my Kobo Libra 2. Almost got a Lenovo Legion Go but it's 3x the weight of my reader - more than 600 grams without the joypads
Microsoft Word grammar suggestions are generated how?
I've been using Amethyst for multiple years on only the builtin display as well.

I think the key here is to use multiple desktops (or are they called workspaces?). If I'm working on a single screen I constantly have 10 desktops open, with a quite consistent setup between them (e.g. first desktop is fullscreen browser, second screen is 3-5 tiled terminals, ...). All the applications I'm "actively" using are usually on the first 2-4 desktops with a lot of screen real estate for each of them.

What really helps here is assigning one of the screen corners as a hot corner that goes to Expose mode where you can switch between screens, as well as assigning shortcuts for switching between desktops and moving windows between them (the moving windows shortcuts are usually part of your window manager). Selecting "Reduced Motion" in the accessibility settings also helps by speeding up the desktop switching animations.
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Am I the only one that made the change from dev to SE and hates it?
After trying yabai, Amethyst, and many others, I landed on hammerspoon.org + https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager a few years ago and haven't looked back. I couldn't live on a Mac without hammerspoon tbh.
Add every (big) German news website and newspapers of course. Probably the same in other countries. Yes, long standing conflicts only get mentioned when they "flare" up.

How much did we hear about Israel/Palestine in the last two years before Oct 7? Not too much. Same with this conflict and the myriad of others. Most of them get mentioned when they start and only when something really important happens. If people want to know more, they need to go to a specialized publication, not just read the "most important" section of the news and be done.
I don't understand your objection about Don Knuth. I'm well aware who he is. My point is that I don't have access to that kind of insightful human helper. So I "settle" for ChatGPT.

And by "us" I mean "those of us who choose to use ChatGPT," and not that I was forcing you to use ChatGPT.

It's true, I don't morally object to asking ChatGPT to "do my labour." It raises no red flag for me. (Okay, there's the IP red-flag about how ChatGPT was trained, but I don't think that's what you mean.)
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How does making the box cheaper solve the fact that for the majority of homeless people, the land the box is on is the cost factor that prevents them from scrounging up legal residence? They already have tents, if they could put them somewhere legally they would! That's the entire problem for the ones that "don't want" the "help" of all these stupid "solutions".

My city conducted a "sweep" (read: stole all the stuff from our homeless people and threw it in a dumpster and just otherwise harassed them) of a homeless camp that was situated on a highway off-ramp. Now that area is empty, unused, and completely devoid of a point. What the heck was the concern? It wasn't a crime hotspot, it wasn't building up trash, it's completely distant from any business or facility that could be "annoyed" by a homeless camp, it was just a perfectly good use of public property.

Where the fuck should they go then? There aren't enough beds in the shelter, and the shelter isn't even close to the social services they need. I'm so tired of people doing everything they can to apologize for destroying human beings for being inconvenient. "Oh but they do drugs in public and make trash and they poop in the open"

Okay, I've just taken away your legal residence and your bank accounts. Where the fuck do YOU poop?
As you get older you need 'reading' glasses to allow your eyes to focus on close-up things like books.

Now the thing about those reading glasses is that they will have a focal distance where things come into focus for your eyes. (The lens in your eyes plus the lens in the glasses gives a multi-element lens with an overall focal distance.)

I have a night-reading pair of glasses which have a focal length (for my eyes) at around 9 inches between my eyes and my kindle.

Obviously i can't sit so that my eyes are 9 inches from my 43" 4K TV computer monitor, so I have a pair of 'computer' glasses that have a focal length (for my eyes) of about 20-24 inches from that monitor.

Now you CAN go into the local supermarket and get a pair of reading glasses of suitable focal length, but ....

The best glasses for reading are made from high quality optical-lens glass. That makes them expensive, but they're a lot better in the long run. Also your eyes may have different focal-lengths, so you may need different correcting lenses for your left and right eyes. It's possible for one eye to be able to focus with a set of 'cheapies', but the other eye may be out of focus. And that's not good.

When I have my eyes tested periodically, I get one set of glasses for 'night reading' and another set of glasses for 'computer use', as well as my ordinary bifocal everyday glasses. (Bifocals rather than those progressive focus lenses because I find the narrow width of field means I have to turn my head rather than just flick my eyes left and right. YMMV.)

Note that the short-distance glasses (night-time and computer) don't require changing as often as the 'everyday' glasses, so you can alternate getting new ones, so: one eye-test - everyday glasses plus night-reading, the next eye test - everyday glasses plus computer-use, ......
Yes, absolutely.

Asahilinux >> MacOS

It's wonderful to use the M2 with incredible battery life and performance without having to have a subpar OS.
Why not go just one step further and adopt Swatch Internet Time? I mean if we’re just going to go the mass upheaval route, we might as well ride that train as far as it will go.
It seems like all of their criticisms can be easily applied to essentially any technology used or medical company relied on.

For example:
>In the rush to deploy off-the-shelf proprietary LLMs, however, health-care institutions and other organizations risk ceding the control of medicine to opaque corporate interests. Medical care could rapidly become dependent on LLMs that are difficult to evaluate, and that can be modified or even taken offline without notice should the service be deemed no longer profitable

Even:

>LLMs often generate ... convincing outputs that are false

is already a problem the medical community has to address with existing tests.

Or:

>Another problem specific to proprietary LLMs is that companies’ dependency on profits creates an inherent conflict of interest that could inject instability into the provision of medical care.

Seemingly applies to essentially the entirety of medical supplies and medications.
Ironically, windows 10+ comes with real curl installed, to use it type curl.exe instead
How do I know you have theory of mind or are concious if not the "right" response to a test ?

As far as I'm concerned, the only person I can be certain is concious is me.

It doesn't have to be a "scientifically tested psychology test"

Construct your own story with multiple characters of varying knowledge and beliefs and see how it does.
Oh I missed the github issue. My bad. In fact I searched github and probably my github search foo was not good. Sorry to disregard that fact.

If these are already in place I don't have any reservations against using IMs or Discord. In fact this is particularly great sample how this can be done.

- Bug report is in place
- Blog/Article for historic events , documentation and pointers for related info
- Fast communication for debug sessions

I hope you understand my original message was about pointing out a situation where only left overs are history of these chat tools.

There are lots of communities right now just using discord or IM for support, bug reporting or development purposes.
Curious about this as well...I thought it wasn't quite there as a daily driver OS, but would be happy to be wrong ;-)
My career has intersected with Chris Mungal (speaker in video) a few times. I wasn't familiar with his Prolog background, but that explains a lot of things. Years ago, I used his CHADO schema for relational biological databases. The design of the schema was both elegant and quite extensible. The challenge was that the elegance came from extensive indirection, which made it very challenging to create high performance queries. I spent time looking into graph databases as a consequence, but shifted projects before implementation.
I've used Firefox on Android for many years, and while I don't agree that it's terrible I do think it's worse than it used to be.

Around the same time as the extensions support was disabled, they removed a lot of features I liked and added some features and UI changes that still annoy me. It's a bit sad.
Network drivers contribute to "bugs" surprisingly often. I've had my share of issues with them.

I'd go as far to claim this: If you're shipping a product that relies on networking at your customer's premises you basically need to maintain a list of cards and drivers that you support. Especially if you're doing anything weird, where "weird" means anything but bog standard TCP.
Perse wasn't that consultant, but rather a special position as a consultant in French literature was created for him.

That Perse abandoned poetry after the publication of Anabase, because he felt it would conflict with his career as a diplomat, is a cornerstone of any biography of the poet.
Something else I hate: long tracking links that inevitably get a %20 in them somehow and don’t work unless I edit the link myself. Just use a normal link to your page and don’t make things more difficult for your users by bouncing through some intermediary that might malfunction. I’ve given up on several purchases because the link in the email didn’t just work.
That’s… an overreaction.