skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s what Apple’s been doing for a few years, though it remains unclear how much of that is “AI”. So it makes sense that someone else would enter that niche.
I collect portable music players and hi-fi gear. The music gives me great joy, but the hardware also gives me joy. I’m likely an outlier in this realm.

I pre-ordered my new Peter Gabriel I/0 album two months ago on CD and enjoyed the anticipation of waiting. I steadfastly avoided his digital pre-releases. I was not disappointed! It a great album and a beautiful sonic experience.

I took a couple of my favorite tracks and mixed it into my Peter Gabriel minidisc mix-tape. I have numerous portable players to choose from in my collection to listen on the go including a few beautifully designed personal CD players.

I travel internationally frequently and I’ve noticed TSA occasionally doesn’t know what a CD player is. At least the younger agents.
> EU citizens would rather be in the US than the other way around

Any source? I doubt many EU citizen would agree with that, especially those aware of US work and health system.
I haven't logged in in years. Is it possible for me to cancel my service without agreeing to updated terms?
Libriscv: Version 1.0
I've heard of plenty of them, but only watched a few, and only watched maybe two of them more than once. But I watch weird back catalog documentaries and such that I wouldn't expect to be crowd pleasers.
As the pendulum has shifted way (way) over to art as commerce, as a product, then AIs are plausibly useful. Why not make the 'product' more efficiently and cheaply.

But art for me is self-expression; I'm encountering another human being or I'm expressing myself. AI creating that art (really the only "art" IMHO) is a useful as an AI writing memoirs or a love letter or a condolence note.

In general perception, art always has been some mix of those two and people seem to unconsciously conflate them, to slip from one to the other. If AI - plus the current socio-political madness of dismissing all humanities, all compassion, and all humans as anything but economic devices - effectively wipes out art, what have we wrought?

What has the IT revolution, what has Silicon Valley wrought? Look at the world we are creating. And for what? So a few people can make lots of money?
Make sure to set OpenAI API spend limits when using this or you'll quickly find yourself learning the difference between the cost of the text models and vision models.

EDIT: I checked again and it seems the pricing is comparable. Good stuff.
I have mixed feelings about this topic appearing on HN as I feel like folks are entrenched one way or the other and information isn't going to sway anyone. If this were a discussion we want to have here, this feels like a very bad article as by it's nature it's a one-sided subjective narrative with very little light to shed on the depth of the conflict. An interesting differentiator left unsaid in this article is that Israel released these guys upon investigation which by wartime standards is good behavior (in contrast to hostages kidnapped and held by Hamas still)

A thing that makes this conflict difficult to talk about is that the prevalence of coverage makes so many people take sides, while the depth of their understanding is basically just hearing the repetition of a word and applying the emotion of that word to the conflict. For example people hear "genocide in Gaza" and their opinion is simple: genocide is bad. It takes a little digging that most people don't bother to realize the population of Gaza has continued to grow exponentially [1] which is basically the opposite of genocide.

Sometimes reading about this conflict feels like seeing someone outraged at an oncologist because of what the radiation treatment is doing to a patient. Yes its bad, yes it's hurting them, but you can't really make sense of that unless you understand cancer and the greater danger that necessitates this kind of response.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/gaza-populati...
I guess the comment was more tongue in cheek wrt to Netflix and chill meme but tbh I have my tv running all day (though not just Netflix) just as background noise so ranking shows by number of hours watched may have lots of noise added to it.
The UN is blatantly biased. There are ~50 Islamic states in the UN that compulsively always vote against Israel. These Islamic states have even made rambling and screaming about Israel a mandatory ceremony (Item 7) at UNHRC sessions.
Yes it is and current Python is basically just an object oriented system hacked on top of ancient Python. The underlying elements beneath the syntax is basically all the same.
Please point me to the smartphone that I can freely do whatever I want with. For all Apple devices, it's non-existent. For Android there's only a few limited options left that ship with a bootloader that can be unlocked.

The point is that this isn't 1986 anymore and when everyone's devices are locked down it prevents competition because there's no distribution method for homebrew software. If there was no ability to install custom OSs on IBM and IBM-compatible machines we wouldn't have Linux. And if Microsoft was the gatekeeper of what websites could be displayed on IE in the 90s we wouldn't have the web in the form we know it today. So sure, you personally may be able to buy development boards specifically but when you can't get your software to the average person's device, what does that mean for adding competition to the market?

I'd much rather live in a world where being more open means there might be some malware lurking as opposed to one where everything is so locked down that I am at the mercy of what these large corporations deem acceptable for me to do on hardware that I "own" in the name of safety and security.
Man does not live by calories alone. Calorie-dense nutrient-void food causes obesity and also starves the afflicted body of necessary vitamins, proteins and the like.
Not sure if that point stands in the light of modern, or any, organisational theory so. Bureaucracy does exist for a reason, to organize things and activities. That organization allows us to live the pampered life we life (at least some do, especially in the developed world). Bullshit jobs are seen as such because division of activities was taken to a point were people fail to see the overall picture.

Because, as sad as it is sometimes, in a capitalist society as long as someone pays for job being done, that job holds some value. Even if the people doing it fail to see that sometimes. If you care about some greater meaning ij your job, otherwise if it pays the bills, gets food on the table and, ideally, provides some financial stability, tue job actually provides a ton of value to thw person holding it, regardless if someone classifies it as a BS job or not. By the way, being to conplain about the metaphysical nature and philosophocal meaning of a day job is one of the highest privileges a person can have.
It's not true that individuals need to band together. A single individual can kick off a class action lawsuit, private litigators can even kick start a lawsuit themselves (though ultimately the lawsuit will bring in impacted individuals).

The idea of private litigators is to complement the innate limitations of federal/state lawyers, by offering profit as an incentive.

Ideally yeah Americans would have stronger laws around TOS, customer privacy, data handling and security, and robustly funded state lawyers... but we don't.

Practically speaking, such gaps are not unique to technology. Every industry has this same problem, and your awareness of those problems is reflective of the general public's political engagement with this thread's topic. So having gaps that private litigators address is really quite normal and part of the incremental progress of legislation and state enforcement.
I think your question is backwards. Why should Google have some especially preferential advantage over any other company?

The answer to your question, as you asked, is straightforward: they do have a lot of smart people and lots of money and computing resources, but they have exhibited serious structural problems moving technology forward since the departure of Schmidt in 2011. It is painfully obvious that de facto they haven't had CEO leadership since then. People can and do develop fully functioning example systems, and of course demos, but they then peter out. Gianndrea was pusing them forward on the AI front but after he left it feels to me like the impetus was not replaced.

But I don't think that's the real question. The real question is: what are the core functions needed to build leading LLMs, especially generative transformers. In these early days the key factor has been money for cycles. Personally I expect that advantage to diminish over the next few years -- IMHO it's one of those "with enough thrust you can get anything airborn" situations. There are a lot of smart opportunities to do more with less -- too much of the engineering is going into wrangling these hige systems but I see more effort going into wrangling what computation is done in the first place. Google, OpenAI et al are not preferentially positioned for such a transition.

I could be wrong: after all the human brain has 80 giganodes with 10^5 fanout. But on the other hand it only runs at less than 100 Hz.
They are also heavily subsidised by the chinese government. If you think this through a bit you notice that you loose a war if you kill your national automakers and are dependant on china. Also look at Germany, they are still struggling, as they don't understand the market at all.
> Or you can make do with 15mm-apart worth of "around"?

You need to move the close objects further apart in left/right than they are in the camera. Then you need to fill the newly empty areas with something.

> Plus this has a wide lens and a "regular" lens (actually both wide iirc but one is ultrawide), so it's not like 2 equal lenses 50mm apart like in regular stereoscopic "3d" video.

This doesn't affect anything.
Perhaps it's a case of improved forecasting/data methods. Hasbro knows already this holiday season will be disastrous for them apparently, and previously companies that needed the holiday season to make their numbers had to wait until after it ended to really make decisions.
They popped up a dialog prompt to ask you if you were still watching.
YouTube's tax is not comparable to the Play Store or the App Store because other identical services exist. Pretty much anyone immediately familiar with Google or Apple's infrastructure would laugh that off - you cannot replace the App Store in the same way. Unlike YouTube and Vimeo/Dailymotion, nobody is competing with the App Store to adjust it's taxation.

If Windows and MacOS imposed the same limitations, entire classes of software would stop getting distributed. Games would no longer be profitable enough to ship or diverse enough to compete in terms of profits. Professional software/plugin developers like Pro Tools, Panic! and U-He would lose the software margins they enjoy today and potentially stop supporting new OS releases. It happened already on MacOS after the depreciation of 32-bit apps and OpenGL.

> the OS developer acting as a gatekeeper is necessary to prevent malware from getting onto devices

You say that, but then viruses like Pegasus show up using nothing more than first-party Apple services. It's a bogus fearmongering tactic that cannot be used to justify not giving people a choice. User exploitation will exist as long as the user has enough power to act against their own interests. You'd have to remove the phone functionality to make a safe phone.

> Almost everything you list is actually a positive thing

> nothing people hope these lawsuits would accomplish would give us that.

Interesting, you sound incredibly desperate to dismiss the idea that legislation could fix this problem despite a lack of evidence. Wanna expand on that?
Yes, killing over 17000 people, most of them women and children is not OK.
Centos is the only officially supported distro, but it works just as well on any other. In some cases, you may need to install some extra dependencies, but not much
They only need to publish the taxes and fees if they’re not part of the advertised service price. The FCC has made it very clear that if ISP don’t want to publish the minutiae of all the various taxes and fees, then those ISP are welcome to charge a single flat, advertised, price, and not inflate bills beyond that price with spurious taxes and “fees”.

Of course that would require ISPs to be honest and upfront with their advertising and billing practices, something US ISP seem to be incapable of.
Are you saying this article is dangerous because it may further engage folks that have been already enraged due to having been misinformation elsewhere to the point it could result in violence? Also how does that compare with the actual harm and health of innocent people mentioned in the article?
Bacalhau 1.2
Awesome! I love it! I was just about to sign up for ChatGPT Plus, but maybe I will pay for the API instead. So much good stuff coming out daily.

How does the pricing per message + reply end up in practice? (If my calculations are right, it shouldn't be too bad, but sounds a bit too good to be true)
Just to play devils advocate to this type of response.

What if tomorrow I drop a small computer unit in front of you that has human level intelligence?

Now, you're not allowed to say humans are magical and computers will never do this. For the sake of this theoretical debate it's already been developed and we can make millions of them.

What does this world look like?
True, although microcode updates can still alter hardwired logic in a more limited way - it can’t fundamentally alter the logic, but (if designed to permit that) can reconfigure it - such as by disabling certain features. You just need some signals that change how the hardwired logic behaves, and a configuration register to feed them, and then allow the microcode to write to that configuration register.
Mickey Mouse clubhouse? Lots of Disney branding still has him. Just asked my 6yr old who the most famous Disney Character is.
Considering what we're talking about, a negative tip might have actually charged the driver. Hope you tipped in cash more than you negative tipped. :-P
jews + usa protestant evangelicals (the only Christians that are specifically pro Zionism) are massively outnumbered by Western world Muslims.
Yes-- so to even create a fixed view with viewports that are further apart than the real cameras are, you have ot inpaint hidden detail.
Genuinely curious for my own research, can you give me more information? What exactly happened? What projects failed to gain investment? What projects subsequently were only funded due to IP restriction grants?
Worth noting this isn't an absolute position. There are many Gazans posting on Telegram. They have food, water and internet access. But they seem to be the ones shooting at Israel and other Gazans...

Edit: suspiciously this is downvoted suddenly as well as lots of other unrelated posts of mine. Looks like you can't have a responsible discussion on the internet these days...
Speaking of tacit experience, I love watching YouTube videos made by professionals working in industries I’m just a rank amateur in.

One thing that occurred to me is that I’ll observe these people casually and repeatedly applying “methods of the art” without a second thought, but then spend the entire episode talking about some specific obscure issue they’re trying to solve.

In my mind these have equal difficulty — and in some sense they are equal! It’s just that professionals may have done basics so often they don’t even think about it any more. It’s become a habit, mere tacit knowledge.

Some random examples:

Correctly centering something in a lathe — done in incorrectly can lead to this: https://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/907281/faulty-oil-pi...

I can think of thousands of examples like that: tacit knowledge is the knowledge you gain when you do something many times a day. That doesn’t make it less important, less valuable, or more obvious to beginners.
Anyone have opinions on Fable vs Bolero?
> This tough lesson was taught by AFA Sweden, a group of Stockholm-based anti-fascists, who ruined thousands of the site customers' holidays by releasing Midgård’s customer register.

The article omits it, but AFA Sweden has a very violent history, including arson, attacking judges, politicians, and threatening elected officials [1]. That gives their comments [2] a much more threatening tone than the abstract, lukewarm generalities the article conjures up. "Enterprising" the subtitle calls them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifascistisk_Aktion

[2] “We are continuously working with people on the list, [..] When it comes to the people on the list the goal is always to give no alternative but to leave the movement or make it impossible to stay active.”
> So by your argument, there's no point in maintaining privacy for either piece of information (DNA / passwords).

The problem with privacy is that it's fragile. When your info is leaked, you should assume it's out there for good.

I also think that while right now when you do the cost/benefit analysis of having your DNA sequenced, you think the cost outweights the benefit. Clearly my personal calculus is different than yours, and that's ok. But I would caution you that in the future that calculation may be different for you.

So I think people will either lose privacy, or voluntarily give up some privacy for some benefit. In either case, we will need something other than privacy to protect ourselves. I think that well-enforced legislation, legislation that limits the way genetic info can be used and gives the individual more control over their own info, is really the only thing that can help.
> Then youtube-dl wasn't a thing anymore (maybe it is again?)...

yt-dlp is definitely a thing: <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp>
Fighting games have numerous sound effects because it's faster to react by sound than by sight.

Seriously. It's one way to get an edge vs your opponent. Try it in your next training routine.

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I've never expected anyone to truly play blind like this guy, but I can believe its possible with the right game. (I know almost nothing about Moral Kombat, so I wouldn't know what the sound-cues are).

But if you aren't using your ears in these games, you're playing maybe... 50ms to 80ms slower than the opponent. IIRC, visual reaction speeds are ~200ms, while audio reaction speeds are ~130ms. So its a pretty substantial benefit. Or to put it into "Frame data" terms... people reacting by ear are 3-frames faster than those who react by eyes.
> And they are using that power to aggressively attack the weaker power in the conflict with little regard for civilian casualties (“collateral damage”) or proportionality of response.

It is certainly aggressively attacking Hamas, but that's because, despite Hamas being weaker, they've shown themselves capable of invading Israel and killing thousands of citizens.

You write "little regard for civilian casualties", but I don't think that's true - please, explain how you arrive at that conclusion.

And proportionality of response doesn't mean what many people think it means - is' not "Hamas kill X people so Israel should kill f(X) people". It's measured by how many civilians would die while achieving a valid military objective. Destroying Hamas is absolutely a valid military objective - the question is if Israel is managing to do it without a disproportianate number of civilians killed.

I think based on the best-known numbers we have - which place the civilian-to-combatant kill ration at 2:1, meaning 2 civilians killed per 1 militant - I think that this is valid and in-line with similar wars fought by Western countries in the past.
Two things:

1. You have given up on any sort of consistency.
2. The database implementation will never be able to optimize a lookup workload which is pretty close to pessimal. Not caring about 99% is only viable if can actually avoid the other 1%.
Price is king, but what kind of price? Americans have proven that labyrinthine financing and mortgage-length car loans are less of an obstacle, to the point that car MSRPs are essentially never advertised (outside of Tesla). Will the winner be the cheapest car, or the most profitable car with a 15 year mortgage?
US EV sales are way up[0].

> Through the first nine months of the year, EV sales are up nearly 50 percent, already surpassing the full-year total for 2022.

Ford US EV sales are up but way less than 40%[1].

> Sales are up 16.2%. They’ve increased from 53,752 in the first 11 months of 2022 to 62,460 in the first 11 months of 2023.

[0] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/chart...

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/08/ford-ev-sales-up-43/
Bwahahaha! Texas? A swing state? Thanks, you literally made me LOL. We clearly have different concepts of a swing state.
Or just maybe don’t buy devices that don’t meet your needs?
I attempted to answer that question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38617464, but to add a bit more: the idea on HN has always been to go by article quality, not site quality (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). An article appearing on HN is by no means an endorsement of the site as a whole, nor of anything else appearing on that site.
Honest question: how do you feel about paying for editor's work and marketing a new author if then anyone can sell the resulting book?
Layoffs usually happen around the financial year-end so holiday layoffs are par for the course.

Just noticeable because we're in a downturn, so more layoffs
I wonder if it's companies trying to inflate their year-end numbers to appease shareholders. I agree that it feels like more layoffs this month than I expected, but none of them are necessarily due to 'market conditions' per se, like the layoffs that happened at the end of last year and earlier this year.

Spotify and Hasbro seem like they just made bad investments and focused on the wrong areas for their business and now they (or rather their employees) are paying for it. With Hasbro specifically laying people off right now, I bet it's a way to cut down the numbers of payroll ahead of the Christmas sales rush, which I think probably inflates their overall profit margin.
Would you prefer challenges about technical debt, scope creep and legislation changes forcing large rewrites? Coding for a living can be rewarding but in many large organisations is often tedious.
> there is no way any competently written back end system takes 5-7 seconds for any reason whatsoever.

I'd argue that even a well written system that allows arbitrary date ranges and filtering of data can easily run past that limit. You just can always know ahead of time what some client might request and some strategies for making normal queries fast can make some queries slower. Its tradeoffs all the way down.
I had to look that one up...

370 - 32-bit, ibm, 1970
6502 - 8-bit, mos technology, 1975
65C816 - 16-bit, wdc, 1985

and even dug into this move characters long:
http://www.simotime.com/asmins01.htm#MVCL

lots of cobwebs in those memories...
I strangely love Lynch's Dune, the atmosphere captivated me as a kid, and the feeling has stayed there. The Harkonen were disgusting, repulsive, and Irulan at the intro was a teen crush for me.

I also love Villeneuve's version, the design is amazing and has very clever ideas, I enjoyed it a lot! But Lynch's Dune has a special place for me.