skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very thoughtful and insightful post. This is what makes HN a really enjoyable place. Thanks for spending your time on writing things like this, and if you have a blog or something, I’d enjoy reading it!
Shameless plug, there is also wstunnel (i am its author) https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel/, hope you enjoy.
And yet your sweeping claim is still incorrect. That’s the only thing I’m objecting to here: identify specific titles, sure, or even companies but it’s just silly to say the entire genre is useless.
Think about all the data you're giving up on yourself in exchange, and how that is being rebundled and sold.
In days of voice cloning, this seems less wise.
A couple things happen in notes for me:

* Practice through writing: a way of consolidating what I learn by writing about it in an environment I don’t care about editing.

* Chicken scratch: Small important todos or trigger words to remind me to remember or do something

* Spaced repetition: memorizing elementary concepts

* Journal: this is mainly therapeutic and happens with pen and paper or something and is largely throwaway once it is written.
The bit about how this device gets it's "Always accurate time" is the best part:

The device itself does not seem to be connected to the internet at all.

Actually, the time on the device itself is entirely incorrect, somewhere in 2015. But when I open the web UI, it now shows the correct time, even without an initial 15 minute delay.

Turns out, they found out an even more innovative time sync mechanism. When you open the UI in the browser, they quickly redirect you to "/set-time/" + Date.now(). This sets a global variable in the Node.js app responsible for "now".

https://mastodon.social/@laplab/111789584104871367
Anyone following the app modding scene on XDA-Developers (pre-enshittification) or Telegram

Because that's not everyone.
GP won’t suffer from anarchy or societal collapse. According to internationally recognized state borders, they live in Ukraine, not in Russia.

Russians have lost approximately half of the land they have occupied in the first 3 months of the full-scale war. We have repeatedly observed that Ukrainian government is willing and capable of bringing law and order to these liberated territories.
The best way to deal with this is to say 'not my problem', leave the cash there, and walk away.
> redistributing subscriber fees and ad revenue from the struggling artist to the record labels and superstars.

That seems a little harsh. They're also redistributing it to anyone with just 1,000 streams a song, right? And many (most? nearly all?) of those less-popular artists aren't even signed with a record label, correct?

It seems like more of an anti-spam measure than anything else. And possibly about reducing overhead fees associated with the skinniest part of the long tail.
And how’s a photo with a newspaper better?
Pretty much impossible problem imo.

One can imagine fanciful solutions, but people tend to get hurt in VR space. It would be very, very hard not injure the humans in meat space with tech that is sufficiently rigid to let them also physically interact with vr objects.
If I was going to add anything -

"Vertical join" is normally called union.

"Right join" is just (bad) syntax sugar and should be avoided. Left join with the tables reversed is the usual convention.

The join condition for inner is optional- if it's always true then you get a "cross join". Can be useful to show all the possible combinations of two fields.
Key fact:

>The series was produced by ITN Productions and released by Netflix on 10 November 2022.[8][9] Hancock's son Sean Hancock is "senior manager of unscripted originals" at Netflix.[8]

(from Wikipedia, but I have had it from other sources before)

These are two different cases; Cave of Bones is a case of scientists that are arguing, there seem to be a lot of questions about the science but we will see. Hancock is a fantasist who has fabricated a fictional narrative.
I hope it's sarcastic at 84 dollars for two bowls!!
When you're going out as a family of 6, passing around a single iPhone is a nightmare. Making customers actually order from the phone is nightmare^3.
Musicians overwhelmingly do not even attempt to clear samples. This also isn't a great comparison since samples are taken directly out of the audio, not turned into a part of a pattern used to generate new sounds like what AI generators do with images
I don’t see an issue with QR code menus. It’s the poor UX I have an issue with.

Often times it’s just a pdf or image that results in unnecessary pinching/zooming.

I’ve used great “qr code” menus but the plethora of shit implementations make it unattractive as a whole.
> So maybe it could be done with a current/forthcoming consumer USB PD wallwart, without needing to add additional power circuitry?

You may need a circuit to negotiate the USB-PD, then to ouput 20V from that, but it should be possible.

It could even be a very interesting project: expose an artificial resistance on the barrel plug to simulate the Lenovo AC wattage resistor by matching what the USB-PD can deliver.
Two words that make your assessment problematic: grant money.

1. Ask a question

2. Do research

3. Construct a hypothesis

4. Test the hypothesis with experimentation

5. Analyze data and draw conclusions

6. Communicate the results

That is how science should be done.

Here is how science is often done:

1. Assess what questions will attract grant money

2. Do research about those topics

3. Construct a hypothesis that supports the approved narrative

4. Test the hypothesis

5. Analyze data selectively and draw conclusions that support the narrative

6. Communicate the results

7. Apply for more grant money
Maybe it's more about "protecting" images that artists want to publicly share to advertise work, but it's not appropriate for final digital media, etc.
1000 CHF notes must be a money launderers dream.
A human artist cannot look at and memorize 100000 pictures in a day, and cannot paint 100000 pictures in a day.

I am SO tired of this non-argument
ChatGPT4V is pretty good at this by the way
For this to work, wouldn't you have to have an enormous number of artists collaborating on "poisoning" their images the same way (cow to handbag) while somehow keeping it secret form ai trainers that they were doing this?
It seems to me that even if the technology works perfectly as intended, you're effectively just mislabeling a tiny fraction of the training data.
> I think the problem is that a lot of Americans are incredibly servile and will obey employers, authorities etc., even when it's harmful or dangerous.

I agree with this observation but will temper it somewhat: I know in the school case, and I imagine in the warehouse case too, there’s a person responsible for checking who’s out so they can tell the fire brigade “everybody’s out of the building” or “all but three people are accounted for” which is super important. This is hard to do when people just scatter.

None of which excuses what happened to this poor man.
I was thinking it is so they can mark up prices easily when it's busy etc.
Maybe unpopular but I assume this is just what is going to happen. I remember awhile back when I was visiting Ireland one of the tours mentioned that modern whiskey and beer in Ireland came about because of taxes. I wish I could remember more details but the story went along the lines of each time a new tax on some type of alcohol happened the producers would reclassify their beverage or change the method which produced it to avoid the new taxes.

I assume this will be the same in the US, software R&D is now some other title with less taxes. When the small companies do it the IRS isn’t going to care but then big ones will do it and the tax law cat and mouse game will continue.
I've added four new ideas to my list of possible improvements for Django and its community. I'd like to know what you think.
https://www.paulox.net/2024/01/19/my-django-roadmap-ideas/
Therein lies the crux of the issue: AI is not “someone”. We need to approach this without anthropomorphizing the AI.
For the basics you can just use alternatives.

Photopea.com covers most of my needs
It's called sarcasm.
I want a truck. I care not a whit about about others think of the truck, good or bad.
It doesn't mean any of that. "Obliged to accept as payment" does not mean "obliged to sell things that are not otherwise for sale."

You've made three different comments now smugly pontificating on the implications of a law that you made up in your head and acting like it's equivalent to an actual law that we have the text of. What's going on?
I don’t expect support to ever be added by HN actual. Some third-party may code it into search, but HN isn’t designed to be used as a “send a notification” platform in any regard. Expanding to support @username pings would be a serious undertaking and contradict the site’s minimalism and simplicity.

People have been reinventing this syntax here for a long time. It has remained useless here for a long time. There is no groundswell of rebellion opportunity. You’ll just have to send an email.
0 degrees Celsius is 32 degrees Fahrenheit so we’re not talking about the same kinda of temperatures here. You’re talking about right at freezing, which can be common most everywhere in the northern hemisphere at least. The other is quite a bit colder but still common in the Midwest and actually cold places.

This seems like a bad faith comment when looked at in that context.
Here is a fairly comprehensive review of this topic (I didn't realize there was so much of it):

https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/6447/1/%5B9783110198492_-_...
Yeah, same kind of vibe as I had around 1992. The old world of 16-bit computers had died, and the new world of the internet had yet to come. I had lots of friends despair. I myself was waiting it out while getting a MS degree.
On a PC, yes. But let's say that I want to listen to music in my car, and I have an old stereo (that I don't want to replace) that only has CD and/or USB input. I can't from Spotify just take the music and download it to an USB stick or burn a CD, even with premium (I can download it to play offline, but they are DRM protected and I can play only from the official player)
> But Notes is nowhere near holding the record for the oldest piece of software still being used. The US Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), which takes care of contracts for the Department of Defense (DoD), is said to have a program called Mechanization of Contract Administration Services (MOCAS), which was introduced in 1958, making it nearly twice as old.

Certainly but I'd say the most important ancient software is just a few years younger: the IRS Master Files. https://www.governmentattic.org/5docs/IRS-HistoricalFactBook...

> FEBRUARY 1962 The first master file, the Business Master File, was established at the National Computer Center

Individual Master File operations began a few years later. Let that sink in: every tax transaction a company or an individual makes in the United States is handled by a piece of software written for the IBM 7074. These were using a CPU of about 27 000 instructions per second and had 9900 words of core memory. It's hard to paint a picture of just how old we are talking about. While the Beatles already existed at the time, the Beatlemania is still a phenomena for the future. This https://i.imgur.com/dtmPy3a.jpg is a luxury car from that year.
And remove things if they're sold out, easily add specials etc.
IMO for a place like apple, where they are buying chips in such volumes they define entire production runs anyway and define target design specs for vendors there is probably already a lot of cost they are consuming where adding something like the apple silicon design project is cheaper. The marginal cost of going full apple silicon is lower as a result. Apple has also been very frustrated with their chip vendors, especially intel, in making what they want so I imagine it started as a 'last resort' project after they've exhausted their vendors.

While another smaller place that wanted to do something like apple silicon would have much higher marginal costs because they would need to spend on the things that apple was already spending on implicitly. It became an economy of scale thing.
It's about volume * unit price. Just because AAA games and indie games do not have an order of magnitude difference in unit price, they definitely have several orders of magnitude difference in volume.
It would be better for artists to know that. But Hacker News is not a forum of visual artists: it's a forum of hackers, salaried programmers, and venture capitalists. Telling the bad guys about vulnerabilities isn't responsible disclosure.

Causing car crashes isn't hard (https://xkcd.com/1958/). That doesn't mean Car Crash™ International®'s decision-makers know how to do it: they probably don't even know what considerations go into traffic engineering, or how anyone can just buy road paint from that shop over there.

It's everybody's responsibility to keep Car Crash™ International® from existing; but failing that, it's everybody's responsibility to not tell them how to cause car crashes.
Thanks for the technical details, I didn't know how intensity/joint modes work, however I never use them.

The tests I have done is all encoded by myself. I have purchased 24bit WAV of Radiohead's OK Computer Remastered. I encoded it to FLAC, and 320CBR Stereo with LAME. I still can feel the difference on soundstage, and can create a audible residue file by subtracting MP3 from FLAC version.

I agree that current iteration of encoders create very good audio, however given that your audio system can render high resolution audio, the difference is still audible.
autocratic hellholes arise where autocracy is more stable than democracy, for example when the police have enough dirt on activists to keep them from organizing opposition and can persuade themselves that such a crackdown is justified

you can sell the car, but you may find yourself walking to work, and you can't un-record the videos the car already recorded of you; and, if your neighbors still have surveillance cameras the police have access to, you may not have achieved any actual privacy

privacy, in the civil liberties sense, is a collective good, not an individual good
I’m not going to watch a video but the idea from the title is great.

We casually discard obsolete devices and practices, but learning about them isn’t just a fun glance into the past but is a kind of Chesterton’s fence too.
What does Stalin have to do with that? As far as I know, fascism is everywhere on the march. And it’s Trump who sets the pace, not Stalin. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/20/fascis...) Also, it was Trudeau who froze protesters' banks accounts, not Stalin. It was Boris Johnson who partied during Covid lockdowns, not Stalin. It was Pedro Sánchez whose implementation of a state of alarm was deemed unconstitutional, not Stalin. It was three different US administrations that wanted to jail Snowden, Assange and Manning; not Stalin. It is the US police that supposedly targets people of color, not Stalin. It was the bipartisan American parliament that voted for the PATRIOT Act, not Stalin. It was David Cameron who pledged to ban encryption, not Stalin. Are you still wondering why it is laughable?
Soon there will be a GPT that will handle questions and recommendations. And probably a robot that will bring you your food.
Linux 6.8-Rc1 Should Release on Schedule Tomorrow
Run! Go! Get to the choppa, Perseverance!

I've been saving that one for years.
Setting aside the efficacy of this tool, I would be very interested in the legal implications of putting designs in your art that could corrupt ML models.

For instance, if I set traps in my home which hurt an intruder we are both guilty of crimes (traps are illegal and are never considered self defense, B&E is illegal).

Would I be responsible for corrupting the AI operator's data if I intentionally include adversarial artifacts to corrupt models, or is that just DRM to legally protect my art from infringement?

edit:

I replied to someone else, but this is probably good context:

DRM is legally allowed to disable or even corrupt the software or media that it is protecting, if it detects misuse.

If an adversarial-AI tool attacks the model, it then becomes a question of whether the model, having now incorporated my protected art, is now "mine" to disable/corrupt, or whether it is in fact out of bounds of DRM.

So for instance, a court could say that the adversarial-AI methods could only actively prevent the training software from incorporating the protected media into a model, but could not corrupt the model itself.
sounds like a good case for preserving opt-outs anytime you try something new.
Indeed.

HYBRID DED is going to be the answer to many of those scenarios.

Basically, we couple subtractive with additive and maximize the benefits of both. Done right the risks are greatly reduced as are costs compared to just doing it the legacy way.
They should definitely drive the rover to see what happened.

Question: Can Ingenuity autorotate to a landing in the Martian atmosphere?
This is pretty sad but also pretty amazing. The original plan was for five flights of around 90 seconds each, and it looks like it finally failed on flight 72 with a total from all flights of two hours, eight minutes and eighteen seconds of flight time. All of this in an extremely thin atmosphere.
Snowflake users from Russia are still on the rise

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.htm...
Their English is actually good enough to properly use sarcasm. “I had the fortune of getting food poisoning last week” would be understood as a joking way of taking about misfortune.
This thing works perfectly well: https://xtls.github.io/

I provide some server nodes to certain people there.
I want to point out that many sites still work without any VPN, including this site. And not all foreign sites are blocked, but only those included in special lists.
Show HN: Ampter, Paint on Sound
In UK. Even the stalls at the school fair take cards now.
I remember a lot of the breakfast places in Taiwan they had this little notepad on the front counter. It had the entire menu on it, printed on plain paper about a5 size. You'd take a piece of paper, and tick the boxes next to the item you wanted to order, then take it back up to the front.

Solves all the problems this QR code thing does, while being cheaper, more convenient, and reliable.
It’s kind of hard to imagine a river without life. Life seems so quintessential to the mental image of a river.
You might as well compare a Xerox copier to a human.
You can disagree with reality all you like, but it won’t change it. The moron broadcasts his stupidity openly and publically.
WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036796
Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide
> This is just factually wrong.

Factually wrong? Are you saying that Musk designs and builds the rockets?

> Musk has been leading and controlling SpaceX for literally 20 years now.

I think his behavior has very clearly changed over the past 20 years. There's a theory the pandemic did something to him, but I suspect it predates that.

> Being the most successful space company in history. Having the most rocket launches, the biggest rocket, the most reliable engine, the most advanced engine, the most sats and the most launched human isn't good enough for you? Hasn't even deliver on the most complex project in human history. What a loser.

I didn't call him a loser, and I'm not sure why you're equating criticism with an ad-hominem attack. I genuinely think he is grappling with mental health issues, though it doesn't excuse his behavior.

Anyway, I don't think it's relevant to dig into SpaceX's engineering any more than Tesla's battery tech.

If I hire a contractor to renovate my bathroom, and the results are good, is it because I had a hand in it? For all you know, I could have changed my mind about the tiles halfway through and demanded they start over, making the project harder than it needed to be. I could have hurled abuse at the laborer and the stiffed him for the bill.

> Musk is fine, he lives on, he does the same things he has been doing for 20+ years, SpaceX and Tesla continue to do fine and he is continuing to lead them.

Howard Hughes' companies did fine through his mental decline and death.

> Twitter, exists and works fine. If that is 'unraveling' then I don't think you know what that words means.

Twitter has lost its only major source of revenue, most of the people I followed there have moved on, and it's facing so many lawsuits that I've lost count. That doesn't seem fine.

The important detail is that all of this was self inflicted. The company wasn't doing great, but it was chugging along. He grabbed the wheel and drove it straight into a wall.

> Essentially calling somebody mentally ill because you don't like how they handle a company is really is more a reflection on you not Musk.

I think that when someone acts mentally ill, they tend to be mentally ill. The only counterargument seems to boil down to, "But he has a lot of money."
One reason for using Ceph instead of other RAID solutions on a single machine is that it supports disk failures more flexibly.

In most RAIDs (including ZFS's, to my knowledge), the set of disks that can fail together is static.

Say you have physical disks A B C D E F; common setup is to group RAID1'd disks into a pool such as `mirror(A, B) + mirror(C, D) + mirror(E, F)`.

With that, if disk A fails, and then later B fails before you replace A, your data is lost.

But with Ceph, and replication `size = 2`, when A fails, Ceph will (almost) immediately redistribute your data so that it has 2 replicas again, across all remaining disks B-F. So then B can fail and you still have your data.

So in Ceph, you give it a pool of disks and tell it to "figure out the replication" iself. Most other systems don't offer that; the human defines a static replication structure.
No, that is considered unpaid leave and it is a common practice where the cash amount is deducted from your salary. The terms of unpaid leave are determined by employment law and your employment contract.
If I understand this correctly, the algorithm depends on the underlying platform to ensure correct ordering. Two processes may each get the same bakery ticket number. The conflict is resolved by the process with the lower process id being allowed to go first. This process ID is in effect a ticket number issued by the underlying hardware. If the processes were running in a distributed environment, there would not be a common underlying platform to resolve this conflict.
Got all the permission I need when it was put on a publicly accessible server.
I see "linusakesson", I upvote.

A mind is born, 256 bytes, is my favorite:

https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
Typically staff answer the phone. They’re making tally marks. If the script tells the staffer what the issue is and the caller’s position so an appropriate tally can be counted, it does the job.
What I hate about QR code ordering is that it puts me in charge of getting everything right. It takes way too much time, so when I go out with my family I have to hunt around for each item, make sure I put it in exactly how they want it, and now any mistake even if the kitchen goofed is now my mistake. "Dad, you ordered it wrong! There's ketchup on my burger"

Plus half the time I forget to even enter my own order trying to get everyone else's and double checking it's all correct. So my meal comes out late.

The paying and getting up and leaving without having to wait for the waiter to bring the check is nice, but the ordering part is not worth the hassle.
swipe is all but gone in the us. Will still say swipe, but that isn't what happens.

Bringing a reader to the table is gare though, mostly a thing at the large chains that are pretend to have ethnic food, but it is really poor quality-
The problem I see is how journalists are now trying to rewrite history and should instead be journalists.