skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have only vague idea about this (I worked on small 3d games many many years ago), but I imagined something similar to what you described.

Basically you use Sora to generate a promising scene, then you ask it (or another model) to turn that scene into a scene graph in a text file.

It will make mistakes, but it could work similarly to the Python interpreter in ChatGPT--it can iterate until everything is OK. Maybe there could even be some adversarial stuff where the scene graph is rendered on the fly to compare it to the generated clip, etc.

And then you can use you standard toolset to edit it, probably enhanced with a copilot model to automate as much as possible.
It does look pleasant to me. But the x-height is not large enough which makes it harder to be legible on smaller text sizes. Also, lack of additional weights discourages me to use it on any webpage. I'd have given it a shot if a bold weight were also present.

Inter (with disambiguation features enabled) [1], Atkinson Hyperlegible [2], and IBM Plex Sans [3] are still better fonts to me.

[1]: https://rsms.me/inter/

[2]: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

[3]: https://www.ibm.com/plex/
When you're that rich and that interested in your niche, in a world where there aren't any other ways to catalog then you do what you gotta do even if it's pay ~$1 million / year.

For Scorsese, by paying for this system he can make sure that he can do the watching and the research he wants, no matter what. The "no matter what" is the important part; no matter matter who makes a show/movie, no matter what his relationship with it's creator/owner, no matter if the studio wipes the tapes hours after airing it just the one time, Scorsese will have his own copy as sure as the sun will rise. For many a rich folk, they will blow 7 figure sums on things they themselves feel are less important than such an ironclad guarantee without a moment's hesitation.

It's not too far fetched.
>What techies keep getting wrong about industrial automation

1. Internet connections can be some combination of slow, unreliable, intermittent, or expensive. They also may be completely unavailable, although this is changing in the era of Starlink.

2a. Consumer grade compute hardware dies a quick death in harsh environments.

2b. Consumer grade compute hardware typically has more compute power than industrial rated computers. I've seen a handful software engineering teams have to drastically rebuild software because compute resource constraints were not realized until it was time to deploy software at the edge.

3. You are not allowed to push updates to your software willy nilly.

4. Service tech callout and installation costs are a big consideration for remote assets (oil wells, pipeline compressor stations, etc.), particularly at scale.
ARM has so much momentum everywhere but Windows that I don't think a soft transition will stall any transition, as ARM-Window demand increases.

But it would be nice to have reciprocal ARM emulation on Intel. That would reduce a lot of friction for such a transition. Both forward and backward CPU compatibility.
> two months to a compiler? Four to a complete chip? All from a team under 15 ppl?

As I know, first MIPS CPU designed by exactly one engineer. Next generations designed by team.

Also I know, one engineer could make Fort compiler in less than month, and I don't think core Lisp is much different from Fort.

So, it is not easy to design compiler and chip by 15 ppl team in half year, but it is achievable.
We as a society can decide we don't want our air to become toxic to prop up convoluted gambling schemes. It's only autocratic if it's decided by a single person.
JetBrains Mono?

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
The car doesn't drive itself to you. A human is involved in the process. Now they'll just have to be a little more involved.
The algorithm has been suggesting this video to ke for a couple days which is interesting. Having watched it now, I can say it absolutely delivers on the promise of the tumbnail.

It was a pretty good video actually. Gave an overview of the problem, gave a number of pitential solutions, explained succinctly why she'd gone with the solution she had, and then demonstrated it. Took me back to when YouTube didn't have nearly so much pretension too.

Also irrelevant to the video, but my God, the Ubuntu sound she played in the video at one point really took me back. Activated braincells long left dormant. Sound design in an OS is so underappreciated these days I feel.
In a 1 minute bullet game. Still a great achievement, but let's take it easy with the hyperbole (like "Messi of chess", as in the Tweet).
All of which was properly disclosed. Sophisticated buyers knew the risks and chose to take them.
You haven't the vaguest fucking idea what I'm doing with the tools so put up a logical argument on the facts instead of just generating tokens in some way that attempts to play the person and not the ball.

Here, argue with Yann, who makes a statement about how language isn't enough to produce a mind:
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1768353714794901530
"These products need to be taxed to price in these externalities we can’t keep this up, it’s ridiculous."

The negative externality you are worried about isn't AI, but pollution/carbon emissions. Tax pollution instead of deciding for other people what use case is worth it.

Edit: To be clear, I am all for this. I'd love to see a massive(!) carbon tax.
> In my opinion, by default fibers should use "full" stacks, i.e. a reasonable amount of unpopulated memory pages (e.g. 2 MiB) with guard page.

That's a disaster. If you're writing a server that needs to serve 10K clients concurrently then that's 20GiB of RAM just for the stacks, plus you'll probably want guard pages, and so MMU games every time you set up or tear down a fiber.

The problem with threads is the stacks, the context switches, the cache pressure, the total memory footprint. A fiber that has all those problems but just doesn't have an OS schedulable entity to back it barely improves the situation relative to threads.

Dealing with slow I/O is a spectrum. On one end you have threads, and on the other end you have continuation passing style. In the middle you have fibers/green threads (closer to threads) and async/await (closer to CPS). If you want to get closer to the middle than threads then you want spaghetti stack green threads.
you're like a fence post. it does NOT matter if there are other providers of the mineral. if all users of the mineral are getting it from one supplier, there will be disruptions when that supplier is no longer available. it cannot be described any more simply than that.

you're monday morning quarterback analysis is just off. the industry has decided that this supplier's material is the best for them for reasons. therefore, the world economy <of this material> does hinge on it whether you want to call it hyperbolic or not.
You can't stop people from doing dumb things if they don't want to learn.
Global electricity generation revenues are only $255 billion? Amazon/Google/Apple have greater revenue than the worldwide electricity generation sector?
Brendon Small voices the main character. H Jon Benjamin is one of the supporting characters (coach McGuirk)
Well written ORMs let you express queries without the operations happening in the business logic. For example C# and Linq. You can express pretty much any query using the linq language and that's then converted into SQL automatically.
No one calls timeout in crypto and it’s just an ERC-20

It’s fairly illiquid on most non bucket shop exchanges though

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ftx-token
I think you're falling for the exact same fallacy that I was describing. Also note that the human level of intelligence is not arbitrary at all: Most LLMs are trained on human-generated data, and since they are statistical models, they won't suddenly come up with truly novel reasoning. They're generally just faster at generating stuff than humans, because they're computers.
If you already know the right answer it is actually easy
It goes beyond just joining postgres to hubspot and stripe even when humans are doing it. Typos in source systems, duplicative data, unwarranted prefixes, suffixes, stuff you don't care about, columns named c0,c1,c2 etc.

A semantic layer is just really all about defining data models in the domain of interest. It's the hardest part in dealing with data strategies, very manual, very company and process and history specific.

Once it's defined, the next set of tasks is to make sure that the data in the model is correct and coherent. And only then, querying this data, applying ML etc start becoming worthwhile.

We at https://syncari.com take the centralized data model centric approach.
https://www.definite.app/ also looks very cool!
Aren't those plans known for loopholes? For example, IIRC, you can register more than one trading plan (and only at certain times), but you _withdraw_ plans at any time. This lets insiders react to events in real time without having to register "new" plans, even though their overall plan has effectively mutated due to real time withdrawal of undesired plans.
Oh, that's easy, we just give the dog a keyboard and see if you accurately identify it's a dog from your text based interactions ;-)
It's admittedly super rough. I googled worldwide labor market and got 3.5billion workers. I then Googled average global earnings, $20k. However i'll admit to a mistake. The second number appears incorrect and it seems it should have been ~$10k based on the following: https://www.zippia.com/advice/average-income-worldwide/#:~:t....

Still i think the point should stand no matter how precise we get here. The cost of labor absolutely dwarfs the cost of electricity. That was what i wanted to hit on while completely acknowledging the numbers are rough.
Somewhere there's a blog from the old Sun about how M:N threading was a disaster in the Solaris <10 C library and why it was ripped out in Solaris 10. I'm not sure how to find it anymore.
Why did people ever think Larry Ellison and Saudi princes would give Elon Musk money to help a platform that had a strong track record of enabling people power movements like OWS, Arab Spring, and BLM?

Don't people follow the money any more?

Come on now. Everything Musk has done has made the platform less attractive. Everything. It's a long list of idiocy. Firing key talent, breaking things, pissing off advertisers over and over, pissing off users, breaking the blue checks, the awful rebranding, etc.

Why are supposedly smart people seriously thinking that this isn't deliberate? I really don't get it. It's plain as day.
Any language can explain that difference easily. Even if all the article said was that this factory was "critical" to the semiconductor industry, I wouldn't have commented. Saying "the semiconductor industry hinges on a quartz factory..." or "The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina" is a very different type of deliberate hyperbole.
The article is about serving SPAs. In SPAs the "pages" are not really pages, they are program state. Just because you think /whatever shouldn't go to the homepage doesn't mean your way is the best way for an SPA to work. Maybe I'd rather display the current sale instead of a generic "404" error. Nothing wrong with that. If you're scraping my site or something, then too bad for you. The SPA server is under no obligation to serve any page with any specific response code so long as it is valid HTTP.
You know what would be funny, if the same fund also paid for [part of] their education. Could do student housing, provide a car, cook food, give them some money each month, build a new university. Train lots of doctors. When they get jobs ask donations.

I mean, I pay plenty for health care but I never use it. I'd be much more interested in buying lots of physicians. Pampered empathic physicians.

But I do want annual speeches from them. A website full of them.
>Maybe anyone with a conscience, nuclear energy should be going to decarbonisation of the existing economy not to expanding a new industry en masse

The world isn't static. Electricity is fungible, it doesn't matter what it goes to.
Arguably some industries make us all richer than others. So we incentivize those with more collective benefit, say manufacturing or farming, and disincentivize those with more collective costs, say gambling or tobacco.
It's not government money.

You are repeating the words of Judas
Not surprising, especially given non-existent "supplement" regulation. This problem is two-fold, it doesn't regulate what's actually bought as "CBD", and it doesn't require any clinical evidence of effectivity even when it actually is CBD,

IMHO, the only reason we see so many CBD products on the market is because THC is illegal, but CBD is not. So companies can glom onto the known medical benefits of cannabis, in places where THC is illegal, but totally bogus CBD supplements with no clinical evidence of effectiveness are not.

After using marijuana for ~50 years, it's very clear to me that a good deal of the mental stress relief and minor chronic pain relief benefits are _because_ of the psychoactive nature of the plant. Trying to remove these components (primarily THC) is defeating the purpose.

Somehow it's totally socially acceptable to kick back a few beers to unwind after work, but somehow marijuana is a "dangerous drug"? (never mind alcohol's addictiveness, liver damage and increased incidence of violent behavior)

Similar process is happening now with licensing of hallucinogenics for therapeutic purposes.
Haha, you are funny! What's the weather tomorrow? Please also remind me tomorrow to put my gym clothes to washer and dry them after.
Let's say you have an old VGA monitor, it needs 4 things:

Red, Green, Blue, Sync

And you need to deliver them at a steady pixel clock rate. Horizontal sync is between each scanline, and Vertical sync is between each frame. There are official standards to follow here, with things defined such as voltage ranges for RGB, voltage levels for Sync, "Front Porch" and "Back Porch" (how much blank space you have before and after Sync), horizontal frequency, vertical frequency (refresh rate), etc, etc.

Look for a video on Youtube called "The world's worst video card" for an example of constructing such a circuit.
Self-governance of what? As a person?

The reason I think it's reasonable to limit your right to sell yourself as a slave is because if it wasn't limited then a lot of people in very precarious economic situations would sell themselves and there would be a very real interest in creating those situations to force more people into slavery. You can see that with the usurious interest charged by payday loan companies. Usury is also usually illegal in civilized societies for a similar reason.

Similarly you shouldn't be allowed to abrogate your right to privacy because it creates an incentive to force other people to do so as well.
I was frustrated that a lot of the snap circuits sets that we've gotten hide the interesting stuff inside magic components. The "radio" is essentially a single component with an IC in it. Same with the amplifier for the radio. And a noise making component.

I did, however, sneak another resistor under the potentiometer because the kids' radio build was too loud.
> you're like a fence post

Do you get this excited about everything?
Broadcasting LoRa packets wihout a radio [video]
OH wow, had something similar, but from around 1968. Good humor. Pretty quickly moved on to vacuum tube based Morse code transmitters. Wonderful stuff.
I just Googled these numbers quickly but yes it seems correct.

"In 2021, the global electricity transmission and distribution market generated some 255.6 billion U.S. dollars in revenue, up from 248.5 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year"

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1350454/forecast-electri....
I call your mis-understood English song, and raise you one song purposefully written to use fake-English sounding 'words':

> The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, however the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words "all right".[8][9] Andrew Khan, writing in The Guardian, later described the sound as reminiscent of Bob Dylan's output from the 1980s.[9]

> Celentano's intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. The intent was to demonstrate how English sounds to people who do not understand the language proficiently. "Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang—which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian—I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything."[6]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol

* Audio-only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDY3HFkh_Y

* M/V: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

Quite catchy.
Another good option for this kind of thing is Optic: https://www.useoptic.com/docs/generate-openapi-from-tests
There's no good reason for BTC to be set up to use that much energy. There are viable, proven alternatives like proof of stake. I'd also be more forgiving if BTC only required a given amount of power, but no, the system is designed such the power requirement is related to the cost of flops/watt - it's specifically designed such that the system will use more power as power becomes cheaper.
From an alternative viewpoint, this could be seen as descriptive of a community. Opinions could be shared or not, hence "divergent" as an adjective to describe the community. Similar with conclusions people have drawn and "definitive" may refer to a larger consensus among the community. Fun to think about.
Illness Impacting Dairy Cattle Is Confirmed as Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu
When I was streaming audio and video in PlayStation 2 games, I had to care a lot about physical disk layout. But, even then it boiled down to: Seek times are huge, sector and cluster sizes are your atomic ops under the hood, inner rings are low-bandwidth-low-variance, outer rings are high-bandwidth-high-variance.

Since then, not so much.

These days with NVMe drives, things are much easier. But, there are still things to keep in mind. I haven't dug deep. But, my impression is: Even though 4K random reads are incredibly faster than they used to be, large (256K-2MB) reads are yet faster still. Maxing out modern drives requires having multiple requests in flight. So, multiple threads or async operations. Modern drives are so fast that the memory copies involved in buffered fread() can add 33ish% overhead. Consider memory-mapped read-only files. Even better: If you have millions of users, you need 1-in-a-million reliability. Consider SQLite or LMDB as alternatives to fwrite().
Seemed like a promising first EV, but seems maybe things were a bit premature. They needed to knock it out of the park.
Doesn't look like this tool is intended to be deployed into production where "junk data from users" would be encountered. My impression is it's a localhost proxy which only ever sees deliberate test traffic from the developer who's running it on their own machine.

(Although I'd be curious to see something very similar to this running in prod and generating WAF rules and/or alerting on suspicious requests. Kinda like Dynatrace or Splunk, but much more aware of the API documentation and expectations.)
Series of bad decisions imo.

The name X being one if them. It's not even possible to search for Twitter anymore because the name is so generic.
If a simple tree doesn't work, the best naming scheme is to use names that don't even try to reflect relationships.

Yes, random numeral and/or letter sequences.
To see literally what's inside electronics, the book "Open Circuits" is enlightening. Many pictures of electronics carefully sliced open with explanations of the internals: https://www.opencircuitsbook.com/
The difference is that, by design, the best (cheapest!) Bitcoin you can buy is the Bitcoin you buy today. It only gets more expensive as more people use it and the supply of new Bitcoin decreases.

By contrast, the ai we have today is the worst ai it will ever be. Quality will go up with time, and price will go down, as incentives drive the development of better, cheaper models.
Do the two have to be mutually exclusive? Are crappy architecture and plenty of housing or interesting architecture and a housing shortage our only options?
But it frustratingly, frequently tells me it doesn't have enough data or other XYZ reasons to why it can't answer my weird questions.
The article gets to a good point (that the probability of winning doesn't depend on player order), but it's a total mess!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_de_Brunhoff
That's just delivery AFAICT, not generation.
Agree. Although I see much more opposition to this idea on Reddit than on HN, the feeling I get is that people are desperately trying to undermine the idea of AI performing development tasks because they're afraid of it taking their livelihood away. This is unfortunate, because whether people resist or not in the end the pragmatism and economics will win out, so developers should be embracing this.
And I'm just happy to perform actions that will make me survive and reproduce?
Mouse Guard RPG
Bitcoin doesn’t have any real utility besides being a toy or committing crimes.

Machine learning has utility, not just in theory but to plenty of people, including me. It has helped me do my job faster.

You can put tax on energy from carbon, fine. There’s no justification for taxing energy intensive things by themselves because you don’t like using energy. Human energy usage is and should be growing exponentially (and not an S curve) besides occasional pauses when efficiencies are found (like LED lighting using something like 90% less energy than incandescent).

Fossil fuels are clearly going away anyway, not because of ideals either, solar is just way cheaper now.
> the vast Church of the Holy Sepulcher marking the site where many Christians believe that Jesus is buried

I think this is more a minor phrasing thing than anything: "where many Christians believe that Jesus was buried".
To get Europe's protections, you need to be in Europe (or faking it somehow). If you live in the US or somewhere else outside of Europe, these companies will continue to screw you because you don't have Europe working on behalf of your privacy and choice.
Those seem like bad faith actions, disclosed or not.
Should add "(2004)".

An interesting book, because it both supports and contradicts the usual narrative about NT.

The contradictions are more interesting. Networking according to this book was something of a second thought. That was somewhat apparent in NT 3, where TCP/IP sockets were kind of second class. This has since been remedied.

NTFS is a bit more problematic. It's pretty clearly a descendant of DEC's ODS-11 filesystem, but "Showstopper!" doesn't mention that, and hardly anyone else does either.

Early NT (at least) also owed a huge debt to both Unix and Mach, but "Showstopper!" doesn't mention this either, in favor of an immaculate conception.
Are you calling me a dog?
I feel the article linked by the article is more substantial, this one is mostly a hype piece for the other article.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/british_library_slaps...

Or the actual British library report:

https://www.bl.uk/home/british-library-cyber-incident-review...