skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so daft if you consider that it is easier to segment, stratify, and control people in a linear city, as the structure itself acts as a continuous and infinitely adaptable choke point. This seems consistent with Saudi elite's ideas on managing their society.
> it's not hard for me to believe that if you believe in a lab leak you believe the research that lab is doing is related to bioweapons, even if they weren't building a weapon

Sure. But that isn't the claim. It's specifically "a biological weapon intentionally created and released by China" (emphasis mine) [1].

> The article didn't mention a "secret governmen program"

The study does. Chemtrails refer to "the trails left behind airplanes are toxic chemicals released as part of a secret government programme."

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-51653-z/tables/2
I think you will find rather a lot of them were Austrian old chap.
Not totally true. Yes, there's value in live performances and human connection but most of the songs we listen don't stimulate that. Hell, often we don't even know what the musician looks like, who they are, how they sound live, etc. They're just items in our Spotify queue that are only there to give us a dopamine hit with their sequence of well-composed sounds.

There's a craving for a deeper connection but that's usually the smaller part of our everyday consumption.
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4493876628282&w=2da5GWDpe_...
Wait, so the only option besides doomscrolling is to hold something else against your face?

How about not looking at a screen? [Escape the matrix]
What would be the motivation for a boycott? That the Saudis spend their money on stupid vanity projects? In general I think this is one of the better uses of the cash - hell, a vast amount of the money spent on this is going to flow straight out to western companies who have the experience and expertise to actually deliver these complex infrastructure projects.

Think of the alternatives, top 5 oil producing countries: US(13bb/day), Russia (13bb/day), Saudi (9bb/day), Canada (5bb/day), Iraq(4bb/day).

We all know what's currently happening in Russia. The US and Canada have good production, but they're a long way from Europe. So how exactly do you expect Eastern Europe to heat their homes during winter?

Let's be clear, they can't even really afford to boycott Russia at the moment - Russian oil is pumping out to India and getting re-badged. So the idea they'd pick a fight with Saudi Arabia seems ambitious to say the least.
New test for AI singers: Make them say MERCHANTABILITY and NONINFRINGEMENT.

I guess it makes sense those words weren't in the training data for a song AI.
Also most "normal" people will be physical separated from the ruling people. Makes it harder to protest government buildings.
> I don't know if oligarchy is the correct word, its more like a union of 7 mini-monarchies

Fair enough. And as you describe, it's more a diarchy of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Nevertheless, structurally different from the absolute monarchies around them.
Ahhh, I misunderstood your usage of the poor/rich terms there. You're not meaning financially. :)
In the olden days we would rewrite the input text to a voice synth to pre-correct the incorrect pronunciations.

Maybe try
sub-lye-sense Or similar.
Uhh what? Non SOE BYD kicks the buts of SOE carmakers (FAW SAIC BAIC etc).
> Whether it's worth it depends on interest rates, not on how long your investors live.

We had near zero interest rates for years, but I didn't see any private investors making infrastructure investments that wouldn't possibly produce a return for 50 years.

> In addition, you have lots of uncertainty: overbuilding the infrastructure in this way only takes care of exactly this one contingency, but there's plenty of other reasons why you might want to replace your pylons.

Practically I think that's the real reason. Nobody has a crystal ball to to tell them what tech will be a good investment in 50 years. It's anyone's guess, and no interest rate will allow that kind of private investment.
Ask HN: How do you organise photos?
Ever since I became a father a few years ago I have taken a lot of photos, and because local storage is cheap I tend to keep everything. I'm now in a situation where I have ~5GB of photos and videos of my kids per year going back a few years. I got into a habit of just backing up every single photo on the phone every few months, and removing the duplicates.

I'm finding managing and backing stuff up to be a bigger time sink. Managing and finding photos is tricky with such a large collection.

Is anyone else out there in the same boat? What solutions have you come up with?
> If you’re already trusting it for your IP address, you might as well trust it with the current UTC time

I don't follow! How does trusting DHCP with IP address automatically mean I should trust it with the current UTC time?

Time requires higher degree of trust than IP.

I may not care what my IP address looks like but I might care a lot about what the current UTC time is and I might want this to come from a more trustworthy device.
Retail tech startup Fabric firing 15% of workforce in second round of layoffs
The last part was so sad that she couldn't bring herself to sing it ("ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.")
Install sbts-aru as a base system and it will keep your Pi accuracy to sub-microsecond error.

https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru

Problem solved.
It seems to me that DRM enforcement pushes by industry are welcomed among many politicians because they also make such a useful Trojan horse for much more pervasive internet controls over content, expression and basic privacy. Bureaucrats almost always love trampling such things, or anything related that limits their own ability to limit the free flow of information which might one day harm their interests, and of course major tech companies will go right along with the same because nothing helps enforce the massive siloed, moated platforms they've built like a highly restrictive, onerous regulatory landscape.

Somewhat related is the supposed "danger" around current AI, promoted in part by the very companies that are pushing AI systems out the door. And why do they make such double sided arguments? Because much like in the point above about DRM, it invites them to neatly settle into a market where their presence is increasingly surrounded by regulatory moats and controls over free experimentation with the use of technology in circumventing arbitrary limitations (a fundamental aspect of any useful technology in my view).
I don't dispute that Israel has been doing the kind of stuff that has produced the likes of Hamas for a very long time now. Nor that what Israel is doing right now is well into war crimes & genocide territory, and should be treated as such- i.e. no military aid whatsoever, severe international sanctions, its leadership subject to arrest and trial if it sets foot into any civilized country, and ideally a UN-sanctioned military intervention in Gaza to stop the bombings, by shooting down Israeli planes if necessary.

That said, by 2006, Hamas already had a fairly long track record of killing "collaborators" and "deviants", as well as several clear-cut terrorist acts against civilians (e.g. blowing up bus stops). The radicalization happened a decade earlier.
I've not seen a very convincing use-case for ETags vs Last-Modified date caching.

In the example request, the server still has to do all of the work generating the page, in order to calculate the ETag and then determine whether or not the page has changed. In most situations, it's simpler to have timestamps to compare against, because that gives the server a faster way to spot unmodified data.

e.g. you get a HTTP request for some data that you know is sourced from a particular file, or a DB table. If the client sends a If-Modified-Since (or whatever the header name is), you have a good chance to be able to check the modified time of the data source before doing any complicated data processing, and are able to send back a not modified response sooner.
I actually think with generics without type erasure and duck typing a language doesn't need inheritance. And when applications are built around passing data between services OOP tends to be less useful. (eggs are passed to the frying pan service and bread goes to the toaster service)
That's a rationalization, not a rationale. Every project can have useful byproducts, and nobody's rationale is to start a dumb one trillion dollar project rather than a smart one.

The reason why this exists is obviously that these projects are started by absolute rulers who want to build themselves vanity monuments the same way their ancient predecessors did.
I don’t understand what this means. How can something be reconstructed without first existing? Is this not just a caching exercise?
Or... Install one of these on a Pi somewhere in your network and use that as a time source for all of your devices. Problem solved for all your machines.
No, completely unrelated company.
Low traffic neighbourhoods and 15 minute cities are entirely different concepts, trying to solve different problems and that have very little to do with each other. You can easily have one without the other.

Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith

You know I kind of agree with you about this.
I think we kind of already have the answer to this one. Commercial music that use computers to enhance the song or singer is already prevalent. Even straight AI assisted track generation probably already happens. People don't use to mind it for as long as they don't know. Once they do, many still don't care but some feel betrayed and think honesty and humanity is part of the art. I haven't heard of a single person who refuse to enjoy songs they don't know how they were produced, though, and I strongly doubt the parent would too.
Based Chechen. EQ matters. This is scientific. HN seethe. We need to monitor positive impacts from banning degen music. /s. This is so disingenuous it doesn't even ban ethnic metal music. Let's ban all degen music but Metal is cool
yeah I just type random letters on my keyboard and keep hoping my code run
How do it get ADS-B data from over the oceans? I guess it isn't satellite (which I now is used for actual tracking) since there is obviously a lot less lines over the oceans (but lines nonetheless).
Would you say it's a retraining cost, or would you imagine still having this issue many years from now, assuming you keep working on it?
I used AI to write my birthday invites (no one came)
I don't know what I was thinking. But here's how it all went.
Is there any way to look out for businesses that have this done to them? I only ever hear about it when the company that's getting hollowed out runs into trouble some months or years later.

I know such buyouts don't always crater the target company in the short term, but it would be nice to have a directory of zombified businesses somewhere so one knows to steer their investment and custom elsewhere.
Good thing Lehman bros and Enron already gone by now, else they'd be lionized as "dynamic and forward thinking" compared to "sclerotic" party
I think a lot more played into the revolutions you listed. Many more countries have lost wars and/or lost significant overseas holdings without political upheaval. The USA lost (or walked away from) multiple wars since WWII with negligible political consequences. Britain, Spain, France, Portugal, Belgium all lost their overseas colonies, and only France had significant upheaval clearly related to losing Algeria. I don't see a tendency in your list, rather some examples where populist revolutions took advantage of a weakened and discredited regime. I could list quite a few more populist revolutions and civil wars that did not follow military losses.

Russia almost certainly faces a bigger risk of internal convulsions and populist revolution than the US or any western European country. Putin has apparently staked everything on winning in Ukraine, so a loss or even a stalemate might very well topple him and his regime. Russia has a history of populist revolutions, the USA does not.

I think losing Europe seems farfetched. Russia can barely maintain a war with a weaker country with a long land border. Europe and NATO have a lot more resources and advantages such as the superior US and British navies. Russia is surrounded by neutral or hostile countries, many of which have American/NATO missiles in range, but the USA does not have that problem. The bases the US maintains in Europe exist primarily to oppose Russian (formerly Soviet) expansion, so if Europe actually fell to Russia those bases would have no purpose anyway.
You can build all the vanity projects you like when you're rich with petro-dollars, and pay Asian workers less than $10 per day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa#Labour
"Look at the heads of state... "

True, and I'm not offering excuses but it's always been that way—read my second post to Zetobal.
As an old geezer, and not necessarily a great fan of everything microsoft does/burns/kills, I witness with sadness how the standards their roman empire helped build and enforce in the 90's, are deteriorating the last 20 years, first on the web outside ms, and since win8, inside their own desktop OS as well.
I dread whenever the windows(?) team/juggernaut updates any of the built-in microsoft system tools (what you might call "options" or "settings" in what is passing for being able to speak and express yourself in these youtube-tiktok-crayon days.)

When I need to get anything done/fixed/working on windows, I first type "control panel", to get the age-old settings UI that was unbroken in win7.
From there, it is still possible (on win10 - I have avoided win11 so far)
to configure most things in a sane way.
Whenever I land on one of the newer tools, they present a mix of
- "you can't/shouldn't view/see that"
- "you should not be able to change that".
- "some settings have been hidden/are managed by your organisation"

When I hit the newer screens,
I cannot see my IP address, I cannot see my DNS providers,
I cannot change my DNS providers, I cannot enable/disable my networks.

Also, to get back on track: Search/incremental keyboard handling/sorting
on lists of stuff is horrendously "I eat crayons, and my product manager eats crayons!" bad.
Some of microsoft's own system list screens
no longer allows you to easily navigate or search your lists.
So you are presented with rubbish like
having to page through () hundreds of items, presented 3 or 5 elements at a time
(really, on a monitor with a resolution exceeding HD??)

A pet rant, truncating list text fields to arbitrary "let's just show the first 16 characters, and then ...", still on the super-HD screen.. sigh.

On some of them, no variant of incremental keyboard search works,
so with the destroyed scrollbars, you are left with manually moving through them.

() assuming the "scroll" interface even allows paging or using the cursor keys..
The modern scrollbar is the crucified victim of what modern crayon-eating humans have lost:
- the size of the scrollbar thumb used to indicate
the size of the list and the page size, so you could feel if
you were scrolling a list of 20.000 or 300 items.
- clicking beside the scrollbar thumb used to jump one page at a time,
possibly with one single item overlap, so you could "tell" that you had jumped an exact page.
- scrollbars used to have little arrows to let you jump 1 item/row at a time.
- scrollbars used to be VISIBLE, so you could orientate yourself in the document
("I see, I am near the bottom of the document/list").
- nowadays, instead, you have to play a mix of "hide the mouse"
and "gee, I wonder if you can spot WHICH rectangles in this window have extra available scrollbars, IF YOU HOVER IN THE RIGHT PLACE?"
Hard to tell from the article if this is something specific to "social media" scrolling, or (as my guess would be) just a finding that reading via scrolling is potentially bad for your eyes.

Be interested to understand if other ways of consuming content (swiping pages or whatever) would be better, as I do almost all my reading on my phone these days, so would prefer not to screw my eyes.
There is the accept-language key that the user can send in the header. The correlation of those and country of location should be quite good.

I think using geo IP is borderline spyware behaviour.

Becouse the databases are derived from some sort of spyware, right? Or are ip ranges public on country level? The city location has to be spyware derived?
Meanwhile, Hatsune Miku remains popular. There are even concerts.
Privacy should be the default, not something that is done only when users care enough to fight back.
You could do a reward system, like for every 1X educational content watched they get to watch 2X of the fun stuff
Suno is great and I already shared my positive thought on its potential back in v2. I have always believed that the essence of digital music is "organized numbers". I think what needs to be thought about is how to use AI in this process. If you look at the results (numbers) generated, then we are indeed very close. But there is another future I believe: I hope AI can compose music with me, like copilot. This is why I keep working on

https://glicol.org/

and the destination is:

https://github.com/chaosprint/RaveForce

Although my progress on AI is slow atm, I found that the copilot in VS code can already help me in live coding performances several times:

https://youtu.be/xzIXzt3hSt0?si=rVihHYiKiAU5IKeI&t=389

Also want to hear your feedback.
nah, a circle is daft. an sphere in space is much better. bring in that 3rd dimension!
Sorry about the subscription sheet, It can be closed by just pull it down.
And I will add a close button later.
What's Going on with the National Vulnerability Database?
Air conditioning is far more efficient than heating (by a factor of 4x)
They never set up WKD, is what that paragraph is saying. But you'll find below in the post that they did verify their key on keys.openpgp.org, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to delete it via the mentioned management interface to test their hypothesis.
>the sensible default would be to send email unencrypted

That's exactly what anti-encryptionists would want.
Clip from ICONS Podcast on Christopher Nolan
There is plenty of Historical precedent for a regency in monarchies. It's not necessarily a departure from the constitution, and in fact I cannot think of an enduring monarchic regime that has not had regency periods, that is, periods when someone rules in the stead of a nominal sovereign.
I had a similar reaction. We can still detect AI-generated images after years of progress; I think it's hasty to say they'll be indistinguishable any time soon.
How about stress and its related problems at least partly due to bosses pushing for ever faster, faster, faster shipping, why aren't you going faster? What can we do? This is the most important thing in the world!
Nazi is strong word that you're throwing around. But let's say you're pro-republican manager and you're firing pro-democratic workers (assuming you're US citizen). Or the other way around. Does it still work for you? Where's the line?
That's just not the reality anymore. You can run a decent open source coding language model on local hardware. Just needs a bit of work and it's not quite as seamless.
> Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Bahrain, Qatar, they all remind me of that quote from King of the Hill—they are monuments to man's arrogance.

Do you also call Amsterdam with its dikes and below sea level, “a monument to man’s arrogance?

Wasn’t the moon landing a monument to man’s arrogance?

I think calling something “a monument to man’s arrogance” reveals more about the biases of the person saying it than about the actual thing.
Also, like, FP tensor cores are way more expensive than fixed-point tensor cores, and with some care, it's very much practical to even train DNNs on them.

E.g. it's common to have a full-width accumulator and e.g. s16 gradients with u8 activations and s8 weights, with the FMA (MAC) chain of the tensor multiply operation post-scaled with a learned u32 factor plus follow-up "learned" notify, which effectively acts as a fixed-point factor with learned position of it's point, to re-scale the outcome to the u8 activation range.

By having the gradients by sufficiently wider, it's practical to use a straight-through estimator for backpropagation.
I read a paper (kinda two, actually) a few months ago that dealt with this (IIRC one of them was more about the hardware/ASIC aspects of fixed-point tensor cores, the other more about model training experiments with existing low precision integer-MAC chips IIRC particularly for interference in mind). If requested, I can probably find it by digging through my system(s); I would have already linked it/them if the cursory search hadn't failed.
> Yes, but how many other things can you think of other than email which you would share your encryption public keys for?

The only non-theoretical use of a PGP encryption key is email.

> (different) levels of security/secrecy/revoking-this-will-be-a-nightmare

Using multiple keys don't offer added security or secrecy.

Also, keys.openpgp.org lets you delete keys as long as you have access to your email.

> It feels weird, like when private companies harvest your data without asking

This is nothing like data harvesting, which may be why you prefixed your statement with "it feels like." Nobody is obtaining private or even semi-private data that can be used against you.

Also,

> private companies

keys.openpgp.org is a open source community project. It's not an evil for-profit data-hoarding entity that's implied by those two words.

I'm curious, what do you think a PGP keyserver is for? You make it sound as if there are no legitimate use for downloading encryption keys from it. Which leads to another question, why upload the keys at all?
That's fair, although the stuff I can do with ffmpeg filters amazes me, and I barely scratch the surface

I tend to include the codec developers in the "ffmpeg developers" for simplicity as there are many that work in both areas.

The complexity in using those codecs isn't the ffmpeg command line, it's knowing which options to use.
Here's my attempt at humor, there is something about his short sentences and speech delivery that makes them very suitable for ballads: https://suno.com/song/9f731225-8844-44f1-9325-4078cf53c729
It likely also depends on the person so I couldn't speak on behalf of everyone. I have been exposed to it to some extent, not the majority of work for over 5 years and it still intuitively is challenging for me. So similar task would take longer to code and existing code would take longer to understand. Significantly more effort would go to that.

I feel like I spend more time and energy on how to get something done functionally rather than focusing on what the correct business logic should be.
Continuous Wave Prosigns [video]
We seem to be crawling out of the "uncanny valley" on the other side. Give it a couple more years, we've pretty much nailed the interpolation of human output (across conventional modalities).
There's a surprising number of pop songs that use the same or close to the same chord progression.
WinDbg. From a to Z (2017) [pdf]
That static is present in most generations, but how bad it is depends on the generation itself (you get 2 variations of the same song every generation). I've had some amazingly crisp sounding generations in vastly different genres and languages, such as Opera tenor, UK rap, reggae, metal, country, Broadway musical, rock n' roll, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, various English accents/dialects, etc... Suno is a technical masterpiece, I understand why some people dislike the idea, but the point stands that we are HERE now and we started with most people not even imagining it possible, and those who did saying it wouldn't be this good.

Like many people have said, this tech will only get better.
Metaprogramming in Ruby: It's All About the Self (2009)