skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really what that was about, at all. I think most don't understand the state of Saudi Arabia. Modern Saudi Arabia was only founded in 1932, but the really interesting thing is that the founding king also had around 100 children, including 45 sons. And those sons also had tons of children. So there are thousands of direct lineage legitimate princes and princesses in Saudi Arabia, in a country of just 33 million!

There is a formal succession process, but it's been regularly sidestepped for various reasons. So you basically have a real-life Game of Thrones where your family aren't your loyal and trusted confidants, but the exact people you're paranoid of. And for very good reasons. For instance one Saudi king was assassinated by his nephew (who was later publicly decapitated), then his brother took the throne, and so on endlessly.
Hi! Proton crypto team lead here. Our motto is "Privacy by default". We're aiming to fulfill that mission as much as is practically possible. In this case, looking up keys on keys.openpgp.org caused an issue for this user because they didn't know they have a key there. We'll try to make that more clear in the received (encrypted) emails - and we might look into opting out somehow.

However, we don't want to make it opt-in if we can avoid it, even if that's what would make sense for Linux, Windows and Apple; it's not what would make sense for Proton. You can't change the world by copying someone else :)
People won't resort to downloading movies off the internet if they just made them available legally across the world at local prices. As a Godzilla fan, there is no way for me to watch Godzilla Minus One. It wasn't released theatrically in my country. No news of it releasing it on any streaming services either in near future. I am willing to pay if only they would take my money. The stupid studio executives should focus their energies on making movies accessible rather than lobbying for more stupid laws. But of course they won't do that because they are too short-sighted.
What form of heating?
yes, housing and stocks will like stagnate next 5 to 10 years.

We didn't see a big crash, so readjusting people's expectations around valuations is going to be a drag.
> plenty of Historical precedent for a regency in monarchies

MBS isn't acting as a regent, though. Salman remains the formal head of state.

Dragonwriter made a compelling point, however, in Salman having formally delegated a lot of powers to MBS. So maybe MBS isn't a tyrant, though it's difficult to argue either Salman or MBS are absolute monarchs at this time in practice. (Their "crown" retains absolute power. But that's slightly, and very meaningfully, different.)
Progress is like an old car. It takes a crank to get things started
(Spike Milligan)
What happens after the cow is slaughtered, tripe is made from cow stomachs, I am now sure which one. But if this is standard there must be lots of the pseudo-bezoars.

Are they cleaned up, dissolved in acid, have the accumulated lots of bits of wire and nails?

Mention was made of processing silage, ferrous objects could be removed at that stage.
Fun fact -- gemma.cpp uses highway, an amazing high performance computation library originally developed in the JPEG XL effort.
Considering the movie industry isn't something like farming them not being able to figure out how to turn a crank and print money shouldn't be the governments problem.

Perhaps if they want this than maybe we reduce copyrights to 17 years.
I don’t know if this applies so much to Neom, but I can think of many scenarios in which a linear city is more appealing than a circular one.

For example - if there is a natural element like a river, lake, canyon, etc. that you want to maximize city exposure to. A linear city roughly following the Grand Canyon would be infinitely more interesting than a circular one situated at one end of it.
I bet there's plenty of other non-AI tracks you wouldn't pay to listen to
The Tonga eruption should have slightly cooled the earth instead of warming it. Volcanic eruptions usually do. Their emissions of sulfur dioxide, which converts to sulfuric acid, which itself then condenses rapidly in the stratosphere to form fine sulfate aerosols are much more impactful in lowering temperatures than is their emission of carbon dioxide in increasing temperatures.

Some practical evidence in favor o this: Of the major volcanic eruptions in the last couple centuries, almost all notably cooled the Earth and none created notable warming. The, 1784 Laki fissure eruption, the 1883 Krakatoa and the 1815 Tambora eruptions being three especially obvious examples of that cooling in action.
And all I said is, that most people understand something different under that term, when talking about programming languages ...

But thanks everyone, for the dictionary definition lookup.
The OP ballad really captures the lawyer-ese mumbo jumbo feeling of "traditional" open-source licenses, I'm quite partial to the more fun feeling WTFPL https://suno.com/song/2ac3cb96-a4d2-4b14-88d0-83479549c60d/
AI Audio isn't far enough along to be convincing in song (at least in this song, anyway).

This song sounds like a disturbing uncanny-valley rendition of a slow Phoebe Bridges song performed by Taylor Swift using a broken auto tuner.

While I think it's technically impressive that this exists at all, I think this tune is still at the stage of "Pope in a puffer jacket".
> the author completely avoids the thing that is the most brain expanding and thrilling part of drawing which is learning to draw from imagination rather than copying or tracing photos

All the drawing tutorials for beginners I have seen putted a lot of emphasis on drawing from refences first, before you draw from imagination. The reason stated again and again was that you need to learn how the object looks like before you can draw it from imagination - that people do not know how objects really looks like unless they trained it first.
> who does "we" refer to? The Dutch? France?

Sorry, clarified as America. Not aware of any Dutch nation building after WWII. (I'd argue the British also did better than the French.)
It's 4x more efficient than an electric heater, but not 4x more than a heat pump [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance
France is closer to Australia. If you're caught driving 30+ km/h (18 mph) over the speed limit, tailgating (reckless passing would be the translation), pass a red light, or caught for DUI (or half a dozen more cases I think), you loose your license temporarily, until you get a medical exam and pass 'in front' of a judge (I think actually you do not have to present yourself or have representation if you agree with the facts). You then lose your license for a week to two year. If it's for 6+ month, you have to pass psychometric tests to get it back (unless you're 90, you will easily pass those). You can still drive licenceless cars.
I think these projects mostly exist to funnel away / launder money, no one really thinks they will become reality. A multi-decade mega project is just a great way to divert large amounts of money without raising too much suspicion as there’s very little oversight of what’s really happening there.
In my experience, there's less of a distinction than you might think.

A lot of satirical songs are absolute bangers, because (for example) to do a send-up of the tropes of X music, you must know all the tropes of X music, and be able to perform them. So a lot of satirical music is actually done by people with a lot of skill and passion for the thing being satirised.

And because satirists don't have to worry about being predictable or unoriginal, they can put in more crowd-pleasing cliches per minute than 'serious' artists, giving them the most intense X of all X artists.

(Not saying the MIT license is a banger though - just that some satirical songs are)
Is there any other kind of tower?
There is no benefit to ultra-processed fast food, but a lot of people eat it anyway. Social media is just fast food for the brain.
I assumed they meant to the song you generated?
"Art" already puts more value on live performances and scarcity. Popular music consumption is largely removed from that.

Yeah, the last two live mega tours (Taylor Swift and Beyoncé) have a tad more personality than the average artist, but the usual stuff that you would hear on the radio might as well be AI generated and live-performed by animatronics and a significant chunk of the audience wouldn't care or even notice.
Polymorphism is doable in plain old C with lookup tables and function pointers. If that is the only benefit, what is the point of creating a language where everything is an object?
> there are thousands of direct lineage legitimate princes and princesses in Saudi Arabia

Who do you think MBS was purging in '17? Other royals. Rich royals. Competition for the throne.
It also doesn't help that the Chrome team doesn't seem to apply the sam standard to other formats - webp, avif, brotli etc. were all rushed through while providing a much more questionable benefit and having only very limited support outside the web.
I could probably write one pretty quick, under the assumption that we are storing only JS-compatible JSON with no encoding hiccups (JSON sadly isn’t as standard as it appears at first glance…) just hash(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(fileText))) and you’re done. This assumes the same parse and serialize methods are expected to be used at both ends, that they only normalize formatting and that you don’t have to worry about number representation doing weird things. I wouldn’t actually sort keys as sorting is technically a change in behavior and good browsers today do not re-order object keys for you, though your code can do that, of course. I considered skipping the second JSON serialize, but it makes a buffer out of an object so it’s easy enough to use. One could imagine a more efficient approach would modify the hashing to occur against buffer chunks of the JSON, but intentionally skip the whitespace. This avoids unintentional data serialization but obviously the parsing routine would have to match the recipient exactly to work correctly. And it still assumes you’re receiving oddly formatted but valid JSON, which doesn’t sound like a safe assumption to make. If your JSON varies in format I wouldn’t ever want to assume I’d be able to parse it correctly. I mean, what if a return character slips in by mistake amongst all the newlines?
Just to check, are you looking at a translated (non-English) version of the page? It seems like those are outdated, unfortunately. The English version does specify a log retention period of 30 days. (The version you're served depends depends on the Accept-Language setting in your browser.)
Right. And that's why "don't attack Russia because you might provoke them" is Russian propaganda. We're not degrading their ability to maintain their war effort, and that means we will lose given enough time.

We should be bombing Russia's infrastructure.
Interestingly that seems to be changing - it seems for the past couple of months I've been seeing increased news of Russia refinery explosions etc. I wonder what took Ukraine so long to go for it.
IANAL but there was a patent describing a USB-powered vibrator.

While the idea of a vibrator is not new, and the idea of powering devices via USB isn't new either, the combination of these two non-new ideas was new.

The patent was granted, and when someone (not the patent holder) produced a USB-powered vibrator, they were found in a violation of the patent in question.

Similarly, if someone made a patent about "building a DNS system for data", and someone else used that idea to actually build that system, they may be in a violation of the patent. The more claims (or sub-claims) there are, the more specific the innovation was, and now the question is whether the supposed infringement was actually implementing all of the claims of the patent.
Art is like a lossy compression algorithm. If there is a soul of any form the only reason you think you're observing it in human-produced art is because your decompression algorithm is adding it.

While I don't disagree there's a "human touch" to art, I'm not convinced it can't be synthesized to some degree. It may not be innovative, but I think since AI is extrapolating from learned data, it can at least mimic the current pop culture.
Yes, that's how communication between humans works. It is context dependent.
Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?
Since TeamViewer started locking up with "Commercial use suspected" each time I try to help my mom with her laptop once every so many moons:

What are good, free, hassle-free alternatives comparable to TeamViewer anno 2010?

Good as in: Turn it on, enter code, get a Remote-Desktop-like connection between different devices and operating systems — with a UX that doable for a 70-year old?
Thing is, they don't have to be indistinguishable. They just have to be "good enough" to be a major disruption to that market. And it's not a particularly high bar.
Seriously, the "creatives are screwed" narrative has fallen apart for me because the stuff made in AI has proven to be worthless.

Why is it worthless? Because the point of art was to communicate or convey something with other people and the AI has no idea because its not human.

A few words or a sequence of sounds can be enough to transfer great deal of feeling and meaning because we run about the same software and as a result we can generate the same output with a little bit of input. This is all done by looking inside and externalise it, that is someone feels something and makes a song from it and that song can be used to regenerate feelings in other people.

The current AI tech doesn't have a way to do that because doesn't have a way to look inside. At best, it can imitate things within some context but the output doesn't have any meaning at all. The most successful AI content was maybe the "Pope wearing Balenciaga" image but that wasn't because the AI thought it mean something but because someone looked inside and thought this can be interesting.

So no, AI isn't taking over the creative process. AI is taking over the mechanical part of it only, that is the part where the artist traditionally had to master a method of production or an instrument.

The AI evangelists keep pushing short videos or drawings that look "professional" and claiming that Hollywood is done, artists are screwed etc but those are worthless outside of the context that AI made it. No one is interested in paying or even spending time to consume this content, its extremely dull.
Are there any forums like HN but for architecture, and not prone to devolving into sociopolitical criticism, and instead focusing on the structures themselves? I find experimental architecture fascinating and would rather discuss the merits and flaws of the design itself.

Neom reminds me of Łódź, a city in Poland that is built around a single 5km long street. It’s quite cool and the simple geometry is aesthetically appealing in a way I’ve yet to find elsewhere.
To me the feeling of AI generated content is less "slop" and more "in-flight magazine". It can have a surface sheen of quality that you can lure you in, but you realise it's devoid of any vitality or soul.
Wikipedia article mentions "the Spine" - an underground tunnel that would host transport superfast train infrastructure connecting both sides of the complex. Traveling from one end to another would take 20mins, supposedly.
Yes. I have a framework for an embedded system that uses various types of sensors. When changing a sensor, instead of rewriting the polling loop for every new case, I can keep looping through ‘sensor[i]->sampleNow()’ and add the specifics in a class inheriting from SensorClass.
I have written a lot of bash. When you know what you're doing it's very productive. But it still feels like walking a tightrope, where some corner case in quoting, interpolation, comparison, etc will one day rm -rf / you.

What i really want is "python, but with really easy running of subcommands". Imagine extending python with a $ operator (prefix, applied to iterables) so that

files_iter = $('ls')

would run ls and put an iterator over its lines of output in that variable, throwing an exception if ls exits with an error status (i realise there is a rabbithole of subtleties here - getting those right would be part of this). Or

contains_pattern = $?('grep', '-q', pattern, file)

to get just the exit status as a boolean. I think i'd drop bash in a heartbeat.
Not a fan of any of these video keyframe base image formats but if your tools don't support them by now then you really should get better tools.
Yup, just to echo this sentiment, I've had the Sony WF-SP800N for 4 years now. All of this anecdotal of course. They've fallen from my ear under intense workouts, I've dropped them with & without the case more times than I can count because I'm clumsy. They still work like Day 1, they're far more functional than having a flimsy wire dangle around.

And I guess it depends on your usage; people who use their headphones for 10 minutes a day probably don't care much about any of this. My earbuds stay plugged like half the day, every day. 7$ wired ones will get you abysmal audio quality, and even if you chip in for better, wires still break trivially - you won't even have to try. I've changed more of those in my life than shirts - meanwhile the wireless buds have lasted 4 years.

Now I'm looking to buy new ones, maybe try to get into that multipoint pairing action, that could be useful. I often find myself in situations were it'd be useful to receive audio from more than one source.
What if the alternative to these jobs is not other jobs, but no jobs? If working in such a job is considered slavery, then most of the west also employs slaves in the form of "simple, low skilled" jobs, such as cashiers. Many people don't have many options, and losing even such a job could mean unemployment.
Imagine you stumble upon an interesting project on Github and instead of license.md, you're greeted by license.mp3.
If you ever turn the radio on or hear the spotify weekly top playlist, it's not like contemporary cookie cutter pop music is any better. At least with this anyone can quickly experiment quirky new ideas!
For decades, they wanted to diversify away from oil and build tech industries. The problem is they don’t have skilled labor and would have to import “slaves” as they do with everything. They have some of the lowest skilled and laziest labor in the world. If/when dependence on oil ends, these countries will go back to being poor.

Edit: contrast ME with Mexico who is running out of oil. Yet, they are able to build because they happen to have some of the hardest working labor in the world (though not notably skilled). I rather bet on Mexico revival over ME 100/100.
Yes, I'm looking at a translated version. I didn't see any link to the English version, nor any indication that the version I looked at was obsolete. I guess non English speakers can just go f themselves.

Log retention is only part of the equation. How long does the project keep the email addresses?
Back in the days (2008) i created an Autohotkey v1 function for parsing a delimiter seperated line called ReturnDSVArray

it can be found here: https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/30102-how-can-i-parse...

it consists of some 30ish lines of code and 67 lines with comments and usage example
What a cynical view of life. You've no concept of how truly terrible was is.

You're living proof of my point that knowledge of errors of past generations is never sufficiently conveyed to the next to stop those errors propagating.
Fair enough. To be clear, I don't think losing a world war destroys America. But I do think the risks of disintegration are high even if the homeland is never hit.

(One also assumes the victor(s) of that war would seek to constrain America's ability to ever check them again.)
Have you seen "draw a box"? It might be for you.
That's exactly what I was saying. These weren't just random "back alley local chiefs" being oppressed for having different views. It was (and is) basic power struggles.
But then Id have to use Ocaml. ;)
Bandwidth is far more power hungry for DDR, but capacity is far cheaper.

If the bandwidth capability of DDR suffices, HBM isn't worth it.

At least with LPDDR's; GDDRs may well not be worth it under data center TCO considerations due to the high interface power usage.
Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken, the numbers in question aren't too easy to search for so I didn't confirm this (LPDDR vs. GDDR) part.
The cause of many popular performers singing is primarily their desire to make money. It's not even some kind of closely held secret. And they still sell albums by the millions.

What you describe certainly exists, but it's not the entirety of art, and I would argue that at this point it's not even most of art.
Data from 5k sites pre vs. post March Google AI update
Yes, except it's "bad automation", because as opposed to the automation referred to by GP, boilerplate written by an LLM (or an intern or whomever) is extra code that costs a lot of time to be maintained.
Current top 2 is hilarious: https://suno.com/song/c15f0251-fbac-4a30-a3e1-002dbc78cb79
Books are fancy, but let's not mix up progress with being able to live off writing them.

We see innovation in open source every day from small startups, from various sized communities, and from hobbyists.

That said, the startup selling IP model works somewhat in the pharma sector, but that's patents, and you mentioned books, where the whole IP regulation game got abso-fucking-lutely captured by the industry (with their ridiculous 100+ years of copyright).
Man watch video from Karpathy and learn about prefix trees (tries)
>We need to have limits on what we allow our brain to process the same way we do for our body with ultra-processed foods by avoiding fast food restaurants

This is a great analogy.

Fast information dis-eases our minds as fast food diseases our body.
Format quality has fuck all to do with widespread support. Widespread support comes from either widespread use (forcing companies to implement support) or from enabling new things.
This would be awesome as a bedroom night light for kids afraid of the dark!
Meta Quest v64 with improved Passthrough now rolling out
Perhaps they can construct a deep underground, inverted tower, inside a sort of fissure, so some can then call it a vaginal tower.

In all seriousness, in those baking desert landscapes, it would even make a considerable amount of sense for cooling costs.
A vast amount of people pay for Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Premium etc, it's a huge market.
> Polymorphism is doable in plain old C with lookup tables and function pointers

Not without casting. qsort is still:

void qsort_r(void *base, size_t nmemb, size_t size,
int (*compar)(const void *, const void *, void *),
void *arg);
I think people will gladly engage on a superficial level, but refuse to engage more deeply if that makes sense?
What does "self-sufficient" even mean here? Can you power air conditioning if you build enough solar plants? Yes, but that's true everywhere. That doesn't mean it's financially viable.