skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you not work for free?
I am an astronomer and was at a conference when this headline broke. Obviously we ignored this and read the actual papers, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03002. There you can see that the dark energy equation of state parameter w0 = -0.99 +0.15/-0.13, which is not at all significantly different than w0 = -1. That is, no time evolving dark energy. When combined with other cosmological results, the joint analysis slightly favors w0 > -1 rather than w0 = -1 at the ~2.5sigma level or so, but it depends which other results you factor in.
Years ago I read a blog post by a Jewish doctor who was trying to do hypothermia research without relying on Nazi data. His ultimate conclusion was that it was not reasonable to discard this data, because treatment would be very inadequate without it. It would unnecessarily hurt people today to give lesser care, and it would not be a positive testament to the memory of those victims to throw it all away.

I haven't been able to find that blog post again, but I often think about it and would love to bookmark it.

It's in a similar vein of ethical question to embryonic stem cell treatments, but certainly with very different aspects between them.
Instant unless your NAS drives spin down! Haha efficiency ugh.

Need a Spotify connect like thing for PlexAMP so it works in car at full quality. I won't hold my breath. Maybe the Plex web app works
> forces a licensing change where all users [...] are faced with an invoice-or-lawyer threat.

You're spreading misinformation. See other comments about RSAL/SSPL.
While I agree that it's not terribly unique to FOSS, it makes it even more useful IMO since relatively few work on FOSS.

I think the lessons learned and advice given are great for a large number of developers.
> The GP's statement that nobody's likely to encounter a bigger problem is silly.

I didn't actually say that, but even supposing I meant that, walking a 3D mesh in a way that requires you to keep stack context sounds like a pretty unlikely/niche scenario, so it seems even that stronger statement is true.
> start gaming on Linux

I recently did this because Windows 11 was becoming increasingly cluttered with crapware and AI. I have an NVIDIA and chose Pop!_OS.

I have a pretty large collection (https://steamosaic.com/#skhaz) and all the games I've tested work, even the recent releases.

The only issue that sometimes occurs is some games defaulting to the lowest possible resolution instead of 4K, which is my desktop resolution. And Red Dead Redemption 2 had a crash on a mission that was resolved when I switched to the experimental version of Proton.

Occasionally, I play StarCraft 1 and 2, and Diablo 2, and Lutris works perfectly for that.

Besides, I personally find Pop!_OS to be a great distro.
> Israel squandered an opportunity to actually get rid of Hamas.

How?
Generally the best way to surmount a hard problem is to solve a different one.
I’ve always found it weird, amusing, and jarring how many aspirational cultural norms have this lag in lower wealth segments.

I feel like having a choice makes it easier to cater to changes. Your wealthy friends want this totally modified behavior pattern thats deemed more productive and collaborative. While you can always just go get the traditional regressive thing whenever you want, from people that value that, until you get tired of paying for all the meals for example.
The article is way too vague about what the researchers actually did to say anything useful about what their model says about the existence of wormholes, but usually the point of having used a quantum computer to model something is that it's done in a way that corresponds to something that can actually happen in reality. Unlike in a digital computer, where you need to have an idea of how the entire process works to simulate it, a quantum computer basically only needs you to understand the wave function, and the computer itself applies the quantum physics due to the nature of how it works.

So, if you simulate a chemical reaction on a quantum computer, you're actually building the same wavefunction as would occur in reality and letting quantum mechanics "evaluate" it (thus giving you an actual physical result, barring all the imperfections of current quantum computers).
>> IMHO, small companies and developers ultimately lose here. ES and Mongo still use and rely on AWS for their managed offerings. OpenSearch (mainly pushed by AWS) is vibrant and very alive. Redis will be ditched by distros and die a slow death, and (probably) Valkey will be in the next distro major versions. But we (small companies and devs) now have to spend time migrating and moving things around without any additional value.

While I agree with you on not changing licenses mid-way, what is a small software company supposed to do? What is the Day Zero playbook that balances the desire for growth, creating customer value, and co-existing with the big cloud companies? I'm disappointed about the outcomes for companies like Redis/Elastic who obviously did create much value.
Love the "Loopback" photo! Very cool product, nice work!
Have Concerns and Commit
Yes, good suggestion. I've also stopped using "just" when speaking or writing in the last few years. You can almost always drop it and retain the same meaning without sounding rude or dismissive.

I've noticed this in at least one other language I'm loosely familiar with (Bulgarian) and it holds there too. When the speaker adds "просто" it has the same effect of sounding rude and dismissive.
The article casually refers to Asus breaking “their promise” but nothing in the rest of the article suggests Asus ever promised anything of the sort. That they used to provide the tools wasn’t a promise. Did they ever advertise or up-front communicate that these tools would be made available and maintained?
Did you meet the coworkers who were complaining at the coffee brewer or sth like that, and overheard anything they said about it? If so, must have been an odd feeling, and hard to not smile and say something
Onto the blacklist you go.. I mean if it wasn't on it already to begin with because of the mere idea of hardware based ads.

I'm not sure how they plan on surviving as a hardware maker. Who is going to buy this crap?
I'm not a "capitalism gives you brain worms" kind of person, but the idea that we should literally change the location of the sun in the sky because that's what's most convenient and the hours of work are sacrosanct is always the weirdest take to me.

Why go through all this farrago? There's only one time that really means anything, so have noon at noon (modulo your time zone) and then live your life the way you want.
Here you go! https://browse.cloudtabs.net/about-everything

Folks the servers are all running at 100% load right now.

If you like you can check back later, or if you want to be reminded you may leave your email address in this Google Form and we'll send you a reminder when it quiets down a bit!

https://forms.gle/ToZWygdRnWAob9sp7
Are you running out of space?

I've been using Plex forEVER and the only time this kinda thing happened to me was when the scratch space Plex was using for transcodes and things got full
If you get food stamps or other services from the social safety net, then you have to show your financials. Requiring the same for educational subsidies seems to follow the same rationale.
If it's not as fast or correct... Why?
The representation layer has failed pretty hard. Wonder if everyone had an aigent who negotiates laws for you, in a direct democracy, if you could get faster, better
Results.
Which is included in the as is part of the license.

A ton of projects have stopped working which forced to fork or replace completely due maintainers not caring anymore, getting sick or just switching priorities. Why is this different.
For all the licenses change cases, contributors who disagreed forked and stablished a new route. This is 100% the spirit of the license.
OK, sure, negotiate. But there's a lack of two things: Carrot and stick.

Unless the person working on the OSS project is a member of the union, the union isn't doing things for them. He pays no dues, they don't poll him or count his vote. So it's like when companies demand OSS contributors are part of their "supply chain" and therefore must fix bugs on the company's timetable: You can't unilaterally foist an obligation on someone and expect to be taken seriously.

So if a hypothetical union I'm not part of demands I stop working on my hobby, they can neither hurt me nor stop helping me if I don't comply, so I'm not going to.

And given the ability of a single hobbyist, or a small group, to do outsized things in software, that seems like a pretty big hole in the concept of a union having a monopoly on labor in a given field.
Big bad Redis Inc. won't let us host their software as a service anymore! Good thing AWS(champions of open-source software) are here to help!

Seriously though, very duplicitous framing by AWS. Ignoring the clear existential threat to Redis's business if they allow other managed offerings to undercut their own.
More details on the why behind no CLA: There are dual licensed GPL/Proprietary projects out there. The trick is whether copyright is assigned to a singular entity. If copyright is retained in a distributed (but licensed) manner, then it is harder to relicense.
You can change tabs to show up as a single character. Of course if people are forcing spaces then you’re stuck, you need to hope that space isn’t significant and then collapse multiple spaces.
I think you may enjoy reading about Mcnamara’s fallacy, coincidentally also related McNamara of the Vietnam war: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

I hope it makes you reconsider your position about disregarding non-quantifiable benefits.

> But when the McNamara discipline is applied too literally, the first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. The second step is to disregard that which can't easily be measured or given a quantitative value. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. The fo[u]rth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide. — Daniel Yankelovich, "Interpreting the New Life Styles", Sales Management (1971)
Ah, damn. That explains it. I can't get it to do anything, either. I thought it was my browser.
This is an old result but I think this is the original paper[1] and explanatory blog post[2].

Not qualified to comment, but iirc the explanation I heard here on hn was that their method was they emulated a "dual" of a wormhole in the quantum computer and then sort of did a leap of faith using some maths/physics arguments and said because it's a quantum computer and quantum magic yadda yadda the actual wormhole was therefore created. Other scientists in the field were nowhere near as convinced by this[3].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3

[2]https://blog.research.google/2022/11/making-traversable-worm...

[3] https://futurism.com/headlines-building-wormhole-nonsense
The difference is almost everyone is driving on the freeways at times, but only a few are searching out new domain knowledge with their pocket-sized gadget; most seem to use it to consume short snippets of entertainment, dance, pranks, pro sports, and ASMR, all interrupted by ads.

(more encouragingly, fitness may also be up there; was Vysotsky just a bit ahead of his time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_HWJlBSMSc )

EDIT: more specifically, access to domain knowledge hasn't increased that much; in the 1970s I was already in biking distance of 3 libraries and had several university libraries in a 1 hour radius, so there was already more domain knowledge available (probably even in a single library) than I could have learned in a lifetime. Yes, now I can browse talk slides that I would've had to attend in person back then, but we still had journals, and they are almost as good if one is not on the bleeding edge of a field.

What has changed dramatically is access to worlds beyond one's own. In the 1980s, I was involved in anime fandom and tangentially with UK sci fi fen. The first was paradoxically easier, because both Japan and the US were NTSC, so they didn't require camera copying. We samizdat'ed madly, and "sub or dub" wasn't even an issue, because neither was widely available. Now with the internet I can see what soviet 80's hairdo rock was like; what real Caucasian pop music is; Finnish tango; various Monkey King cartoons; etc. (anyone have recommendations for chinese pop?) at the click of a mouse.

EDIT2: in part why I think life hasn't changed that much may be because the future, back then, was supposed to be: https://nss.org/wp-content/uploads/Bernal_Interior_AC76-0628... , which would have been a major difference.
I read parts of it and saw that there are false claims in it, not worth wasting time after that.

Even the title is wrong, Arabic world didn't "turn away" from science, they were forced to deal with other issues.
SearX acts as a proxy, you are not submitting your IP to Google.
India and Russia have a long standing relationship of buyer / supplier of military hardware. The sanctions presumably refer to Russia being blocked from US dominated financial systems but workarounds are now quite well tread - India will just pay in another currency.
> Ike immediately says “No one should ever bring me a sealed envelope”

This is correct to the best of my knowledge; the actual opening of said mail should have been handled by the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence, established in 1897.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Office_of_Presiden...

I was a bit curious about what this process looks like in relatively modern times, and found this video from the President Obama White House YouTube channel from 2009:

Inside the White House: Letters to the President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG00mM8QEGk
Solana Ore Mining with an RPC Load Balancer
any hints what you consider missing that you can reveal before 2 years to never?
Ente, a cloud based photos app, open sources their server code
Framing it this way also ignores the extremely generous exit package anyone leaving would be getting. I'm extremely happy with my current workplace, but if they dangled the kind of offer Basecamp was dangling I'd quit willingly on the spot as well.
There’s a hint here that there’s more going on behind this than just a carefully system-prompted chatbot. The output it produces when asked to ‘query universe’ seems to systematically generate a list of ‘contents’ and ‘properties’, which reflect previous ‘create’ and ‘set’ actions as well as the consequences of the ‘sim’s evolutions. Those ‘<query>’s seem like internal prompts fed to the LLM behind the scenes to get it to chain together narratives about modified universes.
Or contact lenses that just make billboards disappear. Contact lenses ad blocker. I bet even people with perfect vision would want these.
In one of LA's largest cash heists, burglars steal as much as $30M from vault
yes, youtubers and the like have made selling out cool
Encryption in the 70s resists today's attacks just fine. DES was weakened on purpose (short key length, but the idea for 3DES dates from 1978). In the asymmetric realm you still can't break a full length RSA key.

Maybe it's not fully contemporaneous with Voyager but the claim that 70s encryption is insufficient doesn't stand up to scrutiny
Yes, exactly. The last time, it was a class war, just like now.
> Long is gone the time where unlocking bootloaders and installing custom ROMs was the best path to follow.

...wha? I just installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 8 Pro and it is, by a decent margin, the best custom ROM experience on a phone I've had to date.
Who transcodes in 2024??
That's hardly even a core feature anymore.

Get two copies if you want LoFi alternatives. Transcoded HDR 4k etc looks way worse than just having a 1080p copy

And what I'm describing is definitely a pro scenario, so charging makes a lot of sense
Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old (2019)
in English too -- https://www.itu.int/hub/2023/11/brazils-new-strategy-aims-fo...
Why Julia is turning heads in 2021. (2021)
I had the same thought and learned how to comprehend TTS at very high speeds (~5x plus or minus a bit depending on how alert or tired I am.) I recommend it, it allows me to "read" for longer/more than my normal fatigue limit would permit.
"humanity's willingness to risk even death in pursuit of something greater."

I would rephraze this as 'humanity's capability to sustain a large range of psychological profiles and the capability to filter out from the general population the particular individuals fitting for a given task'. My understanding is the astronauts were a very specific niche group and mostly wanted to fly faster and higher than anyone before them, and were willing to pay any price to achieve this.
https://archive.is/6q2n1
Wish I could say it was more sophisticated than slow trial and error. I tried changing many different aspects: MTU, forcing different routes/peering through different VPSs, various reverse proxy configurations.

I guess what started leading me down the right path was a more methodical approach to benchmarking different legs of the route with iperf: Client <-> reverse proxy, reverse proxy <-> jellyfin server. I started testing those legs separately, w/ and w/o Wireguard, both TCP and UDP. The results showed that the problem exhibited at the host level (nothing to do with Jellyfin or the reverse proxy), only for high latency TCP. The discrepencies between TCP and UDP were weird enough that I started researching Linux sysctl networking tuneables.

There might be something smart to say about the general challenges of achieving stable high throughput over high-latency TCP connections, but I don't have the knowledge to articulate it.
I Create AI Tools to Create Faceless Videos Easily : join waitlist
Hey everyone,

You've likely seen an influx of videos on YouTube along the lines of "I used AI to create shorts, etc.".

All these videos seem to have the same issue. In reality, they use AI to automate video creation but if you notice, every part is done manually from A to Z. They go to Chat GPT to get the script, then take this script to another site to get the voiceover. Next, they choose the illustration images or videos themselves, which is quite tedious...

So, without advanced coding skills, I decided to use Chat GPT to help me create a Python script that would turn this entire process into a single step: a click of your mouse.

Firstly, I developed a script that uses GPT-4 API to write the video script. Then, it generates a realistic voice from the text using a text-to-speech API. For editing, I've created another script that converts the generated audio into an SRT file to extract the subtitles. This script then feeds the subtitles to GPT-4, which generates stable prompts for broadcast and a timing for each illustration.

But that's not all. I also have a function that compiles all the illustration images to make the final edit. It even adds the subtitles that I had previously retrieved, creating a render similar to Capcut.

And now, the most interesting part. How to use all of this? Just input an idea for a video topic. Then, in less than 5 minutes, I have the entire video edited with coherence between the voice, the videos or illustration images, and stylish subtitles.

I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments ...and if you’re interested in the project, I’m planning to release a beta version .

Bonus -> comment : "Amazing" and I’ll send you the link to join the waitlist (it’s totally free, because it’s annoying having to pay to test tools).

thanks.
I grew up during the "computer revolution" and saw the internet enter our lives. I was sure that digitizing information and all of the "zero-cost copies" was clearly the way to make information available to everyone, forever. Since then, I've seen much of this information become closely guarded (paywalls, etc.) and, in many cases, inaccessible. This is especially true for content born on the web that's now gone from the web, with only some busted links here or there to tell us it ever even existed.

Compare this to my local library. I can access a large collection of books, magazines, and newspapers instantly, for free. For something not local, I ask the librarian for help and that item appears a few days later through the magic of interlibrary loan. And for durability, I now feel that printed volumes in multiple locations can easily outlast much of our digital content.
> which requires the satellites themselves to have precise clocks that are synchronized with each other.

Yes, the satellites themselves need to keep track of their GR-induced drift relative to the other satellites. But we don’t typically describe this as needing a new timekeeping system (or new timezone, or whatever) for each satellite. We just say the GPS system makes corrections for GR, which it does. And in any case, this takes place on the satellites, not the lunar surface, which is what is mentioned in the announcement.

> I thought an accurate clock would be necessary to derive a reference meter and kilogram measurement.

So first, the fundamental SI definitions are almost never used in the field to make measurements. For the vast majority of field experiments, the measuring equipment is calibrated back at a lab using a reference system, which itself was calibrated using a chain of multiple intermediaries that eventually trace back to the fundamental SI definition. But the equipment necessary to connect to the fundamental definitions are extremely expensive and delicate, which is why it’s only done occasionally and in a few labs specialized for the purpose.

Second, even if you were measuring absolute lengths in the field with the distance light traveled in 10^X ticks of a cesium atomic clock or whatever (as opposed to the much more mundane task of measuring relative length changes with interferometry), it would all work perfectly fine if you did it within a local region of uniform gravitational field. The only reason you need to worry about the difference in clock speeds is if you are comparing event timing being done in different places where the clocks are running differently (as happens with GPS, or something like the LISA gravitational wave experiment, but which is otherwise quite unusual).

Like, don’t get me wrong, I can sort of imagine that NASA is actually planning such experiments. But then they should be mentioned in an announcement like this.
Wow that's amazing, thanks for explaining
In 1983, when I started using Unix, I went through the manuals for Unix System 7 trying to learn about every program that came with the system. So I tried SCCS, but at that time I wasn't developing software as part of a larger team so I decided it wasn't useful to me.

Many years later I bought the book "Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control", half-read it and decided I still didn't feel it was something useful to me. It wasn't until 1998 or 1999 that I started using CVS, then a few years later switched to SVN, an finally to Git (between SVN and Git I spent a few years using Unity's Asset Server).
“It’s almost impossible for people outside of this company to really grasp the vast scope and complexity of our vehicles,” said Boeing Chief Engineer Howard McKenzie, who has worked alongside Pope for years. “She is at home in the technical space.”
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