skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start? Uae is a place known for storing and moving shady money.
Very few extradition treatys.
Looks like the project is not actively maintained any more (it's in "maintenance mode").

Also: this has nothing to do with Zero-Knowledge proofs.
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While I'm happy it works for this person, I wouldn't do it myself for 2 big reasons:

1. I don't need more technology in my life and more detachment from human connection. If I need a therapist, I'll work with a human.

2. I don't trust companies with such sensitive and personal data.

RE 2nd point, this comment is spot on - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39999142.
I got the impression, that it was stillbirth right from the start, and only kept alive for a prince's wishes.
But this still requires you to classify each line manually to determine bad or good, no?
Could it be that they execute honosexuals and treat women like second class citizens?

Nah, it must be racism.
I actually liked how walkable Mexico City is. It used to not be great but I feel that in recent times it's a much nicer city to live in than Dubai. Of course that's only based on living there for 6 months and being relatively wealthy (that said I'd argue Dubai is also only nice if you have the means).
Instant dystopia

Custom audio and video advertising based on profiling and location

Looking at my spam folder what my world will look like then
No, we don't use bots to respond to questions here. Automated messages from us (which we sometimes use in our support ticketing system) are always marked as such.
If they choose to flight, it's also an effective de-escalation.
Ukraine Is the First "Hackers' War"
No idea what your point is. The German empire wasn't a dictatorship, if you want to claim otherwise, find me a credible source that says so.
> the city Łódź in Poland is situated along a single linear 4-5km street.

Are we just making things up? Just by a single glance at a map of Łódź you can see that this is not true. The city is clearly blob shaped.

> I guess I don’t really understand the criticism, most of which seems to be “you should just build something that isn’t the thing you want to build.”

The criticism is that there are reasons why cities are built the way they are built. "Looks good on a 3d render" is not a great reason to do something, and the reasons the proponents list don't hold up to scrutiny.
Probably not, they'll still put the money in Luxembourg and Switzerland, but they can exchange gold and diamonds and stuff like that from shady dealings in Africa for money there.

If you look into it you'll find that it's a nice marketplace for israeli oligarchs running operations in DR Congo, e.g. for diamonds which Israel exports unexpected amounts of, and you'll also find that the Rapid Support Forces/Janjaweed in Sudan are buddies of the UAE. Unlike Switzerland the UAE is quite aggressive militarily, e.g. occupying part of Yemen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Un_oHaf798
I didn't know that, but I guess that's not too surprising.
For a second I thought it was somewhat related to the venerable PLATO system (the one with plasma screens and CDC supercomputers).
Stereotypes can’t be legislated away, nor can consumer preferences.

This also cuts both ways. I have been in rooms where a hiring manager said a person interviewing for a job was too attractive, and they were passed up for the job, because they’d be “a distraction”.

The above situation is wrong, but if there was a law against rejecting ugly people, surely attractive people would be passed over more often, with legal justification, as companies seek to appear on the right side of the law.

I’ve also seen where people are overly nice to attractive people, so they don’t get the critical feedback needed to get better. This puts them at a disadvantage through no fault of their own. In other cases they aren’t taken seriously, even when they are capable, because people assume they got a free pass their whole life.

The author constantly kept going back to fat people and black people as the ones who were “unattractive”. I have to assume that speaks volumes of their own beliefs. There is only 1 time in my life I stopped going to a restaurant because the person serving the food look so off putting I was no longer hungry… and it was a skinny white girl with blond hair. It was the meth mouth that was the real problem.
This is an extremely inefficient trie. It's just a data structure, not an LLM.

It's used for autocomplete, but it's a bad way to represent large amounts of text because the fanout is insane. Markov chains would be an improvement on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
in the end it'll still be 'disk like'. You build along the river, distances are getting big and suddenly you realize there's a lot of unused space where you can expand the building of the city while maintaining short commute time(building perpendicular to the river/expanding the width of the city), meaning even more money, more people, more economic activity. In fact most of big cities built on rivers started as small communes that gradually expanded in each direction
Arts need a story behind it to be relevant, art without drama and real struggles from an individual is not really worth the time, it's just souless and boring. These kinds of tools are good for memes, and that is.
> Innovation? Deepmind showed new creative approaches. Will this happen with music too? Or will they just regurgitate styles from the past?

That's an often overlooked difference between earlier projects like DeepMinds AlphaGo and the current genAI craze. With something like Go you can dial in the exact parameters to solve for (winning a game of Go) and then let the AI experiment and find novel ways to get there. But with image generation, or music, or language models the measure of quality is too vague to define in a way that the AI can directly optimize towards, so they're instead just fitted to existing examples.
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Daiso and other 100-yen stores are going strong here in Japan (though now things are 110 yen with tax). It's amazing what kind of fantastic stuff you can get here for $0.72.
Is a "right imbalance", which seems to be the central idea expressed here, somehow being illustrated by a counter example: the content of the article itself?
> drum machines made sloppy drums (or ridiculous apex twins) hip.

Other than The White Stripes, what popular bands have had clearly unskilled drummers? I actually enjoy listening to more amateur music, so this might be a request for recommendations of a sort.
In my experience of working with software developers in India and China, the ones who are really good would absolutely refuse this kind of privacy invasion. Good developers living in those countries have choice and are well paid.
I think the point is that we should not as a general rule recommend people do RO for their entire house. Toilets, showers, and washing machines don’t need RO water and if a lot of people did a whole home RO system we would start to see waste add up.
> Official records of real estate transactions have a data point for "closest shopping mall" for a reason.

It baffles me that anyone, let alone a bunch of people, would look at this and say “ah, yes, this seems like a good place to live”.

To each their own, I guess.
Fun. At first it often failed to recognize crouches. I had to move the laptop away and sit up straight. It would be even more fun, if you crouched to crouch in the game, with the obstacles coming at head level, and you have to crouch to evade them.
Lets ship all the influencers there, who peddle the luxurious lifestyle narative and sign contracts to never say anything bad about these countries. "Influencer license" haha.
No need to anthropomorphize. Suno's latest model has a generation limit of exactly 2 minutes, which explains the last sentence being left out.
Am I the only one really put away by the robotic tone that sometimes appear? Wouldn't using a RVC in the last step of the pipeline help there?
circular/disk cities are basically line cities that are copied and rotated, you still can build straight line transport. If you talk about real circle cities and not disks-the idea is just as bad as straight line
> You can hate public executions, flogging, discrimination based on gender and sexuality, and you should, I do, but don’t compare societies. We are not better, just different.

You are literally comparing societies.

I really don't understand what your point is.
It's crucially useful for menus, where the items are always the same, arranged in the same order. When you use a certain menu item often, you know to press (say) Alt+M-C-C. And it's not unusual to have several menu items with a long common prefix, so typing a prefix wouldn't be efficient. This is particularly useful in long menus that ran out of accelerator keys, or in extensible menus like the Explorer context menu where not all extensions care to define one, or do conflict with each other.

This is also the case when navigating folder hierarchies in Explorer, which, using letter navigation, is similar to navigating nested menus. After a while I know that a certain folder is L Enter C Enter S S Enter P P Enter, and that way is offen quicker than going by prefix sequence (second method), also because you can hit the same key in sequence faster than different keys.
Oh the bias, quiet unfortunate. So many comments against ME countries with so many false pretenses, you can easily tell many haven't set a foot on ME soil let alone actually lived there - holiday doesn't count. Having lived in ME for a long, long time I've had many liberals and atheists friends jump on the first ship to ME on a 'good' salary - slavery you say. I'm an Englishman, not a middle eastern.
I really wish someone would revive mirasol displays. Sunlight-readable fast colour displays for e-readers and everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R352WObkU3Q
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At "later in life" I look back and see that I did this too much with things I didn't deem important at the time. Fast food immediately comes to mind. A promised "tech" for the every person, the too busy person, the person who saw a short cut...used carefully, thoughtfully, and occasionally its pretty helpful. Used as a staple, well it has had consequences that I don't like.

Edit: I also value the freedom to be able to decide what works for me and what doesn't.
Of course they are. Every human achievement is in a sense a monument to the arrogance of man.

My issue is that when the term is used as a pejorative, it more often used with regards to projects in developing countries.
Snaaake, snaaake.
+ accompanying HN thread (117 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39985596
That's what I said: those who are good no longer accept abuse.
Any advice for a cheap USB GPS for a stratum #1 time server?

EDIT: Any any advice on how essential PPS is?
SelTrac has been around since the mid 80s, and was originally a German developed product (Standard Elektrik Lorenz) based on LZB technology.

My understanding of LZB is limited, but it appears to be a fixed block system with wayside detection of trains, albeit with shorter blocks than lineside signals would usually have. This is different to SelTrac which is moving block.
That's amazing! The composition is purely AI?
Agreed.

Another side of it is that it will enable the creation of more music around more topics than before, by non-musicians. The accessibility bar is lower.

For a lot of people, music is a way to express their emotions, and not just by creating/playing it, but by listening to it. Now, you'll be make your own hyper-specific music with lyrics around topics specific to you, without learning any of the underlying skills yourself.

I've certainly wanted some kinds of music/representation in music of some of my experiences to exist, but not enough to go out and learn to make it myself. Now/soon I should be able to do that with AI tools, and I think that's actually neat!
How else are you going to see relevant ads?
> AI can easily write prompts

All our current AIs need prompts to produce content. So, you'd need to enter a prompt so that AI can produce a prompt for you.

But I guess you could develop some variant which just generates prompts in a cycle. But most of the generated prompts will pretty bad, so it will in turn produce heaps of crap.

That's where the human element is still needed - try a prompt, evaluate the result, tweak the prompt again. If this doesn't produce a good result, try a different idea. It's not even that different from how artists produce content these days (the create <-> evaluation cycle). Current AI is not good enough to be able to judge the produced content (that's why it produces so much crap after all).
I think it's wonderful that people are restoring public objects of historical value, but nowhere does the article explain why this has to be clandestine.

The article says that Monum's leadership didn't want to publicise the repair, but why would they? It would be a tacit admission that illegal entry into protected historical sites is justifiable for the purpose of 'guerilla restoration' - wherever such a position is valid or not, endorsing it would indeed compromise Monum and similar organisations. Monsieur Jeannot was surely right in this regard.

That leaves me wondering why simply asking wasn't an option. Are Monum really so resistant to offers of restoration that a few phone calls and a press release couldn't have done the job, saving both sides a lawsuit?
So complete bullshit -- gotcha.
It's plausible to me that there is some kind of strong AI future scenario in which they become capable of making things in a genuinely creative way, but I think generative AI in its current trajectory is ultimately a dead end for both AI art and strong AI.

I do think that an actual strong AI would be inclined to make art that is enjoyable to itself and other AIs, not humans, so I don't think making it ape us is an actual good test for when an AI becomes capable of creativity.

You can teach a dog to dance, but it will be doing a trick, not a tango.
With the caveat that all published "plans" for the thing were probably meant as a PR stunt the plan called for passively cooling it[1].

That part actually doesn't seem implausible, it's right on the Red Sea, which is quite hot on the surface, but cools down as you you go deeper into it[2].

So (and this is just my speculation) they could have a large undersea pipeline to a depth of say 1km, and use the heat the building itself to pull up and distribute that cold water through cooling ducts throughout the structure.

They were also planning to desalinate seawater, so such a system would perform the double duty of pulling that seawater into the building.

1. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-i-admire-saudi-arabi...

2. https://os.copernicus.org/articles/16/149/2020/
I'm not super familiar with Datasette but to a certain extent it does seem like you already implemented some sort of sqlite daemon over http? Is it fair to say Datasette is "like postgrest but for sqlite"? When I was thinking of using sqlite for bg jobs that's the kind of thing I wanted to avoid, but maybe you are already there :-)

In case it helps, I've been investigating bg jobs too and saw a bunch of resources that can be helpful. One is a hn post about a job queue on top of pg [0] that has some cool pointers. Someone mentioned the "transactional outbox" pattern [1]. Separately, I found this video about implementing a work queue with Nats JS [2].

I suspect you could implement the outbox pattern in Datasette and provide a way to offload the jobs to any external queue, but Nats/JS seems nice since it provides all the building blocks to implement "exactly once" delivery, dead letter queue, hearbeats to ensure the workers completes the work, etc, and it is very easy to run. I think it could save you a lot of the tricky work of implementing all these features with SQL(ite).

The overall design would be something like:

def trigger():
"""Enqueue a job transactionally: either fully succeeds or fully fails.
job_id = transaction {
job_data = ...
enque job_data into outbox
}
# This can fail but no biggie, you will still need to poll in case of failure,
# so no jobs will be created without their backing data, and no jobs will be dropped.
transaction { remove job_id and send to nats }

def background_poll():
"""Poll the outbox in case we succeeded in inserting into the outbox but somehow failed to deliver to the queue."""
try periodically { transaction { remove from outbox and send to nats } }

... then in another process or processes, the workers would talk to nats/js to perform the work.

Elsewhere someone described a job system that only relied on a database without support of events (that is, not pg), and required creating a sessions table to ensure workers complete the jobs, etc [3]. This is the kind of thing that I think could be simplified by using nats/js or another external job queue.

--

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38349716

1: https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox....

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jp3tyCGMZs

3: https://forum.cockroachlabs.com/t/how-to-implement-a-work-qu...
I find your second paragraph especially interesting, do you have a source (e.g. a book) to get deeper into this?
Wait, you’re blaming them for developing their country because it’s a desert and hot?

Are you suggesting they should have just remained on camels while sand blows around them?
But opinions don't matter here. If you are logical and factual, that city as vaporware from the beginning.
You don't need the many debunks available online to see that this project is unfeasible, whether you are talking budget, architecture, maintenance or transportation.
So, you wish to sabotage the very people who get you a paycheck? This is not a wise long term survival strategy.
Sure, worthless filler images is something that AI can do.

But these jobs never existed in first place, that generic art is done by contractors who charge for the materials.
My take is that after something becomes sufficiently popular and mainstream, for a lot of people who want to be seen as innovative, the only way is to lash out against it. See all the articles on how hellishly bad agile, php or javascript is. A lot of criticism is valid of course, but that is irrelevant in the larger scheme of things - there is a reason they became what they are today.
I never thought much of Van Gogh’s work until my sister recommended I read Irving Stone’s novel Lust for Life. I loved it and did a deeper dive on Van Gogh and his contemporaries. Now, he’s one of my favorite artists.

For me, one problem with AI art is that there isn’t context for any of it. It’s just there and didn’t come from anywhere.

Eventually, some prompt engineer may build up a coherent body of work that is moving or provocative, but we aren’t there yet.
Who said anything about America? There are aspects of society in the Middle East that are different and bad. You don't have to be a moral absolutist to prefer that people not be stoned for adultery. And you can't assume that Muslims on average have a "deep sense of pride and duty" about the way their society is run. Sure some do, but they're not aliens with some higher form of existence, they're humans just like you and usually just worry about their day-to-day and believe a lot of things because that's what everyone around them seems to believe, just like Americans who like Protestantism and capitalism.
>I dislike it and prefer natural cool air.

Okay.
You mean circle -> disk.
Right, it's only $1.

Plus the time to learn a few modprobe commands. Perhaps run a few commands echoing numbers to random sysfs files. Perhaps learn WTF a 'Device Tree Overlay' is - a concept that's completely absent on x86 systems. You see, this is an 'I2C' device, so it doesn't plug and play like USB and PCIe devices do. It is much simpler, and hence for some reason more difficult. Perhaps your device tree overlay needs to be complied? Or maybe not. Perhaps you'll edit your modules file and your kernel command line. Of course that won't involve update-grub, why would you think that?

Don't forget to periodically check on your settings, just in case an OS update or something has disabled one of those settings.

Oh and of course you won't be able to fully test this over SSH, if the network is up NTP will have set your clock whether the RTC is set up right or not. As we've learned from the article, if you run into clock problems you might not be able to connect remotely.

Then simply invent a time machine so you can do all of this in the past, before the pi SD card fails and it drops off the network.
If you read historical political discourses in France regarding the colonies, it's easy to see why the British were far better than the French. There was a lot of talk about bringing the light of civilizations to those poor colonies so, in general, they pretty much tore down the existing administrations and instead recreated their own administration from the top up.

The British strategy was far more pragmatic, they kept the local powers in place and played each of them against each other to maintain control over the colonies.

Of course, I'm generalizing but there's a clear difference of ideology that I do think explain the differences between the French and British when it came to managing their colonial empire.
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Hey HN,

As an afternoon project, I created a simple tool that generates regex expressions from plain text using GPT-3.5.

It's designed to help anyone who needs to quickly create regex patterns without manually writing them
I'm using 400 for everything, to the hell with it.
Hatsune Miku has more in common with Gorillaz than AI slop.
> To say they’ll be poor again without oil is simply ignorant

I wanted to reply "But Sheikh Mohammed himself said so!" but then trying to back up my claim I realized it's false. [0] It's amazing how many false things we take for granted just because they align with our world-view (and make a good story).

[O] https://factcheck.afp.com/sheikh-mohammed-did-not-say-great-...
And you would get nice automatic completion when doing object name, dot, and waiting for the IDE to list all possible methods. This was exploratory programming, the copilot of its time.
As others have mentioned, Google does client side rendering. What I was told by SEO people in my previous role (unverified otherwise) is that there's essentially a CPU budget per site, and while you can client-side render, it takes more of that CPU budget. For a small site this may be fine, for a large site with many pages it may prevent frequent re-crawls of the site. That said, I gather the budget is not the same for all sites, but varies by other factors. As I said, unverified, but it makes sense and seems like a good way to do it.
> Using multiple keys don't offer added security or secrecy.

Why wouldn't it?

I've got a chinesium grade tablet with some very convenient features, but between self-reenabling background services, the completely bypassed permission system, the device crashing whenever adb is used, it still trying to access wifi networks after deleting them and "resetting" the system, ..., I'm pretty sceptical about the privacy of the data, you can encrypt after it gets synced to their cloud.

I dont have any email accs I care about added to this device, but I can imagine some people wanting to read some emails on other lesser trusted devices.

A simple solution would be giving lesser trusted devices only access to lower security keys.
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