skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won’t comment on culture but it is a fact that the majority of working Saudis work in bullshit government jobs where they basically collect paychecks for free, and actual labor is overwhelmingly performed by cheap migrant workers, no? Or is my information out of date? That’s an arrangement you can’t find anywhere outside the Gulf, to my knowledge.
We are too dependent on their oil.
Straw man argument. I was refuting the back alley execution if that’s what you are getting at
> It's impossible to walk anywhere.

That is fair. I guess my comparison is San Diego (where I grew up) and Mexico, where I lived all of my adult life until moving to Dubai in 2022.

The city is building a new metro line and improving on walkability as new neighborhoods of high population density pop up. It will still be very focused on shopping malls with AC because of the heat during the summers. Official records of real estate transactions have a data point for "closest shopping mall" for a reason.
Even the stuff bought legitimately is stashed away in tax-friendly warehouses, maybe never to be seen by human eyes again

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/design/one-of-the-wo...
Fallout Boy did it better

https://youtu.be/2LkVKCWL0U4
I'd pay money for a non-smooth scrolling option in Android (like the PageDown key).
Clearly not since even the middle class in the US holds trillions in wealth and the vast majority did it through work.
Hard disagree. I don't think anyone considers that, unless they're an art critic, a philosopher, or a snob.

For a normal person, whether something is art or not, is a mix of 1) whether they like it, 2) whether they can, or conceivably could, enjoy it together with other people, and 3) whether they're supposed to enjoy it or call it art, because other people claim they do (social proof).

Examples:

- Pop songs are strongly 1, 2 and 3a (enjoyment), but not necessarily 3b (considered High Art). Most people don't care, or couldn't even tell, if the songs they like were written and performed by actual humans or by machines; they experience them through some machine anyway.

- Paintings. I recently visited a Van Gogh exhibition, and I can't honestly say I liked most of it. Most paintings, in general, are ugly. We call them art because we're supposed to call some paint scribbles on a canvas art, particularly when they're framed and put in a museum (as opposed to bought off the street!) and decreed Art by People In Authority Over What Is or Isn't Art. For this exhibit in particular, my ability to enjoy the paintings was proportional to how much I knew about Vincent van Gogh's life - for those paintings I had some context for, I enjoyed them even though they're otherwise pretty bad to me. But most people, most of the time, don't have any context for paintings they're viewing, and they still call them art.

Hell, arguably, the best "paintings" in that exhibit were a couple that were obviously AI-generated - like Vincent wearing VR goggles, or animated Vincent inviting the patrons to the exhibit.

Nah, what I think is death of art for regular people is quantity and personalization. The most important aspect of day-to-day art experience is that you can enjoy it together with people around you. It's a problem for TV shows and books these days, and even more with "Internet original" videos - there's just so many of them, and with everyone's getting their own personalized feed, it's getting hard to find common creative works you and your conversational partners both seen. Everyone's experience is becoming disjoint from everyone else's (except for occasional superhero or wizard movie) - at which point you eventually realize that enjoying unique art no one else has is pointless waste of life.
Could it be racism?
The creators recently announced that they’ve gotten funding to do a 2.0! https://chaos.social/@blinry/111011979500389143

Also, it’s made in Godot, and whilst an older versiob of the engine, I’ve found it a valuable codebase for a couple of things. I particularly like how they deal with level creation, their file format for custom levels is very KISS.
I read that during the first run, it will be slower because of the crystal code being compiled. Is the compiled code stored somewhere?

I am asking this because in that case, can’t I run it myself and share the code with the precompiled parts so others don’t have to experience the slow start?
I feel like music will be much easier then text. Highly complicated texts will be easier to spot inconsistencies, where with songs it's pretty common to have a high margin of errors/linguistic interpertation making it a much better candidate for current approach of generative ai.
> The only non-theoretical use of a PGP encryption key is email.

I use a backup application that encrypts my backups using PGP.

Granted, that certainly doesn't require a published public key. But your assertion is incorrect.
Yea that's where I've landed. Telling it what to do is time consuming.

Telling it what I want to do in a broader term and asking for code examples is a lot better., especially for something I don't know how to do.

Otherwise the autocomplete/suggestions in the editor is great for the minutia and tedious crap and utility functions. Probably saves me about 20% typing which is great on hands that have typing for 20 odd years.

It's also good for finding tools and libraries (when it doesn't hallucinate) since https://libs.garden disappeared inexplicably (dunno what to do on Friday nights now that I can't browse through that wonderful site till 2am)
It wasn't inspired but thanks for the link! If I had known of the device notification integration, I would have just used that instead of trying to roll my own logic :D
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Choose your preferred software license for lyrics if you want substance
> You could also move to New Zealand

Might work for a short while, but in NZ we have our own deficit problem partly due to an aging population and when a lefty government is in they will want to take your wealth away.

And be careful what you wish for: a lot of people wanting the wealthy to be taxed seem to forget how wealthy they are compared to the majority of the world.

Governments tell you to save for your retirement but then want to take your savings (whether you are ultra-wealthy or just a careful saver)
Badger, badger, badger badger, badger, badger badger, badger, badger badger, badger, badger, mushroom, mushroom!
Bit of an oversimplification though, no one would look at Postgres and go “it’s just a couple lookup tables put together”
"WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY" is phrased in a stunning way for an AI. Between that and "the software" whisper, it's truly impressive.
Then need to put license for the song as well… endless cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scu8bz1yM4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoAbXwr3qkg

https://mikuexpo.com/

That's the thing about art: when people make general statements like this one, others will go on to create things purely to see what's outside the box.
> "never use this pgp key unless you've spoken to me in person?"

Well, yes, actually, that is what I would expect. (Well, not necessarily in person, but via a different communication channel, even by unencrypted email.)

I remember when I was first playing around with PGP more than 20 years ago. The usual convention was to talk to the other party first about encrypting your messages, and not to assume that the recipient could receive and decrypt them in all circumstances.
Are people going to start doing GETs like on an image board?
Same base model, all have the same pronunciation issues.
TRIZ: What Makes Samsung Such an Innovative Company?
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Most of the discussions about AI applied to coding end up having someone who states that it's just not worth it (at least the moment) and someone else who then chimes in to say that they mostly use it for "boilerplate" code.

I have trouble understanding the "boilerplate" thing because avoiding writing boilerplate is

1) already a solved "problem" long before AI

2) is it really a "problem"?

The first point:
* If you find yourself writing the same piece of code over and over again in the same code it's the indication that you should abstract it away as a function / class / library.

* IDEs have had snippets / code completion for a long time to save you from writing the same pieces of code.

* Large piece of recycled functionalities are generally abstracted away in libraries of frameworks.

* Things like "writing similar static websites a million times" are the reason why solutions like WordPress exist: to take away the boilerplate part of writing websites. This of course applies to solutions / technologies / services that make "avoid writing boilerplate code" their core business

* The only type of real boilerplate that comes to my mind are things like "start a new React application" but that is a thing you do once per project and it's the reason why boostrappers exist so that you only really have to type "npx create-react-app my-app" once and the boilerplate part is taken care of.

The second point:
Some mundane refactoring / translations of pieces of code from one technology to the other can actually be automated by AI (I think it's what you're talking about here, but how often does one really do such tasks?), but... Do you really want to? Automate, it, I mean?

I mean, yes "let AI do the boring staff so that I can concentrate on the most interesting parts" make sense, but it's not something I want to do. Maybe it's because I'm aging, but I don't have it in me to be concentrated on demanding, difficult, tiring tasks 8 hour straight a day. It's not something that I can and it's also something that I don't want to.

I much prefer alternating hard stuff that require 100% of my attention with lighter tasks that I can do while listening to a podcast and steam off in order to rest by brain before going back to a harder task.
Honestly I don't think anyone is supposed to be concentrated on demanding stuff all day long all week long. That's the recipe for a burnout.
> The only thing the Gulf states have going for them is oil money and a good hub location on the Europe–Southeast Asia

Do they need anything more? And you mentioned airplanes, but you failed to mention logistics more generally and container shipping, with Jebel Ali port being the third largest (behind LA and Rotterdam) in a list that would exclude East Asia and Singapore. [1] There's also tourism because, yes, people are actually paying money in order to visit places like Dubai, and that's because they like what they see there.

And then there's finance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_container_port...?
This thing you are doing is called a "Markov chain", search it up and read about it.
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ZK: A plain text note-taking assistant
That's absolutely bad experience. Have been a "lecturer" myself. I knew my students. After doing it years after years, I knew all the sources (*) and also have accumulated enough experience and language sensitivity to identify where the guys writing theirs and where they used the wordings of others (**)

* Nowadays, the youngs can't use Google properly.

Student: "Can you tell me a few sources, I didn't find anything on that topics in Internet"
Me: "really? .. that's a problem! Because there aren't so many sites, indeed. Try it with the following words ... in Google and just take the three first results"
(I must admit, The whole Internet is full of this topic!)

** The structure of sentences, the words used. Most of the time, they try not to use the same words for the same thing repeatedly and try to sound keen and professional - but that doesn't align with their other parts of text. So, identifying such parts and taking the overall language expression capabilities of the writer, it's quite fast possible to know whether it's a not disclosed citation of others or their own thinking.

I would recognize if it's written by Generative.
Just an email asking for clarification sent to the student and his reply shows the abilities and expressiveness :)
I don't know, something around 1 to 3 per day for the last 7 years maybe, I read and write papers as a living.. I never really had any problem.. I mostly have issues with epub like formats..

Of course tts is a different beast, but.. Try to read science in general with tts.. It doesn't make sense.. And you need time to process each sentence and put it into context.. So even with reflow, tts would be a nightmare for science content.
A linear city gives you more opportunities for expansion. A disc one needs to be planned well from the start, but it's difficult to account for future needs.
For me, the most important differences are support for cbt (tar) comic books, a file system style browser and the end-of-file prompt to open the next file.
Sadly you could say the same of the 80% in just about anything human-made. The 80% of software, music, furniture, etc.

Maybe there will be a change of feeling, it's starting to come to me, instead of seeing this AI generated content as "soulless" etc I'm starting to see it as an extension of OUR human generated work. It's more like an endless remix of HUMAN talent.

All of that is boring though. The exciting stuff is all that will be displaced, and how we will solve the myth or meritocracy.
Wanting to generate a song about a deceased cat named "boef" (crook), getting an error it's an artist name and not allowed, as well as using the name of a family member, also getting an error message.

Wanted to make a cool personalized song for a kid.

Hahaha they can never take over the music world with this pious bs.
It will depend on the person, but I think generally speaking, a song is but one aspect of an artist / the art of music; if you're a mass consumer that just has something playing in the background, it probably doesn't make a jot of difference (consider also "muzak" / elevator music), but if you're more of an active listener you may look into and enjoy the story behind the music and the artist as well.

Personally I think knowing the story behind music makes it better. The music isn't to everyone's taste, but for example Devin Townsend's wiki page / story is a trip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Townsend
If you want to learn more about e-ink ereaders/tablets etc, I suggest this youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@goodereader/videos

____

My problem with the e-ink devices is that they still require the same chips/battery/etc as any other tablet, but provide a much limited display to use... so you spend the same money for less.

What we need is some sort of dual display system, maybe a display that can switch between OLED and E-Ink layer... or literally have two displays (Colour E-Ink on the back maybe) so that one can the same processors/storage etc and not have a "waste" (also fewer devices to carry).
> compared to other high income countries

Ackshually go back to your list and tell me which high income countries do worse than the USA. Do you struggle with reading comprehension or something?
Mass use of guided bombs driving Russian advances, says Ukraine
Oho now i wonder if you could load them up on a hard drive[1] and just trigger playback of the right file using some physical token like an RFID tag or a tiny few-MB SD card, if you can even get them these days, with the ID on it. Or a QR code waved at the camera, with the DVD case artwork on the other side.

I just found out how annoying it is to have a two-way switch using smart switches and automation rules that used to be a bulletproof connection of two £3 switch faceplates: madcap computerised complexity to acheive things that used to be trivial is the future, man!

[1] Or a Plex-like server. Doesn't even need all the UI gubbins, just a video stream address that can be inferred from the token.
Give Udio a try perhaps. I've not tested its censoriousness, but the output seems to be well ahead.
If software patents were to become a good thing the duration of the patent should be very short.
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That doesn't sound right. Have you opened a support ticket with us so that we can look into what's happening? You can do it here: https://proton.me/support/troubleshooting?product=mail
I beg to differ, here's the nu metal version: https://suno.com/song/edea40ab-c41f-46e4-908f-a511b9ab311e

I almost feel compelled to take action against the corruption and crookedness.
I'm glad this is working for him, but for me this couldn't be that useful without persistent, long term, memory.
It doesn't get that hot up there in the corner of the country. 0s in the winter up to 40 in the summer but good point nonetheless
I was wondering what kind of rude word an 'agoda' is. Turns out it's a competing website to airbnb. How incredibly petty.
It's crazy how much the theft of The Just Judges is part of the local collective consciousness/imagination. Just about everybody in the wide Ghent area claims to know someone who knows for certain that it's buried beneath so-and-so's basement.
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You're technically correct in that the executions there are generally proudly done openly and often in public, and that backalley assassination of Khashoggi happened outside of the country.
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And had it for much much longer than GCC.
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I got it, you dislike middle east. Now, please, concentrate on my arguments again.
Ironically, USB SS is more implementable than USB HS without a dedicated PHY. USB SS's PHY is just standard CML differential signaling used for almost all modern high-speed protocols like PCIe or SATA (but with an LFPS extension for link negotiation), most FPGAs already have built-in support for it. Meanwhile USB HS's PHY is a completely non-standard one: it's LVDS-like but the signals are not fully differential, it's half-duplex and needs bus arbitration, etc - only USB HS PHYs speak this odd language.
Completely agree, but it seems to me there's a difference between "I like this, so I'm going to find out everything I can about who made it and why because I will enjoy it even more that way" and "I can't possibly like this unless I know who made it and why".
I've personally had so many issues with SD card corruption on raspberry pi's that I've decided it was a mistake to even allow SD card disks

I only ever use USB storage on my pi's now and not had a single issue since
This is the first AI song I've really wanted to keep with me on my phone.
If someone knows someone, we need a human performance of this!

Encore, encore!
I understand your points all too well and no doubt your arguments make sense.

"If those conflicts escalate to nuclear weapons then all bets are off."

Exactly, trouble is escalation can occur though some overly noisey side issue or one that's hardly related. In an ideal world a trigger point can be known, in a noisy one randomness makes the point much less certain.

My view is to do everything possible to keep well below that trigger point. Having as much margin as is possible is always a good idea.
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> Couldn't that element be self-sufficient on solar?

Night happens even in the desert. Plus what others said about wind. Here's video about a recent sandstorm: https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/dust-storm-sweeps-across...
Increasingly seems like they're coming from East Africa too, although it appears it may be at the behest of the government in some cases.

https://africanarguments.org/2024/03/go-gulf-is-ethiopia-sac...
The difference here is that no one wants to listen to this shit. It is extremely corny and generic. Cringeworthy.

Algorithmic music has already been around for decades and it never became popular. In the 90's it was of interest only to a small group of academic music nerds. The same is true today. Avant-garde shit for nerds. No one wants to listen to it.
You can use the "dropping a hash" method (patio11 has used this). As you progress your work, you publish a hash of it using a service trusted by everyone to correctly identify the researchers and timestamp their hashes.

If someone publishes the paper, you can then publish the files that resulted with the dropped hash and therefore prove you had certain progress of the work at a certain time.
Another way to do it is to keep the balances online. This is how something like Bitcoin works which is essentially one giant public ledger. It's a classic time/memory trade off.
Sure, just as tv shows use obvious CGI for animals, explosions etc - it's cheaper and more practical. Particularly background music that needs to be licensed for ads and such is very likely to be disrupted in the next few years.
I use synthetic aperture pair programming. I write some code and get it working. Then I get pulled off it for a few months and come back to it.

Me + 3 months: da fuk.
Technically yes, but I don't think (but haven't exactly confirmed) that you can initiate a new session to itself.
As someone who was working on Itanium systems at the time, I can confidently say that "consumers" never had a chance to choose Itanium. It was only available on server hardware and Windows ... will there as a version for it but it was slow ... all the compatibility and performance downsides of M1 Macs, and more power hungry too... practically no upside.

It is still a common belief Intel created the Itanium to fool the proprietary unix vendors into thinking they can stop developing their own RISC CPU, but as soon as it happened, Intel gave up on Itanium as well. Solaris lasted a little bit longer only because Sun gave up early on Itanium.
If taping a banana to the wall, or eating said banana is art, then I feel like making a machine sadly sing the MIT license to you has to qualify. The idea to do this is wonderful to me.
Ha - My brain automatically inserted it for some reason.
Did people ever expect any apart from the dopamine hits experienced during consumption when you find something that interests you?
Most of earth’s 8 billion people are unaware of (1) and shouldnt paint a whole region, I see only 2-3 gulf countries in the top 10 of (2) which painting the whole region for is convoluted reasoning. Not vested enough to decode 3 to see how it relates to hating a region.

In summary, there maybe reasons for an informed person to have an issue with a specific government, there is no reasonable reason to hate on countries because the are adjacent to a government you dislike and lastly the individuals in a country are free to live in reasonable temperatures with their own taste in buildings
Well, there is one to fast food: it's fast and uncomplicated to prepare.