skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I have no problem with history podcasts (especially episodes about computing history), I just think they chose a poor lens for the subject matter. The military-industrial complex's influence on computing? Incredibly germane. But, and this is just how I heard it:

> You know, the most disturbing part of the history of AI for me comes from the fact that these men who were working in artificial intelligence looked at those massive, noisy, hot mainframe computers and saw themselves in it. They looked at them and identified a deep affinity that there was something fundamentally shared between their minds and these machines.

> White men wanted to call themselves universal and produce themselves in the machine.

> I think underneath all of that arrogance and hubris is a real lack of faith in people.

> And what I have always found so shocking about the Turing test is that it reduces intelligence to telling a convincing lie, to putting on the performance of being something that you're not.

> ...And in effect, replace God with science?

To me, it felt as if the piece was dripping with contempt for people that actually started the work on the basis that they were nerds with the wrong identity.
I play this game with my XM radio. On First Wave, I listen until they play The Police, then I switch to Lithium and listen until they play Foo Fighters. I cycle back and forth constantly.
Because Boeing did not actively try to hide the design flaw they knew about as they did with the 737 Max
While I do agree to some extent, and I’m grateful for what we have here, I think it’s important to call out that we are largely moderated by the community (flagging, downvoting) and still relatively conservative about what is able to be discussed. Pretty much any controversial concept related to anything going on in USA politics is going to get shut down.
Life and death kinda difference innit
Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
This site alone has links to 6k personal sites - https://aboutideasnow.com/
It's hard to read

> I was giving a lecture on genealogy and reparations in Amite, Louisiana, when I met Mae Louise Walls Miller. Mae walked in after the lecture was over, demanding to speak with me. She walked up, looked me in the eye, and stated, “I didn’t get my freedom until 1963.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/437573/blacks-were-enslaved-...

It's an unspeakable evil. The "statute of limitations" on sins of the fathers is "until atonement".
You know what, you are right. Going beyond just the fragmentation, there’s too much (Linux) cruft on top of (Unix) cruft on top of (POSIX) cruft. Complexity leading to diminishing returns in every effort to modernize the system. Unironically, let’s throw away all the historical cruft and build a new OS, with a Nix-like package manager, TheseusOS-like architecture and only 6 processes visible when I run htop after a clean install, all with clear descriptions: Services Manager (systemd), Display Manager, Desktop Environment, Connections (WiFi/Bluetooth) Manager, Audio Manager, Power Manager. A desktop OS that is intelligible by its user.
from 6 years ago... it's simple... the booksstore has always been used as a money laundering operation.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/fake-books-sol...
Except if one of the intentional faults gets through people could die.
And this is another area they're part of the problem. Not only do they have a resale platform, they've also been caught placing tickets directly on the resale market.

https://pitchfork.com/news/live-nation-admits-placing-concer...
He's right. The design should be integrated on small piece by small piece. You can have an overall vision. But don't change it all at once.
On one of my other comment threads someone told me how the world is "so much better then any point in history" :). I'm not sure I believe that.

I think in general being able to have these conversations means that we can progress slowly. It's tough recently, cause we've definitely regressed a lot. It would definitely help if the internet weren't effective at telling us only what we want to hear. I guess, in general I think the problem is we aren't actually able to progress discussions.

So my original wording "pick up where we left off" was wrong. We can already do that, we just can't move on from there. I think if we can figure out how to do that without hitting each other then maybe the problems would get fixed.
> I find to be absurd

It's not intuitive, but it's what decades of behavioral genetics studies say. Adoptees have much stronger correlations with their biological parents than with the parents that adopted them (in all socially meaningful metrics: intelligence, income, etc.). Monozygotic twins correlate much stronger than dizygotic twins, etc.
Yes? They already do this at music venues to card people for putting wristbands or Xs on their hands.
This is an interesting perspective that I very much agree with (also being an immigrant), I feel there is this constant bashing on the country, and for what I can tell (at least in my circle), is citizens most of the time. I have found the US to be the easiest place to make it (and by far) of any other that I have been to, but they rather remove any ounce of responsibility from their own citizens for... their own doing.
By all means! I enjoyed your article here, and I will keep an eye on Oso on the future. Authorization has become a hobby horse of mine, and I always appreciate people who are thinking about the complexity required to meet real-world needs.
Sadly the technology for these scams is also very useful for legitimate new self-published authors. How much gatekeeping do we really want? I would think the review system would weed out the junk.

So here is a recent example of modern publishing:

I've been reading things on r/hfy.. which I don't think anyone would argue is high quality literature, but the stories are fun and the premiss of the entire genre works as background structure. One of the better stories is "Nature of Predators" by SpacePaladin15.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/u19xpa/the_nature_of_p...

Ok, so the author wants to publish on Amazon, no big deal these days, here it is:

https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Predators-Book-One/dp/B0CQ5QNW...

(I would argue that the reddit experience is actually better, because there are reader comments after each chapter. Where did the cover art come from? I don't know..)

What about the passive income? Well he's making $6K a month on Patreon. Maybe not passive since he's working on the sequel..

Well, how about an audiobook? Well patreon.com/Adastra650 has made it into an excellent audiobook on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm8OjwhOz-FZG_M_A1u9d...

Some of the voices are AI generated, but they are not bad.. it has me curious what software is used. The thumbnails are also AI.

All significant books require a page on TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheNatureO...

Naturally the story has grown out of HFY, has its own subreddit for fans and fanfiction:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/

Naturally there is a NSFW version:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureOfPredatorsNSFW/

The Silo series (or Wool Omnibus) had similar beginnings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(series)
So just to be clear: you think "it is very likely" or "he might" are absolutist statements?

Is that what you're saying?
If there is a clear monopoly. It is LiveNation. Ticket master is robbery in daylight. Those jank fees. Oh man, they have no shame.
First Project That I Am Building in Public
Can anyone from Canada comment if the "would come into effect on June 25, 2024" would apply on the date of sale of the stock, or on the date of purchase.

If it is the former, then wouldn't that trigger some sell-offs in big gainers?

If it is the latter, the the effect would seem much more muted, and not as immediate.
Hey cool, I appreciate it!
>It's funny but I notice how many of the liberals pushing against left-wing extremism are Jewish. Jonathan Haidt comes to mind, but there are many others (who currently escape me).

Scott Aaronson and Scott Alexander come to mind. Also Edward Blum, though he's more of a "classical liberal" than a liberal in the modern sense.
When I was researching what SD card to use for a camera product a few years ago, Samsung's high-endurance cards were by far the best bang for the buck endurance-wise. The choice ultimately came down to Samsung "PRO Endurance" / 820 TBW / $20, versus SanDisk "MAX ENDURANCE" / 719 TBW / $31. In short, the SanDisk cards were a lot more expensive for a worse product.

It looks like the price of the SanDisk cards have come down a bit since then, but are still more expensive for worse specs than the Samsung cards.
The wind tunnel model reminds me of the SR-71.
Sigbovik 2024 [pdf]
I live in a very liberal part of America.

Wokeness is not popular with anybody.

20% of America is outraged, 60% is willing to give woke media a try as long is it’s entertaining and not too preachy, 15% gives extra points for “representation” but still wants a good story, and 5% thinks it doesn’t go far enough.

Part of this is generational.

In the workplace, I suspect “representation” is a proxy for age discrimination.

I’ve seen too many old white men pushed aside for much, much, much younger minorities.

Seems like thats happening at NPR.
> such data will rapidly become as precious as 'low background steel'.

I'm also totally not convinced by this argument.

Synthetic data as an input to a careful training regimen will result in better outputs, not worse, because you're still subjecting the model to optimization and new information. Over time you can pull out the worse performing (original and synthetic) training data. That careful curation is the part that makes the difference.

It's like DNA in the chemical soup. It's been replicating polymers since the beginning, but in the end intelligence arises. It didn't need magical ingredients. When you climb a gradient, it typically takes you somewhere better.
There are a ton of other userChrome fix repos. I've gotten rid of my tab bar entirely and replaced it with a sidebar addon. Unfortunately my css seems to break with every other Firefox release.

I really wish Firefox would make the UI more stable and make user chrome mods some kind of plugin system where I can pick and choose how to deeply customize the interface.
As the parent of two teenage boys who use Discord to chat to their gamer friends...

I agree LOL
I always wonder which of these smaller sauropods are really just juveniles. Why don't we find any juveniles of the big ones?
Lots of music venues in NY use an app called "DICE", Eventbrite is also a thing
Thank you for saying this. I spent a few years living outside the USA and it helped me deeply understand the positivity and opportunity life in USA can offer. It’s a special thing and I hope we can keep it that way for many decades to come
"betwixt" => twix => tvix

(kindof like tuh-veeex run together)

...as the candy bar etymology in their logo implies.
The paper says the environment is "browser compatible" but I don't see any in-browser demos we can try. Do you know of one?
I'm not sure if you can assert control over use of your own public expression.

Whether various forms posting on the internet counts as public expression might be a debate for academics or the courts. I would guess posting here counts as being public.

Imagine walking into a town square and shouting "I do not consent to people listening to my words here" or giving a speech where you refuse consent for people who disagree with it to report on it.
Not artists. Venue owners, yes. Artists, no.

Venue owners have a choice of ticket sellers, artists do not.
It's a tangent.

I am curious if we query the data to give us temperature at a given time for all lat n long and plot it geo spatially , would the result give anything on heat distribution of energy received across the lat and long at that point in time?
If you can convince yourself that something is a struggle for survival you can sustain it indefinitely. It’s part of our physiology
I tried German, but everything seemed to be lowercase even though the words.js on github seems to be fine regarding the special German capitalization.

Anyway, cool stuff. I once learned some latin by coding a simple program in C for terminal usage, basically just asking what is this word called, the wordlist file was specified as a command line argument. It was great and highly effective to memorize small chunks of words at a time. I still remember all those complex terms, so at least for me this type of learning works. This looks promising.
Show HN: Vignette – Image generation and animation with LLMs(not diffusion etc.)
I like to explore hidden capabilities of language models (LLMs), and I've been exploring how good text generation models are at media generation .

In this case, the experiment was, can we hack together a text-to-image/animation app from basic text generation models (not image generation/diffusion models)?

Turns out Claude API is pretty useful for generating images and animations. My theory is Claude is really good with XML (the underlying format for SVG) and thus enabling this specific use case. I haven’t tried with other LLMs but didn’t have much luck with Gemini so far.

Code open source, and demos on my repo: https://github.com/notnotrishi/vignette/

Feel free to try it for yourself or leave any notes. Thanks!
>Pretty much any controversial concept related to anything going on in USA politics is going to get shut down.

Good! USA politics are so ridiculous and toxic, it's better to have a place that's free of all that garbage. However, I don't agree that these discussions get "shut down": I see Americans posting their libertarian, gun-fetish stuff here all the time.
Not sure how relevant it is to compare the poor in the USA to the poor in Europe.

The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most European Nations: https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-ric... Although averages are a dangerous measure to use and I guess the article is wrong for other reasons (I think it is talking about consumption). The study and article are in response to the crazy OECD poverty measurements: "OECD measure assigns a higher poverty rate to the US (17.8 percent) than to Mexico (16.6 percent). Yet World Bank data show that 35 percent of Mexico’s population lives on less than $5.50 per day, compared to only 2 percent of people in the United States."

I'm in New Zealand, where we have some social support for the unfortunate. Disclaimer: I'm very ignorant of conditions for the poor in the US and Europe.
Here's a grim example where being poor leads to being more expensive. An $80 tooth extraction would have avoided $250,000 in hospital care costs.

https://perspectivesofchange.hms.harvard.edu/node/165
I wonder if it has parallels to the Salem Witch Hunt? If they spend x/2% of their time accusing others of being racist, they must expend x/2% "uplifting blacks" so they cannot be accused of it as well.
Here's a close up of one of the drones caught in a net.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraina/comments/1b7x09k/%D0%BC%D0%...

Doesn't look quite like a MQ-1 Predator, does it...
Fluent: Algorithmic Chaining Library for Slice Manipulation in Zig
Bands with the clout and fans lined up down the block the day before ticket sales open (e.g. Radiohead, The Cure, Pearl Jam) can do these things, and I'm glad they do. For the vast majority of acts– even well-known ones– it's absolutely not an option.
All of that is fiction.
Show HN: LaterOn.email – Let's make a newsletter sexy again
Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam
Looks impressive. I wish something, anything, could compete with CUDA.
And some examples: https://ziggit.dev/t/fluent-algorithmic-chaining-library-for...
I agree with the feeling.
These should have been public conversations, like the forums discord "killed".
How does one address racist policies without discussing race? That's a knot I can't tie myself into.
This is a great point, and exactly analogous to waypoints used in aviation navigation, mostly for departure and approach patterns.
we're going into 1 trillion dollars of interest PAYMENT debt every 100 days.

I don't think the rich people will be the ones who pay the price for this.
Our goal is for people to continue being the ones making the music. You'll still come to our site to see XYZ's newest release, it will just be more of a collaboration with AI, similar to how artists collaborate with each other and producers right now.
> Maybe LLMs can write truly “unbiased” news articles

“bias” only exists relative to a desired result. There is no such thing as “unbiased”.

(Also, and closely related, LLM’s reproduce the biases of those creating them, and the more control we have over LLM’s, the more closely they will do so.)
Those guys (and Brooks, Stephens) represent a moribund strain of conservatism with zero organic support. They speak for spooks and think tanks, nobody else. They provide diversity in the same way that the Washington Generals play basketball.

I think publications like Unherd, Compact, and of course Taki's Mag have their fingers closer to the pulse. I don't endorse the contents and can't even vouch for the quality of the writing, but it's not an ideological dead-end in the way the NYT, Atlantic, and National Review are.
The lengths that people would go to avoid paying those marginal tax rates was legendary!

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nocera-tax-avoidance-...

There were also a lot of 'perks' paid for by companies, and a lot of spouses who didn't bother working.

You can have a high marginal tax rate, but it tends to be economically counterproductive.
COV was the entity that solid it. cPB was behind the TV stations, PBS and NPr.
It's my understanding that the ${hash}-${name} order is actually intended to help with tab completion, but from a different direction; if you already know the first couple chars of the hash, you can quickly tab-complete it, instead of using the less-unique name. I mean, I don't think that's the order I would have picked either, but there is logic behind it.
A Turf War Erupts in Washington Heights as Parents Protest Synthetic Grass
Rather than looking at USA as Scandinavian county, imagine living in some of the counties in the global south. The competition for good jobs is so intense that you’ll work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. You won’t miss work if you’re sick or have a family event because then somebody else gets your job. Culturally second chances don’t exist, and you’re the only chance your children have to get through school (because you have to pay for it) and for your parents to retire in peace (because they live with you and you care for them). Heaven forbid you get sick. There’s barely a regulatory system for doctors. The doctor takes your temperature but wasn’t trained to sanitize the thermometer correctly. You are now double sick and don’t have somewhere safe to isolate because your rented home has 2 rooms and no ability to ventilate. Your family is now sick, and your children’s school has no mercy for missing class. The children have to compete in complicated exams to even have the sliver of a chance to land themselves in a good university. Otherwise, they’re just gonna live in your footsteps. Oh and don’t take out a loan, because when you do and somehow your entire contact list lands in your lenders hands, every contact on the list will hear about your debt for the next several months.

I’m just demonstrating here but this is an example of the stressful life many people around the world are living. We are blessed to be in the USA.
I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief because there will be so much to look forward to.
Seems to have done a ton, based on the amount of support and aid?
They could stop it from going out to the customer
The post invoked disinformation. And having lived through it - and being a NPR and PBS fan at the time, I can tell you the vast majority of the sales where to democratic organizations before a whistle blower went to the press.

Regardless, know you know. And knowing is half the battle.
Seconding this. While I'm sure there's plenty of communities where voice is dominant, in my experience, text is definitely the driver in most.
I heard that polynesians, when asked (in the context of setting out on deadly journeys in wooden boats) "how did you know there would be land there" said "we read the waves".

They could see from the patterns in the waves, thousands of miles away, where the land masses were.

>insert joke about training neural networks

(If anyone knows the original quotes, please post below.)
The upgrade is actually remarkably similar.

RX7600 and RX7600XT have 8GB or 16GB attached to a 128-bit bus.

RX7900XT and W7900 have 24GB or 48GB attached to a 384-bit bus.

Neither upgrade changes the bus width, only the memory chips.

The two upgraded models even use the same memory chips, as far as I can tell! GDDR6, 18000MT/s, 2GB per 16 pins. I couldn't confirm chip count on the W7900 but it's the same density.
UI fiddling is what you do when out of ideas.

I would expect no less from a developer forum.
It is not really die-and-repeat, but die-and-meaningfully-progress even though you seemingly start from the same place. It's so unlike metroidvanias and other stuff you mentioned that I'm wondering if we are talking about the same game.

It is absolutely an adventure game - aside from some arcade elements - you solve puzzles throughout entire game and you retain progress once you've solved them.
Yeah, I wasn't really endorsing the program, just pointing out that "history doesn't belong in news" is a weird critique (not yours) of a history program.
Use sidebar tabs. Most websites don't use the full width of your screen. So, it makes total sense to put tabs in the sidebar, instead of them taking up valuable vertical screen state.
Boeing would lock non-conforming parts in a cage so there is no chance they will be accidentally used. Unfortunately, managers would overrule an inspector and get the parts released for use
> Also concerning is the fact that most users have no idea that anything they type (including on hacker news!) is likely going to be ...

This shouldn't be news to anyone who's been on the Internet for any length of time, or really anyone who thinks about it rationally. I'm really not sure "most users" don't realize this.
I wouldn’t wish a forced-read of that guy’s bio on my worst enemy. (But I did just send it to all my close friends.)
I mean, that is one assumption you could make.
I thought the visualization was awful. Prose and some (non-animated) charts would do a much better job, and suit scrolling/scanning back and forth much better.
That's still not a reason for the government to not bust up their rackets. It's about time someone stepped up and did something. I was hoping would be state based like Texas or California, but I'll take action from the feds I guess.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran want to kill Jews indiscriminately, so they don't need to use machine learning to designate suspects. There are so many posts about Israeli "genocide" in this forum that don't acknowledge that Israel has enemies that want to wipe it off the map.
Don't forget that space elevators need more than brute strength: they need to be immune to all sorts of cosmic radiation and space debris, they presumably need to be electrically conductive since the elevator carriage will need a lot of power to travel upwards a few thousand KMs before their passengers starve to death, they need to be robust against the elevator carriage's friction, and probably a few other things.
It is, although it disproportionately affects people who are poor but not broke. If you’re truly broke, there’s Medicaid, if you’re old there’s Medicare, 4% by some form of military healthcare, many people covered by their employers, and so on. 90% of Americans are insured.

As a Britisher, obviously I’m in favour of universal healthcare, and I think the US system would benefit from it. But let’s not pretend it’s perfect there either
You assert that bias implies leaving out information. That is false.