skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now here's the next step in your small thought experiment. Expand income coming from for everything. Whatever you do now at the company (assuming you are working) where does that money come from? Work through the logic on income.

People love to demonize small property owners who have a rental property and take a moralistic campaign but don't look at how their own lives are funded.
https://old.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/search?q=dawkins&rest...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism#Criticisms

No one in the philosophy world takes the works of the New Atheists seriously. They are pop-culture writers, not serious philosophers (other than Daniel Dennett.)

If you want a serious thinker's thoughts on atheism, you are better off picking up a book by Nietzsche, Charles Taylor, David Bentley Hart, the Oxford Handbook of Atheism, or any other number of thinkers, or browsing the articles here: https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=atheism
Why are you conflating the extremely broken tipping culture/minimum wage system in the US and a multi-billion-dollar company's revenue strategy?
> Upscaling for gaming or video.
> Already exists on all three major GPU manufacturers, and it definitely makes sense as a GPU workload.
These AMD chips are APUs that are often the only GPU, not every user will have a dedicated GPU.

> Local context aware search
> You don't need an AI processor to do this, Windows search used to work better and had even less compute resources to work with.
You could still improve it with increased natural language understanding instead of simple keyword. “Give me all documents about dogs” instead of searching for each breed as a keyword.

> Offline Speech to text and TTS
> See my point about not a very common use case for desktops & laptops vs cell phones.
Maybe not for you but accessibility is a key feature for many users. You think blind users should suffer through bad TTS?

> Offline LLM that can work with your documents as context and access application and OS APIs
> Maybe for some sort of background task or only using really small models <13B parameters. Anything real time is going to run at 1-2t/s with a large model.
> Small models are pretty terrible though, I doubt people want even more incorrect information and hallucinations.
Small model have been improving and better capabilities in consumer chips will allow larger models to run faster.

> Improved enemy AI in gaming
> See Ageia PhysX
Surely you’re not suggesting that enemy AI is solved problem in gaming?

> Webcam effects like background removal or filters.
> We already have this without NPUs.
Sure but it could go from obvious and distracting to seamless and convincing.

> Audio upscaling and interpolation like for bad video call connections.
I could see this, or noise cancellation.
Another article I quite like about this (not paywalled!) https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalle...
even so.
it's not even great on laptops.

to be fair, HN is just as bad in terms of font size (too small), but at least it respects browser zoom which this website doesn't
Effortless API Creation and Management – generate production ready APIs
> For instance, just about every single person who resists arrest now also yells that they cannot breath. Then the cops ask if they need medical, which of course they say yes, simply to make things more difficult for the police (and waste taxpayer money to have an ambulance come out).

I don’t have any trouble believing that your social media feeds have rage bait videos that follow this pattern, but I’d remind you that the videos recommended to you are unlikely to be representative of reality.

Some feeds support narratives like “criminals lie and waste resources” whereas others show “cops lie and hurt people”, and what you see is strongly correlated with what will catch (and maintain) your attention.
For what it’s worth that is a bad vague principle
There is a recent story where they are attempting to preempt the creation of a monopoly in the grocery sector.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/investing/kroger-albertsons-m...
> Laura Farris, the minister for victims and safeguarding, said…

Instead of looking for those answers in the text of Farris’ summary of the law, we should look at the text of the law itself.

Edit: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3511/publications probably has the text we're looking for, somewhere.
Virtual reality sessions lessen cancer pain in clinical trial
UK becomes increasingly authoritarian every year. What a tragic and ignoble development for the nation that gave us the Manga Carta.
This is called “throttling”, no?
hey hn, supabase ceo here

As the post points out, this comes in 2 parts:

1. Embeddings models for RAG workloads (specifically pgvector). Available today.

2. Large Language Models for GenAI workloads. This will be progressively rolled out as we get our hands on more GPUs.

We've always had a focus on architectures that can run anywhere (especially important for local dev and self-hosting). In that light, we've found that the Ollama[0] tooling is really unbeatable. I heard one of our engineers explain it like "docker for models" which I think is apt.

To support models that work best with GPUs, we're running them with Fly GPUs - pretty much this: https://fly.io/blog/scaling-llm-ollama (and then we stitch a native API around it). The plan is that you will be able to "BYO" model server and point the Edge Runtime towards it using simple env vars / config.

We've also made improvements for CPU models. We built a native extension in Edge Runtime that enables using ONNX runtime via the Rust interface. This was made possible thanks to an excellent Rust wrapper, Ort[1]. We have the models stored on disk, so there is no downloading, cold-boot, etc.

The thing I most like about this set up is that you can now use Edge Functions like background workers for your Postgres database, offloading heavy compute for generating embeddings. For example, you can trigger the worker when a user inserts some text, and then the worker will asynchronously create the embedding and store it back into your database.

I'll be around if there are any questions.

[0] ollama.com

[1] Ort: https://github.com/pykeio/ort
There's precedent for that already, it is not blazing any new territory. Mere possession of CSAM is very illegal.
You're not wrong, but trust is an issue here as well.

If someone convinces both Person A and Person B of their legitimacy, even if they're not legitimate, this doesn't solve anything.

If Person A and Person B trust one another personally, then _idealistically_ you're vulnerable to collusion (intentional) or abuse (unintentional).

If Person B trusts Person A because of some policy or technical attestation, that means the policy or technical criteria needs to be robust against abuse.

If you're in-person at, say, a T-Mobile store, then it's not likely that Person A and Person B don't work together, but even if they don't, the first issue still applies.

I've watched T-Mobile store employees just pass an iPad to a manager and say "can you type in your code?" Depending on the employee or what process was requiring approval, the manager might or might not have asked "what are you doing?" "Can you justify this?" etc.
Appointing Lina Khan is one of the best things he's done.
His obsession with clarity/minimalism in communication + the (befuddling) expectation that VCs are constantly opining on things seems to mean that more and more of his tweets read tonally as though they're addressed to a seven-year-old.
I did use "MtG" instead of MTG for a reason. I don't think Kit is a Jewish Space Laser Enjoyer.
Why are people unwilling to pay creators (in attention or dollars) for making the content they watch? It’s the same with piracy. It was one thing when the content was simply unavailable, now most content is available via a streaming service for an incredibly cheap per monthly cost.
Timescaler here, if you configure the timescaledb.compress_segmentby well, and the data suits the compression, you can achieve 20x or more compression.

(On some metrics data internally, I have 98% reduction in size of the data).

One of the reasons this works is due to only having to pay the per-tuple overhead once per grouped row, which could be as much as a 1000 rows.

The other is the compression algorithm, which can be TimescaleDB or plain PostgreSQL TOAST

https://www.timescale.com/blog/time-series-compression-algor...
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html
I don't have access to their portfolios or anything, so they could be lying, but at least of the friends I've talked to have told me that the only thing that they buy on Robinhood is stuff like VOO and VTI.
Bra Asks – Preface
> Sending orders at "09:29:59.9999971 at the hope your order arrives at 100ns past 9.30am." What?

This literally does happen, though. One of the things the hyperscalers have convinced the world is that precise time is hard. Precise time is easy if you are willing to pay extra for your hardware. Sub-10-ns precision is unremarkable when you use PTP.
It's been downhill in a lot of ways since Reagan's administration.
Adblocking on YouTube is a security requirement given how much fraud and malware is advertised on YouTube.

I'll disable my AdBlocker when YouTube stops trying to sell me crypto currencies from supposedly Elon Musk.
Ticketweb was bought by Ticketmaster 24 years ago.
The idea is likely to increase production value to boost engagement, and help signal value of what's written to be of higher quality.

As someone who has worked in building multiple B2B SaaS when it was not popular at all in the retail VC funded universe (consumer social media apps were the rage for a long time), ostracized, and more, it's kind of fun to see VC's trying to play in this area.
AI now beats humans at basic tasks – new benchmarks are needed
I'm in France; here's a demo of a "drone gun" by law enforcement authorities (in French, but you can probably get the gist of it even without the dialogue):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKHNVJfVIQg&t=480s

But I'm pretty sure this exists in most/all countries; DJI even sells equipment specially designed to listen to its own drones.
I wonder if advertisers feel the same way. If I was buying ads on YouTube, my least favorite audience would be the people who go out of their way to not see them.
Apple – Read the Room. When traffic on port 5223 is blocked, stop sending (2023)
Seems like a lot of fluff. I think the key is to deliver value to customers. Do something you know. Don't be arrogant and enter a random business you know nothing about.

Trying to get a startup off the ground is basically 2 things: pushing code and talking to customers. Set a metric like how much users are using the app (proxy for usefulness). If you create something that's valuable, it'll probably work out.

There are a few exceptions which they touch on a bit. Movie pass model where you sell $10 for $5 obviously doesn't work. Or if you take investors and scale up too fast also screws you. You could be perfectly profitable and have fit but if some VC throws money at you and convinces you to hire dozens of people, then it could sink your product despite fit. An investor doesn't necessarily have your best interests in mind. They may prefer a 10% chance of $100m co where as you prefer a 50% chance of a $20m company in that time frame.
Compression Represents Intelligence Linearly
Yeah, the page ranking is great. Same with lenses. Though I wish they would improve the lenses. They're pretty basic.
The thing is, as I understand it is not like with the Toyota case that the acceleration is unexpected. In the Toyota case it was unexpected because of a software glitch. Actually, it was never really proven that it was an actual software glitch. Michael Barr just has proven that the complete software was a mess without really looking into that detail.

Here with the Tesla it is, that when you currently pressing the pedal the top can come off. Then when you don't want to press the pedal anymore, it gets stuck. So that is the moment when your reflex normally is to press the other pedal.
Marry the client?
Speaking of hostile... Ironic to be telling people what they can do when you're unhappy about them doing the same!

As for me, I'm absolutely upset. Older homeowners sit on housing with multiple unused bedrooms in major cities (and everywhere else) while wages and construction have stagnated. It's another form of wealth concentration. Two 80-year-olds don't need a 6 bedroom mansion. Meanwhile there's families with kids (who by the way, societies depend on) out there with income to buy a home that are priced out of everything. Meanwhile the generationally wealthy family can continue to leverage their equity to buy up more property, further exarcebating the issue.

Let's not act like there's a moral ground here, it's all in self-interest and greed. And frankly many of us on HN are part of the problem (I know I am).
1967, then Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau on the government and consenting adults in their bedrooms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OoqgGgmVmI

I think the issue here is the between consenting adults part, deepfakes in this instance are probably not between consenting adults. I also think it's important to think about the reality of how this likely plays out. If someone deepfakes me and faps and I never find out and they never tell anyone, it would be quite hard for there to be action. So if someone is deepfaking you and you know about it, there must be a logical path there, and none of them look good for the deepfaker. Can't say I know where I land on the issue, and I've thought about it for days and hours.
Edge is doing computing on the client (eg. browser, phone, laptop, etc.) instead of the server
The min/max solution doesn't prevent aliasing.
Consider that if you do manage to avoid aliasing, you'll be rendering something visually akin to a downscaled version of a fully-detailed, high-resolution plot of the waveform.
https://www.science.org/content/article/aboriginal-tale-anci...

Notable because it's so old, but it gives you an upper bound.
> Under the legislation, anyone who creates such an image without consent will face a criminal record and an unlimited fine.

I feel like "without consent" to be pretty key here.
it's because they joined the guilt-industrial complex: a series of articles designed to make you feel bad about all the good things you enjoy.
Tech exec predicts 'AI girlfriends' will create $1B business
Should be an offense everywhere. "Free speech" is a very nebulous concept to be sure, but this should be a hard limit everywhere.
Here is the reference for the base Object class in Godot, so every time you instantiate an object (even if you have defined a simple class without a lot of complexity), all of this gets instantiated and allocated. This is MUCH heavier than a C# base object (which wouldn't necessarily have to be based on a Godot class).

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_object....

Keep in mind I don't say any of this because I dislike GDScript. It's just not the best tool for all jobs in my opinion.
Anyone got a tldr?
>"whatever done by consenting adults in the privacy of their own home is cool".

For example, cooking meth.
Splitting hairs? Really?

So to you there's no difference between someone voluntarily and consciously choosing to wear a diaper so he can continue doing an activity for longer without toilet breaks(some video gamers do that too), and someone who is soiled himself because his mind can't control the bowel movements due to being fried by hard drugs?

Yeh, they're technically both addicts, but gambling addicts tend to harass less people and cause less overall ER calls, petty crime, trash, feces in the neighborhoods, than hard drug addicts.

One is a much greater annoyance to general people on the street than the other. What actual arguments do you have to refute this other than just calling it splitting hairs?
The Bell system in the 1980s?
Streamers are making their streams free for the vast majority of the people watching them. Its not stealing when they're producing the content with the expectation most people will watch for free.

If a waiter was expecting only 10% of people would actually tip, its not stealing to then not tip most of the time.

If the streamer didn't want me to watch for free, they should have put up a paywall.
If we described tense as something like the grammaticalization of the temporal relationship between the state of affairs described in the utterance and the time of the utterance itself, then it is my understanding that this isn't really a meaningful category in e.g. Sino-Tibetan or Austronesian languages. You can specify "today" or "tomorrow", but most sentences will be ambigous as far as time goes.

(I'm also slightly confused by your suggestion that English does not have tense outside of auxilliary verbs? "He goes" vs. "He went"?)
As part of the settlement with NASA over it, I'd try to get to keep it.
patio11's thread on that topic was quite interesting. His move to Japan was apparently 90% motivated by the wrong prediction of all the jobs moving abroad:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1779978518656332212
Discounting the possibility of multiple winners splitting the jackpot, and not taking into account taxes on the earnings.
When you talk about insanity in programming, it’s probably not the best escape to go into construction :-).
But uBlock with browser that supports it still does :-)

(If you have android, try kiwi browser if you haven't - it's chrome based and you can use regular extensions with it)
I've never seen ads either, though I did see a total of one message saying I wasn't allowed to watch a video because I had an ad blocker.

Lately I've been seeing videos suddenly skip four or five seconds forward occasionally; it's possible that's related to an anti-adblocking effort of some kind.
Oh the irony. But thanks…
You have to down sample by a lot (easily 10-100x). That would essentially remove a lot of the information in the signal. If you low pass filter you essentially remove all the peaks and the signal looks much "quieter" than it actually is.
If I look into perf, it seems mostly parsing overhead. I can saturate a create newtable as select from oldtable. Unfortunately, CSV seems still the lingua franca for transport between DBs. Maybe some day a more binary oriented transport protocol will appear( e.g parquet?)
While there'll be people arguing that you can always draw someone, or cut out their face from a photo and put it on someone else the major wrong that this is attempting to right is the abundance of services that now easily automate this.

For those who talk about privacy in your own home, there's plenty of stuff that's done in peoples homes that's illegal and no one cares about. This law's only going to come into effect when these start being shared which I hope we can all agree is a bad thing if done unconsensually.
We've been using Effect in production since late 2021. Fantastic tool, can't wait for persistent workflows.
Right. Independent invention happens all the time.
I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't, especially with the ISS being an international station. Good luck getting one national agency to accept enough of the responsibility! And then the red tape even if they clear that hurdle...
Agreed, there is aliasing of the audio. But also aliasing in the way that the waveform is rendered.

Consider: would you draw a line, or a circle using only a foreground and a background pixel colour?
What does "commercial market" mean here? The article says these features were already available in the "consumer" versions of these chips -- were those given away for free or something? What about them was not "commercial"?

I'm sure there's some market segmentation thing at work here, but this just sounds like a Hallmark-holiday excuse to rehash an old press-release and pretend it's another revolution all over again.
I just want to meet the dev who wakes up in the morning, sits down with their cup of coffee, rubs their hands together and says "Boy, I just can't wait to make a website where scrolling feels like trying to run across an ice rink!"
Imagining some naked and producing graphic images of them without their consent is a little different.
I have fundamentally bigger issue with distribution than creation in this case... Create what ever you want on your private devices... But once you share or distribute without attached consent letter you should be punished.
There was no water break ban as such. And no one in Texas will forbid employees from drinking water in the scorching heat unless it is to make a political point.
I can't help but hear Sheldon Cooper's voice while reading your reply...
I was talking about AI blocks and you moved the goal post to video codec blocks.
Why does The Gimp have a green pepper brush?
Or even more likely because the origin of the gold [1].

[1] "‘Gold bars and Moutai’: TV series spotlights China’s corrupt officials" - https://www.ft.com/content/25e510aa-77bc-4a3d-be3b-0ed19f6bb...
The existence of a CSAM implies a crime was committed though, since there is no way to legally produce such an image. Possessing a CSAM image is pretty much the same as aiding/abetting the original crime.

A private deepfake image is not the same.
Yes, because unconsensually sharing sexually explicit material of people is bad.
I hope they're very careful with the eventual definition, as at this point you might call Photoshop's AI-driven outpainting feature a "deepfake." If an image is already explicit, and you use AI to de-crop a missing foot back into the picture, have you now created an "explicit deepfake"?
> It seems like fighting an impossible battle since the tools are already widely available.

People can do lots of things easily and are prevented by the legal system. I don't agree with the part of the law that makes this a crime if it isn't shared (who is being hurt in that instance?) but using an argument that essentially says 'it is hard to prevent people from doing something so don't even bother criminalizing it' is nonsense.
There is also a video on Lenny's podcast (feat First Round Capital) about the exact same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1Uwhfxacs
Revanced is absolutely amazing, just saying.
In the US a lot of surgeons make this much or more.
I'm intrigued by similar state-level laws being passed in the US; a lot of those seem unconstitutional (1A/free speech) in the US, unless incredibly narrowly tailored and banning publishing or other harms from use.

More reinforcement that the UK lacks a lot of protections of basic human rights, though.
I find I need two different modes:

- hypertrophy to actually gain strength and muscle (ie. longer recovery time)

- maximum recovery to heal from a strenuous exercise and be ready for more the next day (ie. shortest possible recovery time)

In the second scenario, I don't care about gaining strength at all, and the recovery is the only important aspect.
Too much of anything is unhealthy. From what I've seen of that community it's basically guys who are addicted to porn and masturbation, they do it compulsively, potentially for multiple hours every day, instead of doing other things. If they change that habit they'll almost certainly benefit.
Compulsive gamblers have a tendency to not be honest about only counting their big wins and discounting their losses.
> I concur with you that Etak delivered a functional product, albeit not a commercially successful one, which is farther along than Jodorowsky's Dune project, which stalled mid-way in development.

You seem to be responding to another comment? Or are putting words in the commenters’ mouth?
I like it. Good work! Thank you!
Photoshop takes time and skill. AI takes a single source image and like 20 seconds. In the time it takes someone to come up with something in Photoshop the AI guy has made thousands of images.
Versus what, tv where the medium demand the highest cost per eyeball and every single person is a captive audience (unless you DVR)? Still smells like a good deal for advertisers unless the idea have changed significantly in the years since I cared to know anything about the ad markets.