skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Language model AI has better support for non-English languages than anything before it, and is a great boon to language learners.

I believe AI is doing a better job at supporting people who want to learn relatively unpopular languages with small numbers of speakers than pretty much any resource out there.

If you speak such a language and care about making it more known in the world, you should work on producing engaging learning material about that language, for English speakers.

> Most of the highest-performance [language] models serve eight to 10 languages. After that, there’s almost a vacuum.”

Really? With literally no chat AI that I've tried have I had trouble conversing in Slovak, the main language of a country of around five-and-a-half million.

It's hard to believe that it would be in the top 10, before the cliff/vacuum.

What a bizarre article.

AI is going to take away your job and put you out into the street, before doing anything to your language, man. Well, of course, all human language will disappear in the robocalypse. But anyway, we should consolidate our paranoias into a small number of concerns.
My immediate reaction is to assume bad faith:

- bad video, doesn’t explain anything (literally a waste of time to watch it)

- no landing page, no privacy policy or details of app structure/stack

- requires sharing data (Discord -> Voice)

I like the idea/concept but because of the above I am not going to bother.
Aren’t these drones regular cots drones with some modification? Wouldn’t taking the door off a microwave and pointing it at the drone cause it to fall to the ground? Surely it’s more complex than that and I’m missing something.
I think the person you are replying to isn't too concerned with millions or billions of casualties. I may be wrong though.
What would be the selling point for a non-phone, non-Android standalone PDA today?

I'm trying hard to imagine what it could do, but drawing a blank. It wouldn't be meaningfully smaller or lighter than a phone, it would be bigger than a smartwatch, and it wouldn't have any of the apps that people are used to.
Details:

> "Paying for the necessary upgrades will be pricey, but there's a lot of uncertainty here. Li and Jenn came up with a range of anywhere between $6 billion and $20 billion. They put this in context in two ways. The total capital invested in the existing grid is estimated to be $51 billion, so the cost of updating it could be well over a third of its total value. At the same time, the costs will be spread out over decades and only total up to (at most) three times the grid's annual operation and maintenance costs. So in any one year, the costs shouldn't be crippling."

There's no doubt that switching from a primarily fossil fuel-based transportation system to an electricity-based one is going to be expensive, but good transportation systems have positive knock-on effects on economic growth, and the side effects - cleaner air, independence from fossil fuel price swings, etc - are more than worth the investment.

In contrast, giving $100 billion away to finance endless war in Europe and the Middle East - after dumping well over $1 trillion on Iraq and Afghanistan (pre-debt-interest) - is just a recipe for long-term economic decline. This is why China is an economic success story - they built a national high-speed rail network, the world's best, while the US was playing at imperial neocolonialism.
> compute not been commoditized and resold through public markets.

I'm not very good at language, but I take it cloud computing (and e.g. spot markets) don't fit this bill, right?

I could imagine a company that abstracts over the cloud providers that can combine the spot markets etc somehow, but then I don't think the cloud providers would be happy with that because they want exclusive contracts.
I don't think we as laypeople should even attempt to draw conclusions from Ukrainian battlefields ourselves, seeing how strong the survivorship bias is.

Take FPV drones. In [1] Michael Kofman estimates (based on talking to a number of frontline units) that on average <10% of FPV drone strikes on armour are successful. The success being a mission kill, not a spectacular turret toss we see on twitter/reddit/telegram. Every strike requires a large support team, strikes can't be massed (because of radio interference and EW), the efficiency is dropping over time because of cheap adaptations (EW, nets/cages, smoke), and the drones aren't that cheap and much less suppressive than 155mm shells. A layperson relying on stuff on social networks would have no way of knowing this, and think of FPV drones as this incredibly effective weapon making tanks (and helicopters) obsolete.

Or TB2s. Remember how they were the future of warfare after their success in Nagorno-Karabakh and the first few weeks in Ukraine? Few months later TB2s completely disappeared from the media, and I don't think many people are aware of how useless they became.

More generally, I think we're seeing a repeat of the century old debate over torpedo boats. People saw how torpedo boats were much cheaper than battleships and thought "hey we can have many of those boats, it'll be cheaper and more lethal". Turns out that range, coordination, sensing, targeting, and logistics are so difficult a smaller number of more capable platforms in well trained hands is both more effective and efficient.

In that analogy, those CCA drones are [torpedo boat] destroyers, not torpedo boats. A small number of somewhat cheaper, but still expensive platforms dependent on the exquisite core of the fleet (battleships, carriers, F-35s, or AH-64s) that doesn't go anywhere.

[1]: https://warontherocks.com/2024/04/mike-kofman-and-rob-lee-on...
Good for them.

Also, it's probably the time to archive my Vagrant Machines repository. I guess all HashiCorp tools will be rolling downhill for personal use.
You can choose what you do, but you cannot choose what you want to do. Choices are usually heavily biased by who and what we are.
Ex-athletic director arrested for framing principal with AI-generated voice
They are pilotless. Ok. That is one job that has been removed from the equation, but take a look at any airforce base. Not everyone is a pilot. The vast majority of personnel are not pilots. These things will still need the engine techs, the avionics people, the ground crew, fuel people, air traffic controllers, all the way down to the guy driving the mule. The net change in manning between an "autonomous" drone and an oldschool drone driven by a pilot in a trailer will be minimal.

And many old fighter jets retire as target drones, going on to fly unmanned for perhaps decades. New purpose-build designs might have lower operating costs but their purchase price will always be higher than slapping radio controls onto already-purchased jets.
There's always the question of "how easy is it to do a bad thing?" With guns, it's very easy to kill someone from far away. With a car, it's very easy to kill someone right in front of your car.

At some point it will be easier to commit some cyber attack using ai, and when someone is arrested for a cyber attack in which they used ai it will be reported accordingly. At that point, we will seriously consider "can we reasonably make it harder to commit this crime using ai?"

Companies that have already taken steps to make it harder to commit this crime using ai will describe their processes, and we will all have a reasonable discussion about what types of ai systems allowed this to happen and whether we should be more restrictive in making those types of ai systems freely available (or what other mitigations we can put in place)
Do you think they'll be advertising 0.9nm in the future or switch it up at some point?
The escape hybrid had a nickel cadmium battery.
I don’t see why a li-ion battery pack wouldn’t be usable for 15 years with good battery management. Both battery and ICE cars have reduced performance and range due to capacity/efficiency degradation so replacing and recycling a battery or engine at 15 years to restore performance is not unreasonable. No car, EV or ICE lasts forever. Likewise, most people want to upgrade to a newer flashier car before 15 years.
Oh yeah, absolutely -- I was still surprised they had gotten the data set to that level. My dad likes to point out an old French map from 1846 that has "Kabilie independante" written on the region [1]. A few years back I was in Bejaia when a lot of the protests were going on, which were both against Bouteflika and also pro-independence. Regardless of where anyone stands on the issue, it's great that people are making that data set available!

[1] https://www.loc.gov/resource/g8241e.ct003442/
this is an excellent reference - not only for computer-controlled wood processing, but also for digital fabrication. When trying to create pieces made of plastics, you will sometimes need a strong joint, and wood-working is the perfect place to look
"which berthed them" makes perfect sense, and fits just as well as any other past participle would in that context. Just because a usage of a word is rare does not mean an experienced author cannot choose to invoke it. In fact, the opposite. Again though, I think the author knew damn well what they were doing and intended for it to be a pun (which would still be arguably berthed-forward).
I havent used it in a long time but did you try Qt as well? PySide worked insanely nicely for me. Although this wasnt with PyPy to be fair.
To save VM instance costs (not disks)? Probably never.
You can make something very close, but you can't order the items the same as you can with the new property (so if the order is important this might be a dealbreaker), and IIRC you end up with less attractive, more-jaggy bottoms to the columns.
Looking at that article, it’s pretty obvious that the author is experiencing something like severe anxiety (as are some people close to me who share this aversion). While we should be compassionate and accommodating of such people, there are others who are much better able to communicate using voice than with text (heck, including the blind), and we shouldn’t force them to only communicate the way the anxious ones prefer.
The telephone already supports two-way “consent” - it doesn’t answer itself and some people choose at their own risk to never answer it.

Edit: my point is it’s already not a demand, it’s a notice: somewhere out there, someone thinks either you know something they should hear ASAP, or vice versa. What you do with that is up to you.
> not repeating the same stuff while hoping for change

That infamous quote typically attributed to Einstein notwithstanding, really most of learning and progress is done by doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different outcomes.
id try using a captcha, not perfect but they might give up...also worth trying control the ip where those requests come from: duplicates would be suspicious, triplicates or more worth human attention
I mean... call of duty is a hell of a lot of games, so no idea which one you play. Most of them are pretty old so modern hardware should easily handle it.
I don't care for first-person shooters so no idea what the actual situation is there (competitive fps is ambiguous - you could mean competitive first person shooters tend to have anti-cheat that requires windows, or that you feel that frames per second is not competitive on linux).
I do know that proton seems to perform very well for me in other games on the linux living room gaming system and the steam deck (Xorg for both). Valve claims in general outperforms windows for similar hardware. But I suppose it could depend on your graphics card and drivers.
You are both wrong, frankly. It's probably somewhere in the middle.
What benefit does it offer over systemd-networkd?
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JRuby is far behind CRuby, so there are a lot of gems that you can't use, also there are not too many companies investing in JRuby itself, IMHO CRuby it's a safer bet.
The vast majority of car owners are cyclists and the vast majority of cyclists are car owners.

There's no rivalry except those who don't understand. They are the same people in different situations. I drive today as I'm going somewhere after work that has no cycling lanes. I'll ride tomorrow as I prefer it.
Awesome I will keep this in mind since I am working on a new Django project, thanks!
Cool - just roll that into the next monthly 600% PG&E rate increase.
It does not matter how well designed it would be, it would still remain a compile target for the folks of 'everything we write is in _one_language_'. You could expect a beginner Java developer to also write proper SQL, but we don't do that anymore, which leads us to suboptimal SQL written by ORMs. I don' really blame anyone, it's a natural development and can't be changed. People use tools they don't understand all the time.
> The net change in manning between an "autonomous" drone and an oldschool drone driven by a pilot in a trailer is minimal.

Well the whole point is not to reduce headcount totally but reduce the amount of people put directly in harms way, for example a pilot flying in a direct combat scenario.
So like a normal SQL-server (PostgreSQL, MariaDB..), but with SQLite as backend. Which makes moving data simpler, as you only need to copy a file and can thus utilize the whole shell scripting-power. Well, seems like a nice idea for the dev, but how well can SQLite perform in a real production-environments with parallel writing? The only solutions I've seen so far are either relative poor, or "cheat" by using a separate file for each customer, which is not working with all use cases.

Anyway, there is a new generation of database-systems/frontends, like Grist, NocoDB, Airtable, etc. But they are more focused on a user-friendly all round experience, not so much a good experience. But some of them do support working with SQLite.
Actual paper (edit, nope previous paper on similar topic by same authors): https://evs36.com/wp-content/uploads/finalpapers/FinalPaper_...

edit 2: the actual paper

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317599121
Articles and headlines themselves do not constitute evidence. All we get from your Reuters article is an allegation from the US Government (of Iraq WMD fame), and a denial from the Chinese Government. It's hearsay not evidence. Where is the evidence?
Is this actually a cost?

At some time in the future oil prices will eventually tend towards infinity, at some point before then it'll be 200, 500, 1000 a barrel.

At that point the grid upgrade and EV transition will be a huge cost saving.

It's just investing for later, surely?
Does a lack of prior instances of something being done guarantee that it is difficult?

Don't forget: to accomplish something, you (typically) must first try.
How about having sql statements default to “dry run”, only executing if an additional keyword (like “execute”) is added.
I got back into gaming recently because that's how I like to spend my down time, intermixed with reading and board games with the kids. Cable TV is terrible these days, and it only takes me a couple of weeks to get through the shows that I do enjoy on the streaming services.
Was going to try it - canceled because of Discord.
> It would also need 1-2 operand bytes

Only 1 operand byte. The VEX and EVEX prefixes replace the 0f/0f38/0f3a opcode prefixes with an opcode map selector, and the 66/f2/f3 prefixes are also shoved into some more bits in the prefix. The only prefixes not subsumed by the EVEX prefix are F0 (largely lock), the segment selectors, and the address size override prefix... the last of which should never be used in 64-bit code anyways, and the former are pretty rare in instructions.

If you've got a 3-byte opcode that needs the REX prefix, you're going from 5 byte encoding to 6-byte encoding, which isn't too bad, but it is going to hurt for those instructions that previously could get away with 2 bytes.
The article might describe a common scenario, but there are plenty of outliers. I hardly listen to music I liked in my teens and early twenties. I love discovering new music.

Many comments here are very insightful and discuss phenomena like high music diversity, music proliferation and easy of producing music, and automated recommendations.

One thing that has been occupying me is that curation is still harder than I'd like when using streaming tools like Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal. Pandora had good roots with its music genome project, and have built on that. (I can't use it without a VPN since they discontinued supporting the country I mostly live in). It's probably a function of how I consume my music today - no longer desk-bound at work, but on the go, so iPhone (and Apple Watch) are primary tools. Being able to select/skip/preview/tune what I'm listening to is nowhere near as powerful as I'd like. I've written library curation tools in the past, these always expected me to spend significant dedicated time in front of a screen (e.g. a similar tool like the cool looking https://github.com/kristopolous/music-explorer, I think).

This has strong parallels to how older people consumed music - either totally passive curation (radio), or very deliberate, like finding music in record stores, at a friend's place. Also replay involves selecting records/CDs in your own bookshelf. Today's ephemeral digital libraries are much lower effort, are huge and curation/selection tools are not easy enough to use, so I tend to fall back onto old favourites or recommendation engines that usually don't satisfy me.

A solution might be a much more configurable curation assistant that is also super easy to use (and, in my case) very accessible on a mobile device with 0-1 clicks (because I'm busy doing other things). Music discovery tools that don't allow in-situ music playing is thus also a no-go.

It wouldn't be super hard to build an interactive tool, but as always, making a super intuitive and useable UX experience is the hardest part. Most streaming tools are giant swiss-army knives for listening use-cases.
Same thing in Europe. Governments are getting involved providing bridge financing to grid operators so the upgrades are done on time - or at least, less late. Bit of a failure of planning though
> the only thing I don't like is that banner to sign but that's always been there.

How about a popup that darkens the page and obscures the text to ask you to sign up? That's been on Substack for at least a year.

All these startups work the exact same way: promise to offer something better than the enshittified incumbent (Medium), then take on many of the same enshittified attributes because they can't juice their KPIs without a bothersome UX.
If actual evidence were all over the place, you wouldn't be making this comment.

The fact is the accurately attributing expert cybercrime is extremely difficult and anyone that implies otherwise is making a fool out of you.
Did Warm-Bloodedness Pave the Path to Sentience?
Although the headline isn't great, the article does do what I've been taught to do by the BBC's More-or-Less programme, and ask 'is this a big number'.

It's very easy to not comprehend big figures, so there are a few techniques to make them relatable - bring it down to the cost of an individual and/or per year, and to compare to other costs.

Here they have chosen to compare it to the existing cost of the grid, and the existing maintenance and operation costs, but which seems like a good comparison (if you haven't read the article, it's about one third of the cost of the existing grid, or about three times the annual operation/maintenance costs)

An alternative would be to say it's a cost of about 500 USD per Californian, or about 50 USD/year which isn't nothing, but doesn't feel like an outrageous figure.
Primitive as they were, Palm OS devices were amazingly fast. Some programs pushed the envelope too far, so their slowness relegated them to proof of concept - but the bread and butter applications offered instant interaction: my lowly Pilot 1000 was absolutely snappy, switching from calendar to agenda and searching among my contacts - never a perceptible delay and no unnecessary user manipulation... Optimized ! A similar feeling when migrating from 3270 forms to HTML forms: infinitely more functional, but still - some of the "all business and not one unnecessary gram" streamlined optimum got lost along the way.

I miss my Palm Pilot 1000, I miss my Treo 650. I know they don't do a hundredth of what my cheap Android does - but I'm nostalgic nevertheless.
The Petty Feud Between the NYT and the White House
$20B is about 10,000 homes at typical CA prices, including infrastructure, or less than one small-sized city. It's significantly cheaper to spend that to upgrade the grid for EVs than to re-do how our cities are laid out. California Forever, the real estate developer that's planning a new city in Solano County, has already dropped $900M on the land plus another $700M or so on incentives for the county to greenlight them, and they're still facing local political opposition and haven't even broken ground.

Electric bikes are good options for single commuters in their 20s, but have a lot of practical problems as primary transportation for families. I can't really pick up my kids from daycare on an e-Bike, or schlep a car full of groceries from Costco.
I have also not found a great way to take notes while reading books, but most of my reading is on my computer right now. That makes digital note taking the obvious choice, and space isn't really an issue in that case. My way of deciding what to take notes on is by simply asking myself: could I want to remember this in the future? If the answer is yes (it usually is if I even considered asking it) I make a note of it. The note minimally contains a reference to the source, and some links to related topics. The links to related topics allows me to discover the note in the future by referencing the backlinks on those topics.

I recommend looking into the Zettelkasten method for note taking, if you are not already familiar. It is originally used with index cards, so you might find it to be a useful way to handle taking notes on index cards. I use a Zettelkasten-inspired digital note taking system called Org Roam. The thing I like the most about Zettelkasten is that it minimizes the effort for getting your ideas out of your head. You can worry about organizing the ideas after you have them laid out in front of you.
LOL this was the same argument they used against the printing-press.
I think you mean blight
I didn't stop, but the nature of the games I enjoy has changed a bit. Fast action games, multiplayer games, and games that require an enormous investment of time are no longer ones that appeal to me (although turn-based games that last for months very much are). Nor are games produced by the major studios (but that's because I dislike their behavior as companies and has nothing to do with the games themselves).

I tend to spend more time playing tabletop games in person with my friends than video games, though.
Leaving the following claims that you think are true:

1. There is still a lot of criticism about SQL.

2. Users use higher level languages (e.g. "ORMs") [without involving SQL?]

3. Its flaws don't impact all that many people.

4. It is a shame [that SQL is mostly used as a compiler target] as it needn't be that way.

5. A well designed relational calculus could avoid these abstractions that come with their own problems.

To be fair, it could be that you don't know what you think about those claims, but since, as the original link points out, SQL does not have a "don't know" representation...
That becomes a non-boundary because you'd write it every time.