skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think its insane to model realistic looking explosions? It's done all the time. Even if it started as a practical prop it was certainly doctored to all hell. Stone statues don't squish and guitars don't actually explode...

If you look through it you can see the top of the guitar is even cut off at the neck, either as a prop or digitally.

Movie magic, guys!
He did a few other things also. RenTech didn't even require all his time.
It happens, and maybe the ad was just CGI, but it doesn't mean I enjoy watching it. Like, the Burger King ads don't show a cow being butchered.
They're not "plugins". They're compiled in features. The Debian maintainer changed one compile flag and turned off these feature which are disabled by default in the UI anyway. And changing the compile flag didn't remove the options that enable the features from the UI. So, users are very confused why the features they're trying to use don't work. Further, what happens to existing users who had these features enabled and relied on them?

EDIT: link to a KeeppassXC maintainer explaining that they're not plugins: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725#iss...
Yeah I was going to say the same. Fungi species can grow real deep, large and invisible to our senses. I understand people ITT getting offended on throwing out food with parts rotten, but honestly if it's not an exception such as banana I will probably throw out the entire piece (like bread) if there is any part rot at all.
distillation allows separation of water from not water.

mud or damp vegetation can be a water source.
Surely you’ve been poor with 40 bucks in your pocket and trying to get as many items as possible?
I don't understand what 50 kW could possibly be needed for.

Part of the electricity bill here in Flanders is based on monthly power peak. I charge an EV at home, and by setting up the charging station to take into account consumption data from the meter, I have no problem staying below 7 kW. Okay, that's averaged over 15 minute time slots, but even the connection for my house is only rated 13.8 kW!
Meanwhile, the front line troops are reporting that almost all the drones are FPV guided. Computer vision apparently just isn't good enough to fly in through a doorway, like the FPV drones are used.

(Sure, you could make a cluster of GPUs do that, in a test. It's completely different to do it in war.)
Formatting ok for me. Maybe it just doesn't work with Safari? (Chrome on I phone is Safari with skin)
That seems entirely fair to me.
> Isn’t is possible that the problem can’t be answered by science?

If you definitionally can't answer the question then I am not sure why people who are living in the real world should spend much time on it.

So my point stands. Unfalsifiable claims that are "not even wrong" aren't particularly useful when discussing actual things of importance, like what kinds of laws we should make.

Keep that stuff to the introductory college philosophy classes, while the rest of us work on the stuff that actually matters.
> Isn't a main part of the value of an API layer to decouple you from a particular database implementation?

I think the value of an API layer is to provide an interface to interact with, which is a) at the right level of abstraction for the task at hand, and b) in a format that is easy to use.
Readers might also be interested in the "spiral honeycomb mosaic" which I found from this article linked somewhere on Stack Overflow years ago.

https://paulbourke.net/geometry/tilingplane/
Why would you need that when for the low price of 25 quarters a month, you could have Apple Arcade(TM)? /s
I think emacs have multiple font sizes/weights/families support (called font faces) and that's a reason people love it. The thing I like about term is that you're not confined to a single computer. You only need SSH to replicate your workflow anywhere (and a VPN, maybe).

TUIs work better when you're committed to the workflow. Discoverability is not often one of the key features (although most seem to have great help pages and manuals). You chose one, take the time to learn it, configure it the way you want and it's better (not prettier) than most mouse based workflows.
Given how bad human drivers already are, I wouldn't be surprised if there are lots of ways to fool them that don't fool the machines. Speaking from experience, having used Tesla's "Supervised FSD" v12.3.6, which is far from perfect, I've been surprised by how often it picks up things (signs, cars, pedestrians, etc.) that I have missed on the road. AFAIK, no one is laboring to find how to fool human drivers into misreading road signs.
I've tried Suno and it was nice. Haven't tried this, but it looks it also is missing what I care about. What is missing IMO is the ability to control the tune. If I could record me humming the tune to produce a cappella music or me singing a song to generate the full mp3 of the song with accompaniment, etc., that would be amazing! AI-generated tunes are hit or miss, especially if the lyrics don't rhyme, and AI-generated lyrics are uniformly bland.

If they want higher quality work and not just trolling "make a song about how @octopoc is fat and needs to get a job" level of creation, they need to allow more inputs into the process.
Did he put a lot of money into politics or did he stay away from it?
it's exactly the same behaviour in C++. but people are used to this behaviour in Rust while in C++ they're used to writing traditional for-loops which do not have such an overhead at -O0 over -O3
That's fine, I've never seen one of them, I wasn't making a judgement on that. I said 'I think you could certainly have a product [...]'. Any porous material would be a lot more resistant to rain than the wet towel, for example.
AI companies have learned and struggled for a few years, learning how to make a decent model. Phone and laptop guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.
If evolution is sensitive enough to give us two kidneys via some indirect impact on the number of reproductive offspring we create, why can’t it drive a “software” change to give people the desire to have heterosexual sex?

The best answer I can think of is that sexuality is somehow very fragile for evolution to calibrate, so even natural selection isn’t powerful enough to select heterosexuality reliably.

But it’s hard to argue that persuasively with a biological basis which we don’t yet have.

Compared to the other evolutionary arguments for homosexuality it also doesn’t scale well to other non reproductive sexual behaviours.
Only because they have also been exposed to contrary points of view. If you actively indoctrinate a human into a point of view, they are very likely to maintain that point of view no matter how odious it is. If you train an LLM on odious input it will produce odious output, just like humans. I really see no substantive difference.
I haven't heard of adapters with ground glass projection. Thanks for that info. Seems like a lot of effort to get image of inferior quality. The more pieces of glass light passes through the more chromatic aberration and optical distortion affects it. Also, ground glass would potentially degrade image quality.
> we could very easily have a high availability public transit system, even in suburban hell.

This is simply false. There is an unavoidable problem in suburbia: During parts of the day the number of vehicles that drive down certain roads is one vehicle with one occupant. Replacing a single-occupant car with a single-occupant bus is not more efficient. But running the bus only once every four to eight hours is unreasonable latency and objectively worse than the status quo where you can leave whenever you want.

> One nearly empty bus with three people in it is thus more efficient

You're assuming the bus will have more than one person on it. That's the unavoidable trade off. If there is one traveler every 90 minutes then getting a bus with three people on it would only be possible if there is only one bus every 4.5 hours.

> Your idea that point to point travel is faster with cars is false: come to Houston and I'll show you why (traffic).

Traffic is caused by bad design. Ironically it's the density separation that does this. You put all the density downtown but people live in the suburbs. Then there is no traffic in the suburbs but, because you need a car to leave the suburbs, unreasonable traffic downtown where everybody takes their cars, and on the main road that leads to downtown.

If people lived downtown then they wouldn't need to drive. But if every place was medium density instead of separation of high and low, you also wouldn't have a problem because some people could walk and the remaining traffic wouldn't all be concentrated in one place.

The problem is entirely caused by zoning rules and I'm not at all convinced we wouldn't be better off to utterly abolish all density restrictions whatsoever.
You don't need a Faraday cage for CME, just EMP.
I think you're right.

I also think they have sufficient career progression (in terms of problems solved and $$$ earned) that nobody feels the need to build a big team. Pure speculation though, I know nothing about RenTech except that the pay is... generous.
When I read "The Man Who Solved The Market”, I blown away with the story of Robert Mercer who arguably paved the way for Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. I wonder how different the world would be if Simmons didn't exist, the butterfly effect can sometimes have some massive unintended consequences.
> Because this could actually be the optimal policy if we take your view of "second persons" to it's optimum.

Maybe if you're evil enough to not care about any individual human's quality of life. Is there a word for the logical fallacy where you argue against the most absurd possible interpretation of a person's beliefs in order to feel no guilt for disregarding them?
Yeah, it feels like the replacement is the issue, not necessarily the destruction.

I don't want to just program a song on an iPad. I would like to perform it on a piano, which means I can't crush my piano and replace it with an iPad.
You are free to think that the ad was boring and that you didn't like it.

But yes, if you are losing your mind over it and crying about it, with an extreme emotional reaction, yes that makes you a baby.

I have no problem with someone who merely didn't like the ad. What I do have a problem with is this extreme freakout response.
Let's say that I had the previous version of keepassxc installed and used a Yubikey to protect it. Now when the distro updates, through no actions of my own, I will be locked out of my password DB because the Yubikey extension is no longer compiled in to the version of KeePassXC the distro is shipping under the original name. Yes, this breaks core functionality. How is this a good thing?
Old age

But probably smoking
It will certainly free musicians from having to make background music to natural gas commercials or whatever.
New Biden tariffs on China's EVs, solar, medical supplies due Tuesday
Elevenlabs rap. Man, we are living in the future...

https://x.com/flavioschneide/status/1788654503790628935
It's really a crime the way so much useful technology gets dumped as soon as one weak part fails. I had a microwave that stopped working, most people would immediately have dumped it but out of curiosity I opened it up (yeah i know, possibly unsafe, even when unplugged) and found there was just one slightly corroded connection, everything else worked fine.

This repairability movement needs to become mainstream, although of course vested interests from this disposable age will oppose it. Of the approximately "one credit card worth" of microplastic we all ingest every week, a lot of it is (and over time will be even more) down to plastic from ditched broken crap. Not to mention the animals that will be choking on all this stuff centuries after we're all gone.
The future is now. I had CoPilot gaslighting me and changing the subject the other day because I wasn't happy with its work.
As ridiculous as this framing is, it must be troubling to read an article like that as a muggle.
The Creator was pretty awesome. Sony FX3, a $300 Kowa 75mm anamorphic, a Ninja monitor/recorder ($800?), a Ronin RS2 stabilizer arm ($300). Plus some cheese plates, batteries, audio interface. But the $3k camera was probably the bulk of their cost for the rig. https://www.visuals.co.uk/blog/news-ep358/

Theres been a ton of press about this, because, yeah, it is hella rare. And yeah usually there's some dude pulling focus on a $20k+ monitor (the brightness these things need to work in even shaded daylight is absurd).

I think it's worth assessing what impacts the look and feel versus what is for production sake; there's a lot of ways to spend more but more to help production than to affect look. A talented camera operator probably could hold focus themselves on many scenes without the focus operator (especially with modern autofocus) and get similar output. But if you're making a $100m+ movie, heck yeah you rent gear & hire the focus puller, way less risk (although the autofocus probably is more precise & reliable in many ways now!), way less need to make sure you pick the right expert operator. Ditto for a lot of this stuff; just rent the most badass stabilizers and camera mounts, for that little extra edge of stability. Having good/expensive synced time-codes, having better position tracking; they speed production, not necessarily super improve it's output.

It's pretty awesome seeing the Netflix approved pipelines keep getting more in reach. There's really good options now. Even a $1000 lens can be super impressive. There's really good budget cine lens sets now. But yeah the rest of production stuff is never cheap. Lighting is the key thing that keeps coming to mind for me, where light budget can easily get to camera budget and then some, and boy does that make a huge difference; improve the output of the scene that your camera is set to input.
> My software is a victim of Debian maintainers as well: they chose to remove the default theme from our static site generator, because it was built on top of Bootstrap 3, but Debian only shipped Bootstrap 2 at the time in a global package (they also changed the bootstrap 2 theme to use symlinks to the global version)

As a Debian stable devotee, this seems reasonable to me. If I wanted each package to bring along & manage its own dependencies, I'd use flatpaks.

> How is this “better integration with the philosophy”?

I'm guessing Bootstrap 3 wasn't yet in whatever release/channel your software was being packaged for?

Can't you imagine any possible benefits of not shipping bootstrap v2 and Bootstrap v3? Or do you just disagree with the Debian unstable -> testing -> stable philosophy? Dependency juggling is just one of the issues distro package maintainers have to wrangle with, that upstream maintainers typically don't care about - an upstream project can declare "this version requires the latest glibc", but distro packagers may have to patch around that because the latest version of glibc hasn't been through testing.
A well-made TUIs is really ergonomic and clutter-free. It can be maintained to high standard by one person. It doesn't take a lot of efforts to make composable tools, ie pipes. It uses little resources even for fancy TUIs.

GUIs can be fine, but they are hard to get right, most are meh or just bad, and they are human resources sinks.
https://archive.is/Awojo
Would agree with that, but just very briefly: the main characteristic that defines fascism is a strong cult of personality. The Afd doesn't have that at all. They also don't display any kind of expansionist ambitions, but are rather nationalistic in an isolationist kind of way similar to most of the right-wing populists who have gained popularity throughout Europe. I have very little doubts that some of the hardliners in the party and possibly even some of the more moderate people are authoritarian, but fascists they are not.
I don't see how its worse. All the stuff compacted would cost 10000s and take up an enormous amount of space.

Replacement/alternative. This is just whining around the meme of smashing stuff in a press.

Outrage is lame.
It's basically just LEDs lighting up the sign in multiple colors at a frequency adapted to the vehicle speed. You could package it up to look like a regular light (that looks white to humans) and a regular traffic camera or surveillance camera.

The camera is easy enough to make inconspicuous. The LEDs and processor can be in a regular light enclosure. You just need to find a good excuse for the sign to be illuminated.
I had to dig around but I think this the one I remember. There are two other reports linked in the comments.

https://old.reddit.com/r/preppers/comments/11tblpp/found_it_...
AI at the Edge Is Different from AI in the Datacenter
To be honest, if I'm developing a small project I'm excited about and I'm getting an issue report from someone I'd be happy to see that someone actually cared enough to spend time on writing something (Either in the comments here, or as a quick issue on GitHub).

I would not expect someone to get familiar with my young code base and fix the issue themselves.
"Shot on iPhone" (10% by weight)

Assessing by weight seems like a pretty obvious-ish way to assess.

We could also do by volume? That would probably be even worse on iPhone's claim; I feel like phones are pretty dense? Lenses certainly can be, filled with heavy glass, but now a days there's also a big drive to make lenses lighter; reviews these days often have people surprised how relatively lightweight even a sizable lens is. It'd be fun to have total volume as a standard consumer spec item, so we could calculate average density.
There's an old cemetery in Redwood City. Very roughly speaking it was active for about 100 years between 1850 and 1950.

There are multiple grave markers listing children that died under the age of 10. Like a family had a 4 year old die, then had a baby 2 years later and then 3 years later buried that baby in the same grave as their older sibling.
Is less about being offended and more about having a negative emotional response, which is perfectly natural and often involuntary.
Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid
They only started asking about higher education specifically in 2015, apparently, and they've only polled about it three times. So we don't really know the trend from the 70s.
If you set the thing up in the L1 Lagrange point it will have the same day/night problem that traditional solar has. You would need at least two, but probably realistically 3 different antenna farms to collect the power and the satellite would need to be able to track the beam across the surface of the Earth. Most of the proposals I've seen have the array in geosynchronous orbit so it can easily remain pointed at a fixed spot on the Earth.
Because it's the most generic ad you can have. All it says is: "Look how many things iPad can help you do". This ad could have been made for any computing device released in the last 20 years (or more!). It's completely generic and corporate. This is a quintessential first-world freak-out - take something that is completely inconsequential and work yourself into a hysteria.
I liked the amazon show.
When I said "the same thing is true of humans", I was referring specifically to "if we feed in Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion then its output is going to be racist and anti-semetic." If you take a human and indoctrinate them on MK and PEZ to the exclusion of all else, their I/O behavior will almost certainly end up presenting as racist and anti-semetic.
Not very well. They will absolutely lose sats this weekend.
Not very useful for much of the year at high latitudes though. If you're off-grid, you basically need wood to heat your home, and if you clear the snow off your panels you can get enough juice to keep your phones charged.
I'm not really upset about this. I developed an MVP for a product. Not an entirely new idea, but a slightly new twist on the models of the existing competition. About a year later, there was a well-funded competitor doing exactly the same thing. They had millions of VC dollars and a large team compared to my solo effort. They replicated my architecture (which was somewhat novel) and I found remnants of my copy on their landing pages and in their docs. They leapfrogged me with a lot of hard work, but I am a little annoyed by it. I think in reality they just took some inspiration from me for something they would have done anyway.
We ship a copy of bootstrap within our data files. They could just leave it as-is and have it working. Bootstrap is a CSS/JS library, there is no global /usr/lib to be concerned about.
> The strategy will also save money. OpenAI spends about 12 cents for each word that ChatGPT generates because of cloud computing costs.

There's a link on "12 cents" that goes to https://www.vantage.sh/blog/gcp-google-gemini-vs-azure-opena...

Searching for "12" on that page leads to a price of $0.12/1k tokens for ChatGPT-4. Which a) is the cost OpenAI charges, not what OpenAI spends and b) is, obviously, off by a factor of 1000.

The NYT's tech coverage is truly, truly terrible.
- My car won't move because it is too cold.

- My car is stuck because it cannot see the road lines through the snow.

- The power is out and my car cannot handle a broken traffic light.

- My car doesn't like tunnels because there is no cell coverage inside.

- The lollipop guy dropped his sign and my car treated it like the start of a drag race.

- All traffic ordered stopped after Fast and Furious 19 was accidentally used as training footage by the AI.
Andreas Spiess, the youtuber with a swiss accent, recently did a video on GNSS w/ RTK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc1LBFDj2MA

Goes into detail about how to setup your own, join existing networks, even using fairly inexpensive tooling for your own RTK adventures.
Ah, Gensler. He wrote a great little book on Godel's Theorem:

https://www.amazon.com/Godels-Theorem-Simplified-Harry-Gensl...
Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating Doximity GPT Output for Medical Professionals
At Doximity, we go to great lengths to ensure the quality of our products aligns with the standards physicians require. Across various industries, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the backbone of numerous applications, driving advancements in everything from natural language processing to automated content creation. As we continue to develop products that make use of these LLMs, the need for rigorous and comprehensive evaluation of their outputs has never been more critical. Strap in as we explore the process for evaluating our Doximity GPT product, Doximity’s HIPAA-compliant medical writing assistant, focusing on the importance of using "ground truths" to establish baseline metrics and the relative performance of contender models.
Yesterday I saw someone with their left turn signal on. They were turning left (the wrong way) onto a one way street. There was a one way arrow, a Do Not Enter sign, and an arrow for their lane pointing straight ahead only. I pulled up next to them on my bike and tapped on their window. They were unpeeling a banana. I shook my finger and pointed at the sign. The light turned green and they turned into three lanes of quickly oncoming traffic.

I'm honestly not worried about cars being occasionally unable to read a sign. In fact, I know my car already knows where the signs are and what they say before it sees them. I'll always be more scared of human drivers: computers can't get distracted peeling a banana.
And yet, that's not true. One of the primary impacts from rocket launches are the heights they reach and the particles they produce, as mentioned in the articles I posted elsewhere.
> Does anyone actually do this for real? In the overwhelming majority of cases it's extremely straightforward to determine if the food is safe to eat empirically.

I do. How am I supposed to know if the food is still good? Maybe I can't smell the problem. I trust the experts to put appropriate labels on things.
Gen ai for music is in its "demo" lifecycle stage. The ai tools for composing are coming.