skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It would depend on the definition of "far-field" in this example, even for a quasi-Bessel beam there is a near region that maybe useful for this example given a large enough aperture.

This paper [1] demonstrates the reduced power loss of a Bessel beam compared to a Gaussian for various target distances. For targeting GEO, a Bessel beam can be 75% the size of a Gaussian for the same halving of power-loss.

In reality, I think a Gaussian beam is fine - and much simpler to engineer.

[1] https://opg.optica.org/josaa/fulltext.cfm?uri=josaa-32-11-20...
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As a counter point, African megafauna did not go extinct during the same time period, despite the constant presence of humans. African climate was also more stable during the time. On the other hand African megafauna would have co-evolved with humans, so they may have been adapted. But probably there was no single cause.
[Discussion] OpenAI to pause use of "Scarlett Johansson" voice but
Seems like a great way to further poke the ants nest of media hype! Any publicity is free marketing.

Isn't the bigger deal the fact that we literally have "Her" as a technology and such a debate is now possible to begin with?

I've learnt that it's smart to take a step back with all the hype fueled by the media and realise all the competition means we get to see the technology as a whole (in form of open source etc.) down the line.
> Anyway I’m VERY skeptic that hardcoding URLs is a good idea at all.

They are talking about URLs in comments.
Exceptions and null both require the caller to 'deal with it' verbosely, so neither saves lines of code.

But the only thing more annoying than a loud failure (exceptions) is a silent failure (null) which keeps executing.
I started my career as a Lotus Notes developer so have a soft spot for it, even v3.

When I started with with Notes it was pre-internet as well so having a system in London and New York that could replicate only updates over a not-very high bandwidth link to the US was amazing.

But I've recently had to create document storage and approval sites with a simple workflow and it's horrible in SharePoint.
Not 'by Russians'.

Iran has had indigenous repair and overhaul facilities for its Bell fleet since the 1970s. The huge facility at Isfahan was built by Bell as part of the massive contracts in the Shah's era and had been operating ever since.
They were required, by Congress, to use Shuttle engines and SRBs to build a vehicle capable of deep space transportation.
that was my assumption when i read they weren't profitable

and also that streaming and storing video at that scale is almost a natural monopoly, with how much it must cost and how hard it would be to compete without existing resources
I find it hilarious how hr tries to make office more appealing. They just don't seem to understand they're not as lit as an afternoon nap-break, or not hanging out on the road w/o payment.

Sometimes they come around and say something like: awesome colleagues...
Ya, i'm totally happy to sacrifice my nap, time, stressfree life, fridge in range for someone who's also only hanging out because he wants the money...
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> We don't know who Jobs or Woz are.

This being HN, I reckon there are people here who knew Jobs and Woz personally.
Training Recurrent Neural Networks by Ilya Sutskever (2013) [pdf]
>Apollo program got to the point that NASA budget was >4% of total federal budget

Given the figures in TFA, that points to a much smaller federal budget and much smaller government expenditures in general, than to less absolute (inflation adjusted) money for this over Apollo.
The author has been talking about the downsides of outsourcing for a very long time, their earlier posts are interesting too.
This is just a pitch for your company hamfisted into unrelated content.
What about the Terrascope [1] concept instead? Using the Earth's atmoshpere as a refractive lens. This requires a telescope of L2 rather than some 540AU away for a solar gravity lens.

Not as powerful as the latter, but much more do-able just on the distance scale alone. It would essentially be an "Eath-observing" James Webb

[1] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ESS.....433310K/abstra...
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> decided

That's putting way more control in NASA's wheelhouse than really belongs there.
Sounds a lot like the role coca cola plays today, with tourists drinking it in preference to water they don't know as well as just wide drinking of it because it's tastier than water.
No, not really on those timescales. If it's about a popular show that's released the whole season today, yeah absolutely. Pulling ep1 from my neighbour while they watch ep2 makes sense.

It doesn't really work for something you want to watch simultaneously and reliably. I have to wait for my neighbour to get the chunk I want, then I get it. If they got it from someone else, we form a bigger chain, and then you have all the broadcasting etc to figure out who to actually get a chunk of video from.

Hearing the street cheer while I watch my national team captain take a runup for a penalty is really quite bad.
Can't you host the videos yourself or use another managed service (such as Cloudflare Stream—no relation)?
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The leap of logic that requires this means NASA didn't take humans to the Moon either.

Grumman built the Apollo Lunar Module (lunar lander).
Thanks!

Overall I’ve had a great experience with Flutter. I tried a few cross platform stacks before settling on it and it feels like the most polished and mature choice.
Theft is physically taking your money against your will. Unless they are grabbing cash out of your wallet, or physically grabbing and swiping your card, it's not theft.

Fraud is you giving them your money under false pretenses. They falsely claim a service has been provided to you, and are charging you for it, per the agreement that you've entered.

Theft is trivial to prove and cops take you straight to jail for it. Fraud is a lot harder, because by the time it gets to the courts, they need to dig through the weeds and determine if it is deception, or just a disagreement about a contract.

(It's, uh, also called theft of services when you do it against a service provider. You may want to get in touch with your local legislative body about the unfair nature of this sort of asymmetry, but you'll be wasting your breath.)
How is the core/foundation framework porting (to Windows) going on?
Isn't it also possible to scam people in in person meetings by pretending to be someone you aren't? The new thing with deepfakes is that you can pretend to be someone that the victim knows.
You’d survive, but loose your fingers in the next robbery…

Plus, fingerprint is super unreliable. Every time I’m hand sanding a wood project, or go windsurfing or wingfoiling for a couple of hours, my fingerprints are unusable for some days.
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> I'd say the climate is as tense today, and it is getting tenser.

I think that all the examples you mentioned pale in comparison to the terror of global annihilation from nuclear weapons, a couple of decades after the bloodiest war in human history, during the peak of the Cold War. Conflicts exist today as well, and there is an increasing risk of a global conflict, but there is no urgency of beating an adversary ideologically because you can't fight them militarily. There was a nationwide competitive spirit back then that just doesn't exist today, which caused nations to accomplish things that seem impossible in hindsight.

> It's just that the US looks a lot weaker and less competent today.

I wouldn't say the US as a whole, since as a country it's still a leader in science and technology, and it has sufficient financial resources to invest in this project, if it wanted to. I think it boils down to the lack of urgency and political/public support, and perhaps managerial and competency problems at NASA itself.

> (But perhaps that is hindsight? In the 60s people were still worried that the USSR would overtake the West economically.)

By some measures, China has overtaken the US economically, and they have a space program with a focus on the moon, yet both sides are sloppy in their own ways. I think we'll get there eventually, but it will take more attempts, time and resources than we planned for. And, to be fair, it took 11 missions for Apollo to land on the moon, 10 Gemini missions before it, and many failures along the way. But if you take a look at the rate of progress, and time between missions, it's clear that getting to the moon was US' primary objective in the '60s, which is far from what it is today.
> According to police, the worker had initially suspected he had received a phishing email from the company’s UK office, as it specified the need for a secret transaction to be carried out. However, the worker put aside his doubts after the video call because other people in attendance had looked and sounded just like colleagues he recognized.

Regardless of the sophistication of the deepfake, surely this rings huge alarm bells, right? I'm not even sure I'd be comfortable making secret transactions on instruction from my boss. Even if your boss is actually asking you to do this, how can you have the financial authority to transfer $25M and not the savvy to think that being asked to transfer huge amounts of money in secret isn't going to result in you getting thrown under the bus?
Cross-document view transitions for multi-page applications
The Spy X Family girl really adds to my enjoyment of this
This is my first attempt at recreating a bug from its test case, feedback is highly appreciated.

RCE in git
By cloning a repo - 'git clone --recursive <git_repo>' , your machine could be compromised.
Works on MacOS and Windows
Fix - Upgrade git
Technical walkthrough and how you can reproduce it
It's arguable that you would literally die and be replaced by a machine-puppet pretending to be you; see the short story about that I linked in another comment in this thread exploring this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40407969

There is no technology I can see which would convince me that a mechanical replacement hand was my hand and my hand was not literally dead. Only Prof. Michael Levin's work of regrowing real limbs might do that - see https://www.popsci.com/body-electrician-whos-rewiring-bodies... and he has given many video talks, I saw one of him presenting at Facebook about his work triggering regrowing of frog's legs, but there appear to be many more videos of him - TED and Lex Fridman interviews.
Ahh... MalformedURLException is checked in Java and is a source of constant backlash from developers - for over 20 years :)
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I find PyTorch way simpler to work with than Tensorflows “black box” solution, that compile your code and run it in a VM like environment.

OpenAI, Facebook and Tesla use PyTorch last time I checked, and most of research is using it too.

Guess most of the community is switching too?
Yes but the cost is much higher as is the risk of being caught and arrested.
What you said only applies to communication that requires authenticating a party. Most cases that doesn't matter. Voice or video communication used to be inherently unfakeable, now that it is fakeable, we'll just treat it like text comms, relying on secure channels, signing etc.
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> The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer.

I seem to remember Google own some network infrastructure? That saves some money. On top of that at their size you are going to get things cheaper.

> The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.

There should be economies of scale on that. Its harder to build and maintain bigger systems, but the work required does not scale linearly with size.
You possess general intelligence, which would fall under the second, real-danger definition, because those byte sequences are the product of a thinking mind.

LLMs do not think. The byte sequences they produce are not the result of thoughts or consciousness.
It took a bit of time for me to respond because I wanted to make sure I wrote down the info in a nice detailed way. I will update the descriptions on the website to include the information I am proving here to give visitors a better understanding of the options. To be clear, I am not an expert on all this image coding stuff. I just wanted to make a simple tool to let people try out Jpegli because I thought it was interesting even though I don't know so much about the topic.

Progressive Rendering
There are 3 options on the website. None, Basic and Enhanced. There correspond respectively to options 0, 1 and 2 for the JXL_ENC_FRAME_SETTING_PROGRESSIVE_DC option [1].

"Set the progressive mode using lower-resolution DC images for VarDCT. Use -1 for the encoder default, 0 to disable, 1 to have an extra 64x64 lower resolution pass, 2 to have a 512x512 and 64x64 lower resolution pass."

So "Basic" provides 1 scan and "Enhanced" provides 2 scans. Here is a detailed description on progressive loading: https://www.thewebmaster.com/progressive-jpegs/

DCT Method
I can't really find documentation about DTC Method in libjxl but the options seems to be very similar to the options offered in mozjpeg [2]. They have a detailed explanation on that page I referenced which I won't all copy here. Seems like slow integer is the preferred method as the others are marked as legacy. Maybe I should just remove the options? From my testing the slow integer method has slightly worse compression but it is accurate.

XYB colorspace
TBH, the library I am using only supports a few color spaces and it does not include XYB and I have not looked into it much further. Also as you can see I did not really bother to add colorspace settings in general but I might do it later.

[1] https://libjxl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api_encoder.html#_CP...

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg/blob/6c9f0897afa1c2738d72...
nah you only need to do it once for subscriptions, but you can revoke access.

with other purchases it depends on the site. some ask you every time and others don't. i'd assume charges in the same range don't have to be approved again, but idk how it works exactly
No, it does not make the case because they could have stolen this yet unpublished work.
literally thirty years too late (see also the BBC Horizon documentary programme "Now the chips are down" from the late 70s about the advent of the computer age)

Those were the days when they smoked cigars during interviews on (live) TV!
Is #5 true?

I want it to be true, but I am wary of the fact that people say that not because it is true, but because they also want it to be true.

My own anecdotal experience suggests that, yes, people do slack off more if they are remote.
It made is 10x better for me. Stop being boring. I like the anime. It's a popular anime. Loads of people like it and think this is funny.
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Re: Mondragon, compare https://www.igalia.com (how many of these are there?); the CNT may have lost at the barricades (and half-star forts), but there are still sparks among their embers?
Entering clubs? Omg
10th century Spain was Muslim
I think you vastly overestimate how much people care about model censorship. There are a bunch of open models that aren't censored. Llama 3 is still way more popular because it's just smarter.
There is PeerTube already.
BBC Horizon: Now the Chips Are Down, 1977-1978
>People have diarrhoea a lot today, in developed countries with stable access to clean water and food

My personal experience suggests it's pretty uncommon. Maybe once every few years, and I eat all sorts of questionable things.
You're the one making wild claims, inaccurate ones at that, so you're the one needing to provide evidence. ;)
Aha I'm starting to realise you only have to scroll a little down into literally any hacker news thread to find the right wing nutjob.
"I want to die remembering my pranks, and the fun I had, and funny jokes. I decided that life, for me, was not about accomplishment. It was about happiness."

Dont get me wrong -- I genuinely agree with this.

However, such comment means little when you have achieved an (unusual) high level of success. You have experienced something the vast majority does not.

To be in a position when you will be thankful taking your last breath around your close family, but will be mourned ALL OVER THE WORLD... and be remembered in the computer industry alongside Fred Brooks, Ken Thompson, Steve Jobs, etc... not to mention others (when they pass) like Linus Torvolds, John Carmack, Brian Keringhan... to name a few!

In the back of his mind he know this. He is just letting nature run with this, while focusing on family. He has acheived a lot and I respect that.
What I take from this is: if you have enough to buy the house you want, big or small, and look after the people in your family in a way you think is good, that's what's important from money.

You might have modest ambitions and achieve this soon, or you might have a great capacity for making money and achieve it soon, or your reach might exceed your grasp and you never feel as though you've done it.

I guess Woz made a lot of money and it was more than enough for him to do what he wanted with his life. That's great.
Identity theft framing helps customers understand they have a responsibility in using these systems in a secure way. If you call it bank fraud, customers don’t see their part in the responsibility, and become careless, increasing the chance of bank fraud,
> Now the technology has caught up, we can make small, highly efficient, powerful, reliable and restartable engines, and can control large numbers of them.

Can we? Starships keep exploding. I get it, great engines are built on heaps of blown up engines. But are we there yet?
we're probably ~10 years away from replicants. in 20years there's going to be millions of tesla humanoid robots all over the place
You get ToC for free with GitHub's README renderer (top-right corner).
What? Netflix has their own cdn, they talk about it often.
You are lucky if you can get a car in 10 minutes. Almost every time the agent would be helping other people and I would just wait for at least 10 min.
I was lucky enough to see this one live.

It was astounding. It became day for a few seconds and then it broke off into a half dozen pieces or so. It left an incandescent trail behind.

It looked incredibly close. I had the feeling we were going to hear it coming down nearby in a few seconds, but it ended up in the Atlantic Ocean (actually not that far from us since we were by the ocean, but far enough).

So glad we were having drinks outside and I wasn't grabbing anything in the house!
> human children are our offspring.

> It's simple favoritism of ones offspring, which would seem to be a primary motivator here.

But some random child on the other side of the planet isn't one of my offspring.
Subscriptions don't need to 3-D Secure every transaction, the initial transaction is considered identified and the auth code is re-used for subsequent charges until you revoke it.

For Amazon and other larger merchants I feel there is some rules system taking as parameters the merchant size (also as a "trustworthiness" score of sorts), recency of last identified purchase (or even some kind of re-using identified auth codes on that merchant), and amount of purchase since almost all larger purchases I make online seem to require 3-D Secure even on larger merchants.

It's not a big hassle, sometimes buying through a new checkout process requires me to authorise the transaction even for small amounts but where I live I can do it through a electronic identification app on my phone, takes some seconds.
Maybe Iran this time?
Or run 2-3 adds for 2 minutes each. Gives you plenty of time to fetch the video in the background.
I don't think you can replace the custom chips, without using FPGAs. If FPGA replacements exists for all of the custom chips I don't know.

There's also weird resistor or capacity pack somewhere that doesn't have a modern replacement.

You can get an entire Amiga as an FPGA, but that's a little different than a chip for chip replacement.
Thanks exactly what I was after!
The motives don't always have understanding of the root cause however. We knew that eating raw meat was unsafe even though we didn't know about salmonella.
It sounds genuinely bad though.

It's from 4 years ago so I assume the quality could be much better, but it still feels a lot less natural than to talk with a "gendered" voice.

I also don't really understand the problem of having only gendered voices. It's not YOUR voice, GPT-4 isn't speaking in your place, it's another entity that has its own voice.

Do you ask people to speak with a gender neutral voice? If not how is that different?
Look on the bright side: they'll stop calling Frank Herbert a visionary.
Big transactions happen and it’s some people’s jobs to execute them
Human written text has been indistinguishable from machine written text for a very long time. We've still managed to maintain chains of trust to discern legitimate messages with decent success rates.
I prefer the Optional.of and Optional.ofNullable approach. Analogous there should be URL.of and URL.ofChecked, the latter for potentially unkown input.
Same for Charset.
Collaboration is important. If you publish something that's wrong, you are an issue or pull request away from fixing it. Contributors count and last modified date are easy to find and trustworthy. Stars act like up votes, adding even more credibility.
Is legal truth, actual truth?
We need new ident protocol just for AI. I think that's part of Altman doing that orb thingy with iris scanner. It's creepy though and I'll never touch that things.
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1. Depends on the person.
2. Depends also on the kind of environment they have at home. (e.g., living with kids in small apartments is a distraction, etc.)
3. Do not underestimate how much people can slack off in the office.
When you say in-person in that sense, do you mean video call rather than DM?

I took the GP comment to mean truly in-person, like face-to-face across a table
Linguistic evidence of the same timeline.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64074

The controversy claimed is entirely overblown. Longer timelines for migration have been discussed widely for quite a while.

I completely understand not wanting to bother with peer review but generally your peers want a good result to be published.
Good answer, but isn't that a practical answer, based on consensus? Ie its what people believe is true, but might not be actually true.
The name "RISC" is something we gave to a particular design philosophy, but not everything in that philosophy is summed up in the name. Classic RISC designs have 32 registers to make up for the lack of instructions that operate directly on memory addresses and to make things easier for the compiler and achieve good performance without load-op-store instructions.
Someone just needs to create a less tedious language that is a thin layer on top of Go. Go++?
Non-web code probably lasts longer because it isn't on the front line of ever more sophisticated attack vectors.
"in secret" is the issue
Shadow Defender website is back after 2 months, no explanation provided