skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a tangent on this, it'd be such an interesting experiment to see how far one could go in deciphering/understanding a new language and attempting to write a new book in that language based on the content of a single, probably fairly long, book.

It feels like it should be theoretically possible, but I doubt it's ever been tried.

Maybe something like understanding aincent languages from limited, fragmented sources is the closest natural experiment we have in practice to have tested it, but it's hardly the same as a full, substantial text in a consistent style.
Even if we entrust governments with enforcing this, that doesn’t mean “arming” the government with the power you’re taking away from employers (arbitrary discretion in firing people, for example) any more than trusting the government to outlaw murder is empowering it to murder
I wouldn't choose to clean public toilets either but I sure am glad that someone else did.
Does the mapping happen on first write? Is TRIM then a command that signals the SSD to unmap that block?
https://kb.plugable.com/data-storage/trim-an-ssd-in-macos

Apparently macOS doesn't expose the ability for userspace to manually issue trim commands to block devices (or at least doesn't ship a suitable tool to do so), so the best available workaround is to tell the filesystem layer that it should do automatic trimming even on external drives.
Where is the Black Sea Fleet?
This is like saying that American or Canadian has little to no difference in terms of contemporary cultural background. Technically true, but it's still a bit rude to confuse both nationalities.
Yes, have a market-based legal system (a set of laws that are established via continuous market evaluation) instead of a politics-based legal system (a set of laws established by decisions made via a political system).
Code to Latex
Indeed. Who else do you give the power to regulate companies to? There are no other options.
In a democracy, the government having this power ostensibly means the people have this power. If the corporations have power beyond the reach of the government, then it's not really a democracy.
One of the strange things about business books is how often they confess crimes
Both OpenAI and the user are infringing on the artist and neither are making art.
I looked into using ffmpeg to “compress” video podcasts by lowering the framerate a lot, but it didn’t seem to do as much as I thought (about 50% size reduction). The theory was that a video podcast is mostly talking heads with an occasional chart on the screen, so you really only need a frame every second, or five seconds.
"AI-induced unemployment just isn’t a problem."

I'm not sure how you'd test this hypothesis, but it certainly looks like a tonne of the ongoing FAANG layoffs are based on assumptions about a decreased need for low-mid level programmers.
Theoretically better performance when running native (higher fps, etc).

Really the main draw is that the native version is more amenable to modding.
Related:

Show HN: Bel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231208 - Oct 2019 (456 comments)

maybe also:

Show HN: Bel in Clojure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29812347 - Jan 2022 (13 comments)
I know only for a fact that I'm conscious ;)
For those unware, worth noting here that Bel was designed by Paul Graham.
hate to be pedantic, but while it's a beautiful post, it's not pedantic, it points out how these highway numbering decisions will negatively affect people, congestion, and traffic flow, which were why the numbering scheme was created in the first place.
Please read Apple's Employee Stock Plan Agreement, in particular Section 9.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0001193125220...

It has happened in several cases involving leakers, most recently the Andrew Aude case.
And yet they sold a bazillion copies. Presumably there was something in these games that appealed to people who were not for you.

I know it can be hard to understand, but there's a lot of people in the world, and they like a lot of different kinds of things!
At minimum, this does not capture that I _am_ challenging the Original Commenter ("prima facie suspect") to more rigorously defend his position, but doing so respectfully. "One salient" written source is a carefully chosen framing: the OC cannot meet it by replying with support peripheral or meta to the main argument, but neither can he dismiss my request as burdensome, demanding multiple links.

The proposed revision suffers from its terseness, losing both nuance and completeness.
If AI is controlled by the current players, this is the most probable endgame of the current AI trajectory. Not human extinction, but a permanent dystopia where most of humanity is manipulated 24/7 for profit by a few advertising companies. I remember when I actually believed computers would make us more creative, more productive, more self-realized. That they would make lives better. A lot of people used to think this. It’s still a possibility but now it’s unlikely to be the winning side. Now, human life and human culture are just seen as something to strip mine for profit, and tech is the most efficient way to do it. And there’s so much money betting on that side, they’ll probably win. A sad end.
Crimson: Steam Pirates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson:_Steam_Pirates
> they are varied and brimming with interesting features.

one of those features being lifeless
There are no "lefties" in Congress. Here in the UK, there is definitely a community of vocal old-skool commies that I would refer to as "tankies". George Galloway is probably the most notable tankie politician (recently elected to Parliament).

Galloway is famous for his grovelling address to Saddam Hussein: "I salute your [...] indefatigability."
Note that I tried to counter the idea that an AI should presumably get human rights. In that context, I think a definition of consciousness is irrelevant.
For me, Clojure with Clojurescript and Datomic.

For webapps Fulcro is a great framework, though it has a steeplearning curve.
It’s against the hacker news guidelines. This isn’t the forum for breaking news that you find on TV.
Text is also much more dense. What videos spend 15 minutes on can be read in a few. You can also skim text first and then switch to deeper reading where desired, et cetera.
Never underestimate how imaginative the "numbers must always go up!!1~"-brained folks can be.
try

ffmpeg -ss 00:01:00 -i input.avi -t 30 -vf "fps=1,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos" output_%04d.jpg

00:01:00 is where to start the flip book, 30 is thirty seconds worth, and 1 fps is how many frames per second. this'll make output_XX.jpg from the Avi which you can then print
I agree wholeheartedly.

As a photographer I am shocked to see other photographers who are AI proponents making the comparison to the beginning of the photography era. (Though it's usually the very bad photographers or those who haven't actually done any reading about the impact of photography on art who make this point)

Art's one hope to avoid this parasitism is to move back into the realms of the purely physical, I think (and as a photographer that includes me).
Wow, on wikipedia I read that 5 percent of people experience it regularly. Hopefully you get better at 'fighting your demons' while getting to know them better.
Thoughts on Forester: A Scientist's Zettelkasten
Except for the fact that the US is backing down and the chances of the big aid package voted recently to be the last one are quite high.

Also Ukraine is running out of people, out of money, out of everything, and regaining lost territory is slowly becoming incredibly difficult.

Ukraine's future was probably ground to pieces for the next 2-3 decades due to all the Western indecision between 2022 and 2024.
It’s our industry association numbers so it can pretty much be described as “this apartment has nobody paying rent for it”. We call it “tomgang” which directly translates to “emptywalk” but I think the English word is vacancy.

I’m not sure how many apartments would be considered “empty” by official numbers but probably something similar.
I’ve been using generative AI in my art for a good few years now and have a few thoughts on this.

Yes it’s trivial to train a model on a particular style, I’ve done it many times, including on my own art. It can make things that look pretty good!

But it can’t make anything great, not without a lot of luck or creative input from the user.

It can make something that looks similar to a style, but it can’t explain what makes that style good, why it should be chosen over another and the thinking behind it. An artist would have no problem answering that.

As I understand it, generative AI is a sort of average machine, in that if you ask it for a picture of a dog, it’ll give you the most average result for the prompt, model and whatever randomness there is in the system.

Therefore, the lowest common denominators - stock photos, Corporate Memphis, clipart etc are in big trouble. AI images don’t need to be great to displace them, just good enough. Average.

However, for creatives, AI tools are a wonderful opportunity. It’s not everyday a brand-new medium comes along.

When photography arrived, it was possible to make a perfect representation of something at the click of a button. Instead of killing art, it unleashed a wave of creativity. Art no longer needed to be about drawing pictures of things or people and could get more abstract and experimental.

So with AI. It won’t kill creativity, it’s just another creative tool. I’ve had a lot of fun over the last few years exploring what it can do, and it’ll be exciting to see how art changes with its arrival.
AV1 exceeds at these type of videos. It's why so many anime people use it.

Try encoding the video to AV1 with OPUS audio. You'll get ridiculous gainz!

My command is:

$ffmpegPath -i $_.FullName -r 23.976 -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libsvtav1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -crf 30 -preset 10 -g 300 -c:a libopus -b:a 96k -ac 2 -c:s copy -map 0 $destPath
Altman wants a very specific kind of regulation: the one that entrenches OpenAI.

EU AI Act has the following provisions: document foundational models, disclose copyrighted sources, never use AI in critical/dangerous applications etc. Altman threw a fit and threatened to pull out of EU
Our DEI program was great. It helped us scale from 100 people to 1000 people by scouring HBCU colleges across the US for talent. Had we hired only from Silicon Valley and Stanford, where we were located, things would have sucked during that growth and our previously global hodgepodge of a team that built products bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars would have been White-washed by rich kids, atrophied and died. Instead, we we went on to billions of dollars because we had a group that weren't all fucking Stanford grads with a couple years of Google or Facebook under their belts and mommy and daddy to fall back on.
(AI vs) Contemporary Realism: Karl Popper, Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam
OK, that's a fair point. But punning lists as functions is a still mistake for other reasons. For example, it makes it impossible to tell the difference between a list that is actually intended to be a function, and one that just happens to end up looking like a function by happenstance. It's fine to represent functions as lists, but having functions actually be lists rather than a first-class primitive is a huge mistake. If you're going to do that, you might as well just start with McCarthy's original primitives, or heck, even just the untyped lambda calculus. What is the point of adding characters and streams?
That was not the president.
Starshot which is the above proposal is likely based uses 10 meter square solar sails that are 100 atoms thick.

> In order to reach relativistic speeds, the Starshot lightsail should have an area of ~10 m2 and be kept to a mass of under ~1 gram, which translates into an equivalent thickness of approximately 100 atomic layers ... With radiative cooling being the sole mechanism for passive thermal management in space, we quantify stringent requirements on material absorptivity that enable the lightsail to withstand high laser intensity and prevent excessive heating and mechanical failure.

They seem to think that heat dissipating is within the realm of plausibility

Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail, Nature Materials, 2018, https://daedalus.caltech.edu/files/2018/05/Materials-challne...
What you describe is precisely cult-like and so it gives off cult-like vibes.
so little <public> movement. there is a concept of decadal projects where they are being iterated on in working groups or just smaller groups in general. they may not get much public discussion on purpose. the ideas just might not be viable yet, but then some new tech comes along and an old idea gets pulled back out of the drawer. also, so ideas are so fantastical, they receive immediate negative blow back which makes it impossible for congress critters to get on board and fund them. luckily, the public success of JWST (even after all of the delays) has helped put a positive look on some of these projects. just hope that Boeing is not attached to it
it's not, that's why I put it in quotes, but it is removed from people's everyday lives which is why some people feel it like that.

I know the names of the leaders of all parliamentary groups in my country, and how the groups stand on all positions. I have no idea who such leaders are in the EU parliament, or how they stand in e.g. the upcoming changes to GMO regulations.
That makes it so much clear. Thank you.
> AI is too new;

It's not. All the learnings we've had from ML (the mistakes, the failures etc.) are just as applicable to AI.
back when computers were hard, tips like this were gold. but these days,
for for a well trod/documented thing like ffmpeg,
asking ChatGPT to make the ffmpeg command you want works really well, eg "give me ffmpeg to make a video from a series of jpegs" and iterate from there.
> That would be nice, but what are the chances of that happening in your opinion without the US and Europe’s promising that Ukraine will never become a member of NATO and the US and Europe’s promising to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine?

There is zero chance the war would take more than a slight pause before resuming in full force with a less-capable Ukraine if Ukraine’s allies promised to stop supplying it with weapons. (The Russo-Georgian War, immediately, and with a slight delay because of temporarily Russia-favorable political conditions that emerged in the interim in Ukraine, the Russo-Ukrainian War are both direct results, in fact, of that kind of accommodationist thought winning the day at the 2008 NATO summit with regard to Russia’s demand at the time that Georgia and Ukraine not have Membership Action Plans extended to them. Fool me once…)

There’s a very good chance that Russia will stop if that does not happen, even if it is unlikely that the current leadership would do so.
This can be fascinating to observe.
Take a freshly poured glass of pale beer or ginger ale. Twist a lemon with seeds into it.
You may then observe the seed float to the surface, then fall to the bottom, then rise and fall again and again.
Yes, as noted there are a few exceptions.

Being paid a whole lot of money to not talk about something isn't remotely similar to paying someone a few dollars an hour. It's not morally similar, it's not legally similar and it's not treated similarly by anyone who deals with these matters and has a clue what they are doing.
If you really wish to install all the available options, you can run:

brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg $(brew options homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --compact)
The ones controlling AI these days seem to be of that type though. :(
Do you really think this is the world we live in today?

The whole point of this article is about crony capitalism.
If the human body was a codebase you'd be cursing the idiot who designed it. It's just good eonugh to get the job done (reproduction) before the wheels code off.
If corporations want to be people, they have a set death date in which they "pass", with a very high death tax. Place a scale limit on corporations, rather than giants they automatically get split up at some not that large a market size, and that C-Suite "graduates" to the business publication circuit, 'winners' but out of the game.
Just to voice the opposing view for lurkers: no, the safety concerns about this new and unexpected technology are not unfounded, and dismissing them because chatbots make mistakes is completely missing the point. The point is that experts have been thinking about AI for a long time, and have identified the theoretical limits that prevented us from reaching (‘real’ / ‘general’) AI. Those experts (other thank Chomsky, for now…) are now sounding the alarm — with the advent of intuitive algorithms, the Frame Problem dissolves and a ton of previously intractable problems become tractable.

The point isn’t that chatbots will take over the world through a browser window. The point is that someone’s going to connect 10,000 specialized GPT agents into a series of self-organizing hierarchical agencies, and then hook that up to their country’s justice system, propaganda & surveillance systems, and military systems. Not to mention replacing knowledge workers in mass and the well-discussed potential fallout therein.

We are living in the most exciting, important time since the world wars at the least, and I hope that choice of example drives home the seriousness. Short term, “Solidarity” and “basic human rights” need to enter all of our vocabularies, IMO…
By what benchmark is it moving slowly, and are you qualified to make that judgement? You might be quite correct, but I don't have enough context to know what role you've played and without context you're coming across as "being loud and obnoxious on the Internet" which isn't (I think?) what you're aiming to be.
What I don't understand is why it's an opt-out not opt-in. From a legal standpoint, it seems if there is an option to not have something done to you, it should be the default. For example, people don't have to opt-out of giving me all their money when they pass by my house, even if I were to try to claim it's part of my terms of service.
Not always, if Google Cloud CEO came out and said "We are invested in Flutter", I'd give it more weight since he has real power at Google.

I'm just saying Kevin statement is meaningless. If you look at Google actions before, they do not slowly remove support from things and announce it. They silently layoff, go quiet then BAM, X is gone without warning and little time to deal.
NY Times (the first one I saw) is saying "crashed".
there are a bunch of flags to get exactly right in order to get it to give you a high quality image out. there are wrappers to do this more easily for you, ffmpeg is a low level tool.
Communication is about being understood. Not about crafting the perfect sentence. Even if you craft the perfect sentence, that will be the perfect sentence _for you_, and it might be completely lost on many people, some perhaps even more intelligent than you.

The subtext of "Academic content is usually in text, not video" is "I don't trust this because it's in video, not text". Now if you say that is not clear, sure, but the subtext of your comment is "I opened a thesaurus and tried to seem smart", which is why this conversation derailed here. You can't ignore the subtext to craft a mathematically perfect sentence..
Awesome, gonna go through!
I'll hold faith then :)
How about not having a corrupt political system? You know, one with transparency, rules, polices and punishes conflicts of interests, and corrupt politicians and judges lose their jobs and go to jail when they break the rules.

Or we could just make the oligopoly explicit like whatever it is you are proposing.
> any more than trusting the government to outlaw murder is empowering it to murder

That is precisely what happens in practice though. Referencing the thousands of people killed by police in the US every year, with little to no accountability (who is to hold them accountable?)
> Consciousness requires a soul

What's a soul? How can you possibly know that's what's required?

Maybe it requires a blerpqu.
This whole article is predicated on AI investor engagement not falling off a cliff in the next 24 months.
Nice! Do you have a version for learning Python as well?
Doom and gloom comes from everyone who has followed Google history. Google does not do what I call "Enterprise orderly shutdown of services" which is decrease releases/features, announce depreciation, give shutdown date and shutdown. They just do layoffs, radio silence and BAM, SHUTDOWN!
First Black astronaut candidate, now 90, reaches space in Blue Origin flight
Maybe if voting on newest earned karma (or some other points system), more people would be inclined to do it?
I never found any drug that can actually reduce fever and is available without prescription.
Tbf if I lived in America and I saw someone dressed all in black hop my back fence I'd be at the door with some sort of pew pew machine.

Not a huge fan of people owning their own guns, but needs must when it comes to your country I suppose.
The place I live has a fairly simple grid system with numbered avenues that run north-south and numbered streets perpendicular to them.

Avenue and Street differentiate those pretty well, and they also add NE/NW/etc. but use it as a prefix for avenues and a suffix for streets, so "NE 123rd Avenue" vs. "123rd Street NE".

Short sections are usually called "Place" with the number of the nearest avenue or street, but they copy the suffix/prefix along with the number.

As a result you can find for example, "NE 36th Place" and "36th Place NE" about a quarter mile from each other. Since the house number is based on the cross street, you can in theory end up with doppelganger addresses where the only difference is the position of "NE".
There are active countermeasures in the form of Glaze/Nightshade, but I don't know how effective those turned out to be in practice.
What's RISC about adding more registers?
Yeah I was thinking how different those days seemed. And how hard it would be to run into this sort of content these days if you’re a generally curious youngster.
Those were too naive to believe some tectonic changes are possible in a dictatorship, where the overwhelming majority at least passively supports the regime. Meanwhile, the "Zelensky was evacuated by Polish forces" is a narrative that was pushed by the Kremlin during the initial months.

A ceasefire is feasible, but given that both sides have unsatisfied medium sized goals in mind, I don't think that it will hold for long.
For my friends, they lorded their CD-ROM drive with the purchase of Phantasmagoria. No time for those wimpy Myst games. My friends needed hardcore dramatic depictions of sexual violence.
Ya I would agree there
I wonder why the EU invented a new name to state the obvious:

tech gatekeepers = tech monopolies