skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem with his criticism (and to some extent echoed by Maciej in this article) is that the main takeaway seems to be "we did it once, we can do it again, let's revisit the past instead of re-inventing the wheel".

But I don't think anyone actively involved wants to revisit the past. Who wants to go back to the moon just because we can? Nobody. Assuming best intentions:

- People at NASA want to go to the moon to build a permanent base there. Maybe this is just to beat China, maybe it will actually be very useful to have a moon base. But that is the stated goal.

- People at SpaceX want to go to the moon as a way to fund Starship development, so that they can go to Mars.

- People at Lockheed Martin / Aerojet Rocketdyne / etc just want to get paid. I am going to ignore this cohort for the purposes of my argument.

These motivations are not served by doing what the Apollo missions did. Can you get to the moon and back on a Saturn V with a single rocket launch, making for a much simpler mission plan? Absolutely, we did it 6 times. Can you build a moon base using a series of Saturn V launches? Absolutely not. Would SpaceX (clearly the most competent launch provider available in 2024) get anything out of building a much smaller HLS / not using methalox / anything else that would be more practical if your only purpose was to go to the moon? Also no – SpaceX doesn't really care about the moon. So a mission profile that is actually optimized for the moon does little for them.

So while I think overall Artemis is a dumpster fire of spending, I don't think pointing at the Apollo missions is the gotcha that critics seem to think it is.
The work of a good artist is much more than a style. You can express ideas, tell stories, generalize, convey something in a specific manner. If style can be reproduced with ease, the other qualities of what makes art great are harder to reproduce by AI. So if your art is more than just a style, you shouldn't be worried about AI.
Because assigning genders to computers makes as much sense as giving your toaster a name, it’s 2024, so why not keep the gender out of it?

The why question is easily answered if you see how many negative reactions their choice of voice caused. A gender-neutral voice would have just avoided annoying a certain percentage of the population, including me.

I'm happy if advertising stops hitting the sexy/cliched stereotypes.

Sometimes the Guardian goes a bit far but OpenAI could have avoided this kind of article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/1...

(Edit: I guess I was being slightly inflammatory with my first sentence. I think the default voice should be gender-neutral and then let the user choose what makes them happy. I don't think it was clever of OpenAI to use a sexy female as the default voice in their demos as evidenced by us having this discussion)
Agree. This 80 character limit stems from a time where terminals could only display comparatively few characters in a line, a limit we haven't had in decades as screen resolutions grew.

Another argument for shorters lines is that it is much harder for us to read any text when lines get too long. There's a reason why we read and write documents in portrait mode, not landscape.

But in sum, I don't think there's a need for creating a hard limit at the 80 character mark. Most code is not indented more than three or four times anyways, and most if not all languages allow you to insert newlines to make long expressions wrap. However, if you occasionally do need to go longer, I think that's completely fine and certainly better than having to bend around an arcane character limit.
Some of the interesting tesla motors have several hundred horsepower though.
If all of that is true, I don't see why you would bother keeping in contact with them.
At some point if someone makes it so hard to be contacted it sends a message that he doesn't want to be contacted.

On top of that, I know some people like that and I think there is an ambivalence about them, a form of intellectual dishonesty that makes it not very worthwhile to frequent them. You can have fun at parties with them but that's pretty much the extent of the relationship a self-respecting person should allow.

But we all know that's not the actual reason you keep a Facebook account, because that's technically bullshit in the first place. If you don't change your stuff, they have a way to contact you and that's all that's needed.
Yes. This was a big part of the GPT-4o demos. But likely they've specifically fine-tune it not to show negative emotions in a serious fashion.
Where does one go to find these vendors? Are they the sorts of places that other sites prohibit links to?
Right. The (M) is designation for the upgraded parts of the original A1 road

The M1 is a separate road
I Fixed My Brutal TTFB
invoke-undefined-behaviour | sh

We live in times where you shouldn't use C or C++, because undefined behavior can eat your face and general memory safety issues, but at the same time let's pipe LLM output to your shell.

It is causing a little tingling in my heart.
As Chinese manufacturers try to sell as many cars as possible to keep their workers employed, their U.S. competitors are betting on making each vehicle sale more valuable by selling consumers software subscriptions for entertainment, hands-free driving and performance upgrades"

We're screwing ourselves in the worst ways, both long and short term.
Tape robot time is NOT measured in minutes but hours. Also you wouldn't pull individual files like this out of tape.

Tape is for long term sunk storage, not cold infrequent access like a youtube video.

I know aws glacier has an "expedited retrieval time" of 1-5 minutes, but that is not how typical tape setups work. Frankly I would be very interested in what actually hides behind that product.
Yeah, but they're simultaneously missing the fact that some of the protocols that underpin things like WhatsApp etc. were developed in the EU, and probably with funding from the EU.
I played Myst on my second pc, on Windows 98. It was an amazing experience, even if I never finished it.

I re-played on the Nintendo Switch, and it was again amazing (I managed to finish it this time).

Never played any of the sequels, so I hope Riven makes it to Switch too
Way back then my ISP had a T1 shared among hundreds of customers. :-D
No thanks, I'd rather not permanently destroy a productive and innovative industry with communist schemes.
Desi Lydic on the Daily Show had a perfect take on this

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/51ucQ4s7Crc
If the UK road system interests you at all in any way (if it doesn't, that's probably reasonable), I highly recommend Auto Shenanigans' 'Secrets of the Motorways' series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7f_jBGPY7FtXQuaroTz-...

He visited and documented anything 'interesting' about (and sometimes just nearby) every motorway in the UK, in a pleasingly entertaining style. He's also got series about all the service stations, some abandoned roads, and is currently working on road journeys recommended in a 1920s Michelin guide.
There are two roads: the M1 and the A1. The latter had upgrades in some sections, which are designated A1(M)
I would like something more David Attenborough-ish.
I also recommend Wyrmspan (wingspan “sequel”, this time with dragons).
I'd love a glados voice or a extremely synthesized one 80s style. I'm using an open one for now, and I think it's very appropriate.
why do they feel entitled to collect and use the data for any purpose if I don't want it?
None of the voices really seem that good to me. I think it's because they're all aggressively American. It would be nice to hear some other accents.
You are mixing things up. There's one part of the government that's spending this money, but they can't print money. They have to borrow it (or collect it as taxes).

There's another part of the government, the Fed, that can print money. But by and large, they don't 'spend' it. And they are bound by an inflation target. If inflation goes above target, the Fed sells assets from its balance sheet to remove money from circulation.

Borrowing or taxation just shuffles money around. If it has any impact on total nominal spending, that's nullified by the Fed adjusting the money supply to hit their inflation target.

You are right, that the point of many government programs seems to be to distribute the pork. But that pork comes from current and future tax payers.
And here's the sketch referenced in the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
it's like they purposely add some controversial rule just for engagement
What, boiling water? The Chinese have been drinking tea for thousands of years.
There are: AnswerOverflow (https://www.answeroverflow.com) and Linen (https://www.linen.dev).
I disagree that he humiliated the program, or the people behind it, which such a statement implies (although I do respect your conclusion). I've been following Destin for years and this guy genuinely cares. It's incredibly difficult to come up with a constructive criticism without offending people and he did a great job doing just that. He was humble, yet firm, well prepared and brought a fresh perspective to the table. Whether the stakeholders will acknowledge that is up to them. Hats off to the guy!
Article seriously stretches the definition of a programming language - JSON, really?
Well, my fix has been to disregard their very existence since it's clearly not worth my time.

Especially nowadays where computers boot off of SSDs, a full cold boot doesn't take more than several seconds anyway. There certainly was an argument back in ye olde HDD days.
When you think about it, the "winner takes all" martingale is already forbidden in most states of law.

Two companies are not allowed to merge if their total market share would past 30%, because that would allow a monopoly and thus total control over the price of goods. A winner cannot just buyout his previous opponents indefinitely.

Similarly, a company cannot (at least where I live) sell at a loss. That would allow a company with more capital to lower prices at an impossible level until competition dies out, and then increase prices back when concurrents are wiped out.

These regulations are different of course, but the overall idea is similar: a company should not be able to press its advantage exponentially. And I think the marketcap is but a forgotten rule in these regulations.

Once a company reaches a monstrous level of market cap, it is too diversified to fail, and can press its legal / lobbying leverage on some of its subbusinesses at an unfair level against competitors. If you're a search engine company, competition against Google is not just competing against an other player in the search space. You're competing against the legal and lobbying power of 10 companies.

And that's not even mentioning state supremacy concerns. I vote for my government. They may not be always want I want them to, but hey, that democracy. I don't vote for mega corps governance. I don't want them to have bargaining power over my state or country.
And at the very least, "80-characters-per-line is a de-facto standard for viewing code" has been long wrong. As the post even mentions, 100 and 120 columns have been another popular choices and thus we don't really have any de-facto standard about them!
You can use big disk, but not be able to access all the files on the disk with the same frequency, so you have 20% of the disk dedicated to hot storage, and 80% of it to cold storage. Cold storage access is queued , so the 1-5 minutes can come from there.
I recently moved into a new home with a lawn that seems to have been semi-recently laid. I want to add some daisy's as I think they're pretty in a lawn. I didn't think of clover though, so wanted to ask, how prolific is it? The grass is taking some work to get thickened up, so I don't want to make it harder to keep some grass, but clover would probably help it get there.
My problem is everything AI.

I live in the moment.

There is no future. It has not happened yet.

The past is just a selection of my life choices that may or may not offer me some wisdom.

The forever existentialist
See the report on Perplexity $1B valuation: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-search-startup-perplexity-set...
Author here!

I just made a more generalized version for ALL commands:
https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme

I've made it safer in that it doesn't auto-execute the command and defaults to "no". You inspect the command and type "y" to execute.
It might be the colloquial term, but if you ask someone for a DB-15 connector then theres a good chance you'll get the wrong one. I regularly use both DE-15 and DA-15 in my line of work (among others), and any document that refers to a DB-xx for anything that isn't the DB shell size will be corrected.
OpenAI won't be setting the mood once open source catches up. They have no moat. This is just another flashy demo attempting to throw shade at Google.

There were already AI products with exactly this behavior (perhaps sans multi-modality) prior to OpenAI's demo. Some of them were even open source. And these products will cater to the things we care about: local, niche, privacy-respecting, with bespoke domain expertise.
Mold – A Sci-Fi Short Story [video]
Interesting Politico story from a few years back discussion the billionaire funders and industry lobbiests that the author works with:

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/the-money-behind-the-...
Are you thinking of the "GeekPort"? That wasn't connected directly to the CPU - it was a bunch of digital (and a couple of analog) IOs, kind of like a cross between the PC parallel port and game port.

The Amiga had a "CPU-port", but that was a much older and slower system.
I need to have an app on my phone to manage my health care payment.
I don't need a console for anything in particular.

It's hardly the same thing. Some services are not even available on a traditional computer
FinTech started as mobile apps and they added website support later.
It's stupid but that's how things are, the majority has chosen...
Good question! I used 0.5 out of habit, but I do need to do some more experimenting with this parameter. But yes, intuitively it should probably be low. I'll do some experiments in the morning and see if it works well at 0.
Not only are they comparable, they're so comparable that one ought to put them under the same interface.

If you write library code, fail polymorphically, then the client can choose whether they want to call it as Maybe/Either/Exception and we can stop these never-ending arguments.
Short Ruby Newsletter – edition 91
>Xcode 15.3/15.4 shipped a really stupid bug where, when it detects certain changes to the file system, it just deletes the Package.resolved file, breaking your build. So you have to close the project just to do a git pull.

Oh, so that's why my builds have broken from time to time and have required me to use File → Packages → Resolve Package Versions to fix it.
The full episode is even better, the clip above ends a minute early...
A friend of mine went to a secondary montessori, he said he didn't learn much of the conventional stuff but did learn how to knit a chicken.
Idiomatic Rust – Thinking in Iterators
What (if any) are the differences, advantages, disadvantages of this implementation over the Guava library's EventBus? From a fairly cursory look it seems much the same...
Natural springs are rare, while streams and rivers are often muddy, seasonal and/or contaminated by domestic animals and wildlife. There's a reason wells were very common.
The web of trust that we have built is the best we could do in the past. But now we would have technology to get rid of all the headaches it creates.

On a blockchain, we could have a contract that says "To move more than $X of my money per week, I need to agree by signing with my private key.".

So the bank can only mess up $X per week. And if I lose my private key, I still can get the money out in chunks of $X per week.
I think the fact that graphics care a lot more about efficiency over marginal accuracy qualifies for a specific reason. Besides from that and a few select areas like ML, almost any reason to use `float` by default vanishes.
Once AI generated video gets particularly good, they could probably save a lot of storage by 'compressing' videos into textual descriptions and a few key screenshots that are reimagined on demand by the AI
> How many stars are within 100,000 km of each other and what percentage of stars does that represent

That's less than half the distance from the Earth to the Moon, so leaving binary star systems to one side, the answer is none and zero.

A large asteroid passing 100,000 km from the Earth is a considered a near miss in my book, since it's easily cislunar.

But you're missing the point entirely; parent is saying that individual craft in the swarm are within that distance of each other - that's the diameter of the swarm; the line "The swarm ends up around 100,000km wide" gives that away.

The distance between stars is orders of magnitude larger. "the swarm" crosses interstellar distances and communicates back as a whole. But communications between elements of the swarm do not and cannot cross that distance, they have to stay quite close to each other, e.g. within 100,000 km as they cross the void together.
Yeah I looked closer and I think they are basically just packaging up some kind of offering on top of spinning rust for the two first glacier tiers.
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGilchrist

Why Materialism is Baloney by Bernardo Kastrup

The first one really opened my mind to alternate modes of thought. The first half of the book is especially interesting, the second half is skippable. I don't think I could have appreciated the second book if I hadn't read the first.

The Dictator's Handbook by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith is another good one. Afaik, the first successful attempt to create a true theory of politics.
We can and do.
Ask HN: Keeping faces off AI face search engines
After listening to a podcast about AI face search engines I became increasingly worried about photos of family members/children/elderly that may not be up to speed or even able to access the search engines to prevent their face being shared online.

What is the best preventative measure for keeping oneself off these search engines? Is it purely running searches on yourself/family and removing whatever you can?
I do envision training a local LLM which would mostly resolve this concern, but at the moment the vast majority of people don't have a good enough GPU in their system to run an even mildly-competent code generation LLM, but I imagine this will change within a few years.
So this is the reason YouTube started going downhill around 2015, Albert stopped working on it!

(It’s a joke, I know YouTube started going downhill the moment they’ve decided to squeeze every penny out of it)

E: do you happen to know by any chance why algorithm for recommendation become so shit?
> It is unlikely people are going to switch en mass to open source models

It depends on the task at hands. For complex tasks no way personal computer can compete with giants data centers. But, as soon as software becomes available, users will gladly switch to local AI for personal data search / classification / summation, etc. This market is potentially huge, for private sensitive there is no other way.
Tyler Hobbs writes about generative art, including getting started and improving. Some of his tips are Clojure-specific, and others are more general. I found the essay on flow fields especially interesting. https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2020/flow-fields
It takes 10 years to have the bridge repaired not because the actual fixing takes 10 years, right?
would love to see some pics of your work. Since you seem to know about Japanese craft techniques - do you know what sort of adhesive is used in Japanese gold leaf application? I am not able to use bole or animal hide glue due (vegan) but was curious if the Japanese have some rice-paste based method.
https://www.tiktok.com/@openlynews/video/7260846856228326682...

If you're interested in her voice
Is that true in any country or just US? I have the impression that in China is not so difficult to build nuclear power plants.
I have multiple webcams on my system -_- but yeah if you write "from webcam" it should work just fine, though it will be guessing at /dev/video0

The cool thing is that tab completion for /dev/video0 actually works as you're typing the sentence.
I'm inclined to agree with you about it being time to make life difficult for nvidia, but that's mainly because I totally disagree with much of what else you said. Running nvidia with Wayland is a bloody nightmare, I've been gritting my teeth for the last year or more and I'm about ready to go back. I just have an application that relies on it and some particularly terrible tearing problems on X11 for some reason. But on Wayland, with nvidia, so many little and big things are still totally broken, and oftentimes the failure is not graceful, but stateful and problematic, and I'm someone who knows what I'm doing.
Furthermore in states with pay by plate as a fall back like NY and IL you can register the rental car plate for the duration of the rental.

https://www.tollsbymailny.com/vector/videotolls/paytollnow/s...
I mean, the person using random() would have to define how the output from it actually goes on to generate an image, thats their choice and their influence on the art
The male voice they used didn’t have these qualities…

I personally hated the female voice, it wasn’t pleasant to listen to. I found it quite grating, making the demo hard to watch.
As a British person, I find all the current OpenAI voices have overly strong (American) accents, which are way too perky/enthusiastic for my ears. It would be great if they could offer a more neutral accent, or even one British accent? (Example: Voice 5 from pi.ai is excellent, IMHO)
> taste doesn't scale

Wow, I’m going to put this on a wall.
still awaiting the induction step.
For me it was Jack London's fiction The Sea-Wolf. I was/am interested in philosophical ideas/frameworks but the simple direct materialistic philosophy espoused by Wolf Larsen in the above book made me question everything i had read.

Here are the relevant excerpts : https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1jqpar/what_book_sin...

We are mere "Animals" with a far more complex social structure than any other species which is why we invent all sorts of "subjective meanings" to "objectively meaningless" life. How to reconcile both is the eternal "Human Condition" problem.

See also : Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality by James Tartaglia. Free pdf at - https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781...
> YouTube has historically not returned a net profit (and I haven't heard of that situation changing).

I'm sure that's what Google's accountants would love us (and the IRS) to continue to believe.
Greek physician from a family of Greek physicians confirms this. :)

Let me just add, that in the Western Medicine many words from anatomy come from Latin and many words from physiology/pathology come from Greek. Of course the Greeks themselves have their own words for anatomy as well.
>I have been told to consider re-posting after a week or two if it doesn't garner reactions.

I suspect this had to be done with a fair amount of self awareness. Being realistic about the post got unlucky on timing vs simply wasn’t interesting to people.
But the creator does have influence on the art, they created it, they are just combining it with an extra hit of randomness. I've done some of this stuff in the past, and errors, happy accidents and imperfections absolutely come into it. They're not just sending computer input directly to output, they are having their own influence and control over it
Show HN: Software design for my open-source pocket synthesizer (in Ada)
She's trans, so probably yes. But in an interview she says she is very happy to having been chosen as the gender-neutral voice of Berlin's subway.