skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately in the late Capitalism that reads more like Feudal than Capitalism, there is not much we can do, and so be it.

There is a time that all shall burn and rot and a new world may come forth.
Giving Ukraine enough weapons to keep fighting, but not enough to win fast is not a very friendly move. This way Ukrainians are bleeding away instead of just winning. A little sacrificial for me. But yeah, alternative of Ukrainians just surrendering is not viable for them. They've seen what Poland and other post-soviet republics achieved after kicking out Russians and want that for themselves too.
Ding ding, you nailed my point.
I think it’s the best place to put it though.

The demographic are people (usually children) who aren’t discerning about the output but would love to have something high quality to look at.

Paint has always been about how some low quality squiggles may represent some latent art ability. It’s not true, but that’s the feeling it gave children and this continues that.

Of course there’s the whole other argument of whether it’s good or not….
"Talking about OpenAI again" yes. But also reinforcing the "too questionable for me to ever willingly use" image I have of Sam, OpenAI, and their projects.

Maybe that's just me, and it is a win for them on the whole. Hopefully not.
You don't get the fame of being the psychopath among the Silicon Valley CEOs for nothing.
I went through a situation where I was forced to bankrupt my company as a founder due to maturing debt and refusal from family to help. This despite having customers and a distribution network. So I fear I might have PTSD. Concentration and focus has always been a challenge since college even though I've done well in school and college. I've also struggled with being tired all the time and with anger and frustration causing me to become tired.
Primary reason the 2000 fares better in terms of survival is because they are being extra careful with them. Likely the condition under which they were provided. But that means fewer missions, greater distance and so on.
They are just marketing for Microsoft's AI now.

It's all just drama to draw attention and investor money, that's it.

When the inventors leave there is nothing left to do but sell more.
That was exactly the point, I experienced what the article said first hand.

So let em burn!

Also: 9th up from the bottom: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> yet guiding them towards a consistent goal

You mean on a per project basis or as an overall strategy for the org?
Sama has gone silent. It’s plausible they’re in negotiations or settlement talks with SJ. But he doesn’t often go silent. Even when he’s losing his job.
As a non-American I only hear Scarlett Johansson's voice in the examples I've heard, to me it clearly is an impersonation. Maybe state-side that specific voice sound is more common and thus less recognisable as Scarlett Johansson's.
Yeah, DJI clearly owns the video space for FPV, with the exception of racing and a lot of freestyle where latency is king, so HDZero or analog rules.
Massachusetts collected $1.8B from surtax on the state's highest earners
Overpriced bad food? Bingo!
anything like this for mobile phones?
Tesla using Autopilot technology experienced one accident per 7.63M miles
Because I can't fit hundreds of tb of stuff on every endpoint and don't like having to manage either adding or removing dirs from Syncthing or moving things in/out from preexisting sync dirs. IME Syncthing is also less performant on hundred-gb scale copies.
If we remove the “well technically” bs, they did copy her voice and they did so deliberately, the only detail they hide behind is that they did so in a less direct way than they could have done it.
> Running OpenAI through the biggest tech boom since the iPhone is...rather obviously massive.

Yeah, creating massive hype about regurgitating others' thoughts is kind of similar to becoming the warden of the world's largest digital pris...eh, walled garden.

They're both massive somethings, all right.
Russia likely launched counter space weapon into low Earth orbit last week
Private equity is also getting into professional American football.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10122183-report-nfl-owne...
What is that thin strip of land separating Colorado from Texas?
Addressing My Information Overload: My Journey Creating an AI News Tool
As someone with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), I often find it hard to concentrate. Therefore, I despise algorithmically recommended content because it always exploits my weaknesses, whether by triggering FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) or satisfying my curiosity, ultimately trapping me and making me feel out of control and frustrated.
IANAL, but I suspect it was just to show that they complied with the request, so that if the law rules against them, they can minimize the damages. The less time that voice is available, the less of a case Johansson's have to try and extract money out of them.

Also, lawsuits are expensive and go on forever. I think sometimes is cheaper and easier to just roll your eyes and take the L, even if you're in the right (at least in the short term).
Does anyone not find any proof of intent between Sam's tweet ("Her"), Karpathy's tweet ("The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson.") and the name Sky "SCarlett AI" itself?
Wired put the spoiler in the first 4 words of their headline. Plus quotes around "slavery". In my book, that 95% absolves them of those offenses.
Very tangential to the quality of chain restaurants that have decline in quality:

I'm from the US, but on the Canadian border, and Timmy's was the dominant coffee shop growing up. Even if you didn't drink coffee, that was the hang out.

We had a Dunkin that was probably less than 100 meters away from it that had a fire and never reopened. I definitely think it was a ploy for insurance money because they never had _any_ business. Tim Horton's dominated.

Then something happened around 2017 and their coffee became awful (it was never incredible, but it got much worse). Then their prices began to rise significantly. Whenever I go home, I get a cup of Timmy's coffee, but it's never good.

Turns out having nostalgia for a large food company doesn't play well in the long run. I'm sure the same applies to Red Lobster, but those kinds of places become part of your memories growing up and you want them to do well, maybe as a way of preserving those memories. Probably half of my friends and I had their first dates at Tim Horton's growing up. As much as I wish I didn't feel the need to drink their swill a few times a year, there's something that still draws me.
I think E/Acc may be the preferred abbreviation.
> she’s clearly passionate about the deep engineering project

There is nothing there saying that she is passionate about anything. The kind of thing she's doing is only a job. Just because you're doing something related to startups doesn't mean you love startups, most of the time it is just a job you need to do to get from point A to point B.
> So, if you have a vibrant manufacturing enviroment in space

And how does this "vibrant manufacturing environment" get into space? How is it supplied with personnel, food, water, spare parts, etc.?

Let's just focus on one component, shall we? The Moon only has 1/6th of Earths gravity, but to get stuff away from the Moon still requires a launch. That launch requires fuel. There is no fuel source on the Moon, so even if we had production facilities there, there are no high energy raw materials for them to process.

So where does the fuel come from? How about the only place in the solar system we know where we can make rocket fuel: EARTH!

So every liter of rocket fuel used to power launches to supply raw materials to a "cislunar orbit economy", first has to be transported to the moon by launching it from Earths gravity well.

So, where is the gain in efficiency exactly?

Also, where would this "cislunar orbit economy" find a market? The vast majority of people are here, on Earth. So even if there was a way to supply such an economy with raw materials (and energy, and personnel, and so on), the products would still need to be transported to Earth, adding a huge additional cost to everything manufactured. How is this supposed to compete with products made on earth exactly?
Have you actually read the article ? It tells a different story:

They wanted Darden to liquidate all of Olive Garden's real-estate holdings and declare a one-off dividend that would net investors a billion dollars, while literally yanking the floor out from beneath Olive Garden, converting it from owner to tenant, subject to rent-shocks and other nasty surprises.

They wanted to asset-strip the company, in other words ("asset strip" is what they call it in hedge-fund land; the mafia calls it a "bust-out," famous to anyone who watched the twenty-third episode of The Sopranos)

The giant slide-deck making fun of Olive Garden's food was just a PR campaign to help it sell the bust-out by creating a narrative that they were being activists* to save this badly managed disaster of a restaurant chain
Will BaaS take over BE development?
I've been seeing more and more backend-as-a-service applications (Appwrite, AWS Amplify, the OG Firebase, Supabase, etc.). Is it still worth learning more BE engineering related skills, or will these soon be abstracted away? I'm really enjoying learning some BE basics (Django, building REST and GraphQL APIs, etc.), but now I'm a bit worried that these skills and techniques will be rendered more or less obsolete. Would love to hear what people think.
It still tickles me that many Linux distros come with a tool like this preinstalled (https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer). Ah, the good ol' Windows days of having to hunt down tools that were actually useful. Far in the rearview mirror for me.
Imo it doesn't sound like SJ and if they can produce the actual recorded voice lines from the actress they used and whatever model they used to clone her voice it will be trivial to prove that if need be.
> 'true' (unrestrained) R&D is only possible if you have a monopoly

* Bell Labs

* IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

* Xerox Parc

I always felt when DoJ was suing Microsoft for antitrust the best evidence of their monopoly was that Microsoft Research had started spitting out good work.

I think you're onto something wrt Google.
There's a similar problem with gunshots and explosions - we want what movies have given us which is not what they actually act/sound like - so much so that live recordings of actual gunfire/explosions is often deemed "fake".
> I can see how it might read that way!

But you just cannot see how it perhaps reads that way because it actually is precisely that way?
> I went to red lobster in Toronto yesterday...Worse than mediocre rubber for $200 after tip and tax...Came out thinking: let em burn.

My homeless ex wanted RL for her bday last year. All of us and the families took her there for dinner. For me it was comparable to Walmart canned and frozen. She was happy enough with it but then she fixates on things.
Useless metric if the driver decides when to use it.

People drive on all roads, in all road and weather conditions.
This is a really smart comment, and I generally agree with your conclusions (disc: I was early at AWS).

Adding to the thread: EBS was kind of created to make up for EC2's ephemeral storage issue, but in 2024 I'm pretty sure AWS would design S3 + EBS + EC2 in a very different way.
They may have taken it down while they did an internal investigation to make sure. Or, regardless of their prospects of winning it, they may have not wanted to endure the cost or bad publicity a lawsuit would bring them. Neither option seems crazy to me.
DJI is not very good in terms of end to end latency which are necessary for racing. They are good with packed techs, but racing market is too small for them.
Quant also relies on Bing API.
Oh, so Tesla is now prepared to shoulder the full legal burden and financial liabilities of Autopilot?
> once this tech trickles down to smaller drones

We're almost there: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369380266_Channel-A...
Ask HN: Will AI tech, like LLM, keep needing tons of computing power?
E2E Encryption is on the road map for Bluesky as it requires some protocol changes. The devs are encouraging people to use the DMs to exchange Signal info, and reminding people to not use DMs for sensitive info.

https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3kt457v6aq72n
I would say there are two more esoteric options: "no memory allocation at all outside of the program stack" (like... i dunno... lambda calculus?) and fancy-pants computer sciency things like linear types. No sane language does either of those, though.
The authors hypothesize at the bottom of page 3 that linear layers can combine to form nonlinear functions. This is wrong, but maybe I’m misunderstanding what they are trying to say.
What you are describing sounds very close to what i'm experiencing.
The whole media is _clearly_ threatened by AI. Both subjectively just thinking about it, and objectively seeing things like Google already roll out AI summaries of internet content (saving consumers the need scroll through a power points worth of auto-play ads to read a single paragraphs worth of information.)

With the breakneck progress of AI over the last year, there has been a clear trend in the media of "Wow, this is amazing (and a little scary)" to "AI is an illegal dumpster fire and needs to be killed you should stop using it and companies should stop making it"
TreeSize is far better IMHO
Show HN: Welcome Releasepost
If you are a developer maintaining documentation website with tools like HUGO or Docusaurus , I am curious to know how much of interest you have in content update automation and how you handle it.

Meanwhile I am sharing a little experimentation I did to increase release note visibility.

Food for thought on https://www.updatecli.io/blog/welcome-releasepost/
Hate Chatbots? You Aren't the Only One
This shows how bad it is. If you're proactively sharing a package of docs with the Washingington Post, you're toast.

Altman's outreach, his tweet, and the thousands of tweets and comments talking about how similar Sky is to ScarJo is enough to win the case in California.
It’s my understanding he directly asked twice: once early on and then again right before the unveiling.

And your example is absurd. A fictional character about fantasy vs a fictional product were on the cusp of creating. I’ve never watched her so can’t comment more.
But Google doesn't drop projects because some researchers or devs got bored. That's a management decision.
The Income a Family Needs to Live Comfortably in Every U.S. State
On a version of Chrome from two days ago, and still blocked from visiting the site. What an aggressive, false positive, worthless check.
> The most productive year of my group at that job. Brought out two new versions of our OS to support multi-processor configurations and use new memory modes.

But did this significantly impact the business in a positive way? If it was a wild success why did it only last a year? Part of managing software engineers can be to stop them from doing things that merely feel productive.
Some cloud-agnostic thoughts
I don't think the mannerisms of a performance something that's copyrightable though. It sounded like they used a voice actor who was instructed to speak with a similar intonation as Her, but Scarlet Johansson's voice is more raspy, whereas Sky just sounds like a generic valley girl.
Congratulations: you've just created a culture where people are afraid to report potential issues for fear of losing their jobs. Maybe there are some cases where you find that specific individuals end up acting irrationally more often than not, but on the whole, it is better to treat these acts as if they were good faith until proven otherwise.
Engineering Secure Devices
Is someone's voice their IP? Is it more-valuable property because they are famous? What type of IP? Trademark? Without their name and image in combination, is a voice/likeness actually defensible?

Training a computer to have any actual-human sounding voice is likely to almost match someone's voice.

I haven't taken an IP class since 2004, but I'm not sure if there's a real case here is there?
Dispatches from the Media Apocalypse
Lancets are much bigger problem for artillery as they are not as limited in range as FPVs.
When I think of distributed systems, the RAID1 analogy seems much more applicable than RAID0.

The term "distributed" has been traditionally applied to the original design of the TCP/IP protocol, various application-layer protocols like NNTP, IRC, etc., with the common factor being that each node operates as a standalone unit, but with nodes maintaining connectivity to each other so the whole system approaches a synchronized state -- if one node fails. the others continue to operate, but the overall system might become partitioned, with each segment diverging in its state.

The "RAID0" approach might apply to something like a Kubernetes cluster, where each node of the system is an autonomous unit, but each node performs a slightly different function, so that if any one node fails, the functionality of the overall system is blocked.

That second approach seems more consistent with what we traditionally label as "distributed" -- for example, the original design of the TCP/IP protocol, along with lots of application-layer protocols like NNTP and IRC, have each node operating autonomously but synchronized to other nodes so the whole system approaches a common data state. If one node fails, the other nodes all continue to operate, but might cause the overall system to become partitioned, leading to divergent states in each disconnected segment.

The CAP theorem comes to mind: the first approach maintains availability but risks consistency, the second approach maintains consistency but risks availability. But the second approach seems like a variant implementation strategy for what is still effectively a centralized system -- the overall solution still exists only as a single instance -- so I usually think of the first approach when something is described as "distributed".
I'm always surprised when people do not notice this. If you don't have a manager doing the management work for you, YOU are doing the work. At my current job we haven't had a product manager for quite a while, to the point that all engineers have just internalized that we are the product managers, so we frequently show up at meetings to drive product decisions, we talk with partners and everything and every once in a while it dawns on someone _this wasn't supposed to be our job_ but if we don't do it who's gonna do it?
The article doesn't seem to go into what an engineering manager is or does, but that they're vital. It might be self evident to the author what they do but not true for some of us perhaps.

Yes, I could just do a search but imo is also worth mention and listing the key points that the author wants to highlight about them. Otherwise everyone is taking away a different interpretation.
Postgresql 17 Beta release notes - nothing very exciting to report.
Unfortunately still no sign of - materialized view incremental refresh - the most glaring omission from an otherwise remarkably capable and amazing database
There should be social activities that revolves around spending a lot of time in nature close to animals.
Sorry, this tutorial is meant to be played with the on-screen virtual joystick. Not many people have radios lying around after all.
Funny, I'm the opposite. I saw clips from the film after the controversy (it's been ten years since I saw the film itself) and Sky sounds nothing like Johansson to me. No amount of unverifiable "records".
Lifting Lethargic Leaders
You ignore a very important fact which goes above any cost and that is security and stability. A fast unstable or unsafe system belongs into the trash can in any enterprise.

B2C will first ask about security and stability.

Do you think AWS, Azure and GCP are the cheapest cloud offerings? Of course not, but why do they dominate cloud computing in B2C while price gouging everyone?

Because they offer something beyond price and that is security and stability as well as a reliable partner. They also offer support and capacity on a level which a startup CSP will never be able to offer.

This is also the reason why all AI accelerator competitors won't be a competition for Nvidia.

To beat Nvidia it's not only about beating CUDA, it's about beating Nvidia Enterprise AI suite with it's security offerings and support options. But enterprise business level SW is a level where AMD and others will never go to and will have to rely on Big Tech like MS, Amazon and so on to do that for them. But why should they if they have in-house solutions? Big CSPs developing their own AI accelerators shows you that they understand Nvidia's business model and are trying to compete head on because they understand that Nvidia is attacking them at enterprise level with AI enterprise solutions. And of course any enterprise using Nvidia enterprise SW will automatically use Nvidia HW.

Once SW is more spread than HW then it dictates where the direction goes. If MS releases Windows 12 only for ARM then Intel and AMD are immediately screwed and they can't do nothing about that. No enterprise in the world cares if their CAD system runs on x86 or ARM as long as it can be used for the intended use.
I have a really leadership test at every place I work at: Can I, and everyone around me, tell the story of how the random thing they're doing today connects all the way up to the company's big picture goals?

When this works well, its obvious to everyone. "Today I'm triaging a bug that comes up for our customers. We want customers to have a delightful experience, keep giving us money and recommend us to their friends." / "I'm writing a technical blog post. I've been asked to blog more because it helps us attract good talent, and good talent will help us make better software."

But its heartbreaking how often teams and people fail this test. "Oh, I'm doing this but I don't know why. My boss asked me to do it. But she didn't tell me the reason and I didn't ask." / "Yeah we're all working hard on this product but there's another team doing basically the same thing and in 6 months all our work will probably be scrapped." / "Our scrum meetings are an absolute waste of everyone's time. My boss admitted over drinks that we only do it because it makes our team look good in the meeting with all the big bosses."

Sometimes the problem is communication. Sometimes its a lack of initiative on the ground - eg "I learned to stop asking questions like that". Or a lack of mentorship to junior employees. Sometimes its a lack of leadership from the C-suite, or incompetent middle managers or VPs or something. But whenever people can't explain the point of their work, something is going terribly wrong in the company, and I hear a calm voice playing in my head: "Please take a moment to locate the nearest exit. It may be behind you. In the event of an emergency, ..."
DDG was once caught red-handed of tracking for Microsoft: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo...