skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you ever seen an original physical copy of, say, Einstein's annus mirabilis papers? I haven't. I suspect that these are extremely rare and valuable collectors items and only trained archivists are even allowed to handle them.

I'm not sure that they're collector's items, but they're probably not in that many university libraries. For example, the University of Michigan library has a physical copy in its special collection, but my university's considerably smaller library does not. But that's just because of age: this is a 119-year-old paper; were it a little younger, say, about 70 years, it would be in my university's holdings. I think that's a considerably different order of magnitude of its lifetime from a Discord link that I'd be absolutely astounded to see last a decade, and that in practice will probably last much less time than that.
"All that matters is the result. A wallpaper or any other artistic creation isn't less beautiful or evocative because the artist spent thousands of hours on it."

Disagree, HEAVILY, a ton of the biggest marvels in the world are so because of how much work was put into them.
Not hidden, the C standard spells it out. And implementation-defined behavior can be observed.
At a high level, wouldn’t you expect Champions to be chaotic in the limit? As in, the halting problem tells us that any increasing sequence of Champions is not computable.
Containers is not a replacement for profiles, they are completely separate use cases. Those who use multi-profile do so because they want separate bookmarks, settings, etc (e.g. personal profile vs work profile)... which containers cannot do.
I can't really explain it. First of all, because thumbnails are mostly eyegore I guess and because it takes the focus away from a much less visually assaulting video? It also doesn't help they're not fully visible.

How am I supposed to focus on the video like this?

https://i.imgur.com/A0DRmD5.png
"Controlled pathways and sequential information processing in serially coupled mechanical hysterons" (2024) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308414121 :

> Abstract: The complex sequential response of frustrated materials results from the interactions between material bits called hysterons. Hence, a central challenge is to understand and control these interactions, so that materials with targeted pathways and functionalities can be realized. Here, we show that hysterons in serial configurations experience geometrically controllable antiferromagnetic-like interactions. We create hysteron-based metamaterials that leverage these interactions to realize targeted pathways, including those that break the return point memory property, characteristic of independent or weakly interacting hysterons. We uncover that the complex response to sequential driving of such strongly interacting hysteron-based materials can be described by finite state machines. We realize information processing operations such as string parsing in materia, and outline a general framework to uncover and characterize the FSMs for a given physical system. Our work provides a general strategy to understand and control hysteron interactions, and opens a broad avenue toward material-based information processing.
It depends on the route obviously but I find Southwest prices to be comparable to other non low cost airlines like Delta, American, etc. The few occasions I got bit by the $200 change fee on the others has made me consider Southwest much more. I refuse to fly the super cheap airlines.
There was some discussion yesterday [0] (16 points, 3 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40446764
You'd be wrong. We're almost as good at recognizing voices as we are at recognizing faces.

Recently I had a friend message me to ask me if it was me asking a question at a recorded event with audience questions that they were watching on YouTube (the camera only showed the stage, not audience members at the microphones).

They had absolutely no reason to think I would have been at that particular event.

And I told them, yup -- it was me asking that question a few years ago.

And there is nothing particularly distinctive about my voice. If anything, my voice is probably particularly generic. But it's just timbre, accent, and the unique "fingerprint" of my particular vocal personality.
There is no way this could ever be abused.
Video forces e-ink screens to redraw the scene 30 times per second. For static text like an ebook, the display redrawing the scene far less frequently, maybe once every 30 seconds, if that's how long it takes to read a page of text.
Spotify abandoning and bricking Car Thing
In the US, artists don't get to 'allow' for covers or not. The words and composition of a song are covered under a mechanical license. The recording and performance is covered under a different license. Under U.S. law, the mechanical license is a compulsory license - the rightsholder must give a license to anyone who applies and pays for it. The payment is standardized and includes royalties, so it's a pretty good deal for anyone who writes a song that gets a popular cover.
> just don't buy food that's covered in plastic packages (most junk food),

That's "most food" period. Yes, people should look for alternatives where they exist, but don't expect to find many and don't expect them to be affordable to most people. Plastic is everywhere and the idea that we can solve this by voting with our wallets is a joke.

People can't even be expected to know when their stuff is plastic. Most people have no idea that basically all of their clothes are made of plastics. I once asked someone if they wanted their coke in a bottle or a can and they said they wanted a can because they go out of their way to "never drink out of plastic". They were very upset to learn that plastic lines the inside of aluminum cans and they've still been drinking out of plastic containers the entire time. Less plastic is better than more plastic at least.
There are only so many Turing machines that we can possibly describe with a not too large amount of symbols such as 1RB3LB1RZ2RA_2LC3RB1LC2RA_3RB1LB3LC2RC. The fact that some of these can make such a crazy large number of steps before halting to me is mind blowing.
The population of this site reacts to all stories like this. It’s only Gell-Mann Amnesia that causes your mind to bend.
There are some minor advantages: checked bags are free, and canceling a flight for future credit has long been free on all tickets - once this became common among other airlines, they changed their policy to make the credit never expire to stay ahead of the competition (and allow transferring it to another person for some types of tickets).
When I visited, Austria-Hungary were very different. So were Germany-Poland. And let's not even talk about Finland-Russia.

I mean, Europe had an iron curtain for decades and that shows at the boundaries.
Huh. There were _800k_ aircraft built during the war. Hadn't realised it was anything close to that. That's easily over a million pilots - how on earth did they train them all?
I'm totally ok with that and actual communications from the company are very clear about what it is. Looks like this is out of their control.
Hey, your DaisyDisk UI gets stolen for Movies and stuff. Here, TV Series, Person of Interest used the interface to make a fancy scene!

https://x.com/brajeshwar/status/1733390176112800037
That makes sense if you prefer to be close to the front/exit for quick deplaning.

I tend to just relax during both boarding/de-boarding since it's only a few minutes difference anyway and the effort/stress of trying to move quickly outweighs the few minutes savings. If the seat is pre-selected, I can simply wait for the line to go away and board last without standing for 10m. It seems to me that most people rush to board first even with pre-selected seating (perhaps optimizing for space in the overhead bins)

If you have a connecting flight with a short layover, is the exception where I want to be right near the exit. So I guess it's more of a preference thing
What would lead you to believe that in the last 13 years MS would make the titanic investment of reimplementing their (alleged) Google-based search backend?

Given the trajectory of Bing this seems unlikely.
It's a transflective display. Although not E-Ink it may solve many of the same problems while having a reasonable refresh rate and less burn in.

Comment from Daylight_Co
https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1bk294i/comment/kvx17...
I have a Windows Phone and it’s a decade old. Very outside the norm to still use it, but phones can last a long time from a hardware perspective if they’re allowed too.

My 830’s saving grace has been the ease of changing batteries. If the battery was internal I’d have tossed it years ago.
Anybody in SF Bay Area see this last night at 9:04pm-9:06pm +/- 1 min?
Flying very fast from ~W > ~E; i.e., from Marin County, appeared to be coming from Mt. Tam headed over Tiburon.

Confirmed NOT ISS (was below horizon then); confirmed NOT airplane (checked FlightAware).

No haze in the sky (this was from Marin County). Other stars and moon were crystal sharp, yet this was very blurry/hazy glow, so at first, before I could tell how fast it was moving, I thought it was a comet, before immediately checking myself that (a) no comets are scheduled now; (b) that would be an insanely bright comet; (c) it had no tail which would be expected of such a bright comet.

But then it disappeared rapidly over a period of several seconds as it dipped into the Earth's shadow (similar to how the ISS would vanish after sunset, too).

A friend (literal actual rocket scientist) said perhaps it was the X-37 returning; but I can't see any record of a recent return since OTV-6 in Nov 2022.

Anybody?
That's probably the case. Having said that, there are also a lot of one-off side characters which use Justin's distinctive voice style, although I can't remember specifically whether that was the case in the latest season, and I'm not aware that detailed information about their internal agreements is public knowledge either way. I was speaking more about the general principle, not strictly that particular situation. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like there are some interesting overlapping legal and moral dilemmas in all of the discussions about both situations, regardless of what the specific facts of the OpenAI and R&M cases may be.
I thought that was great, too. They should also stream themselves solving this stuff on Twitch.
Huge disanalogies between the Midler case and this. Certainly not clear in its applicability.
I just managed the website - I wasn't involved in the game, but it didn't seem to be that well managed from my outside perspective.

I think part of the issue was there was not system to 'patch' - so the far larger download in theory allowed them to add smaller patches to the game in the future, but that didn't happen as far as I remember.

I don't think we even ended up opening all the levels of the game as the uptake wasn't that great.
The primary reason I replaced my Pixel 4a was it going EoL for security updates. The battery did get replaced once, and it brought it back to life. I don't want a halo device, I want something that is secure, functional, repairable and cheap enough that if this portable slab of glass explodes I am not that sad. The primary reason I replaced my device with a Pixel 8 is for the 7 years of security updates.

Going from the 4a to the 8? Barely noticed a change in functionality.
Sure there is, you're talking about fanotify.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/fanotify.7.html

https://lwn.net/Articles/339399/

It even lets you block the access until the scan/decision is made.
Certainly. It's been well known at least since Kuhn[1] that the scientific method is an idealization, not what scientists actually do.

The paper cites that 75% of studies did qualify as "scientific method", but that's a byproduct of the paper-writing process. You're expected to present your science as if you did it that way, but it almost never actually does.

When your first gels came out all wonky, you didn't declare that you'd disproven electrophoresis. You assumed you did it wrong, and you didn't even mention it in the paper.

The scientific method is a fig leaf, used to try to work around the Demarcation Problem. We prefer that to Epistemological Anarchy, which is philosophically better grounded but utterly unworkable in practice.

It's good to have an understanding of that, and to gradually improve it. But we're going to keep teaching the "scientific method" to high schoolers, just as we continue to teach them Newtonian gravity, and I don't expect that to ever change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
I'd take Procopius with a grain of salt. He had previously written glowingly of the same subject. It's likely that neither set of writings is entirely truthful.
Yeah. I imagine her case against OpenAI would be much stronger if she had spent decades on a strict diet of whiskey, candy, and gravel. (Not legal advice.)
the site loads OK, but keeps crashing when I scroll to the "animated text on scroll" section . I'm on Brave Android on a phone with 12GB RAM.
> I guess they want us to believe this happened without shenanigans, but it's bit hard to.

Right. And the question is, did they actually used SJ's voice as part of their training data? Because there's a lot of that available given all her works.

There's a reason why they wanted 'her', specifically. What reason is that? If they could just work with a noname voice actress (likely, for far cheaper), why not just do that from the get go? It could be a marketing gimmick and maybe they wanted her name more than just the voice to add to the buzz. If it is not that, then the sequence of events doesn't make sense.
You do spot pricing or preemptable instances at the margins to help maximize revenue while minimizing excess carbon.

I assume that most cloud venders are over-provisioning because their margins are so good that they'd rather overspend on inventory than miss out on revenue most of the time.
I’m saddened the sarcasm flew over the heads here. A disappointing reflection of the number of companies that really do act like that now, which was my point.
Nope, on SW you get unlimited companion flights for the term of the pass. Delta is a one use certificate.
> is there a tangible advantage to flying Southwest

for those in Dallas, the trip to Lovefield instead of DFW is super convenient. playing "hunger games" as you put it to find a seat vs traveling to the larger airport can be worth it especially if traveling alone.

there's also free checked bags compared to the other lower price carriers.

the biggest negative is you might be flying on a MAX
Really nice UI conversation here. Well presented, easy to digest.
I mean, if there's a WW3 where winning is predicated on "who can make the most planes", then, eh, maybe that might be a relevant question. But that doesn't seem particularly likely; even if there were to be a WW3, it would probably not be a Plane-Building Olympics.
If someone impersonates people but doesn't disguise/hide their appearance, there's no risk of confusing listeners about who is making the voice.
There are a ton of "personal communication" cites out there that are dead ends. The point of the cite isn't to provide a handy link, though it's nice if it is one, but to hand the credit where the credit is due.
Discussion [0] (21 points, 1 hours ago, 19 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456644
It also takes a few seconds on AWS. The guy is comparing setting up a whole new machine from an image, with network and all, to turning on a stopped EC2 instance.

The latter takes a few seconds, the former is presumably longer. This is the great relevation of this blog post.
Collars?! Never.
It is not that the voice is similar to Scarlett, it is that it appears that Scarlett's identity was intentionally capitalized on to market the voice.

If you had a voice like Scarlett, and you were hired to create the voice of an AI assistant, there's no legal problem - as long as the voice isn't marketed using references to Scarlett.

However, in this case, the voice is similar to Scarlett's, AND they referenced a popular movie where Scarlett voiced an AI assistant, and named the assistant in a way that is evocative of Scarlett's name, and reached out to Scarlett wanting to use her voice. It is those factors that make it legally questionable, as it appears that they knowingly capitalized on the voice's similarity to Scarlett's without her permission.

It is about intent, and how the voice is marketed. Voice sounds like a famous person = fine, voice sounds like a famous person and the voice is marketed as being similar to the famous person's = not fine.

It is not a clear-cut 'this is definitely illegal' in this case, it is a grey area that a court would have to decide on.
Gnome Shell and Mutter Broke Their Good Faith with Ubuntu
All of these tools like 3d modeling or photo editing have common tools that you have to learn and understand. For example: probably all 3d modeling tools have concepts like verticies and object faces, etc. And then there are common tools like extend/grow (or something) where you can expand 2d square into a cube. You just have to understand concepts, tools that are available and where to find them in this or that piece of software.
Is this just a class thing or what?

Literally everyone I know understands that processed foods are less healthy than whole foods.

Some, indeed many, choose to eat them anyway. But this isn't like smoking in the 40's with adverts claiming it's good for you.

It seems a priori obvious to me, even. Does anyone actually think that chicken nuggets and chips are as healthy as a whole roast chicken with potatoes and butter? Anyone?
I need a help on tap swap app
How do you know what Southwest is investing in internally? Sounds like a large problem to solve that will take time. I haven't seen any info about this.

Also, yeah all companies lobby against competition.
The attempts to sound like Mel Blanc after his death just don't sound right to me. Or maybe it's just the bad scripts.
Great idea! Do you have any ideas for how you'd like to build it?
> Unfortunately this is less suitable for integers larger than 64 bits, because then you run out of bits in the first byte.

Just spitballing here but is it necessary to support every increment of octets? Do we really need a 7 octet/56bit width for instance? Instead couldn’t we just allow widths of log2(n_octets)? An int64 would need 2 bits of length info (8, 16, 32, 64). Or maybe I’m thinking wrong cause not all bits are can be used.

> its efficiency really depends on the expected input distribution

Right. But everything else in computers is rounded to the nearest power of 2, so maybe it works here too haha.
You have to reach out to them and ask them to send in a new prescription every month. If they use something like Epic its easy enough to just go into the app and request a refill with a few buttons.
> And all the other shit that rich and old people don't give a fuck about spreading into everything.

There have been zero consequences for poisoning the entire planet and everything living thing on it. It's profitable for companies to knowingly poison entire communities. Until there is real accountability for corporations that act like psychopaths and serial killers nothing will change.
> refuted some of the more serious accusations (that OpenAI got a Johannson impersonator - they didn’t

A lot of the argument here comes down to whether the article does refute that. I don't believe it does.

What it refutes is the accusation that they hired someone who sounds like Johansson after she told them she would not do it herself. That was certainly a more damning accusation, but it's not an identical one.

But in my view, it requires a pretty absurd level of benefit of the doubt to think that they didn't set out to make a voice that sounds like the one from the movie.

Maybe good for them that they felt icky about it, and tried to get her for real instead, but she said no, and they didn't feel icky enough about it to change the plan.

Do you believe the article "refutes" that? Does it truly not strike you as a likely scenario, given what is known, both before and after this reporting?
The cadence and speed in Her is much too fast for any mass customer product
Brave Search [1] is 100% independent. There's also Yandex [2] which also works excellently, but is biased towards more Russian language results. The image search is second to none though.

[1] - https://search.brave.com/

[2] - https://yandex.com/
AI news roundup: You see what you want to see
I firmly believe Google will release Premium Search at some point. They did it quite successfully with YouTube...

One wonders if the popular narrative around crappification of Search is partially self-induced to prime consumers for premiumization.
Faster LLM Inference: Lamini Inference with 52x more RPM than vLLM
How do we know this is regurgitation and not something like an AI summary of top hits ala Bing chat? Is there a reference to source links, if not highly questionable
Has the default voice on the mobile app changed in the last few weeks. I don't recall what voice name I had selected before, but it was amazing quality. I thought the voice was Rashida Jones [1] whose voice is in some ways similar to SJ.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429069/?ref_=tt_cl_t_3
Neither is false balance or enlightened centrism. The point of the GP is that we shouldn't worshipping these companies. They're not your Lord.
See Midler vs Ford, Glover vs Universal or Stefani vs Activision for prior cases in this area. Courts usually side with the person being imitated.
Not at all. It is precisely because i have faced a few hurdles and overcome them that i know how difficult a whole lot more severe hurdles all at the same time are difficult to overcome without outside help/support/luck.
I just replace a OnePlus6T from 2018 with a brand new Pixel 8 and I regret it.

The 6T had the latest LineageOS and the P8 has GrapheneOS. Both have the latest Android but there's nothing on the Pixel that's better than the OnePlus.

6 years and no noticeable differences in terms of battery, performance, screen, ergonomy, etc.

I should have stuck with the old one but I was convinced things were still progressing. My bad.
$540/month per EBS volume per AZ. And it’s still fairly limited, at a maximum of 8 credits, it wouldn’t nearly cover the use case described in the article (launching 50 instances quickly).
Products are simply built in a way that true low level repairs are impractical (ie: more expensive than replacing the device), and replacing bulk components is the only viable option. iFixit advocates for better repairability that would make individual component repair processes viable.

iFixit is not really about hobbyists doing tinkering repairs. It's for consumers who want more out of their devices and business in the repair ecosystem. That is the bulk of the community and iFixit doesn't have an obligation leave room in the conversation for others.
Threat to tech progress? How is that a priority? If the US and Russia gets into a war with each other, we die. Dunno how many nines of the HN userbase but I guess atleast two?

People talk about this in no way like it was reasoned about in the 90s and ... it is a bit concerning.
> on SW you get unlimited companion flights for the term of the pass

Oh wow, that is a great perk [1].

[1] https://www.southwest.com/rapid-rewards/tiers/companion-pass...
Cool concept. In my experience, the biggest headache/expense is data migration, and not software migration. As long as the stack is vendor neutral, it's not the long-poll, though it is gruntwork.

In the SaaS world, maybe this will be useful to run managed cloud services? (That is, customer A wants a private instance in AWS and customer B wants it in Azure)