skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But typically it's spelled "perineum" just fyi

It's a very old mispelling that I'm sticking with.

> I'd be interested in seeing a non-crank source for your assertion. Everything I've read suggests that it'll likely be inflation-neutral or slightly reduce inflation over the next 10 years.

Over the next 10 years, maybe. But circulating money that didn't exist before (that's what happens when the government increases the debt) devalues existing currency proportionally. It is, by definition, inflation. It's effectively a flat tax which disproportionately affects the poor (as all flat taxes do).

The result is an _immediate_ spike in inflation that _maybe_ cools if the projected revenue is real (it often isn't). That inflation had been staved off for the last... two decades or so by lowering interest rates, encouraging people to spend money they wouldn't otherwise (or borrow it themselves) thereby increasing their buying power and offsetting their devalued currency.

Unfortunately, you can't lower interest rates forever and so, when they reach rock bottom, all your inflation chickens come home to roost.

> Even if spending on it gets up to a trillion dollars over a ten year span, you're still talking about one tenth of what gets spent on defense contractors and the military every year.

Spending more money you don't have is worse than spending less money you don't have.

> I'd be interested in seeing a non-crank source for your assertion.

Back to that though... The reason why the government is spending the way it is recently is because of Modern Monetary Theory[1]. Politicians love it because it says they can spend as much money as they want and debt doesn't matter. They don't really believe it though because they only implement the part where they get to spend all the money you want and the debt doesn't matter. I don't think it's very controversial to consider the "mainstream" (in quotes because the reason they are mainstream is because politicians and political think tanks love them, they aren't actually mainstream among economists) MMT sources to be the cranks.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory
Well, it depends of course, but in general police presence is way more attentive to "smaller" issues than in neighboring countries. As for experience, I have been living in CH for almost 20 years now.
It depends on the use case though. It's not just about developers testing locally.

One use case that many companies have is data warehousing. Here, you want to have real customer and order data, but anonymized to a degree where only the necessary data is exposed to business analysts and so on. I once worked on a project to do exactly that: clone production to the data warehouse, stripping out only things like contact details, but preserving things like emails, what the customer ordered, and other data like that.
I don't find the module workflow particularly valuable myself.

The main issue is that humans suck at defining module boundaries and managing dependencies.

Files are simple.
Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase?
All the founders I spoke with told me to go to Crunchbase for my investor research.

I assuming my use-case is common: 1) search for investors that have invested in similar products/space/verticals, 2) create a list, 3) find 2nd degree connections, and 4) ask for warm intros.

I found the user-experience unfriendly, the features over-blown, and the price extremely high since (they don't offer by seats, or stage, or features).

Its sounds like their biggest value-prop is the data, not the user-experience. On their FAQ, they state "public data comes from multiple channels - our active community of contributors, publicly available sources, or various data partners."

Are there alternatives? If not, would you use one if I built it?

I'm thinking: if most founders start in their own vertical, I'm wondering how one might collect the data for just one category (to start), e.g. developer tools.

I also feel the ones most to gain are early founders who don't have the resources yet to afford Crunchbase, and are in stronger need to build those connections.

Let me know what you think. Thanks!
To send files I use smb with file manager.

To send files over the internet I use nextcloud.
It was lazy in the sense that photo had not been taken specifically for XP. It was a pro photographer seeing a nice thing to take a picture of with not specific project in mind, snapping it, then having it sold through a stock photo agency.
In which part does he say that? Because I just scan read it and couldn't find where he says he believed in Wright in 2020. He does say he isn't sure anymore which bits of what Wright told him were true or not i.e. he accepts that Wright is untrustworthy.
It's always the least significant thing that everyone cares the most about. Because people are stupid.

This one case is a pretty grey area. But what is not is the voice cloning tools like Eleven Labs which can and do clone voices very well.

Forget about stealing one person's voice. Or a lot of people's voices. This technology will soon be able to replace everyone's skillset. Give it 2-5 years.

This type of reaction is how we know that humans will not maintain control of the planet for much longer.
Sourcehut: Collection of tools useful for software development
Why not? A labor contract is a 2-ways street. If the company doesn't like the new version, they will not sign it and not hire you.
Peter see OK button. Peter click OK button. Peter no read or have a thought.
I mean clearly having Scarlett Johansson on board was plan A.

Bringing the voice offline and then revealing it was a recording of someone else who coincidentally sounded exactly the same is definitely plan B or C though.

I don't understand how you can trust OpenAI so much to think it was all an accident.
If I didn't much care for my critics, then letting them invent a lot out of story I can rebut easily is worth waiting a few days, knowing full well I can publish it widely whenever I want.

An ordinary person worries all the time about dealing with the legal system. A big company does it all the time.
Yup - I worked on a data warehouse project that was subject to GDPR. The way we did it is we didn't do any synthetic data generation, we just blanked out any PII fields with "DELETED". Then it's still possible to action a delete request, because the PK's, emails are the same as they are in production.

It's definitely possible to practice this while adhering to GDPR, but you do need to plan carefully, and synthetic data should only be used for local dev/testing, not data warehousing.
IDK, we were talking about OpenAi regardless. I think this will be a hit on him as a leader. How big? I don't know. It seems to me this is not a brilliant move.
Can anyone recommend some good drones outside of DJI?
> Wende is the term that most Germans use without thinking twice.

Sure, but for something not directly related:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wende_(Bundesrepublik_Deutschl...

(might be dating myself there ;-}
> “I’m real nervous about this,” said Blake Boesky, an eBay seller and former “international lotion salesman” who recently got his hands on some of the paintings

Missed opportunity to describe this guy's hands, which I'm certain are well moisturised.
If it's a sequel and Brad Pitt was in the first movie and you use trickery to make people think he's in the second movie, there's a case. See Crispin Glover, the dad from Back to the future, which was NOT the upside-down dad in BTTF2. They settled for 760k USD.
Nah, the other commenter had described the situation exactly right - after dropping the comments, the "A-Team" disappeared for a few months and never revisited our responses. It really feels like an archetype common at many companies.

They were doing it just to boost their egos and most of the teams in the company learned to ignore them. When the company ownership changed, the "A-Team" was the first under the chopping block because the new owners correctly saw that the high status they had was simply due to inertia of being first devs at the company and were not fullfiling any meaningful role in the present.
Python, foreign language, physics? I've got all three self taught!

I agree with you. Investing hundreds or thousands of hours of your own time into the slog of theoretical learning is statistically pretty rare. Most of the counterexamples come from people who found a way to finesse their own neural latticework into ardor for the subject, even though to the rest of mankind it's about as interesting as watching paint dry. It's very rare to meet someone who became a self made master of something they only did for the money, etc.
Functional programming languages haven't gone mainstream but functional techniques are very common now.

Higher order functions, immutable data structures, declarative UI frameworks, etc are things you're quite likely to encounter in a contemporary codebase these days.
I also wonder this. It's a recurring style from '90s software.
This website is unusable on my mobile, a motoG42. Not the fastest phone but everything web I use it on is smooth.

Magic UI.design lags and stutters even when just scrolling up and down.

That tells me everything I need to know.
Duckduckgo doesn't work on Windows 11 but does work on Windows 10
It is not about the voice. Rather using the fame of known actress to boost the product. If your inner motive is to sound like her because she is well-known, differences in voice does not matter much.
So I didn't know about this case, and indeed, it's an interesting one. I think the key difference here is that Ford hired an impersonator to sing Midler's song, so you know....the default assumption is that it's Midler singing. In OpenAI case unless they presented the voice as being the voice of Johanson, then I don't see how hiring someone who merely sounds like her would be an issue. The "her" tweet from Altman is of course problematic in this light, but I guess it will be left up to court to decide.
These look very specific.

I'd be interested in an analysis of common patterns in marketing pages. We have a pretty good standardized set of components for productive interfaces (buttons, fields, tabs etc.)

But looking at this makes me wonder if there really is a common set of abstractions for marketing pages beyond just throwing out 200 templates and calling them blocks.
Not to be confused with the programming language by WSO2 [1].

[1]: https://ballerina.io/
So what if someone made a digital twin out of you, and started using you in other work? Suddenly you're being used in commercials, political campaigns, spam, or whatever.

I'm not buying that people here are "fine" with this. This is one of those things people might be fine with, until they find themselves in that exact spot.

Now, what kind of people will find themselves in that spot? Celebrities, obviously.

One thing is being used in material that will defame your character (spam, fraud, porn, whatever) - another thing is to be used in material that will potentially take away your livelihood.

If someone clone, say, Tom Cruise - and makes a movie with his digital twin, he sure as shit is entitled to royalties for that. People go to see the movie because they think it is Tom Cruise, not because it's some generic AI avatar of him.
> Motors primarily convert electrical energy (or fluid/air pressure in the case of hydraulic/pneumatic motors) into mechanical motion.

Just like you call it a "hydraulic motor" in the parenthesis, the former is an "electric motor" (or rather, "inductance motor", "reluctance motor", etc.).

The term "motor" is used for any conversion into mechanical power. Molecular motors and motor proteins are such examples of entirely chemical motors, albeit at quite small scales.

(The distinction also appears unique to English, as Germanic languages generally just have "motor".)
> In the end, someone probably felt like it's a bit too dodgy as it resemblance was uncanny, they gave it another go, probably ready to offer more money, she still refused,

That was just a few days before launch, right? What was their plan if she said yes at that point? Continue using the "not-her" voice but say it was her? Or did they also have her voice already cloned by then and just needed to flip a switch?
Liquid Death Rejected Traditional Marketing and Built a Cult Following
But is that the point? Here is a relevant precedence, for instance, that may or may not change your mind:

Tom Waits is a singer known for his raspy singing voice. Back in the late 1980s, Frito-Lay, Inc., the makes of Doritos, thought it was a great idea to run an ad in which the music had the atmosphere and feel of a Tom Waits song. Except the professional singer they hired for that got the job done a bit too well: the sounds of his voice in the commercial was so close to Tom Waits' work (he had for ten years sang in a band covering Tom Waits songs) that in November 1988, Waits successfully sued Frito-Lay and the advertising company Tracy-Locke Inc., for voice misappropriation under California law and false endorsement under the Lanham Act [1].

Now, when you hear Tom Waits speak in interviews, I find that his voice does not sound nearly as raspy as in his performances. But the point is that it does not matter so much whether OpenAI used the actual voice of Johansson or hired someone to imitate her performance.

Given the fact that Johansson was initially contacted by OpenAI to provide her voice and declined, we can surely assume that the selection of the particular voice actress they ended up using was no coincidence.

[1] http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/communications...
Frankly speaking, both sounds plausible!
> This isn't universally true anymore, at least with AWS EKS.

The underlying etcd being encrypted at rest doesn't really change the fact that anything with access to the running etcd has full access to all secrets (okay, there are ACLs, but they're quite complex).
How many people would read that?
They don't need to because you can't argue with success. They continue to have the dominant product in the space for several decades.
There was already evidence of airborne spread during the original short lived 2002 outbreak of Covid.
I don't see how that's relevant here - court cases about situations like these are decided on the criteria of "if you show this to an average person on the street would they be able to tell the difference" not "if you load this up in a specialized piece of software and look at the spectrograph is there a difference".
Yeah I mentioned him only because he is source for this info for me, and I have big respect for his original work and there is good wisdom for me there.

Absolutely 0 respect for after-breakdown-and-addiction period, he is simply a different person, not interesting to me anymore, with political agenda and weird obsessions.
I love the skeuomorphic timer design. The reflections and surface modeling are brilliant. I will be greedy and ask – could you share how you made it? Thanks!
> The density of stress-energy, for matter (or radiation, since you asked about light) is the same with the scale factor slightly smaller and the energy density slightly higher, as with the scale factor slightly larger and the energy density slightly smaller.

So you are saying, there is a semi-reversible process where energy and volume are correlated? That's what I've started with.

Should there actually be some specific amount of energy in place in order this density-to-scale transmutation to happen? What kinds of energy participate in it in our real world scenario? Does it depend on the specific local density (though I've already asked that)?
Which details are you thinking of? I was under the impression that with ray tracing, physically based materials, and fluid dynamics our computers wouldn't be hard-pressed to realistically render a static scene with light (of varying coherence and other properties) going through a piece of plastic and hitting swirling fog.

The parameters of the scene need to be set up, yes, but then it would be just as easy to generate a few thousand frames from it. Also it's easier to version control for experimentation.
> The most annoying part was that I couldn't have throttle on a completely separate control from the rotation axes

You wouldn't want that because throttle is essential for flight control unlike with fixed wing where it's somewhat set and forget in many situations. It's partially alleviated by 'real' radios not having a spring on the throttle axis, so it stays in the position you've put it and part of it is just more practice..
They also asked her multiple times.
What happens if you block “calling home” on a DNS level?
Because the guidelines say:

> Converse curiously; don't cross-examine.

> Assume good faith.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Recently I came across this minimal Linux logo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnu-linux_minimalist...

Although I like the 'amateuristic' style of the old Tux, I must say this new minimal penguin looks really good.
this is fantastic. what a great idea, and i'm so happy that it reached so many people.
> But doesn’t say why ... slow metabolism gives any evolutionary advantages

I imagine the author accidentally thought it was obvious. Having a slow metabolism is an evolutionary advantage in the same way not spending money is a financial advantage. It uses little energy and energy is usually the limit on what animals can do. If you don't spend much money, you don't need to earn much and can just exist. Being a high-earner-high-spender is probably a more efficient equilibrium, but spending nearly nothing works well enough to survive and if someone can spend less than they earn eventually they get wealthy.

If sloths don't do much, they don't need to eat much to balance out the energy expenditure. If they don't need to eat much, they can take less risks and tend to survive. Being slow is one aspect of their strategy of not needing to eat much.
Well, in the context of Lisp, `err != nil` is equivalent to Lisp's parens: if somebody complains about that, chances are their critique is superficial (and there are enough "real" problems when using Go, especially when using goroutines and channels). The amount of low abstraction Go code I write is compensated by the amount of "abstraction boilerplate" like implementing type classes by myself or letting the compiler derive, implementing newtypes, adding GADTs, adding Pattern Synonyms and Type Families to be able to comfortably use the GADTs without much boilerplate and so on. Rust adds for example the need for associated types and is generally more verbose than Haskell.

I do not see a significant difference in the amount of boilerplate needed for catching exceptions, pattern matching or branching on the existence of an error value. Nobody can stop you from implementing `bind` in Go for your error (which I did in some places), but of course Rust "wins" with its `?`.
Usefully albeit depressingly, these days you can often get significantly easier buy-in if you call it a linter instead.
We shouldn't overestimtae the complexity of expressive language like Clojrue vs Go. Go is perfectly simple and easy to follow, even compared with Clojure. If you come from background of Computer Science or programming first, Go is easier to follow.
Is it though? Or did the voice actor try to sound more like Scarlett?
You then tweet out, "look its Brad Pitt in my movie".
Something I find deeply funny about this is the amount of work invested here just to have the default background quality setting in Windows 10 still be < 100%.

That's the Microsoft I am used to ^^
> I think the key difference here is that Ford hired an impersonator to sing Midler's song, so you know....the default assumption is that it's Midler singing

Check out the Tom Waits case.
Yeah but we were also talking about the competitors.
Comes and goes for me
Founders/CEOs don't lose track of equity or contracts around it. Every 1/10 of a percent is tracked and debated with investors.
They contacted Johansson after the Sky voice was created, they didn’t create it because she declined.

The voice actor isn’t a Johansson imitator, and the voice isn’t an imitation.

The only similarity between the Sky voice and Johansson’s is that it’s a white American female, so by your logic a significant percentage of the US population has a case.
I enjoy reading stories like this, considering Emacs is still going today --- and I am a regular!

I use emacs for many programming languages. However, when it came to .NET development (at work) - I had to stick with Visual Studio. I always toyed the idea of Visual Studio Code but, due to some of the projects, it was not easy to do when we were using .NET Framework. Once we were getting closer to .NET Core, however, I knew emacs was becomming a possibility.

My work colleagues see "emacs" on one of my screens at work. They are puzzled why I use it to generate code or do git, etc, with it - but rarely ask questions.

One thing I was surprised about, when we finally moved away from .NET framework to .NET Core (.NET 6 and later) -- I was surprised when one member of the team said he was planning to switch from using Visual Studio.. the IDE, to Visual Studio Code.

I asked why and he said is just likes it behaving more as a text editor than a full development environment. Of course, I understood what he meant by that.

Its weird, especially in microsoft stack land, to hear a .NET developer say this. Truth is -- many seem to be moving to Visual Studio Code. It had to take another Microsoft product to do that, considering we always had vi/vim, emacs, or others like sublime text, etc. Before Visual Studio Code, if I dare mention using a text editor for a .NET project, I would have been given all sorts of puzzled faces. How times change.

Today... while most are still using Visual Studio (IDE).. we now have 2 developers using Visual Studio Code. As for me... I am using:- eglot, company, yasnipet, flycheck, etc... EMACS+Omnisharp!

I even wrote functions to easily create new solutions, projects, unit tests, etc.

Programming is enjoyable with emacs. It makes me happy.
What if that's just the VA's natural voice? Must she stop doing VA?
If you use the expanded definition of engine (e.g., "search engine", where "engine" is mostly used as a synonym of "machine"), then neither is a subtype of the other - they just overlap occasionally.

However, all engines producing motion would also be considered motors (what is under the hood of a classical ICE car is both an engine and a motor, and is just a motor in other Germanic languages), and most motors producing motors would not be referred to as engines (an EV does not have "electric engines").

So for the types of devices where you are likely going to have the discussion - things makings stuff move - motor is the supertype and engine is the subtype.
The final image is shaped by a variety of people observing live changes to the scene and giving inputs. You can't iterate as quickly when you're interrupted constantly by the artist having to modify the scene and then render it. I'm sure you would have made a nice looking image using a digital scene, but I don't think you can duplicate the experience. It would not have been the same creative atmosphere.
In today's climate I can I can infer through OpenAI's past and present actions what their intent was.