skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree with your second paragraph. I don't think it's helpful to label it as a "disability". Although the medical term is "disorder", at least for me, this kind of thinking got me digging a hole for myself that I had to climb out of. According to recent research, ADHD may be the fruit of evolution, making us focus on what's important and discarding the mundane. This makes us incredibly creative, out-of-the box thinkers and very efficient at tasks that truly engage us. Once I focused on that idea, I could start working on my strength, and stop "curing" my shortcomings.
Double Dragon II: The Revenge for DOS from 1989 was distributed on two floppy disks, one of which contained the entire source code in a deleted archive file, invisible from the DIR command but easily recoverable: https://tcrf.net/Double_Dragon_II:_The_Revenge_(DOS)
It's too bad that EBS doesn't natively support Copy-On-Write.

Snapshots are persisted into S3 (transparently to the user) but it means each new EBS volume spawned doesn't start at full IOPS allocation.

I presume this is due to EBS volumes being specific-AZ so to be able to launch an AMI-seeded EBS volume in any AZ it needs to go via S3 (multi-AZ)
> are likely to be in the opposite camp

Why do you think so?
It’s LLMs all the way down
US Air Force releases first official pics of B-21 bomber in flight
can people submit papers/links or is it curated by you/scraped by you?
Fortunately it is not true, but were it otherwise, it would be a black day for Linux on the desktop.
We can spot the orphan stars at this distance. However, Euclid needs to turn to closer targets than the Pegasus cluster to spot rogue planets.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/23/eucl....

In this case, it found dozens of rogue planets in the Orion nebula, which is only 1,500 ly away.

I am presuming there are also going to be great numbers of rogue planets in deep space, not tied to any star or galaxy. But there would be no way for Euclid to spot them at that distance. Stars were hard enough.

I presume, in due time, there will be some sort of calculable estimation or projection of orphan stars and rogue planets per cubic parsec or kilosparsec.
Malicious PyPI packages targeting highly specific macOS machines
The S-matrix is the oracle physicists turn to in times of crisis
Comcast Bundles Netflix, Peacock, and Apple TV Plus for $15 / Month
Yeah, 10% about jives with what I would expect under the assumption that the generated text needs to be non-deterministic (I.e. no careful prompt tuning and turning the temperature down to basically 0).

An interesting flip side I was just thinking about is the AI saying too much. NPCs keeping secrets until the player gets enough reputation or does a favor or whatever is pretty common. I wonder how good they are at keeping those secrets.

Prompt injection is one thing, and vaguely equivalent to cheat codes which is fine, but what is the likelihood that a player just asking for more info ends with the AI spitting out the secret without completing the quest? Will the AI know to unlock the next area or whatever, because there's no reason for the player to do that NPCs quest?

Should be neat stuff, I'm looking forward to how this all works together when the kinks get ironed out.
Does anybody fly Ardupilot? Last time I was really into flying I used DRonin, which sadly got abandoned. I have a real aversion to BetaFlight, though I know it's got 90% of the market; however, Ardupilot seems to have a reasonably active community.

I don't really care about freestyling - I'm more interested in cruising over forest canopy, and having a reliable return to home function if radio signal gets lost. (I have probably 15 built out airframes; over time I probably need to replace defunct hardware, but a lot of it still seems reasonably acceptable. Quite a few f7 controllers for example.)
Well it was cited so by definition it's citable.

I don't like discord but... The people doing research have chosen this method of collaboration. I like their research. Let's not be choosing beggars and tell them how to conduct their research.
Germany grossly out-produced America — until America actually started trying.
> Can't help but see some parallels between this and current Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI debacle.

I think that's why this was posted... I saw it referenced in a comment on that thread.
The number of parentheses is the same, they're just in a different place. Isn't it tiring to type so many semi-colons and commas all the time?
What is the signal being derived never having declared bankruptcy? Doesn't that mean, comparatively, they're extracting more money from customers than the rest of the industry and spending less on things like maintenance? Both of those sound like bad things to me.
It sounds like the person you're replying to has a future career in QA at Boeing.
I had to cease Mirtazipine due to nightmares - or more specifically, because I was waking my wife up from the screaming. Never happened before nor since, and I can remember some of them still. Terrifying
This gels with my experience (purdue physics/math grad 2011). It also reflected in the composition of staff for the departments. I think to field a robust math department you don't need the staff levels that you do to field a dual theoretical/experimental program in something like physics or chemistry.

e.g. at MIT the ratio of grad students in physics/math is 2.4 even though the undergraduate programs in Math (especially if you include Math+CompSci) are much greater

https://registrar.mit.edu/statistics-reports/enrollment-stat...
TBF, the blender version you reference was from an animation, not the first single still render.

blender (frame 0): https://i.imgur.com/XIV8Hma.png

original: https://i.imgur.com/GGwVibG.jpeg

Also, it includes a caveat:

> Unfortunately, due to the nature of volumetric rendering, I was unable to economically render the final animation at a high resolution with enough samples. So I had to resort to denoising, which sadly degraded the image quality and made it a bit flickery.

> Perhaps, with enough computing power, I'll be able to return to this project in the future and provide a cleaner final render.
The first CV-Builder that teaches you how to pass the ATS barrier
I read the writeup, sounds interesting. My company bought me a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine in 1982 so I understand the desire for ‘turtles all the way down’ Lisp environment.

All that said, starting with a plain Linux or macOS setup, and build an environment with Emacs, a few Schemes, SBCL or LispWorks, etc. yields a more productive environment that my old Lisp Machine.

I will follow this project, looks really interesting.
>Looking/sounding like somebody else (even if its famous) is not prosecutable.

Great, then we agree. :^)
Possible generation of heat from nuclear fusion in Earth's inner core
Russia says it will strike British targets if UK weapons are used in Russia
I've really enjoyed using the Car Thing in my 14 year old Mazda CX9. My car shows no signs of failing, so I don't anticipate replacing it anytime soon for one with Carplay.

The Car Thing is so much more convenient than unlocking iPhone with my face, opening spotify, futzing around on the phone to change songs or playlists or whatever. And its easily accessible to my passenger. Its a far better interface than phone for use in the car! Its one of the main reasons I haven't switched to Apple Music which is bundled with my cell phone plan. I guess Spotify just wants me to got to Apple Music.
my comment has nothing to do with Tesla's overinflated stock price

I don't like Tesla's leadership (Elon) but I disagree that the product is bad; everyone I know who owns one (including myself), is happy with it, and it's still far more popular than other EVs. Not my favorite EV, but they got a lot of things right.
> The need to define all 5 has basically nothing to do with C++'s heritage. If you allow those operations to be defined, they all must be defined when you define one of them.

I'm sorry, that is not true at all.

Nothing forces you to add implementations, at least not for all cases. That's only a simplistic rule of thumb that helps developers not well versed on the rules of special member functions (i.e., most) to get stuff to work by coincidence. You only need to add a, say, custom move constructor when you need it and when the C++ rules state the compiler should not generate one for you. There's even a popular table from a presentation from ACCU2014 stating exactly in which condition you need to fill in your custom definition.

https://i.sstatic.net/b2VBV.png

You are also wrong when you assert this has nothing to do with C++'s heritage. It's the root cause of each and every single little detail. Special member functions were added with traits and tradeoffs for compatibility and ease of use, and with move semantics the committee had to revisit everything over again but with an additional layer of requirements. The rules involving default move constructors and move assignment operators are famously nuanced and even arbitrary. There is no way around it.

> There is a neater design in rust (...)

What Rust does and does not do is irrelevant. Rust was a greenfield project that had no requirement to respect any sort of backward compatibility and stability. If there is any remotely relevant comparison that would be Objective-C, which also took a minimalist approach based on custom factory methods and initializes that rely on conventions, and it is a big boilerplate mess.
Yeah, agree, but they don't have to cancel the disparagement clause. They could just eat the PR hit. Allowing former employees to talk freely seems risky to me (if I were them). I think we can give them back 5 points for this move but still leave them at -995 overall.
What was interesting is that Southwest has been part of GDS allowing agents and corporate travel bookers to compare fares. Always seemed consumer unfriendly.
Anecdotally, I had a grandfather I never met who had built his own house on a nice plot of land out in the sticks, and that's something I'm obsessed with doing in the future. My father also worked in tech, but didn't really pass knowledge to me.

Though, both of these things are almost stereotypical [1]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vnmmuo/whe...
What if China actually started trying? They have 3x the population that the US has.
> What should I do with the device?

> We recommend resetting your Car Thing to factory settings and safely disposing of your device following local electronic waste guidelines.

It's not everyday that the manufacturer of a working product tells you "throw it in the trash". I wish someone would force them to make a recall instead.
There’s literally thousands of flirty female voices which would have sounded like a different actress, singer, etc who they didn’t approach and therefore would have been less risky.

Really using a voice on a digital assistant that sounds like the actress playing a role of a digital assistant is just dumb. Especially if you then tweet about the film days before releasing the voice.
So how do these relate to ingénue ?
I don't think the parent's comment was that strange of a way of characterizing it.

Yes, they block other tracking scripts, but since they have an explicit exception for tracking from Microsoft, it's not a complete stretch to say they were "tracking for MS"; I know technically it's Microsoft doing the tracking, but DDG gives them explicit permission to do so. I think that it's a distinction without much of a difference, and I don't think it's unfair to extrapolate a bit. If they're being misleading about the types of tracking in their mobile app to make Daddy Microsoft happy, why the fuck would I believe their claims that their search engine (which is more or less a proxy for Bing) would be immune from it?

It actually really upset me; I was a big user and advocate of the DDG browser on iOS and Android, but when that news came out it felt like a big betrayal. I haven't used any DDG product since then, and while I have no idea what kind of trackers they block (if any), I just use Firefox Focus now with Kagi search.
Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet
> it violates the security ... of the operating system

Maybe stating the obvious, but if the security can be violated that easily, it's not very secure.
>It wasn’t common for people to write multiple-author papers when I was a grad student; now it’s rare for a paper to have fewer than three authors.

I thought that's because people are trading. I'll put your name on my paper if you put mine on yours.
Pixar IPs are still wildly popular and the movies sell themselves just by being called the new pixar movie. Just another case of current disney leadership squandering another one of their dozen plus golden geese. Too bad its probably the workforce that produces profitable things that needs to bear the cost of layoffs and not management who had decided poorly as of late.
> with his own money

Could someone confirm that? SpaceX raised money last year [0], however I couldn't find how much of this money (if any) went to the Starship program.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/02/spacex-raising-750-million-a...
Its pretty clear to you because you seem to think the world is black and white and you are very self assured. However I can tell you, whether you believe me or not, that was most certainly not intended or implied (either knowingly or unknowingly). Any way please continue to speak my intentions with your self proclaimed authority.
Kind of, not in that there is a binary “celebrity/not-celebrity” divide, but the interest protected and the potential for damages from violating them are associated with the kind of public commercial exposure that is associated with celebrity.
So much for generative art in product design.
Germany: Antisemitic incidents in Berlin hit record levels
This reminds me of the famous photo from filming the Star Wars intro text:

https://www.metaflix.com/behind-the-scenes-of-star-wars-open...
I don’t think there’s an XKCD for this, but there is a Sesame Street:

https://youtu.be/aCsY3REaADo?si=ODNcG3LvXNPxYSyQ
Were I not also raising a toddler, learning how to throw pottery, and writing a novel on top of my day job I would consider it :) the last two years have taught me though that touching grass is way more important than maintaining a tech blog.
Well, maybe that perspective explains why it takes 6+ hours to update any status page then: "welp, shit's broke, better wait for the management team to wake up to tell anyone"
Making it a criminal offense for a corporate officer to authorize a ransom payment would mostly eliminate the financial incentive. Very few employees will risk going to federal prison to protect their employer. Especially for publicly traded companies, large expenses are audited and difficult to hide.
The Delorean was chosen because it's horrendous 0-60 times made the acceleration to 88mph a believably difficult to achieve goal for the protagonist.
This might be a silly question, but how does this even happen?

I would have thought they’d finalise the game, get a ‘master’ of sorts and then send it to a mass production facility - how would the deleted archive end up on the master? Did they accidentally copy it over, then remove it before shipping?

Edit: definitely should have read the comments here before adding my own!
Why does the UI make it difficult to read the text?
That is a bit harsh. I think the OP had good intentions, but I agree that focusing on breaking habits might be the wrong way to go here. I think medication works for some, therapy for others. But the focus really needs to be on finding your strengths, which are also part of your ADHD brain, and working on those.
Is this a real research group?

The use, twice!, of the phrase "biiiig, cheeeap grid batteries" in a research report would make me doubt their credentials.

Plus it's just a weirdly rephrased take on the duck curve that people have talked about for over a decade. Here's a 2017 presentation on how to respond to it.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/confronting-duck-curve-...
The link is to Reuters so we don't need to be exposed to the Reddit comments, do we?
Kagi's main results come from Google actually.
(edit: see https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-google.html - Kagi really shows how good Google could be, since it's mostly using the Google index and then doing user-friendly things instead of user-unfriendly things on top)
They are both stupid and paranoid. I call it Chicken Little Syndrome. They've convinced themselves that the sky is falling and start looking for any chunk of blue they can find to prove it.
Note that the latest version of this wallpaper is CGI. [1]

[1] https://mspoweruser.com/new-default-windows-10-light-theme-w...
Daylight Computer
Ahhh the good old days before Frito Lay murdered people who were about to win lawsuits against them.
The UI displaying the SW price for two checked bags next to the Delta price for zero checked bags is the issue. it's like comparing "the cheapest Mac laptop vs the cheapest windows laptop" vs "the cheapest Mac laptop vs equivalently spec'd windows laptop", and not trusting consumers or the price comparison UI to know the difference.
I think they did answer it. Streamlining means that they no longer want to spend resources on this.

They don't mind that their customers paid them for it.
If you paid with PayPal you can still file a dispute there. The seller in the U.S. was called Luzern (working on behalf of Spotify).

EDIT: don't waste your time, PayPal auto-denied it because it's been >180 days since the transaction ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I guess we'll see what the pricing is for school districts, but I expect it to be much lower than most educational tools, again given that it's made by Khan Academy which has proven that it's not out for the money. But something's got to cover the cost of the servers--maybe school districts will find sponsors. Overall, even if only parents and teachers use it, I'd say it's a big step forward.
> its inconceivable the majority of the team at OpenAI haven't at least seen part of the film that almost defined their industry

Let's not exaggerate. It was a somewhat popular movie, yes, but not really defining and far from the first example of conversational AI speaking woman's voice. There are plenty of examples in movies and TV shows.

If anything, the seminal work in this space is Star Trek casting Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as the voice of computer systems with conversational interfaces, as early as 1987 (or 1986, if she had that role in the Original Series; I don't remember those episodes too well), all the way to ~2008 (or to 2023, if you count post-mortem use of her voice). That is one distinctive voice I'd expect people in OpenAI to be familiar with :).

Also, I can't imagine most people knowing, or caring, who voiced the computer in Her. It's not something that most people care about, especially when they're more interested in the plot itself.
“Scientifically standard” are the SI prefixes. So, given the ambiguity of what 1 gigastar is (1/1000th of 1 terastar or a really huge star?) one should say “10¹²s of stars” maybe.
I knew someone who decorated their apartment with Panera artwork after the location that they worked at closed down. They told me that it otherwise would’ve been thrown away. Pretty nice artwork all in all.
This article has a bunch of stuff asserted as facts that just aren't.

As mentioned in another comment, there was nothing technically advanced about AGI itself. If other studios wanted to get into adventure games they didn't need to steal AGI to do it. And no one with a functioning brain would have used a stolen game engine for a commercial game. Companies don't want to give away their code but in the case of adventure games it's not because they are worried about their competitors.

The other assertion that's off-base is that this would have been a sackable offense. No. Sierra still had legal protection against competitors using their game engine. This goof, while a little embarassing, had no real financial or security or any other damaging implications for the company. I doubt anyone would have gotten any more than a talking to about how to avoid it happening again.
Norway bans entry for most Russians
Chances that China is starting to build pretend-planes to be used as bombers for South-East Asia?
scraped by me. you're interested in posting your own?
I'm not convinced A.I. will disappear anytime soon, either. It's way too useful, even if it's wrong sometimes.

Just in my personal life:

GitHub Co-Pilot: I love this tool and really don't like working without it. Is it perfect? No. Does it make mistakes? Yes. But I think of it as having a full-time junior developer working under me. They can take care of a LOT of the boilerplate crap while I focus on the more difficult parts of programming.

GPT4: Has replaced most of my internet searches. It's so easy to ask it focused questions and get a reasonable answer, or, a starting point for more in-depth research.

Kagi's Summarizer: I like being informed on world events, but, every news org likes to write 9000 page articles for the most mundane things. With Summarizer, I can, get a nice bullet-pointed list of facts without all the fluff. In turn, I can get through much more news quickly.

Apple Photos: I use A.I. recognition of various objects and the ability to search for them almost daily.

Grammarly: It prevents me from sounding like the absolute idiot I am in online conversations.

I'm very eager for A.I. stuff to be integrated into more tools, such as my file manager. How amazing it would be if I could just point an A.I. system at a directory and say something along the lines of "Please organize this using Johnny.Decimal." or "Please find all documents related to my financials."
I don’t think you get it. It’s actually impossible for other countries to beat the US at anything.
EBS is great for workloads that dont require SSDs, which most don't.

If it does, you can do provisioned which will get you alot more or go NVME.
I'm also curious, legally speaking, is it an issue even if Sky's actress does sound like Scarlett? What if OpenAI admits they intentionally chose someone who sounded like Scarlett? Does it matter whether she was using her natural speaking voice or intentionally mimicking Scarlett's voice and mannerisms?

This seems similar to the latest season of Rick and Morty. Whether justified or not in that particular case, it rubs me the wrong way a bit in principle to think that a production can fire someone only to hire someone else to do a near-perfect copy of their likeness. If (as in the OpenAI case) they'd gone further and trained an AI on the impressions of Justin's voice, would that have been considered an AI impersonation of Justin with extra steps?

All of which is to say, this seems like a pretty interesting legal question to me, and potentially broader than just AI.
And yet the best wallpaper they ever used was a lucky fluke by the photographer, who was driving through Sonoma after a rainstorm, in a year where they had to burn the vines off a hillside due to blight infection.
If you buy a plane ticket for the future, in a bankruptcy, you become an unsecured creditor of the airline.

That means the airline could have taken your money, spent it, and the bankruptcy court can say that they don't actually have to honor your ticket because it falls below the line of the things the airline has money to actually pay people back for. And then you have to go buy another ticket on another airline.

Beyond that, Southwest is known for loading and unloading their planes efficiently: https://www.npr.org/2015/06/28/418147961/the-man-who-saved-s...
Woah, I didn't realize HN harbored this much anti-copyright sentiment.
I switched to Brave search; I think their search results are from a search engine they acquired, so they don't use Bing or Google unless you tell them to 'mix in' those results. I've actually found Brave search's results to be more accurate and less spammy than Google's, but they still exhibit similar biases in predictable areas.