skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Information and useful example code were much harder to acquire in those days. Learning to build working software was immensely harder than today because there was nothing to build on. There was almost no meaningful open source on MS-DOS, and certainly no open source game engines.

In that environment a widespread leak of the AGI source might have been significant, at least as an inspiration that would have provided a blueprint of exactly how these most popular PC games of the era were made.
related, you might want to consider changing your username - when I saw your comment I thought you were the Madrid sporting organization and it took me a while to realize.
Related:

Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34314690 - Jan 2023 (9 comments)

Von Neumann’s First Computer Program (1970) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16975366 - May 2018 (18 comments)
>>The Cambridge researchers found that used cement is an effective substitute for lime flux

So they can only "recycle" this concrete as a substitute ingredient during steel making? That cannot scale. We would have to start making epically more amounts of steel in order to process even 1% of the concrete that we would want to recycle.
> And thus concludes my Ted Talk about avoiding external managers.

This was a pretty good Ted Talk!
I'm counting lab grown meat as meat here. I'll still be eating chicken, beef, etc, it just won't have come from a living animal.

My point is that the world is not going to switch to plant or insect protein.
>Good thing that the actress just used her own natural voice then and wasn't going around repeating lines from a movie or dressed up as the more wealthy celebrity.

It isn't about her, it's about how OpenAI used her voice. I'm not sure why that isn't getting through to you. It was already pointed out that there is no dispute with the voice actress. This is a bizarre conversation!

>I would hope that you don't want to ban all her potential customers from hiring her.

Obtusely repeating yourself doesn't change the law nor does it reflect any effort on your part to actually engage in this conversation and my response.

>This is absolutely about her rights to sell her own natural voice to potential customers. If it were illegal for her customers to hire her, then this is basically making her job illegal just because someone who happens to have more money and power than her has a similar voice.

Using the word absolutely does not make you right.

>If it were illegal for her customers to hire her, then this is basically making her job illegal just because someone who happens to have more money and power than her has a similar voice.

It's not illegal for her customers to hire her. It's illegal for businesses to capitalize on the likeness of individuals without that individuals permission. If OpenAI did not make several allusions to ScarJo and Her, there would be no ground to stand on. But they did!
Will it be able to run Linux?
Absolutely. Nowadays sims get more and more realistic and you can definitely learn a lot from them and transfer a big chunk of the learning to real drones.
C. Gordon Bell, Father of the PDP-8 and VAX, Has Died
Related:

The Strangeness of Grief - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21939131 - Jan 2020 (20 comments)
Seems like the "big if feasible" part is reducing concrete to hydrated cement paste.

From actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07338-8

Recovered cement paste (RCP) is not commercially available at scale at present.
. . . The value of the improved recovered aggregates is not at present high enough to cover the extra cost of processing, so RCP is currently landfilled. However, the know-how and the technologies required to produce RCP at scale exist. [22]

22. Thermomechanical beneficiation of recycled concrete aggregates (RCA): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095006182...

The cited paper does not support the assertion that tech to recycle concrete into RCP exists. The paper discusses removing adhered mortar (AM) from recycled concrete aggregate (RCA).
Hey, Turkey bit off a chunk of Cyprus as late as 1974, and they are US allies. The US itself has presided over redrawing the borders in Serbia in the 90s (and somehow in that case the justification of "an ethnic minority wants a chunk of land" was totally legit).
Exactly, PM's kill features but they don't kill products.

This is a decision by the person who hires the PM. This is a VP/director-level decision.
They should put an if results = 0 then post helpful message instead of try broken search again?
Been using the portable version of 1.4 for decades after first coming across it in some PC magazine or something like that many years ago. Not terribly pretty, but it does what I need and it still works.
I have trouble gauging them because they have flooded the DIY youtube crowd with free review units. There is no direct quid-pro-quo that I know of, but it's rare to see a DIY person bash something, and I worry it's out of a fear of biting the hand that gives them free stuff.
they are certainly both the voices of women
It's possible that those who drink wine daily, both cluster together and reinforce each other.

Thus, it may seem like a significant proportion of the population from the perspective of someone who does, or hangs around at least 1 such person.
opcache doessn't cache user data. it's for caching bytecode in memory as long as the php script/server is running

i'd like to see a comparison against a firecracker vm and a docker container
… under what circumstance is Chrome hitting the root DNS servers?
Ranking Science Fiction's Most Dangerous Awards
GraphQL-like features in Django Rest Framework
> What customer discovery have you done so far?

Me and my two cofounders spend the past 4 years working on Mito (https://trymito.io) -- where our customers are primarily large finance shops (including some bulge bracket banks you've heard of) that has a really concrete goal of getting users out of Excel and into Python. It's not every finance shop, but a quite a few are trying to make this transition. This usually means: multi-day Python trainings, a Python support team, a few developers who semi-full-time job is helping transition existing Excel processes to Python.

We built Mito to be a tool for the Excel-first users - we tried to make it easier for them to use their existing spreadsheet skills to write Python. But in working with the developers that support these new Python users, it became clear to us that there's a big pain point around:

1. I'm a dev who was given a big, old Excel file

2. It has a lot of business logic in it, understood by the person who made it, but not by me - who is tasked with turning it into real software

3. I have to spend 100s of hours: trying to understand the file, faithfully replicating the logic, and testing for consistency - to convert this to an Excel process.

I personally have been this developer in quite a few cases - just as support for Mito and helping these Excel users trying to transition to Python. Some Excel files literally take 300+ hours to "rebuild from scratch" in Python. It's often very engaging work, but brutally slow - so we're trying to automate as much as we can with Pyoneer.

> There's a vanishing window for stuff like this, if you're a Microsoft shop like 99% of the corporate world I think you are turning those excel files into power apps and powerBI dashboards, before you are hiring python devs.

I think this is a really fair point! We're not sure exactly what a reasonable business model really looks like, long-term. Right now, we're really focused on finding the developers for-which this is a big pain point, and seeing what we need to prioritize to make their lives better. I'm one of those developers...
What is the alternative? This is not a minor bug; it is a core defect of the current generation of AI. Googles only option is to field AI within the constraints of current technology. Otherwise, they risk loosing marketshare to someone who will.

If the public looses trust in AI, that is not a problem for Google. Their position in the non-LLM search market is much more dominant than their position in the LLM search market.
Its rationalizing inaction, look at what happened in syria. To declare red lines and not stand with your words, make them worthless.
Article misses the fact that a lot of governments in the 70s and 80s (shoutout to Germany especially) put a lot of investment into solar panel adoption, which is part of why the cost dropped so much in the 80s and 90s and 2000s.
Those sound like really large obstacles. Also, projecting this thinking forward, if we have humanoid robots walking around assisting humans, should they not be able to learn from their environment without paying every time they look at a piece of art or read something?
Police drones are an inevitable progression of technology and I'm sure there are many upsides and situations where they would be beneficial. However, I find it hard to believe that 25% of 911 callers would prefer a drone response over an officer's presence. I cannot recall a single instance where a drone would have been an acceptable substitute for a police officer in the handful of times I have personally called 911.
If her lawyers are half competent, then they wouldn’t lie. They may not tell the whole truth, but we’re not discussing what wasn’t said here.

As for your second question, yes. Otherwise you have a perfect workaround that would mean a person likeness is free-for-all to use, but we already decided that is not acceptable.
>No, it has nothing to do with "legislators".

You seem incredibly confused. Legislators pass legislation, not lawyers. So it was never a question as to what lawyers thought reasonable laws are. State representatives determined that it was a good idea to have right of publicity laws and that is why they exist in many large states in the US.

> The "reasonable man" standard is all over case law

Yes, as I already pointed out to you, and another poster did as well, this "reasonable man" standard has nothing to do with your prior use of the word reasonable as an attempt to filter out which laws are the ones you think are okay to enforce.

>You can, as they say, look it up.

You should take your own advice!
I agree, I know so many people who have done similar and more challenging things. GP probably does too, but they would be smart not to open up about it.

I actually went and got my college transcripts and requested my highschool ones but it’s not worth it. I’ll probably just use them if I make a blog post or something.

I sincerely appreciate your encouragement and wish you luck as well!
Agreed. This issue thread makes it apparent why many open source developers give up.
Similarly, 2^n would be a huge overcount of the number of n-bit closed terms, which is given by OEIS sequence A114852 [1]. There are 36140122614 ~ 2^35 closed terms of size 49 bits (length of a straightforward self-delimiting encoding). So in that sense it's still a smaller lambda term computing an incomprehensibly larger output.

[1] https://oeis.org/A114852
Yeah, we built this because we wished we had it! I've spent literally thousands of hours reimplementing Excel workbooks in Python as support for our previous shot at this problem - which was a spreadsheet that generates Python code as you edit it.
This is great! I think your platform can become a new go-to place for keeping up with current research. I keep fingers crossed for you!

Recently I've built something similar [0], but I struggled at getting people on board after initial HN launch

[0] https://www.tldr-ai.org/
Ideas to write emails that get responses
> I don't like being linked directly to the PDF

Not only that, but the button isn't even a link, so you don't know where it's going to. Is this only going to be for Arxiv?
I don't understand what you are saying.

I'm saying it is slower on docker due to container startup, pulling images, overheads, working out what incantations to run, filesystem access, network weirdness, things talking to other things, configuration required, pull limits, API tokens, all sorts.

Versus "go run"
Seriously.

I can't repeat this enough: there needs to be LEGISLATION against this.

If a product needs cloud functionality to operate, there needs to be a legal minimum number of years (5?), and the company should be required to prominently advertise the length of time (so they can compete to guarantee for longer periods of time, like 10 years).
They can’t be made in a factory and thus the learning effect is very small (if it even exists - nuclear reactors have increased in price).
Glad I just had my Samsung repaired last week by ifixit. I replaced the screen which cost $340. Price for the repair felt a bit like extortion but I needed my phone and it was the least painful option. I could have mailed it into Samsung to have the repair done for $200 but who has that kind of flexibility?
Please stop calling it "at the edge." You have seven locations all in highly developed Equinix datacenters.

Edge means getting embedded into ISP networks, cell towers, smaller metros, etc.
I suspect in any solar system, the mass of the non-stars are a rounding error compared to the whole system's mass.
Well, at least in the City of LA it's pretty much illegal to fly FPV (unless commercially, with very involved regulations). But that's also LA so..
There’s a special branch of law called “right of publicity” or “manners and likeness.”

It protect celebrities who rely on endorsements and “who they are” for income.

It very clearly prohibits copycats with near-likeness as a workaround to getting permission from a celebrity.

OpenAI asked SJ to use her voice. That right there helps her case immensely.

She said no. They went ahead anyway, presumably with someone or someone’s with a similar voice.

They publicized the product by referencing SJ.

These facts are damning.

They might be just a part of the story. Maybe 100 actresses, all sounding roughly the same, were given the offer over a two year period.

Maybe they all were given the same praise. Maybe one other, who signed an agreement, was praised on social media much more.

But this isn’t a slippery slope or a grey area. SJ was asked and said no.

That prohibits using a similar sounding copycat and publicizing as SJ.
If the goal was to make the voice sound like the one from Her, then it's still illegal.

Same way you can't get someone who sounds like a famous celebrity to do voice in a commercial and just let people think it's the famous celebrity when it's not
That's reinventing ebs/ami/snapshots. They are already doing it i.e. data goes lazily from s3 to ebs/ec2.
It should be starting at boot if you installed it as a service, so the indexing will be done then. After that opening and searching is instant.
Doesn't make sense if there are alternatives that are at least as cheap without the hassle.
All standard BCL collections (List, Dictionary etc) are reference types. Some associated machinery like enumerators are value types, but that's beside the point here, which is that by default you end up with shared data rather than a (safer) copy. This also means that whenever you return an owned collection you either have to manually copy or wrap it in a readonly proxy to avoid accidental mutation of internal state by the caller.

In contrast, in Swift, Array, Dictionary, and Set are value types, so if you return a collection you own from a function, the caller semantically gets a copy - under the hood they do copy-on-write, so until either side decides to change its collection, they continue to share storage. Similarly for parameters neither the caller nor the callee has to worry about accidentally mutating something someone else owns. And in the rare case where pass-by-ref and its shared mutability is actually desirable, you handle that with `inout` (which is mostly equivalent to C# `ref`, including explicit marker at call site).

The same goes for strings, which in turn allows strings to be mutable like any other collection (since they aren't shared all over the place).

The CLR type system allows for all the same things in principle, yes. And if C# and the BCL were designed from scratch today, I suspect that it would make very different choices. But these are some very fundamental things that were decided 20-25 years ago, and now cannot be changed for back-compat reasons.
To add to this thread -> https://layoffs.fyi/
Millennials Drive EV Adoption in the U.S.
Cement production is a significant contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions. Amazing that the development of effective cement recycling methods is in process.
As per the first sentence on that page, they do. It's just not their only source, and from my experience it is far from the main source. You can see "% of unique Kagi results" on each search; these are the results from their own index.
What OpenAI CEO Sam Altman really expects in AI's future
Yeah it reads like an inexperienced/junior dev found a bug in a production system for the first time, and has a grandiose vision of themselves as saviour of humanity, rather than realising that bugs in software is the normative state of all software development
I switched from Samsung Galaxy (first S, then S3) to OnePlus years back, and I've been a happy camper.

I currently have an OnePlus 9, I've heard no so good (compared to previous) reviews of their newer models, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there. My current phone has been running great for multiple years, minimal bloatware, would recommend.
Currently:

1. Data remains stored in the excel file. The generated script pulls the raw data directly from the notebook - but it's a single read_xlsx call. So if you want to switch it out for an API call, db read, whatever - it's easy to do so.

2. We model data as primitive Python data types, or, if it's a table, as a pandas dataframe.

Currently, we detect at most one table per sheet, and it's gotta be contiguous. These are pretty huge limitations we'll be relaxing soon -- but we wanted to get something out as soon as it would have been useful to one person -- and in it's current state, this would have helped me with some of my larger Excel automation projects :)
> putting the developer in a position where they have to justify themselves

I'm putting those who offer criticism of the community at large in a position to justify why they're surprised by the outcome.

> The developer released a feature that they were probably happy and excited about.

Then they should ignore the criticism. If you want to build what your heart desires there is nothing stopping you.

If you expect the community who uses your software to uncritically accept what you've done and offer no negative feedback then the fact you've given it away for free (while at the same time accepting sponsorship money) is not a valid position to take.
We use buildkite with a customised verison of https://github.com/improbable-eng/perforce-buildkite-plugin/

Our game code is in P4, but our backend services are on GH. Having a single CI system means we get easy interop e.g. game updates can trigger backend pipelines and vice versa.

In the past I've used TeamCity, Jenkins, and ElectricCommander(!)
Sadly it does not help, the files appear to be normal files in the same filesystem, macOS simply does magic behind the scenes.

You have to manually tell ncdu not to scan the ~/Library/Mobile Documents directory.
It depends on instance type and OS and can be real short on ec2.
Gnome: Five-Year Strategic Plan Draft
Lots of big jumps in the article and the devil is in the details. Solar panels have seen a lot of innovation in the last few decades. Simply pumping out tons of 30 year old technology may have stunted that progress or even created so much waste that solar could have been deemed as non-viable. Some panel technologies are really hard to recycle but have held a performance edge at different times in solar tech development. Sometimes going all-in on mass production of something is not worth the short-term savings.
Might depend on what time of day they are posted?
On-device NPU silicon allows AI to increase accuracy, there are hundreds of published papers demonstrating steady progress over the past decade, which are informing the IEEE WiFi protocol standard.

2024 "AI PCs" with Wi-Fi 7 can likely enable WiFi sensing via firmware upgrade.
Often the problem with using excess solar capacity is that the capital cost of the thing that would use it (desalination plants are one example) is so great that it's not cost effective to leave them idle at other times of the day. Any idea whether that would be the case with these arc furnaces as well?
This makes sense because of the other aspects at play in the war, namely no one having clear air dominance, which allows artillery to shape the battlefield. In the shaped battlefield, the hunter-killer type drones have a target rich environment.
Having been intrigued by this (see my other comment) I decided to try out one of the more featureful higher-fidelity simulators, and discovered something else: I get really motion sick after just a few minutes.

Is this

(1) because my turns are uncoordinated,

(2) because I have an incorrectly configured viewport,

(3) because I'm not cut out for FPV flying, or

(4) a matter of persevering and getting used to the perspective?
The voice, or the plot/concept of the movie? Her was a bout an AI having enough realism that someone could become emotionally attached to it. It was not a movie about Scarlett Johansson's voice. Any flirty female voice would be appropriator a "her" tweet.
Interesting. I actually like this behavior and wish more applications would use it!
>it's like the search engine is conspiring against you to more or less find completely useless results.

Has not been my experience at all. Been using ddg as my default for a few years. What kinds of searches do you find frustrating?
> They hired a soundalike when they couldn't get the person they wanted.

Your opinion may vary, but they don't sound alike to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435695
If I’m following, this presents an alternative format and implementation to LEB128 which encodes and decodes substantially faster. Notably, the implementation is quite simple. Cool! And agreed that modern CPUs really suffer from branches.

Should I interpret the plot to mean the average elapsed wall clock time per integer decoded/encoded? And can I conclude the throughput is the reciprocal? So about 100,000 integers per second or around a 1 MB/s of decompressed data.

I know this is a bit unfair because the implementation is much more complex, but my first thought is why I would use vu128 instead of Lemire’s Stream VByte: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08990

A slight tangent but I stumbled on this library which stores floats XOR’ed with the previous float in the stream: https://github.com/velvia/compressed-vec it seems really clever to me! They reference “Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database” which in turn references two 2006 papers: “Fast Lossless Compression of Scientific Floating-Point Data” and “Fast and Efficient Compression of Floating-Point Data”. Frustratingly, the FB paper doesn’t benchmark their XOR-based floating point encoding but the earlier two papers do.
They talk about the limitations of the EC2 autoscaler and mention calling LaunchInstances themselves, but are there any autoscaler service projects for EC2 ASGs out there? The AWS-provided one is slow (as they mention), annoyingly opaque, and has all kinds of limitations like not being able to use Warm Pools with multiple instance types etc.
https://archive.ph/BgDze