skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is puzzling why UK is risking its national security over Ukraine. UK is a small geographical area and all of it will be pulverized in a nuclear exchange.

It would be entertaining if Milei stirs up Falklands dispute and Russia arms him with hypersonic anti-ship missiles. The French betrayed Argentina by sharing Exocet disabling codes with the British. Russians won't.
Maybe in an ideal world but in my area the city can barely keep up with things like basic infrastructure maintenance and trash. Don't think there is a lot of room for things like foresight.

Also have a little issue with things like speeding laws and the police not even following them. I was almost hit by a cop blowing a stop sign literally yesterday.
I'm not unemployed, but I too am worried about this. Practically everything besides big tech has been in a recessionary state for awhile now but the S&P looks great because nvidia's stock went to the moon and a few other tech companies are doing very well... for now. I'm not sure how much longer this can be sustained.
What have they renamed? It seems that everything named copilot is a new service/functionality.
You just submit a text post with “Ask HN” as the title prefix. Same with “Show HN”, it's automatically categorized by title.
Someone please tell them they can wrap that code inside an "if" condition, and continue with the rest of the search.
It's not so bad to get caught flat-footed by something like ChatGPT (of course, it's not like Google didn't have AI stuff in development, for example that thing they showed once and then never brought up again when you could let Google Now talk to call reps), after all it seems like everyone was genuinely caught off guard by that first release of GPT and it's capabilities as a product.

The bigger issue for Google, at least in my view, seems to be that they don't seem capable of responding or competing in a real tangible way. Over the years they've seemingly lost the ability to rapidly and coherently release a product. Instead, you get this bizarre, incoherent, and spasmodic, response from all of these different product teams that don't seem to really work together all that well and don't have a clear product identity.

At this point, I doubt Google can turn the ship around. The company is just a gigantic behemoth of petty fiefdoms that will go the way of the Carolingian empire.
At least for DDG, it's public knowledge.
If you’re worried about the bursting of the AI bubble, then whatever you do, don’t look up “AI winter”.

This has all happened before and will happen again.
Yep, my point is that owner is owner. Owner can give some rights (e.g. to roam), but owner can take them away (to enclose).

But I don't argue whether it's good or bad. I personally don't even know if land ownership is a good thing to begin with. On the other end of range is Communism, that I've experienced personally, and choosing between the two evils I'd choose Monarchy. Probably some middle ground, like land can be leased from government for max 50-99 year at a market price. Or like with the right to roam -- land is owned forever, but government highly restricts the definition of "ownership".
the law translated by deepl is more strict than in my memory:

> The drone must be visible to the naked eye and remain within the pilot's field of vision. Immersion flights (FPV) and the use of follower drones are possible, provided a second person is present.

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F35675/...
Thanks for the tip! However, I get a signature error after freshly adding their repo and trying to install it. Also their QR codes are broken on the website. Are we talking about microg.org?
Yes, unlike google who takes all the pesky account business out of the loop and does the tracking for you!

Either you pay for the product or you are the product for someone else who is paying. I know which I prefer.
I think the biggest issues involved around knowledge/skills/intelligence being potentially linked to genetics is that it often draws the eugenics proponents into the discussion and it's obvious how that conversation ends.
Yes, but there's recently been an antitrust case filed against Apple for the lock in strategy.
I'm afraid that means you don't understand climbing very well.

For almost all climbers, climbing and mountaineering entails a lot of managing risk. It's a constant partner in anything you do, and one thing you learn from climbing is to put in place processes to manage risk, and then trust in them in situations that are scary.
Also a lawyer, and the Middler case is apparently not understood so narrowly. The possible chilling effect on employability of actors who happen to look or sound just like already famous actors rankled me, too, and I really got into it with my entertainment law professor (who has had some quite high profile clients). His advice in no uncertain terms was basically “Sorry to those actors, but if you try to get away with hiring one of them knowing they’re likely to be confused with someone more famous, you’re stupid.”
Nice to see https://search.brave.com/, https://entireweb.com and https://mojeek.com are still kicking it. In case anyone needs to know alternatives besides the monopoly that is Google.
You'll want to be careful about what you measure.

For example, we generally take Forbes as an authority on who's rich, but really rich people tend to be excluded from consideration, because Forbes can only measure certain kinds of wealth, and even when people's wealth mostly exists in that form, it can be hard to see.

Don't confuse a convenience metric with actual inequality.
This is completely unrelated.

We are talking about profitable and established businesses trying to catch the train before it leaves.

I think there is space for a lot of interesting innovations and products in the AI space, even within its current limitations.

But what we're seeing now is not smart, and frankly ridiculous.
I think the point, the author maybe didn't intend it as such, is that Lisp generally encourages the creation of many domain specific languages. You have the tools to fundamental define completely new language abstractions that feel very much like first class constructs both syntactic and procedural.

The comment about C++ is probably mostly for the edge factor but if i was to try to delineate what is different about C++ melting pot vs Common Lisp it would probably be the homoiconicity of CL which for the most part allows far more seamless integration at the syntactic level whereas C++ is required to include an ever increasing and bewildering array of differing syntax constructs.
It isn't just the IRS, every large company hires independent auditors to go through the books and report anything "funny", they generally are required to report illegal findings to the police along with reporting legal things that are against the companies interest.
Distros Used for Gaming: Ubuntu Recovers a Little, Fedora Rises, Pop _OS Sinks
And not just white women, Rashida Jones is biracial and a lot of people think the voice sounds like hers. I agree that it actually sounds much more like Jones’ than Johansson’s - I think I’d be able to accurately distinguish between Sky and Johansson’s voice just about every time, but I’m not sure I would be able to do the same with Sky and Jone’s.

And as far as I can tell, OpenAI also had 4 different female voices - two from the API, and two in ChatGPT. So there are several different types of voices they covered.
They claim on their website (https://duckduckgo.com/about): "We are the independent Internet privacy company", meanwhile they prove otherwise. They depend on Bing API, unlike Brave Search or Mojeek, which are truly independent and respecting privacy.
Do you really think that if most companies were willing to pay 4x more, the criminals would not simply ask for 4x more?

If so, why don't they?
The algorithm was discovered in 1983, and for how computationally cheap it is, I'd say it's pretty convincing. Waveguide synthesis is a generalization of the same idea, often with more realistic results.

Variations on Karplus-Strong synthesis can yield some pretty wacky, dry and plucky types of sounds. In the original paper, the authors propose a variant of the algorithm which involves randomly alternating the sign (+/-) of every sample in the feedback loop, which creates a lot more atonal information in the signal. There’s also a variation floating around which uses an allpass filter in the feedback loop to introduce inharmonicity in the signal, see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpC3t1EVF_Q.
“AI winter”... is long overdue.
I know and agree. The article's claim is that the anonymous voice actress's natural voice sounds identical to the AI-generated Sky voice. That is, VA = AI, not AI = SJ or VA = SJ. Which corroborates with the claim that OpenAI was not asking her to do any particular impression.
So we will still be able to see who liked a Nazi tweet, rather than seeing which Nazi tweets someone liked?
It really isn't the same. Photoshop is

a) not a drawing app

b) an expensive prosumer tool with a UI that rivals airplane instrument panels in terms of density. Most kids would be turned off by that as soon as they open it.

MS Paint OTOH is free and has been built into Windows for decades, so it's often the first drawing app kids use (may be different now because of mobile apps). Either way, the 'loss-of-skills' concern here is correlated with the dumbing-down of computing in general, from Gen Z's confusion about file managers and directory structures, to using Grammarly and ChatGPT to write papers.

When I was growing up, my parents would say "You won't always have a calculator in your pocket". Well, they were wrong, but that doesn't mean I don't still benefit from being able to do math in my head for general life stuff (and back of the napkin calculations at work).
I was diagnosed 15ish years ago when I was 26. I tried medication and absolutely hated it. It changed who I was. Medication is a crutch. If you're completely crippled and you need it, then you should use it temporarily. But be very very careful developing dependence on it and using it instead of doing the work to deal with your behavior.

What worked for me instead of medication:

- Get on a sleep and wake schedule that follows natural sunlight. Try to wake up soon before or right around the time the sun comes up. Plan backwards on when to go to sleep to get the proper amount of sleep you need (I almost always wake up six and a half hours after falling asleep with no alarm, whether I want to sleep in or not), so I usually go to sleep around 11:30 to wake up at 6:00 AM.

- Get on a meal schedule. Whether it's 3 meals or 5 or 6 meals, eat them around the same time, every day. No more skipping lunch, or working through lunch then eating it at 3:00 PM.

- Eat some kind of protein and fat for breakfast. Don't eat breakfast made of sugary carbs (like bread or cereal). Eggs and a breakfast meat are really good. Steel-cut oatmeal cooked in a rice cooker and eaten with peanut butter and fresh fruit is also very good.

- Workout regularly. I lift weights in the moring 4x a week, and I'm on a program that uses progressive overload, meaning I'm making continuous (but slow at this point) progress. Having a goal that improves yourself is the key here.

- Spend time away from your phone and computer outside. Hiking, birding, fishing, surfing, hunting, etc. Do something that takes you out of your four walls and puts you into a place with plants and animals, and do it regularly.

- Pay attention to your behavior. Be wary of getting into a hyper focused flow for hours where you ignore everything else (like lunch). Similarly, pay attention when you find yourself bouncing around. Becoming aware of when you're doing this is a big step to breaking the habit and forcing yourself to focus or take a break. I'm not saying getting into a state of flow is bad, I'm saying staying in a state of flow for hours on end where you ignore everything else isn't healthy or sustainable.
Do you really understand the scale of this (ongoing) investment? I'm not sure I'd classify this as "Absurd" - the value of DDG is not yet-another (tm) search index but the specific values they add on top. When you have limited resources I'd say they're making the right choice.
I feel like maybe this is your network. I've been using Kagi for months and have never even once had this happen, nor has anyone, ever, not even once, reported this kind of issue on the Discord.
These days in JS you can just use let instead of var and it will work, but in itself that inconsistency is a bit weird
does it involve monads?
Bing does not work me at the moment (maybe they can service partial traffic? Unclear if it’s better/worse than a few hours ago when the outage started)
Why does risk management go out the window? Don't you highlight a single vendor in your BCP plan? Raise the risk, do some quick analysis on how to mitigate that risk and let someone sign off on it.

Accepting the risk doesn't mean 'going out the window'.
It’s a cloud IDE, with 1-click deployments, a great code-focused LLM, and can be used from almost any device. Agree the home page can be tightened up, but if any of that sounds interesting, just give it a try.

I’m a hobbyist coder (not full time dev), and it’s been wonderful for me. Zero time to set up an environment (this is the huge one for me), super easy pushes to prod, and I can use my PC or iPad to code equally as effectively (really).
I wonder if there's anything in their contract with Bing that prevents this.
Danny Calegari seems like that rare combination of humility, insight, and empathy. Some really good quotes in this interview:

> If you want to go into mathematics, doing the mathematics itself has to be the thing that’s the reward, because no one cares, and what’s considered important doesn’t always make sense. ... I think 100% of mathematicians think that no one cares, that no one even knows anything about their best work.

> G.H. Hardy was once asked what distinguished Ramanujan as a mathematician. One of the things he said was that Ramanujan had a remarkable capacity for coming up with hypotheses very quickly, but that he was also very quick to revise his hypotheses. He was nimble: If something didn’t work, he was able to pivot and revise his way of thinking.

> the same kind of psychological pressures that make it difficult for people to deal with failure are at work in making it hard for people to carefully and critically evaluate arguments that they have a huge personal investment in being correct.

> One of the great, tremendously useful and valuable functions of good writing is that it gives you a way of seeing what it’s like to be other people. You can see inside people’s heads. This is one of the great gifts of literature: You get to see that everyone else is weird, too, not just you.
This is not even remotely true. Corporate earnings are growing strongly across almost all sectors (https://www.usbank.com/investing/financial-perspectives/mark....)
Mail from European Parliament about employee data leak
Post contains an email from European Parliament about leaked personal details.

Translation of partial Dutch part:

It is the criminal records, employment contracts and passports of all accredited parliamentary assistants (or, in other words, all assistants to more than 700 MEPs) of the European Parliament. Those assistants (and former assistants) were already warned about this in May, and yesterday they received info about where 'external parties' all have had 'access' to. And so it turns out: quite a lot. “Identity card or passport, Extract of criminal records, Civil status certificates, Certificates and other documents to determine the residence or domicile, Education or experience supporting documents, Military obligations certificate, Declaration of honor documents made by data subject, Documents to establish the individual entitlements, Contract and additional administrative documents.”
Animating Ptolemy's Equant with Python, SVG, and CSS
You said slow...but even trying that landing page took 4 seconds for me.
wait, if you typed that into DDG and it brought you here, then how is it not working? if that's not what you meant, you worded your "DDG is not working at all, so I jumped onto HN to look for a thread about it" comment very strangely
Ukraine already does the mothership thing using a larger multicopter, and there is a company working on the autonomy part. They are supposedly close to releasing the product.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428492
Exactly. See Brave Search, they are much newer but did it right.
A PhD only proves you can stick through on a research project for 4-5 years and can convince 3-4 other PhDs that you are a competent scientist

So it doesn't necessarily correlate with research aptitude. I've known incompetent PhDs and incredibly talented folks who only had a BS

...but for a company as distracted by shiny things as Google, where a major trust problem is that they get bored and drop products after a couple years, maybe they should look at "ability to stick things through" as an important qualification
DynaButtons: Fast Interactive Soft Buttons with Analog Control [video]
What tanepiper is saying is mostly correct, especially the part that late-onset ADHD is not really a thing. Genetic condition is kind of an inaccurate statement, though, in my experience as a psychiatrist-scientist. You can liberally say that ADHD is ~75% [1] heritable (based on twin studies) which is pretty high. However, data suggest that even though DSM requires a binary definition of the disorder, in truth it is more like a spectrum and less like e.g. bipolar disorder type I which you either have or you don't despite the fact that severity may vary. For example in a recent study, we found that among people, a high polygenic score (PGS; a kind of way to score individuals for genetic liability based on published studies that associate genetic variants with a disorder) is associated with typical deficits in cognitive functions found in ADHD even in the absence of a diagnosis [1]. I conceptualize it as another lever within the natural variation of how brains work and are tuned for different environments.

Now visiting the late-onset part, I have mostly seen it in clinical practice in individuals who had ADHD traits already (may not have met diagnostic criteria) that got really worse after traumatic brain injury and/or worsening of a comorbid mental health conditions e.g. their anxiety or their depression. The natural progression of ADHD for most is to get better over the years as they develop compensatory habits and/or choose lines of work that make ADHD traits less of an obstacle; some believe that also brain maturation kind of catches up at some point which is an incomplete cure. However, the effects on confidence and self-perception are long-lasting...

Another misconception is that high IQ corrects for ADHD traits, this has been mostly rebutted in both clinical literature and we have a genetic study under review that mostly replicates that. Finally, there is an overlap in signs when comparing "bored" gifted individuals and ADHD individuals which can be confusing... Unfortunately, smart individuals with ADHD (of the inattentive type) get enough performance to fly below the radar of diagnosis which ultimately hurts them or delays them from realize "their full potential".

1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01285-8 and for open-access see manuscript at PMC: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10914347/
Ford hired impersonators, she's not an impersonator, that's her real voice.

She's allowed to be a voice actor using her real voice.

Your can point to the "Her" tweet, but it's a pretty flimsy argument.
I don't think so. People already start to realize that AI won't solve everything in the near future and will hire soon also more engineers again, when the bubble bursts engineers will be valued better again and more jobs should open
The notice helped me realize that Yahoo! Search still exists xD
One may as well claim that Excel is a gateway drug to learning PEMDAS.
This. Its what people want to hear. If you heard that voice in a vacuum with no context and asked someone what famous person is it, I doubt many people would say Johansson. Some, sure, but not the majority.

The only thing Sam did wrong was play too fast and loose with the implication of "Her" given that he had been talking to ScarJo. Lawyers should have told him to just STFU about it.
There are people using dwm on the Mac. I’ve never tried that myself.
>What I do observe is that society is more diverging between the haves and the have-nots.

The next hype could be private security via weaponized drones!
> Danish heritage

Swedish, I would have guessed? Danes much more frequently use "Johanssen" with an 'e', AFAIK.
Water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas directly causing the warming of the globe. If the question is, what is the primary cause of the modern differential in the warming of the globe, there's a different answer. But if answering the literal question rather than an implied question is wrong, it's a lousy question.
They could reccomend calculus videos all day long, people will ignore them and watch the stuff they find entertaining. Its not YouTube's job to rush behaviours down users throats. If they want to learn calculus, its there.
Hey, I made you (and maybe a few other people) go look up those numbers to make sure this Russian troll isn't lying, and think about what they mean. That's already better than the usual "Putin evil, QED".

America has done a good job at nation building in the New Ukraine. They built a new country in Israel's image: ethnocentric and very militarized, with a strong warrior ethos. But you just can't resist adding a Gaza Strip, can you?
So basically DDG is the wrapper for Bing Search, not an "independent" search company as they claim.
Even a ton of non-tech companies are rushing to retool their data systems and pipelines so they can ask AI trivial questions about their business. It’s crazy, but CEOs love the demos. The number of graphs and dashboards they could have had manually-created for the same money… good thing they’re all super-good at business and don’t just chase whatever fad comes along.
When did ‘aesthetic’ become a descriptive adjective
Yes, but there's a sampling bias. Most people (where I live) send their kids to school. So the "people you choose" to associate with during has to be drawn from a smaller population that has self-selected into that group for reasons I may or may not be aligned with.
>Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image generation, I think).

Because such branding deserves a snarky tone.
The problem is everyone else is guaranteed to be banned indefinitely.
What would be the rest if they don't have their own index?
> it's still hard to believe they didn't intend it to sound like the voice in her though:

Especially when you have ex-OAers, who had been working there at the time on 'J.A.R.V.I.S.', tweeting things like https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106 "The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson."
The number one thing is making sure I get enough quality sleep. Nothing else is even close!

I say "quality" sleep because think I had minor sleep apnea for years and if you have anything like that going on, it won't matter if you get 8 or even 10 hours per night of sleep. As far as medication:

- Stimulant meds were like a magic cure at first, but over time they lost efficacy and they made me more high-strung

- Modafinil (if you can get it) is a little less effective for ADHD but seems to have less downsides

Lastly, you may wish to consider treating anxiety as well. After years of semi-successfully treating ADHD directly I came to the conclusion that I had an anxiety issue as well. I'm not exactly an "anxious person" but even a little bit of anxiety really screws with my ADHD and can create a downward spiral.