skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It blew up by way of people believing it was an intentional SJ deepfake/soundalike hired due to being rejected by SJ. I think this article effectively refutes that.

I don't think it blew up by way of people believing simply that those doing the casting could have a hint of a subconscious bias towards voices that sound like celebrities. To me that seems like trying to find anything to still take theoretical issue in, and would've just been about something else had they made the casting selection provably unbiased and thoroughly documented.
Adobe Express
You pay with your data instead, which is a fair choice.
Proof of geometric Langlands conjecture so complex almost no one can explain it
You will like @minimaxir's hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

Some other interesting ones;

- Hacker News Rankings https://hnrankings.info

- Stories removed from Front Page https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals

- Title Edit Tracker https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app
Inertia of languages like Java, C, C++, C#, etc. due to university and existing projects. Also managers wanting a huge recruiting pool.
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LM Studio on MacOS provides an estimate of whether a model will run on the GPU, also lets you partially offload.

The underlying CLI tools do this, the app makes it easier to see and manage.
Babies are definitely hardwired to be attracted by the contrast of skin / areola on the female breast. Once they have targeted this contrast, they will do a very typical (also hardwired) "search" for the nipple: they come very close to the breast, open their mouth, do exploratory sucking via fast breathing, and quickly move their head left and right until they have "docked" on the breast. They start doing this minutes after birth (they are also hardwired to search for the breast when placed on the mother right after birth), and stop once their sensory systems are fully developed and they have learned how mom looks, how mom smells, and where mom's breast is (after 1-2 months). On my own child, I even noticed how it once mistook the snout of a teddy bear for a female breast.

The "will suck at anything" instinct is IMHO a fall-back mechanism if for some reason a female breast is not available.
Hadn't heard of this before, nice! Do you happen to know how they create/generate the diagrams on their homepage?
Same here. Browser went haywire and was displaying mangled fonts. Had to kill it.
With a large number of small providers, more often than not some of them will fail on any given day, but stars need to align really well to get a half-of-the-internet-is-down kind of failure caused by AWS or Cloudflare.
> indicating her voice was protected against unauthorized use

But it wasn't her voice, it was the voice of the impersonator. By that logic, the impersonator can never speak without authorization because the impersonator would use Bette Midler's voice.
i wonder about the reception if apple were the first ones to introduce this concept, and emphasize the "on-device" nature. they have done this for other things in the past and did not get much backlash.

to not disregard the obvious oversight made here, m$ can still make some slight changes based on existing stuff to make this more palatable.

for one, android has a mechanism to prevent screenshots inside certain apps. (https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/admin/De...) there should be a windows api that allows apps to use that. this, if implemented in browsers for certain websites, alone will take away a lot of nervousness around this.

trust issues against m$ is warranted and it is up to them to earn it back. since windows 10, however, the trajectory has been on the other direction. despite this, it does not take a lot to continue their boiling frog attitude with this.
Not kidding but my real world is based on authority and arbitrary rules - see laws, police, bosses, army, traffic...
* indices

> Doesn't vector search solve a lot of these problems? These AI vector spaces seem like a really easy win here, and they're reasonably lightweight compared to a full LLM.

Yes and no. What do you vectorize? The whole document? The whole page? The whole paragraph? How you split your data, and then index into it, is still problem-space dependent.

* Latency

> I don't want to call this a solved problem, but it is one that scales horizontally very easily and that a lot of existing tech is able to take advantage of easily

Any time you add steps, you increase latency. This is similar to traditional search where you e.g. need to fetch relevant data but scored based on some user-specific metric. Every lookup adds latency. Same is true for RAG.

* Correctness

> They LLM tooling doesn't necessarily need to make things worse here, although poorly designed it definitely could. AI can do a first pass at fact checking, even though I suspect we'll need humans in the loop for a long while.

Again, this comes back to how you index your data and what results are returned; similar to traditional search. This is problem-space dependent. Plus, we haven't solved LLM hallucinations -- there are strategies to mitigate it, but not clearcut solution.
This. I've been loving Zig for some years now, but still write a lot of embedded C at work.

I've started to use simple memory arenas in C and it just feels so damn _nice_.

There's basically a shared lifetime for most of my transient allocations, which are nicely bounded in time by a "frame" of execution. Malloc/Free felt like a crazy amount of work, whereas an arena_reset(&ctx) just moves a pointer back to the first entry.

Another person pointed out that arenas are not destructors, and this is a great point to make. If you're dealing with external resources, moving an arena index back to the beginning does not help - at all.
How do kids end up "genuinely smart" or "have discipline"?

If your parents are rich and have are around and can provide excellent schools, nutrition, love and care, pay for extra-curricular activities etc, you are far more likely to end up being "smart" and "have discipline" than someone who grows up in a family where parents are absent, they have to go to an inner city school, they can't afford school trips, instruments, extra-curricular activities, since they have to have a part time job themselves to make ends meet.

My point is, that SO many of the qualities we think that somehow kids got "innately" are actually purely products of luck and circumstance. The ability to "work hard" isn't a gift some are born with and some are born without, it's learned and modeled from our lives, parents, teachers, experiences etc.

If you never have parents that buy you books and encourage you to read, it's doubtful you will end up being "smart"
>it's just a matter of time for creation to be devaluated

I think it's just value being properly reassessed to be more accurate.

Art has no intrinsic value, whatever value there might be are all external projections. If "AI" devalues art to what it should actually be, that is a good thing.

Incidentally, art has seen a slow but constant decline in perceived value over time. "AI" is merely accelerating it.
Where did you read such a claim? There is a difference between "only a part" and "largely sourced from".

_Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience._

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources...
Broadcom couldn’t care less about Computershare. Many others will pay and they will milk this until it’s dead.
Thanks! Ipsos is also a great analogous example, I hadn't thought of that.
She’s was a PhD candidate in theoretical physics and is working at a startup directly building mobility robotics prototypes. How is she a consulting/finance showman? Because she was at McKinsey at one point?

Maybe if she quit immediately after losing the Google X prestige you might be able to infer something about her motivations, but she’s clearly passionate about the deep engineering project she’s working on and still at it even in the startup environment, so your comment seems to completely miss the mark.
>but you need to be able to see the drone

To have line-of-sight. Actually being able to see the drove is usually not possible - seeing a small drone at 40m high is near impossible after a couple hundrend meters away, especially as it moves.

Of course nobody actually tries to be able to really see the drone.
Show HN: I built AI Shorts – the 60 words AI updates app
All the Apple stuff that shipped with it still should work. Safari, Music, Maps, etc. That's a lot of useful stuff.

I had an old iPod Touch that had stopped receiving updates years ago. Old third-party apps were a problem. But all the Apple-shipped stuff still worked - even stuff like Music and Maps, which required server-side support.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees here. You're right that Claude Opus is better, which I hadn't known, but I think in your zeal to make that point you're completely forgetting what my comment was about.

It's nevertheless true that there is a coherent landscape of better and worse models, and Chat GPT really does have separation from the other models as I mentioned above. I even mentioned that ChatGPTs position would be subject to change. My understanding is that this most recent version of Claude has been out and about in the wild for perhaps 2 months.

I feel like with even a little bit of charitable interpretation you could read my comment in a way that accounts for the emergence of such a thing as a new and improved model of Claude. So I appreciate your correction but it's hard to see how it amounts to anything more than a drive-by cheap shot that's unrelated to the point I'm making.
It only is because companies usually don't staff to be ready for large migrations. They should.
Uh, I'm not sure FPVs have all of the effects that you're discussing.

FPVs are significantly range limited (~10km), and have relatively small surveillance footprint. It's true that persistent ISR is significantly increasing the danger posed to all vehicles within the 10-30km (perhaps further) of the 'front line', but these are predominantly coming from different classes of drones.

And yes, while FPVs can be queued onto SPGs (or whatever) by these other drones, so can other means of fires (like traditional artillery). As a reminder, tube artillery can usually reach out to at least 20km.

I am not downplaying the impact that drones in general have, and I'm also not claiming that FPVs cannot significantly shape artillery operations within 5-10km of the front line.

Here's the rub - Russia is clearly cable to assembly company sized AFV elements (though not consistently) to attack. And yes, we see these attacks generally get repulsed (with significant FPV drone involvement). So we know that Ukrainian ISR + FPV combination (Ukraine has been limiting its artillery usage) can be overwhelmed in the deeper space - it is possible to mass company sized elements, and transit them through into the line of contact, reasonably intact.

There's no denying that PzH2000 is more survivable than Archer or Caesar (that is infact the entire point of Archer and Caesar - trade suitability and tactical mobility for strategic/operational mobility). But you're also missing like... M109? Like by numbers, there were more M109s donated than any other western platform.
Many people are addicted to attention.
This is actually very interesting. Please let me know what digicert says once you say your request again. If they push back on this I’ll escalate it with your permission.
Being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453077
> "Update 1: Microsoft has confirmed an issue where users may be unable to access the Microsoft Copilot service"

So not all bad then?!
When I first used ChatGPT the voice was similar enough that I thought to myself “oh that’s cool they got Johansson to do the voice.”
Not necessarily massive. Given that Bing works again now, this seems more like an API frontend failure, or an internal routing failure at some level.

Note they seem to have managed to fix the Bing frontend hours ago, but DDG is still dead in the water. Priorities... :-)
Sorry just to clarify, leave for the cloud or leave cloud? Looks like in this case it is indeed leave for the cloud (leave VMs) but I also heard a lot about leaving cloud for self hosting.
"Nutanix, he said, is now his champion for databases, all 128,000 of them, after delivering 1,000 percent better performance than another unnamed rival and pulling off tricks like recovering a forty-terabyte database in eight minutes."

... yeah. I like El Reg, but... come on. ONE THOUSAND MEGAPERCENT vs unnamed rival.

Nutanix has an in-house cassandra fork I believe, I wonder if they are weasel wording some linear scaling.
For ten seconds I thought “Wow, that is strikingly familiar to her”. Then I realized that was the example from the movie. I tend to agree, not identical or even close but definitely some similarities. I don’t see a jury ruling that they’re too similar
I hear that said but I completely disagree. Being surrounded by mostly game-addicted goal-less classmates is a drag on even a motivated high achiever. It was such a difference to have the flexibility of homeschooling and be able to get him in with some like-minded kids and watch him bloom (my anecdote, n=1).
> Why do you think that

Have you ever seen Nutanix's pricebook as well as VMWare's?

Spending 2x on hypervisors is dumb because now you need 2x the headcount on SMEs because you'll need both a Nutanix and VMware SME, as well as 2x the contract negotiations, and the money you are spending on both could have been better spend improving your product or hiring more people to sell your product.

It's a bad use of capital. At the end of the day, Infra is a cost center. It's something used to keep the lights on, but doesn't expand your TAM.
My point was just that resilience still depends on how a system is distributed and what else is done.

Distribution alone doesn't really make a difference, though pairing it was redundancy and failovers is going to get pretty far.

The case of mastodon.social is really a question of whether the value there is the network and protocol itself or the user created content posted there. If its the user content, the value is lost when the one host goes away. If the value is the network and protocol then yes, the value of the network is still there even though the data is gone. It does raise an interesting question of whether Mastodon is really considered distributed or not, the network is and hosts are using a shared protocol but the data isn't really distributed.
About one-third of students who start university drop out. Difficulty staying there isn't a homeschooling problem. And every university grapples with students unprepared for college, almost all of whom graduated from public schools.

No one needs to learn Latin grammar to get into university today, or to succeed in a professional career -- strange example to pick. The bar is actually quite low, have a look at the state exams for granting a high school diploma. We unschooled our kids (no curriculum) and just taught the basics -- reading, writing, arithmetic -- then let them choose what interested them and made those things available. They all passed the state diploma requirements exam on the first try, and scored in the higher percentiles.

Homeschooling doesn't mean re-creating the classroom environment and following the school curriculum at home. And it doesn't doom your kids to low-end careers.
You conveniently left out of your paraphrasing the "Only complication is AWS auth" part...
> There's no reason to lock children up for most of the day in an artificial and oppressive environment, day care so parents can work, and indoctrination masquerading as "education."

But that's the reason right there! The government/society wants the populace to work, reproduce, and support the government. They're doing exactly as one might expect them to do!

I'm not against government or schooling, although much could be improved. I do think the things you complain of are natural consequences of the existing system, and you'd have to go to special effort to have anything else.
Outstanding. The only thing Emacs now lacks is a decent editor.
I'd be more interested in capping processing fees.
I had been using DuckDuckGo for the last 2-3 years, but starting from early this year I noticed that their search index just didn’t index some of the things I searched for (enterprise tech stuff). These searches worked ok before and still worked with other engines. So I finally switched to Kagi and am happy with it.
Parody tends to fall into various exemptions. Of course one might argue that OpenAIs work itself is a parody of AGI.
> Large customers are sticky. You can't migrate your hypervisor or cloud provider overnight. These are multi-year projects.

I can assure you first hand than not only F1000 but also F100 consider migrating away from companies that introduce sudden price hikes counting on inertia. It's not a question of "if", only "when".
A shakedown price increase means that your vendor isn't your partner. Because major vendors are business partners.

It's like blackmail. If you pay up, how do you know another one isn't coming the next year?

But... Oracle stays in business, so what do I know.
duckduckgo don't prevent website to track you or deposit cookies etc. Once you're on a website, let's say twitter, duckduckgo does nothing.

> When you view Twitter content such as embedded Tweets, buttons, or timelines integrated into other websites using Twitter for Websites, Twitter may receive information, including the web page you visited, your IP address, browser type, operating system, and cookie information. (https://developer.x.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/privacy)

So, if you visit a news paper that have embedded twitter post in it, twitter might know you passed by this website.
They wanted people to either think that is was Bette Midler, or someone that sounded very like her to gain the benefit of association with her. They wanted to use some of Bette's cultural cachet, without her permission.
Sounds like a plan to invest into competition
Fair point. You'd probably have to have a combination of initial data load + continuous web-scraping and crowdsourcing. Perhaps it's enough to start with a celebratory page for founders to fill out

Curious, have you used Crunchbase (premium), and if so, what's bothered you the most?
Transitioning from founder-led sales to a scalable revenue engine (2023)
I think you basically remember what you think is important. And school can be a great place to teach you about important things you will probably not pick up at home. If only a fraction of that is permanently added to students lives, it's still a valuable exercise.

Of course education is not a constant thing, it keeps changing through time and it sounds like it could be improved.

Anyhow I'm personally very happy with the things I've learned in school and the friends I've made there. Sorry to hear about people apparently finding it completely useless.
> That would almost certainly increase costs for OpenAI.

And every one of it's competitors. I think regulatory capture would be just as much, if not more, of a victory for OpenAI.
Leaving/left for the cloud. There is some scaling down of cloud resources for self hosting, but as a whole all CSPs have seen growth in users across all buckets.

On-prem doesn't give you flexibility, and leaves you open to getting arm twisted by vendors. Similar stuff happens in cloud ofc, but it's easier to implement a multi-cloud strategy than a multi-hypervisor strategy.
Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again
ShrinkLocker: Turning BitLocker into Ransomware
wasn't Next actually developed by the former CEO of Apple as well?
To me, it raises red flags of status-seeking behavior (ie, extrinsic motivation). I read the OP as saying the person was looking to check resume boxes rather than achieve something great. There's almost a template of what the stereotypical SV entrepreneur's resume "should" look like, and it's part of that myth. Sometimes, I think people get too concerned with looking the part rather than being the part. (I can't speak specifically in this situation because it's behind a paywall).

It's not that people can't achieve great things by extrinsic motivation, but if I were a betting person (and that's essentially what VC is), I'd prefer to put my money on someone with more intrinsic motivation because it tends to wane less when things get tough or the tides of what's trendy change.
A rare outage should cause an executive to think "let's make our own search engine index"? If for every partner outage i would go "let's do it ourselves' i would be long out of business
No way Microsoft could be this inept… could they?
Right to Repair: Nikon opens up Self Service Repair section on website
> All vendors do this - you can't escape it. This is why companies began leaving for the Cloud - sure it's upfront more expensive, but the negotiations are not as protracted.

I don't get your point here: if you mean the public cloud, it's the synonym of vendor lock-in now.
Hate to burst your bubble, but even the super tight-laced "serious" journalism, especially in tech, all works the same way too. Going super hardcore on "professionalism" makes it easier to sell objectivity whereas in the background you are also clearly picking and choosing to decide to take money from vendors.

It's just one aesthetic over another. The corporate-style is made to win over those naive to think their slick editing and wordsmithing means that they're objective about their reporting ("so professional! Real journalists!"). The snarky/edgy style is made to win over those naive enough to think that because they're "rebels" then they must be objective unlike those corporate stuck-up types.

It's Windows vs Mac for journalism, thats all.
Not at all, that's a valuable review for me
You are right. I clicked on "Studio", which is a service for turning your ipad into a drawing tablet.
The mountain climbing is also amusing since, in my experience, running moonshots needs someone who is inherently lazy. Driven, yes, but also lazy. You don't want someone who climbs mountains as a hobby. You want someone who figures out how to get a helicopter to take them to the top of the mountain. You need to de-risk every single thing possible, even if others say you can't do that, by taking the laziest and least risky approach. Then concentrate on the areas you can't de-risk. Then once you get it running you iterate and optimize the lazy bits.

edit: Actually de-risk and not simply lie about de-risking. Eventually you need to publicly test the prototype and the lies will fall apart.
I love the acknowledgement that DDG put on their page.

We're currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row.

In the meantime, you can use other search engines right here by using "bangs"

So fun and straightforward.
You don't "develop late-onset ADHD" - you either have ADHD or you don't, it's a genetic condition (one of your parents had it). You have to fit the DMS criteria of having childhood symptoms, and they will want to speak to relatives and friends who can confirm this.

Burnout can cause AuDHD traits but you don't catch anything - likely taking time to recover will be better than trying medication - for a start you have to find the drug and dose that works for you and you need to speak to a psychiatrist for that.

FWIW I was diagnosed at 35 (I'm 42 now) and I'm on 60Mg Lisdexamfetamine per day. The medication is not a silver bullet, and there's day I forget to take it.
In this case, if you increase your price 10X and they don't leave you, there must be some deep technical reason why they cannot move even if they want to.

You no longer have customers, you have hostages.
ig it is better branding than "20% recycled plastic"