skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You wouldn't want movies dubbed by Microsoft Sam (beyond initial comedic effect).

You'd be surprised how common something like this used to be in Poland, though admittedly we used an Ivona voice for this, which was a lot more pleasant.

Having a single narrator narrate the entire movie, overlaying the original audio track, is already common here, much more so than dubbing or subtitles. This is for historic reasons, in the communist era, obtaining the raw audio tracks for dubbing was often impossible, all the translators often had was a normal copy of the movie in its original language.

In the early 2000's, we had a lot of early / unofficial pirate releases, and they had to be translated into Polish somehow. Subtitles were certainly one method, but as we're all used to the single-narrator style, many people didn't mind listening to a somewhat decent synthetic voice instead.
It’s common in lots of modern tools to build shader trees using UI, this is analogous to that. It’s not really fixed function because you can make your tree/shader as big as you want and it has all of the math functions that GLSL has. Fixed function usually means something like a limited fixed set of nodes and you can turn the constant knobs.

Unless I missed it somewhere, the two nodes that seem to be missing here are an if() node and a loop() node. I’m guessing a loop() node can be done on the JavaScript side for small loops - it’d be the same as loop unrolling. For big loops or loops with unknown bounds at compile time, it’s not clear if there’s a way with TSL. You can simulate if() behavior using the nodes provided, but you can’t avoid executing both sides of the if().

It’s been a long time since I wrote a three.js shader, so I’m not sure what the “old” example is doing. It looks like it might be a little dynamic code injection to convert from a typical GLSL shader to something three.js needs.
You don't always have a choice. Sometimes there are loud places where you just have to be (airports, train stations, etc). My most frustrating time is transiting airports with my wife, who is a very quiet talker.
The hardware package of Microsoft's Surface line is quite elegant at this point. They've taken a lot of notes from Apple and are doing some strong things. At this point Windows itself is doing some disservice to that hardware, too, especially as the current Windows design team seems stuck trying to turn Windows 11 into a watered down macOS clone.
> The U.S. yet yet to pass even a basic internet-era privacy law — or regulate data brokers. And while there’s a lot of misdirection and pretense to the contrary, the primary reason is (1) because the U.S. government is too corrupt; and (2) because the U.S. government really enjoys being able to purchase massive amounts of sensitive citizen data from data brokers without having to get a pesky warrant.

No, this is false. There exists, today, a bipartisan proposal for a basic Internet-era privacy law called the American Privacy Rights Act. As Techdirt has covered in the past, advocacy groups like the EFF don't think it should be passed as is, but it's advancing along in the process and may well end up being passed after some amendments.

(Of course, while this information is critical to anyone who cares about internet privacy in the US, it would have made the article less effective as ragebait. Which is why the author didn't include it.)

https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/committee-chairs-rodg...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/23/any-privacy-law-is-going...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/americans-deserve-more...
Thats nothing!

Here on Airstrip One we suffer severely low reservoirs, water rationing, hose pipe bans and bans on filling your swimming pool. Advice to take a shower instead of a soak in a british bath

We have severe annual flooding in many parts of the country

Yet, It pisses down with rain for eight months of the year and we dont have enough water to go round.

Build more reservoirs you muppets!
There’s a few subtle misconceptions being spread here:

1) Hallucination rate is not inversely proportional to number of samples, unless you assume statistical independence. As you’re sampling from the same generative process each time, any inherent bias of the LLM could affect every sample (eg see golden gate Claude). Naively calculating hallucination rate as P^N is going to be a massive underestimate of the true error rate for many tasks requiring factual accuracy.

2) You’re right that output tokens are generated autoregressively, but you are thinking like a human. Transformer attention layers are permutation invariant. The ordering of output (eg decision first then justification later) is inconsequential, either can be derived from input context and hidden state where there is no causal masking of attention.
It isn't perfectly clear even in the detailed description whether any other link was available, but I tend to suspect that if anything faster had been, then it would have been used in preference to the one that actually was.
> Like what?

Like all the security mechanisms that are used by virtually all security-sensitive Java applications, from cgroups/containers and firewalls to encryption protocols and serialization filters (they're not using SM).

> That's pointless for plugin systems that don't want to deal with the ridiculous amount of overhead that'd entail.

You cannot offer secure server-side plugins (i.e. on shared machines) with a mechanism like SM, and even client-side plugins now use different, simpler, mechanisms.

> Would've been great to be able to support sandboxed plugins for the game we were working on.

It's not that hard to offer some in-process client-side sandboxing using modules and some instrumenting class loaders without SM. It may not be very robust, but SM wasn't as robust as some imagined it was, either.

There aren't in-process isolation mechanisms robust enough for server-side use -- where DoS attacks are a common threat -- and even on the client it would be both safer and simpler to sandbox the entire process or make no security claims (many client-side programs with plugins opt for the latter).
I don't know much about Jurvetson (apart from him being a VC) but his passion, enthusiasm, and deep knowledge of each of these items in the video is infectious.

Very cool stuff.
Right, and both modernc and wazero are two highly sophisticated projects being used to avoid it.

But cgo being slow (and above all displeasent to work with) is what I'd consider valid criticism of Go.

Go has other advantages, FFI is not one of them.
> Perhaps for the same reason we only stopped caring about IE 6 after its usage dropped below a tiny percentage.

We did? Half of the sites I find posted on HN literally only work in ONE single browser.
Interesting. I suspect I may have the same thing.

I also have poor vision without glasses, and I’ve always found that when I go swimming (and can’t wear my glasses) my hearing also gets significantly worse. Or at least the cocktail party problem gets worse, as my brain seems to get overwhelmed by every single background noise. I think some of this is explained by many indoor pools being big echoey spaces, but it still happens at outdoor pools as well. I suspect that when one sense (sight) is degraded, my brain tries to compensate by focusing on another sense (hearing), and the end result is even worse due to APD.
I have a T480/Ubuntu-Gnome at work and a T480/Debian-KDE at home, both work fantastic, however for some reason the Lenovo Universal USB-C docks with 2 1080p external displays connected (1 HDMI and 1 DP) cause a lot of Gnome crashes when docking, and when it happens, I lose external displays and/or the usb keyboard, and have to spend 15 minutes fiddling around deactivating and reactivating in settings, or unplugging the dock PSU, and other desperate methods. Windows users don't have these issues for some reason, and other usb-c docks seem to work better most of the time, with exceptions.

There's also specific issues unrelated to Thinkpads, like bluetooth headphones microphones, Bose QC 35 II can't be used with mic over bluetooth, maybe Pipewire will improve this, maybe not, IDK.

Apart from Thinkpads, I also have a gaming desktop PC with an Nvidia RTX, I don't use Windows anymore, Steam, Proton, WINE, third-party launchers like Heroic work wonders for gaming, but I can't use Wayland at all, it's Xorg only (probably because of Nvidia drivers), otherwise it's flickering and crashes. And you can't screenshare whole screen easily in Wayland yet.

We're getting there and right now, I think I'm better off on GNU/Linux even with all these issues than with the enshittified Windows, but there's still a long way to go, things are moving slowly, and somethings the whole Linux community relies on unpaid work from one dude that delayed good bluetooth audio support by years because someone insulted him in a PR comment.
I’d point out that this is the “missing link” to a next-gen LLM.

When the scientists figure out how to enable a remembered collaboration that continually progresses results, then we’ll have something truly remarkable.
By that logic, 10 is always better than 2, so they are still seriously lacking balanced info
It appears the trick they've found is to disable TLS on both ends :)
Presumably this could be used to block out specific voices/sounds.

There's an episode of the sci-fi show Black Mirror (White Christmas), where a person is convicted of some hideous crime and permanently blocked/made invisible and inaudible from everyone (the entire population has embedded audio/video processing enhancements by then).

You can imagine future headphones where you could block out the guy in your office with the annoying laugh our download 'blocks' from the headphone appstore - no more Rick Astley or the politician you don't like etc.
It’s a difference of opinion between the authors.

If Bob transfers $10 back and forth between both of his bank accounts 99 times and then buys $10 worth of crack, would you say that 1% of Bobs money was used for illegal purposes or 100% of it was used for illegal purposes? Depends on what specifically you're trying to measure.

There are two things here that are simultaneously true:

1. A small percent of BTC transactions are for illicit purposes.

2. A large percentage of the goods and services purchased with BTC are illicit.
The spying is too far removed from the average person's life that people don't care enough. One person sitting in your house watching everything you do would be really spooky, and everyone would be upset. Countless unidentified people watching everything you do, anywhere, from anywhere, is of course not nearly as spooky (/s).

I'm still of the opinion that the US proper ceased to exist after the American Civil War. Makes me sad every time I think about it. And no, I'm not including slavery.
Oooh, I like Plan C!
Bad code is obviously very subjective, but I would wager that GH places a much higher value on feedback mechanisms like stars, issues, PRs, velocity, etc. Their ubiquity likely allows them to automatically cherry-pick less "bad code."
The objection should really be not that this was passed--and, yes, the people involved could probably layer on some LLCs if they wanted to obfuscate as I assume corporations tend to. But that there is really a ton of personal data available to the obsessive, especially if they're willing to spend a few dollars.
Perhaps I was unclear (or I'm confused now, haha):

> The following is the tiny demo of the runtime code generation and execution in Go. I assume you are on a Unix-like system like Linux or macOS on an AArch64 machine.

Is there a way to get tinydemo working on Windows?
This keeps coming up in most countries every few years. Everyone seems to forget in nearly every country telecoms are licensed industries and providing legal intercept is a legal obligation of those licenses.
I prefer when vaginas are plenty and relatively easy to access. No one wants to toil to get the attention of a 6 who cheats.
Does anyone know of a link to a codegen comparison page? In other words, you write your request, and it's submitted to multiple codegen engines, so you can compare the output.
> it’s pathetic

I think the word you're looking for is "corrupt". The interests of people who can afford private jets are obviously taking precedence over the interests of the rest of us.
I mean, i guess the other way to lose is like the soviet union in afghanistan, depending on how directly you think that lead to its collapse. But yeah, i agree with you.
That issue seems a month old, while the 58ms number looks 1 day old.

I have seen last month getting a lot of work done in improving performance (it's in the release announcement as well), but of course I still don't think it can compete with that number...still, a new comparision would be cool.
Society has been telling everyone that they should go to college/university. Society is wrong. Not everyone can benefit from college; not everyone can benefit enough to be worth the cost.

And, if supply and demand is in operation at all, if fewer people decide to attend, then the price should drop...
They wont go to waste

They will grind them up and feed them to the cows and pigs for some extra protein.

Nice one!

Clever!
Host a Rails app on DigitalOcean and monitor it using AppSignal
./myfancytool -disablefx

./myfancytool -showfx

Or have an "on first run only" configuration that disables it for subsequent usage of the tool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Iroh – a toolkit for building distributed apps
If you're regularly doing ensemble stuff, you can get hearing damage from the consistent loud volume. Thus, earplugs.

It's maybe less significant for choir compared to e.g. rock band with amps or wind band with tons of brass, but you can still get ear damage. (That's where I got my tinnitus from lol)

They do make specialized earplugs for music that allow some amount of pass-through, and don't isolate as much.
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Just ask the LLM to slip in one common typo or swap in an incorrect homophone, no need for a "separate algo" for what is just a single instruction.
"You won't be able to sell those cars" is Trump's hyperbole. His actual proposal is to "roll back tailpipe emissions targets and dramatically slash EV tax credits." If that causes a stop to all electric car sales it would mean that they have a greatly lower value proposition than they actually do.
How serious it is, and how seriously the people who make decisions take it, are if not strictly orthogonal then certainly not guaranteed to closely correlate.
Cold War 2 Update
https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/avera...

The opposite. With cars reaching much more advanced ages today, when a collision happens it's a write-off.

The modern car isn't 'disposable'. In fact, all statistics point to us holding onto cars longer today than ever before. Today's cars are the most durable that they've ever been.
This. It's notebooks as presentations and I'll argue there is nothing about slides that explicitly prevents you from taking this visual approach, but for the case where you want less flexibility it could make sense.
If you're in one place for more than a few years, you become the person making these choices, and you don't forget.
You could probably just tell the LLM to make random spelling and grammar mistakes in its output, as if it was a news writer in a hurry.
The fact that you feel like you have to point this out just shows how you're missing the point that nobody cares. Yes, it is a silly mistake to make, but it doesn't negate the intent of the sentence. Harping on it just as a take down comment on a post is just immature.

If this was a post or even just a thread on the lack of editorial process with in today's online media, then we could nitpick the use (or not) of the Oxford comma, the emdash vs endash vs hyphon vs ellipses vs parantheticals. We could even pontificate on the grammar like the selected sentence structure, use of single long sentence as an entire paragraph, the use of capitalization of all the letters or just the first letter in an acronym for a name like Nasa vs NASA. Alas, that's not what this is, so there's a saying that comes to mind about time and place or even picking your battles.
Which games are you shipping in Java that depend on Security Manager's existence?

Most games are deployed as services nowadays, they have a full network between their rendering and game logic.

Yes, that is what Cloud Services do all the time across the globe in Kubernetes.
The Exodus from GitHub Actions to Buildkite
Tangential but related:

There are full parking lots with brand new cars that go under press or get disassembled for parts because dealership don’t want sell them at a cheaper prices.

https://www.costulessdirect.com/blog/where-brand-new-unsold-...

From article:

> the unsold cars that are older than two years old, will have no alternative but to be either crushed, dismantled and/or their parts recycled.
Want to see for yourself? Do a quick search on Google Maps of Baltimore, Maryland, looking south of Broening Hwy in Dundalk, there you will see a massive expanse of space where many unsold cars are currently parked.
Ah okay, the law says so, so it must be acceptable.
Pretty cool what they are working on. However, I wished there would be more funding for restoring hair cells which are the root cause for most people with hearing loss.

Researchers are getting closer. Dr. Chen from Harvard was able to regenerate hair cells in mature mice last year.

The problem is also becoming more widespread. 30 Mio people in the US and 400 Mio people worldwide have disabling hearing loss. Regenerating hair cells and the synapses around them would also cure Tinnitus. 30 Mio x $5k for a treatment = $60B market (probably way bigger with aging population)

I think we probably need more rich tech billionaires to get affected to attract large funding.

What billionaires that you know are affected besides:

- Brad Jacobs

- Ryan from Flexport/Founders Fund
Interesting that people seem to not like your comment. Isn't harassment and doxxing against the rules around here? What's the principle that disagrees with this statement that doesn't also apply to everything else on site?
This is a toxic post by someone peeved about not being to stalk people of affluence. There are other ways to address emissions attributed to private jets, such as taxes, while respecting people's privacy.
This is an open weights 22B model. The download on Huggingface is 44GB.

Is there a rule-of-thumb estimate for how much RAM this would need to be used locally?

Is the RAM requirement the same for a GPU and "unified" RAM like Apple silicon?
Status of the ΛCDM theory: supporting evidence and anomalies [pdf]
The timing is super important. Writing on a chalk/whiteboard or overhead takes time, which is required to absorb the content. Hitting the right timing and cues with this approach seems like it would take a lot of practice, which isn't a deal breaker, though I believe the 2 biggest problems with most presentations is too much/too fast content, and not enough practice and this approach might make those both harder, not easier.
The thing with these kinds of mistakes is that if the service doesn't revoke the key and "cause problems" immediately, then there's no feedback to learn from. It's a fail-fast situation that's usually a better outcome anyway.
Intelligence bureaus are like stock pickers.

You're going to get one eventually that went on a lucky streak and guessed several international developments in a row.

What about other non-war events? Does INR also do better in that regard?
Headline reads like a hot take. Actual recommendation is rather useful. Click-bait used for good.
Natural rights do really require theism to be truly natural, ie, independent of morality and society. Theism avoids the is-ought problem by forgoing the ought, with theism natural law can simply be, and whether you decide you ought to abide them is no longer so important.

Nozick's position on the existence natural rights is simply not grounded. He appeals to intuition and to the reader's morality to appeal for their existence, but he doesn't (and cannot) actually deduce their existence once he forgoes theism. He makes a few appeals to Kant, but they obviously cannot be sufficient, Kant's conditions are merely necessary. I'm very confused by your reference to Nozick on a discussion about the grounding of natural rights when Nozick himself admits that he cannot justify them - he simply assumes Locke, which himself uses a theistic argument, in ASU. If you want, I can get the quote, but I don't have time to skim it until I'm home from work.

At the end of the day, secular natural rights is an intuitive and appealing but ungrounded position that cannot be logically justified, hence why it is threatened by theism. It is no wonder that positive rights and social right theory only really emerged after the Renaissance.
Actually latest interfaces use cognitive compression to keep memory inside the context window.

It’s a widely used trick and pretty easy to implement.
Ask HN: Invest in your own bootstrapped company or in the stock market?
Let's say you are a struggling founder which has been at the startup game for years.

You are trying to get a product business off the ground. It has been an uphill battle due to lack of funding, necessary to scale the business. Can't raise money due to the industry and business not fitting the typical VC blueprint. So you continue to bootstrap.

You are paying the bills with consulting. Maybe you have some rental income. You need to plug the retirement hole.

Do you invest in your product business and continue adding to the risk or do you just buy ETFs and hold?
Obviously we need technological development, to keep everyone in a job. What when we cannot maintain or afford those systems? This includes systems of production, as well as the products themselves.
a quine is where the full source is reprinted in the display.

So in this case, the code to create this clock in your website is

<script>

(r=n=>setInterval(t=>{for(j=o="\n",y=5;y--;document.body['inne'
+'rHTML']="<pre>&lt"+(S="script>\n")+o+"\n\n&lt/"+S)for(x=-001;
x++<63;o+=`(r=${r})()`[j++].fontcolor(c?'#FF0':"#444"))c=x/2%4<
3&&[31599,19812,14479,31207,23524,29411,29679,30866,31727,31719
,1040][(D=Date()[16+(x/8|0)])<10?D:10]&1<<(x/2|0)%4+3*y},100))()

</script>

which is also what is the clockface.
I think the matmul issue is symptomatic of a much deeper issue.

It would be nice to see less whining and blaming AMD (PyTorch and llm.c actually work on 7900 XTX, and blow tiny grad out of the water in terms of perf!), and more just getting stuff to work.
Agreed, but then again, you see a stupid sentence like this later in the article:

> Jack Sweeney, the jet tracking student who made Elon Musk cry like a baby

– and realize, wait, I'm not really sure this is any kind of legitimate news source.

I'll wait for a more accurate article without all the editorializing.