skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why nobody talks about that?

People talk about it all the time. Everything gets blamed on capitalism these days. Problem is nobody is offering good alternatives. Good luck finding one.
No, we're talking about Jessica Livingston making a decision. It's right there in the statement.
IMO it has no bearing who did the voice, the issue is if OpenAI intended to confuse people by associating the similar voice with ScarJo through their marketing. The issue isn't the voice confusion on its own, it's that OpenAI is inducing it by bringing up ScarJo and her work in their marketing of the voice product.

ScarJo obviously doesn't care about the individual voice actress, the voice actress would not have sufficient money to cover any damages ScarJo would allege, especially in comparison to a well-capitalized company like OpenAI. Let's use our heads for a second.
I didn't say her case was obvious. I said there are obviously two categories of types of conduct, one falling into a legal category and one falling into an illegal category. My observation is that much of the discussion here seems to not even acknowledge the reality that Right of Publicity laws exist and what they entail. That really has nothing to do with whether or not her case is good. Your response here seems to further my point, in that you completely run past that and instead debate the specifics (which we don't all know and aren't all privy to, and would be the disputed facts in any potential litigation).
New owner, unchanged marketing site
If lots of people had a need for specific food, and access to that food were locked behind a system where it must be prescribed by a licensed chef and dispensed by a licensed server, then you might be on to something here.

You can get food without going to a restaurant. You cannot get healthcare without going to a doctor.
<div class="commtext c00">Since it's paywalled, my point of view is that there are a lot more parameters than just the salary, like people's mindset/education, where they leave, hobbies, friends,... It's basically more unpredictable than weather. No surprise resaerchers can't agree.</div>
This doesn't seem to be an accurate portrayal of the ruling. From the linked Institute of Justice post[0]

> Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that North Carolina may ban the creation of aerial maps by everyone except licensed land surveyors

It seems to be the post-processing of the images into property maps that is the banned activity, not the photography.

I don't agree with this either. People should be able to create bad maps of their own property if they don't try to use them for official or legal purposes. On the other hand there's often water-muddying in tech journalism that intentionally obfuscates the issue at hand--unlicensed surveying--for another.

[0] https://ij.org/press-release/north-carolina-drone-operator-t...
shameless plug: i have been working on https://querydeck.io/ as a side project to bring the ease of use of graphql to REST apis. the plan is to open source it later in the year once its out of beta
Show HN: Quadra – organize your tasks and notes beautifully
Wow, there are a lot of unhappy (now ex-)users filing issues in that repo. :( :( :(
Agree, it's frustrating to see simple apps like this requiring a subscription model.
Somehow reminded me of how Michael Scott remembers things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSi41cNvmXQ
We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down the site. (2023)
I am pretty comfortable with him moving around w/o a cell device but it would give my wife peace of mind (which is fair). Plus the convenience of calling him home without driving around.
I used to think read is always faster than write in ssd. But in figure 5.3 and figure 5.4, it looks like in ssd, read iops is lower than write iops.

When queue depth is low(like qd=1), random 4k read iops is far more less(14.5 kiops vs 128 kiops) than 4k random write iops. When queue depth is high, like qd=32, the read iops and write iops becomes similar. But read iops is still less than write iops.(436 kiops vs 608 kiops)

I wonder why read is slower than write? Is it because ssd has a fast write cache, and it will finish the write request once the data is written into cache? Or it simply report that the data is written and actually write them in batch in background?
Columbia didn't fail because of heat shield reuse. It failed because a chunk of foam crashed into a important part of the heat shield at high speed and created a big hole.
I've heard arguments in favour of this level of surveillance going a bit like;

"I have nothing to hide and I think this is a serious problem, so I'm okay with the EU scanning my messages if it helps fight CSAM"

And if you argue against in case of wanting privacy the counter-argument ends up being; "Do you think CSAM isn't a problem or you're on the side of the pedos?"

Don't see how to argue with a person who simply doesn't care about the right to privacy or these regulations being the first step to mass surveillance. I.e. like someone wrote "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse"
> the back end team can select to serve REST APIs which only permit selecting, filtering, grouping and pagination that they know they can support within defined latency bounds for a given traffic level.

Why do you think that they can't do that with GraphQL? GraphQL isn't open ended. Its a highly restricted syntax for calling nested resources. If a resource is expensive simply don't nest it and make it a top level field and it is the same as REST?

Lots of nested resources are by default efficiently served by GraphQL because they are mostly returning single object foreign keys. Something that would take extra calls with REST.

GraphQL can have the same restrictions and performance guarantees as REST but the later is not necessarily true because in REST there is no standard way to define nested resource access.
Because of a "wheel of cheese," usually referring to Parmezan cheese.
I'm fairly sure vote splitting and gerrymandering does not apply to Israel, as they don't have districts for representatives.

If you have any data to back up your claim that the popular vote is vastly different from the composition of the knesset, please share it. But as far as I can tell from Wikipedia this is not the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Israeli_legislative_elect...

And the claim was not as to the popularity of policies, the claim was that the government does not represent the electorate, which is categorically false in this case, and would have been even if there were electoral districts.

If a government is elected by the representatives of the people, then that government represents the people.

If the government did not represent the representatives and the population that elected the representatives, who does it represent then?
Will you still track them when they're 25? Or 30?

You think someone keeping track of their small child means they will somehow track their location when the child is 30 years old?
This is very “nothing to hide” fallacy
I think some of the complaints come from using code to offer GraphQL backends rather than just using PostGraphile
Yearly revenue has no meaning without knowing the yearly operating cost. If their yearly operating cost is greater than yearly revenue, that's means they are still spending the funding dollars. What was their operating cost for 2023?
Seconded (or thirded) -- a way to navigate tree conversations is desperately needed. Perhaps something like what Gingko [1] does.

[1] https://gingkowriter.com/
Understand and train your own GPT – No prior AI or coding knowledge
Hi all
I wrote this "blog" Google colab notebook for friends and family who have little technical know-how or do not yet have an understanding of language models. It's based on nanoGPT (a minimal GPT implementation from Andrej Karpathy, ex-OpenAI - not sure whether there is a need to state this here).
However, I rewrote the code from scratch, made it more explicit, and have lots of textual information such that everyone should be able to follow what is happening when, and train their own little GPT :)
Hope it helps some people and let me know if you have any questions/feedback.

Tl;dr: Blog about how LLMs work & train a mini model without prior knowledge.
The 21 best science fiction books of all time – according to New Scientist
The basic theory is that when something is abundant and everyone has what they need, the incentive for theft doesn't really exist. If you set out a barrel of forks and say, "take what you need" then at some point everyone has taken as many forks as they need. If we assume this is also happening for other bulk items, and everyone can just have as much as they need, there's nothing to trade those forks for, so taking a bunch doesn't benefit you at all.

Ask yourself, why would you take more than you need? Not some hypothetical other person, but you, personally. Do you think other people are in general likely to behave like you? (Put another way, do you think you are fairly typical when presented with a "take what's fair" scenario?)

It's like the candy bowl at an office or someone's house, or the "take a penny" cup at a store. I'm sure occasionally someone takes everything from it, but by and large people take what they'll personally use.
I've become a lot more obsessed about thinks making sense logically since I became a software engineer.
You are summarizing the very reason for its existence and popularity: everything is about making the frontend dev’s job easier, at any cost. This is a common theme across the entire web-adjacent industry and has been responsible for plenty of misguided changes and choices.
At least we know for sure now that he was fired.
That's certainly a theory. In general, publicly traded companies are not held to account like this. Many examples to choose from, but listing any of them would derail the argument to the exact specifics. Also, if the stock does not take a hit, then there's no crime at all under this theory.
Forgive my language but I'd expect people here to understand that's horeshit, they absolutely have enough data and patterning to de-anonymize the data. They spent time making it look anonymous.
With competition. The marginal cost for each ride is just cheap, abundant energy from renewables, and maintenance.
Fired means forced to quit employment. It's not illegal to have two jobs, they made him choose, thus firing him. I don't know why Paul is so defensive about this.
PHP had the unique fun of when an attacker was able to write files to the server they could literally write new PHP files and get them to execute. I miss that worry somehow
> -=[ iOSnoops - 2010-2023 ]=-
> We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down the site.

> The reason? It's simple, the economics are not there anymore, we can no longer run this site without massive out of pocket expenses.

> After long deliberation, we decided it's best to simply let go.

> A big thank you to all our fans and viewers!

> And good luck to all the copycat sites that shamelessly scraped and stole our content on a daily basis... no harm, no foul, it's how the web works!

> It was a fun ride, but it's time to say goodbye.

> Until next time!

I thought this simple and short statement was remarkable enough for a submission here.
Cheese is traditionally made I large round blocks called “wheels”. I.E. A wheel of cheese.

So wheel is to cheese, as loaf is to bread.

https://www.chucklingcheese.co.uk/news/cheese-gift-guides/wh...
No you don't. You could also simply not drink the poison.
I think this is a very US centric viewpoint (and I'm actually not convinced that it is correct in the US - see https://undergroundinfrastructure.com/news/2023/december/fib...).

Outside the US there is major major FTTH rollout going on everywhere. UK will get to ~90%+ penetration within a few years (it's at 66% now, 83% if you include HFC DOCSIS3.1 and growing at ~1% a month, including some very very rural areas).

All of Europe is basically like this, and will have/already has overwhelming FTTH coverage. The same is happening in Asia and even in the more developed parts of Africa.

So every month the addressable market for Starlink IMO declines. There will of course be places that are extremely rural that won't get FTTH for a long time (but I think they will eventually), and underdeveloped countries will struggle to roll it out for a long time too - but there is a lack of capacity in these underdeveloped places to pay for starlink.

What Starlink as actually amazing at is bringing the price of fixed line connections down. A lot of countries have ridiculously high fixed line/mobile data costs (I would assume some level of corruption is happening to keep competition out). Starlink will push those prices down and force providers to offer unlimited data packages in those areas. However, I'm not convinced Starlink will see the benefit of a lot of that.

Don't get me wrong - Starlink is an awesome service that really benefits humanity. However, I think the long term economics for it are poor for it to grow substantially more (this may be ok as I believe it is EBITDA positive now). And I think churn will be a problem in developed countries as more and more of them get FTTH.
Oh! This reminds me of some lines from a 1970s essay called "The Origin of Death", which was on HN 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505856
https://www.elijahwald.com/origin.html

> The strange thing about all this is that we already have immortality, but in the wrong place. We have it in the germ plasm; we want it in the soma, in the body. We have fallen in love with the body. That’s that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That’s the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life. And as for that potentially immortal germ plasm, where that is one hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years hence, hardly interests us.

> I used to think that way, too, but I don’t any longer. You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. That really is immortality. For if that line of life had ever broken, how could we be here? All that time, our germ plasm has been living the life of those single-celled creatures, the protozoa, reproducing by simple division, and occasionally going through the process of syngamy -- the fusion of two cells to form one—in the act of sexual reproduction. All that time, ^^that germ plasm has been making bodies and casting them off in the act of dying. If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man.^^ #weirding The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then at a later time it was making amphibia, things like salamanders; and then at a still later time it was making reptiles. Then it made mammals, and now it’s making men. If we only have the restraint and good sense to leave it alone, heaven knows what it will make in ages to come.

> I, too, used to think that we had our immortality in the wrong place, but I don’t think so any longer. I think it’s in the right place. I think that is the only kind of immortality worth having -- and we have it.
Unpopular opinion: I'm actually a fan of singe page specific endpoints. You get much easier debugging, easier to audit security, easier performance optimization an the imho pretty small price to pay is that it's "not elegant" and a bit of backend code
Glad I switched to Ente with (local no cloud)months ago AND that I have a backup of all my codes as well.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1d2gllz/google_caught_...
Its gross because it is a waste.

An engineer had to spend time to make that specific API for that page instead of the frontend consumer using what was already defined and get all the resources with one call and 0 backend engineer needed for that new page.
Ask HN: Photos from my iPhone X look better than 13 Pro
Reflecting on thousands of photos taken by both devices, the older X seems to produce better images, maybe due to less processing.

Do you feel the same?
Profits even closer: 15b vs 24b

Nvidia has higher margins so it first need that much growth to become the world’s most profitable company.
The N+1 problem doesn't exist on any project that uses, say, Hasura.
This would be amazing. I've got one tooth missing and the prospect that maybe in a decade or so I could grow it back? Wow.

Really hope this trial works out. Of all the things I thought we'd be trialling regrowth of first, I would never have guessed teeth. But actually I never thought anything like this would happen in my lifetime.
They need to be able to do things their parents disapprove

Sex,

You think kids shouldn't have their location tracked so they can have sex?
What It's Like Finding Your Nonconsensual AI Clone Online
100%. Most of the arguments here for it nap directly to this fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
Judging from the red light incident, the Waymo Driver does not consider passing a red light to be a Never event, in the same way that say, hitting a pedestrian would be a Never event. So it's OK with being advised by a human that it needn't obey the red light whereas it wouldn't be OK with being told to just drive through cyclists.

That makes a kind of sense, a human shouldn't need to run red lights but they do it more often than you'd like, whereas they mustn't hit pedestrians (although sadly they sometimes do). Just the other day I was watching video of a failed London Underground signal which is stuck at red, the driver knows this, and the signaller knows this, and nevertheless the signaller (who is in a position to know as they've got a board full of position data for trains in their sector) has verified that crossing this signal despite the danger aspect is safe.

This happens so often (ie sometimes) that TFL has a recorded announcement to play to passengers when, as the driver, you're about to do this. The train, you see, doesn't know that what you're about to do is fine, so it's going to stop you. So as the announcement explains, the train will move forwards slowly, brake suddenly to a halt, and then after a moment proceed slowly again. The announcement suggests that passengers should sit down if able to do so. The driver having secured permissions from the signaller will drive forward ("at caution" ie slowly enough to stop short of any obstacle discovered), then the safety systems will detect the danger signal, braking the train to a halt, then the driver proceeds to drive slowly again because they already know why it stopped.
Paul Graham's blog is the Poor Richard's Almanack of startups.
It’s not a Monty Python thing. Some cheese is made in a wheel shape as part of the manufacturing process. If you buy some kinds of bulk cheese, you will get it in wheels. https://dibruno.com/whole-wheel-parmigiano-reggiano/
That doesn't sound smart at all. There are many safer ways of acting on the dopamine pathway(s) than directly going for L-dopa (which, unlike a lot of other substances, isn't rate limited by subsequent bioprocesses).
Unfortunately it's not plain TOTP. Most banks in Europe give you a standalone cheap plastic smart card reader into which you put your bank card.

The website shows you a code. You input it into the reader, followed by your card PIN. The reader outputs a code you put into the website.

This is what it looks like:

https://www.post.ch/-/media/portal-opp/k/bilder/postgeschich...
Show HN: Meet people, have more conversations about what truly interests you
Hi all, Andrew here. I hate smalltalk[1] but love deep conversations and want more of them, for myself and for others. This is why I made pairup.social. It's a conversation-finding and friend-finding app based on the things you'd most like to talk about. Sure, you have your friends, colleagues and family you can talk to, but it can be hard to go deep on your unique interests. Finding and reaching out to people on the internet is possible, but in practice I find I don’t really do it that much. It’s a bit awkward. If I found them on a single-topic discussion group, I don’t know much else about them, including other interests or even if they’re open to meeting people at all. None of this is impossible to overcome, but there's enough friction to mostly stop me from doing it. The goal of this app is to make this easy enough that it actually happens.

How it works:

1. Install the iOS or Android app. Sign-in can be deferred until after you’ve tried it out.

2. Add a bunch of links to capture what you are interested in at the moment. These can be links to accounts you follow, communities you've joined, books, movies or podcasts you love, causes you support – anything really. Your links/interests simultaneously describe you to others and enable the app to match you to people with overlapping and compatible interests. Your combination of links can be incredibly specific and nuanced but also very easy to build and maintain (try it!)

3. Complete your minimal profile: one picture, a name, optional bio, and locations you spend time in (if you want to emphasize local matches). Your interests are already a great way to describe you, so this kept very simple.

4. Fuzzy matching occurs. People with overlapping interests (either the same links or other links about the same or similar things) are suggested to you. You can see their interests and decide if you’d like the option to chat with them. Typical mutual-opt-in mechanics result in “pairups” and you can both take it from there and start chatting whenever you’re ready. No pressure, you already have things to talk about.

I'd love it if you gave it a try and let me know what you think!

[1] I did enjoy coding in Smalltalk in a past, past life https://techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/dabbledb-online-app-buildi...
https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/06/10/twitter-buys-software...
I always felt a sense of betrayal when someone sought a new partner after their spouse dies. But when I read a passage by Freeman Dyson about Feynman's trip to Santa Fe to meet his new girlfriend, my view has significantly shifted. Dyson (or perhaps someone else; I don't recall exactly) spoke of Feynman as someone who cannot stay out of a romantic relationship for too long. Some men just always want to love and be loved.
This semantics argument seems super productive
No. But I’ve long held the suspicion that between iOS versions the fine tuning of HDR changed a few times.
I am saying this in a very good way: I was 10 years old(give or take) when I started fiddling about with Macromedia(later acquired by Adobe) Flash 4 and the screenshots gave me so many flashbacks, like making dumb animations, fiddling with scenes and the strange animal that was action script. The UI looks soooooooooo familiar..
I don’t think they’re claiming that people don’t need to eat. People have the choice between many grocery stores, farmers markets, butchers, restaurants, etc. There’s more places to get food than anything else.
Great idea. I also see inspiration from Andy Matuschak's notes [0], of which I'm a bit fan

[0] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zB74H9CuWrosEuqve7jZyCo?stac...