skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Text-to-speech has been around for decades at this point. AI might actually represent an improvement there.
Discussion [0] (35 points, 6 hours ago, 48 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596089
Are we plateauing with those LLM benchmarks?
You think Germans and Italians all wanted to be part of a single nation? Bismarck and Garibaldi marched with armies. So did the U.S. You think Mexicans wanted to be part of the U.S.?

Putin obviously has expansionist aims. But regional expansionism is widespread, and rarely something countries on the other side of the world need to be involved with. Kuwait certainly didn’t want to be part of Iraq, but that wasn’t any of our business either. Same for South Korea and south Vietnam.
Cars are the problem.

And just FYI roman roads were maintained. We dont have documentation on this from the early imperial period. But from the Byzantine period we know that there were local people responsible for maintenance.

And we also know that even during Byzantine times many roads were reverting to nature. Road maintence was a real problem.
The fact that a site called "worldatlas" uses antiquated (and in this case, meaningless) U.S. units, tells you all you need to know about internet bias towards a US audience. Fun fact: there are ~1 billion English speakers outside of the U.S.
You're probably right that there would be a power struggle etc, if Israel simply unceremoniously dumped the US as a patron. I just think they would sound out the other great powers beforehand (at the risk of intelligence leaking that they are doing so, of course) so it would be a careful and calculated move, not a sudden jump. That's what I'd do if I was in their shoes, anyway.

The other thing to keep in mind is that Israel is a nuclear power and there are no others in the region (for now), so that, too, gives them some extra time and leverage.

I totally agree that all this is just hypothetical and I, too, am not convinced that Biden is going to take serious action on Netanyahu. I would think that he's royally pissed off at him, privately, though. Bibi has caused Biden no end of trouble and I think it's clear that if Biden lost the elections, Bibi would celebrate.
Would they? If not for the audacious decision to attempt to land an orbital booster with F9 and the public display of the failures that led to the inspirational success of the first landing, how many of those brilliant young engineers would have decided to pursue a career in a boring and tired space industry?
That was a general comment, true for both cases.
Right, so basically you want the system we currently have?
A properly finetuned model can perform better for a use case but even with PEFT/LoRAs, finetuning and managing "smaller" open-source LLMs (7B params) models like Llama3 is annoying. That's partially why the even-smaller ~2B Phi series of models took off.

A 0.5B model may not be that great out of the box but there's a lot of oppertunity if it's responsive to finetuning.
You could however mock one up, either with just a big concrete pad or with a pad and tower, and the booster "return to launch site" and prove it can hover in a specific location long enough for the chopsticks to close to get a very low risk approximate test.
Right, that's just saying "we prefer built-in random inefficiencies" with extra steps. The heart of investigation is pulling coincidences into an actionable pattern (which is different from trial and conviction, which relies on far more than coincidences).

Given how much crime currently goes uninvestigated because the backlog is so high, is automating some of the coincidence-sniffing a bad thing?
Off topic kind of - Can an LLM generate such an article? Reading such in depth experiences and consolidating advice makes me think that web is made by humans and every other day,I spot something on the web that is clearly generated from some LLM.

Great write up. Inspiring.
absolutely love this. well done
If the problem is outside investment in the housing market is causing issues, why not just just address the issue?

Pass a law either limiting or banning outside real estate speculation.
I mean, it's amazing how much we already put up with terrible Photoshops on movie covers and thumbnails. This is really just the next evolution.
> It is an improvement over Bluetooth

An improvement for who? Considering that bluetooth is used extensively to track people, I wonder what this will be used for. At this point I'd really like a laptop without any radios at all, or at least hardware switches to keep them off.
> I also wouldn't easily compare the murder count (which are hardly underreported) and occupation count (which most likely are, because legal way is way more expensive and lengthy).

The legal process is definitely lengthy for actual occupation (usurpación) where the average eviction time is now but for people breaking & entering into your personal residence (allanamiento) it's not at all. If you can demonstrate this (easy enough: show you're the owner & empadronado, ask the neighbours to vouch for you, or show the utility bills all have your name on them) then it's clear allanamiento and that means there's no judicial order or further investigation required and the police can (and do) forcibly remove & arrest people _immediately_. It's a very nice clear-cut crime.

Basically the strong legal protections for personal dwellings cut both ways: they protect okupas who make somebody's empty property their legal residence, but they'll also strongly protect you & your own home if it's your legal residence.

There's more detailed background from an actual law firm on that here: https://vecindia.es/desalojo-okupas/cuanto-tardan-en-desaloj...

Given all that, I'd be quite surprised if allanamiento is underreported at all.

> Neither huge amount of somewhat legit cases of 'unused', nor media coverage doesn't make it right.

I'm not saying it's right, or that the problem doesn't exist. There are a small number of real cases of individual's homes being invaded. Even in other cases, property ownership does need to function reliably for commercial properties, and although owning empty properties may be problematic this is not a very good solution to that at all. I would be very happy to see usurpación cases resolved much quicker, and to increase property taxes on empty properties to reduce speculation instead.

That said, I do think that:

* The media hype about it is overblown, and for most people who worry about it (and some people worry about this a lot!) it's really not a serious risk.

* Political discussion & action related to it is frequently overblown for political advantage, and that's why some people think losing your home and being unable to recover it is far more common than it is.

* The victims here are generally large business and property speculators. The law should definitely protect those groups too, yes, but the strictness & speed of legal & police procedures should be proportional to the damage to the victims, and an empty shop being used by okupas is clearly less problematic than having somebody take over your actual home.
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I just found the area of the India Ocean via a post from Jonathan McDowell:

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3kub775...
But to me that reads like different statement than yours of neurodiversity being a survival trait, to which I have to disagree.

Being a neurodiverse, or more commonly known "on the spectrum", is a guaranteed way to get bullied (or worse) by your peers who are not. How is that supposed to help with survival?

Some neurodiverse kids and even adults get bullied so hard they commit self termination (to avoid using the 's' word). That's exactly the opposite of helping with survival.

Helping with survival to me means having features that help you get accepted by the heard and with finding a mate to reproduce, not features that get you shunned and outcasted till you end up wirtten off the gene pool.
> but 3 pounds a day is a lot

Not when you're known as "throwup".
Almost everyone uses a "tainted" kernel with proprietary blobs these days.

NVIDIA drivers being one example of that.

If this is a problem to you don't use Windows.
What are the questions?
Beyond WebAssembly: Ben Titzer's New Programming Language, Virgil
Quicksand at a popular Maine beach
That's going to be real hard to do when they have an AI profile of you so accurate they can undercut your political power at every turn.
I wonder if it is it allowed to complain about the rules.

Admins seems to be quite open and helpful from what I saw.
Well, making minimum payments has a negative impact because then you're carrying a debt which eats into your debt vs ability to borrow ratio which does have a big impact.

Paying off cards in full each month is the absolute best thing to do for your credit score (and saving money by not paying interest).
Anything that will fit in a 30ft diameter faring weighing less than 150 metric tonnes. I’d love to see commercial space stations that can house large numbers of people in comfortable cabins so it’s more like a cruise ship than a submarine. Gotta power all those amenities somehow without diesel generators. But you could also put things like datacenters in orbit if the cost savings on power production made it worth while. Longer term you need a lot of power for resource extraction and processing and manufacturing. Would also make light sail propulsion of probes or deep space missions possible using lasers or beamed microwave power for ion thrusters so you don’t have to sacrifice mass for nuclear and aren’t constrained by how much wattage you can produce on board.
Thanks for the candid response.

> How could I improve my offering to build up that trust?

I don’t know, it’s a hard bootstrap problem. With ProntonMail, even if the privacy promise isn’t upheld, at least they’re another email provider, and ProtonMail to ProtonMail emails probably doesn’t end up with Google, so it could still be slightly better. Here your service is a middle man, so if the privacy promise isn’t upheld it’s sort of strictly worse.

Maybe you can play up the multi-provider aspect? But that market has fierce competition from existing, often deep-pocketed alternatives, e.g. Quora’s Poe. They’re more convenient too since they don’t try to be private.
The reason SpaceX is so much more successful than Blue Origin is Elon Musk. I'm sure Jeff Bezos is a great CEO, but Musk is clearly much better.

It can't be merely "other people" who are responsible for the success of SpaceX, because Blue Origin (and other rocket companies like ULA) also have "other people", but are not anywhere near as successful.
Extracting concepts from GPT-4
I didnt read what you said because you didn't say anything. You just linked to his blog while carefully making sure to point out it was CD who wrote it.

That's literally dictionary definition of idolatry.
India: The Worst Country on Earth (2024) – 4Chan's First AI Feature Film
https://developers.google.com/optimization

https://github.com/google/or-tools
This stuff is kind of interesting to read about. I don't like my job and reading about these scenarios makes it feel like what's the point. If it's going to happen, just do it now so that I don't end up working a job I hate just to have the apocalyptic scenarios ruin my retirement. Better to just happen now and get it over with before I waste those years toiling.
It smells of extortion to me because the reason for doing it is to use the offer as a threat.

> Seems like honest communication to me.

Extortion is honest communication, too. The existence of an offer doesn't do anything to help me decide whether or not I can go along with a pay increase. It only communicates that the employee wants to threaten me into agreeing to one.

In my opinion, the better way is to ask for the pay raise without mentioning the offer. If they I don't give them the raise and it's that important to them, then they should just take the offer.

> It is no different than giving customers a notice of price increase or giving contractors an option to bid.

I think it's very different from that, actually. You can require a raise as a condition to stay at the company without trying to use another offer as a weapon.
I'd assume Denuvo DRM works on Linux x86-64 because the company has made it work on that platform. I'd be surprised, with FEX in the middle, if it doesn't get bent out of shape running on ARM: either flagging itself as having been tampered with, or the game. Maybe the company also has a solution for ARM support though.

I do think the question of "why Vulkan" has been thoroughly answered though: 1. DXVK means Direct3D->Vulkan translation already exists (but not the other direction) and 2. Proton already proves that Vulkan gets you most AAA games (with the exceptions having nothing to do with the 3D API).
> how many of those things are there?

Apollo program flew once in 6 months.

If we're to build a Moon base, we're going to have at least this frequency of flights - really, I'd prefer to have a great margin on top of that, because Moon is much harder than LEO, and we might need more resiliency to safely explore.

Each flight to the Moon will likely need to involve 10-20 Starship flights (rough number) to LEO. So even if we're flying twice a year - and 6 month stay on the Moon right now looks like a pretty serious expedition - we need to have a Starship flight every ~10-15 days.

So even for a robust Moon exploration program we need as many Starships per year as the whole world was launching rockets per year just some ~20 years ago.
I doubt anyone buys a Mac to install Asahi on it
You are tired of the discussions being derailed, so you decided to preemptively derail them from now on?
I want a computer to do my dishes so I can work on Art; I don't want a computer to make art so I only have to do dishes.
That's what I'm afraid of and what I hope won't happen. Increased use may also increase incidents with operating these drones above cities which hopefully will tone them down a bit.
Really wish the camera housing had held up to get a complete video of the fin being eaten away. I wonder if any of the other cameras got good footage too because they stayed on the camera with the obliterated lens for a long time which makes me think the others also fair pretty poorly. There wasn't much to see on the fin cam after the housing broke until right at touch down.
Show HN: I created this land use visualisation for the Netherlands
Last weekend, I tried creating an original visualization of something on many minds in my home country the Netherlands: land use.

Much of our discussion revolves around land use—housing crisis, sustainable farming, solar energy—it's all about the land. To illustrate this, I created a map where each hexagon represents 0.06% (26,647 hectares) of land in the Netherlands. The color indicates the type of land use.
A bit tangential, but it’s a bit shocking how consistently bad firmware for x86 motherboards and laptops is, as is most visible in the UEFI configuration screen. It makes me wonder if a new entrant in the motherboard/laptop space couldn’t make a name for themselves by simply caring about the quality of their firmware and trying to make it good.
I don't know about that. The BBC have had great success with the Proms festival[1]. Tickets to go in person are cheap (if you're promming ie standing that is) although you have to queue to get them, and everything is broadcast on TV. The quality of the music is extremely high with a mix of new commissions, established works etc.

The key thing is that it is a public service broadcaster though. I don't think it would be possible otherwise.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rfbp5v/series
How does your comment incentivize effective action?
Unfortunately I'm used to people on the internet wearing their ignorance on their sleeve like a badge of honour and so I'm not surprised by the insults in your comment. Just a bit sad to be honest :(
We could in theory avoid the problem if our eyes were at the top of antennas.

But yeah, genetic evolution does not explore states widely different from its origin. The more complex an organism, the more "conservative" the entire process is, and we are quite complex.
yup. I considered myself an /extremely/ verbal person when reasoning, but what I do with the above feels closest to 'moving the 1', almost like balancing a mental scale.

I never really noticed that before. I'm not great at math, fwiw.
I don’t work in programming, but in arts and academia. I usually have 1 “main” window in working in and at least 1-2 more I am continually referring to, so I like to be able to quickly switch between a single fullscreen window and a 2 column view. Typical workspaces for me are Zotero + Firefox + Word (for writing and research) and Photoshop/InDesign + Finder + Firefox (for design). When I do code, I like being able to have at least 1 terminal window side-by-side with a coding LLM. I usually also have a workspace with Spotify + MacPass + Telegram open that I refer to as needed.
And then there's this on the front page of HN https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh8369 which says that "Major disruption of the Atlantic overturning circulation (AOMC) is not expected"

Which is it?
>that also makes good use of that full window?!

To be honest the "Needle In A Haystack" test is the most trivial test for a model that relies on full attention, it's expected to be easy to pass if the model was trained correctly.
Is it responsible to publish a paper that may diminish the threat of global climate change?
I'm not so sure about this. They innovate slower, but they still innovate. Sure, without Jobs there isn't one person who's a stand-in for the customer, but there are still plenty of folks at Apple representing the customer and trying to build real solutions to real problems.

As a hardware company, there's a constant need to produce the next iteration of device. Same with software. So you get pretty lackluster year-on-year improvements, but over a 2-3 year cycle, it's pretty impressive. They seem to be refocusing on software quality, which should show some innovation on that front. Apple Vision Pro was their attempt at "the next big thing" and it just didn't quite get there. They probably believed VR had soaked in the market long enough that there was a majority waiting for the best version of it. They sort of missed here, but sort of didn't. There's potential for spatial computing, but the hardware isn't quite there yet.

On the topic of AI/LLMs, they've always had machine learning in their stack, but they haven't highlighted it as something revolutionary and they certainly haven't referred to it as "AI" (because, well, it really isn't artificial intelligence). Right now, most AI products are just wrappers around chatbots. Chatbots are an okay experience, but not ideal. That particular interface, in my opinion, gives an impression of infallibility to these products when it couldn't be farther from the truth. They're nifty, but the current generation of AI products is primitive, rough, and in some cases dangerous.

Apple's caution on AI is actually refreshing. I'm optimistic that the focus won't be on providing AI as first-class product but rather as an augment that makes their existing technology better. Case in point is the improvement in iOS 17's predictive keyboard. They shipped a small language model that improved predictive text leaps and bounds (though, still primitive).
But securing your personal data sounds a lot like a stone trying to gather up all the waves it makes when it drops in a pond.

Where do we draw the lines? Do we all end up walking around cloaks and masks in public and if you suss out who the faceless individual is next to you in the crowd it's your fault you figured it out?
Whoppers. And yes, they are trying to sell you a whopper of a tale.
flap leaking steel in almost-space is definitely a first for live TV.
Page 384/385, "H.14 Good Programming Practices Checklist" seems interesting
The use cases we see are (i) assisting researchers in creating scientific figures from scratch (sketching them om paper is usually easy but actually developing them can be daunting), and (ii) enabling semantic edits to existing figures stored in lower-level formats by synthesizing high-level graphics programs that generate them.
Article is paywalled. I assume it is a response to this [1] discussion from earlier. The linked article appears to be about iceberg calving events. Does it deal with freshwater discharge? If not, it is not a relevant counterpoint to the earlier post.

> The new study takes a detailed look at what happens when the balance is disrupted by greater quantities of freshwater flowing into the ocean, and the findings are a “major advance in AMOC stability science,”

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599172
I'll plug ESP32 more broadly, which are half the cost of the Adafruit user friendly chip, which is only single core. If you're familiar with Arduino, the regular dual core ESP32 are fully compatible with cross-platform Arduino C code. You can get ESP32 for $5 each from US resellers or even cheaper in bulk on Aliexpress from China.

If you really need to get cheap, the ESP8266 is also fully Arduino compatible and less than $2. Still way overpowered for a wireless temperature sensor sending packets to homeassistant or whatever.
Omakub
You should put your energy into finding a better job (read: one that brings you some enjoyment and fulfillment). That’s no way to live.
tl;dr Increased TCP receive buffer size, implemented HyStart instead of traditional TCP slow start in gVisor's netstack, changed an in-process packet queue from drop-when-full to block-when-full.
No, it's not.

It does not mean you have the right to live in a flat en La Castellana for whatever you want pay. It means the State has to implement policies to help people access housing.

Also, article 33 give citizens the right to private property. You cannot come squat in my house because article 33 should prevent it, even when article 47 exists.
That sounds right to me though I always deploy my nextJS projects on a VPS, so it just transforms them behind the scenes to the equivalent of self hosted node hosted "lambdas" - only without the associated more aggressive timeouts around Vercel unless you're a paying customer.
That applies to the minimal field of vision too.
For most of human history, people fought over the right for members of their group to put up a hut or yurt on a piece of land. And/Or some other, more powerful group would come and take whatever they wanted, including sex and slaves, from other, weaker groups of humans.
Trump heads to Silicon Valley fundraiser on wave of support
https://recosense.medium.com/how-netflix-uses-ai-and-ml-to-d...

This reminded me of this article I read a few years back. I wonder if they still use the same method.
you could learn mindfulness meditation, then you could do either the dishes or the art and derive, allegedly, the same pleasure.
I doubt it; they could be a whole lot smarter. We need to solve alignment in the meantime.
How much did the founders bag with this product? They really got to make their bag from those investors! Long live the tech grifters!
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