skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work. The authors train a model with two contrastive objectives: (1) predict which video clip corresponds to a given audio file, and (2) predict which audio clip corresponds to a given video clip. Together, these two training objectives induce the model to learn to associate different sounds from a given audio clip, like words forming a spoken sentence, with different objects shown in a video clip, like the pixels depicting the subject of the spoken sentence -- and vice versa.

If I understand the paper correctly, the model was trained on tens of thousands of video and audio clip pairs, randomly sampled 64 million times (80 samples/batch x 0.8 million training steps). For comparison, over the course of a baby's first two years of life, the baby will get trillions of sound samples (measured at 44.1KHz) and billions of frames of visual data (measured at 30fps). It's not too hard to imagine that a large AI model in the near future, trained on comparably vast quantities of audio and video data, can learn to recognize objects and words, like a baby.

The most exciting takeaway, for me, is that a bigger model inside a robot body should be able to integrate learning in this manner across all five human data modalities -- vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste -- as well as any other data modalities for which the robot has sensors -- radar, lidar, GPS position, etc. We sure live in exciting times!

Link to paper, code, demo, and data:

https://mhamilton.net/denseav
Don't forget the ones that can't get a simple chat app to work right (Microsoft Teams) or the ones redesigning outlook which introduced a shit ton of bugs.

It's amazing that humans as a collective have decided that private corporations are the best way to progress as a civilization.
With The Right Stuff though:

LandCruiser 'Mudcrab' driven 7km under water across Darwin Harbour

A rag-tag team of engineers, commercial divers and rev-heads have successfully driven a waterproof electric vehicle 7 kilometres under water across Darwin Harbour, in a stunt they claim has broken two world records.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36928038
I am not going to trust super expensive car and life/health of me and my family on 'its generally working ok, sort of' level.

This ain't new headphones or TV, people apart from emotional early adopters have very different expectations when their lives are at stake. Namely absolutely stellar performance compared to average driver, being marginally better while struggling with tons of non-standard situations ain't cutting it.
Adding NFC to the Framework Laptop
I wonder how is there no open data on "no mistakes FSD zones", e.g. areas of maps or routes that would be proven by large numbers to be error-free for Tesla FSD without interventions.

Would clearly show progress and make people understand when they're trying the road that's not proof yet.
Oh - not sure it's over yet! Check back in 20 years.

I mean Andrew Wakefield was struck of for fraud in 1988 and still his stuff about vaccines causing autism lives on
> Microsoft pushed what objectively is a great tool

... excuse me!? Complete surveillance being a great tool?! Objectively great tool?! Maybe in China, yes.
Pope Francis tells G7 that humans must not lose control of AI
Stop treating it like it’s a sports team you dislike. If it’s good, people will pay for it, and if not, they won’t.
Is there a point for the PRAGMA journal_size_limit when we set the database to WAL mode?
There are still no proper bindings for DirectX, Win2D (full API surface as in C++ UWP version), Windows 11 context menus, shell extensions, and plenty other stuff.

Additionally the folks in WinAppSdk apparently never used .NET as they keep coming up with writing C in C# APIs.

It wasn't after lots of complaints that WinUI 3.0 Windows, finally got as usable from .NET as in Forms and WPF, instead of the calling directly Win32 boilerplate.

Kudos to those engineers, unfortunately it has been the .NET story on WinDev side, many would rather that their world would have kept being VB 6, MFC and ATL.

There is even a Build session on this.

Even projects like Managed DirectX and XNA, grew out of such engineers, only to die after they weren't no longer around to argue for them, and DirectX TK was born.
> [are] we at all, as a species, significantly increasing the chance of another life form more advanced than us discovering us by doing this?

This topic is explored in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3A_The_Motion_Pictur...
Would the diagram creation be automated? Because I would absolutely not connect some SaaS product to my production AWS account
Why Switzerland has again slammed the door on Spanish judge García-Castellón
In C, I was using ffmpeg's functions directly instead of their CLI. I was manually decoding packets, frames and so on. Having to do all of this, I quickly became familiar with how ffmpeg works (and got able to read their source code) ; but this level of control was unneeded to create a HLS multi-variant stream. I made more sense to simply call ffmpeg via it's CLI interface and use a higher level language to manage states.

I then moved to rust, mostly because I was curious about the language. When I decided to use the original's video keyframes I needed to rewrite everything anyway, so I decided to change language at this time. The CLI interface did not change but using golang made state management easier since it has great tooling for (goroutines, concurrent maps, channels...). Rust lacks those tools, and it was hard to handle mutexes and so on.
The mess we have is because landowners can squeeze the users of the land for all of their profit. Really what should be maximized is the productivity (in a broad sense) of the land.

Profit is a pretty good stand in for productivity, especially if you can't trivially extract rent.
If it's a Chinese e-bike, it's probably lying about being IPX67.

OTOH, Riese & Müller $15k USD e-bikes aren't IPX anything because the Bosch components aren't. If you get it wet, just kiss that money goodbye. Absolutely bonkers.
Probably because the Netherlands doesn’t have as much rain, off road and mountains as Wales?

From the article.

> The problem appears to mainly affect those riding mountain bikes in all weathers, particularly in Wales and the UK’s other wettest areas, because they are not sealed properly against water ingress.
Introducing cricrate - share the cricket experience like never before
Yes I agree, ffmpeg handles every video format, codeces and hardware accelerators for us. I don't see how we could replace that.
TFA is difficult to read; because the author, having argued that "defamation" should include true but harmful remarks, proceeds to use the word "defame" as if that term included truthful utterances.

E.g., concerning Tilley: "Yet he was indisputably defamed by it". Yes, his reputation was harmed, so arguably he was defamed by 17thC standards; but "indisputably" is simply wrong on the present definition of "defame". If he was indeed a bad manager, then having that information in the public domain seems to be a social good; bad managers harm all of us, and this guy was trading on his reputation as a good one.
So, a memory chip was damaged? And if that is the case, a cosmic ray did it?

[..] "Further sleuthing revealed the exact chip causing the problem, which allowed them to find a workaround. After the team relocated the code to a new location in the FDS, Voyager 1 finally sent back intelligible data on April 20, 2024"
As a biker, cyclist, skater, and ebiker, I’ve settled about various wax-like sprays to keep crap off and out. ACF-50 for the motorbike, various protective wax sprays for the bicycles, Vaseline for skate bearings.
> drift away from competitive free markets, the rise of culture war politics, short termism is business and politics, naivety about the rest of the world (disastrously reflected in foreign policy - Russia being the obvious example) and so on seem to be spreading.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head here. Especially the naivety about the rest of the world. As someone whom travels to India regularly (my family are there) I have to say, people have no clue about the rate of change happening over there.

In an extremely short space of time (I want to say at most a couple years) I’ve seen what used to be an all day journey from Delhi to Meerut be cut down to a couple hour bus trip through the building of the Delhi - Meerut expressway.

I’ve seen the Delhi metro continue to expand its reach and new expressways begging building (in our home city of Batala a new motorway was recently started to take us to Delhi directly)

Meanwhile the M25 continues to be a massive pothole with indefinite road works that never seem to complete
You can’t make two million automobiles a year and two stage orbital rockets while “acting like a loon”.

Either Tesla and SpaceX are not congruent and coterminous with Elon, or he’s doing fine. Either way, the ad hominem has no place in the discussion of the works of the companies he runs. Both Tesla and SpaceX are kicking ass, so either you have to give him credit for it, or you have to stop bashing the company if you don’t.
>Do you mean no way to get there within realistic computation bounds?

I mean there's no well defined "there" either.

It's a hand-waved notion that adding more intelligence (itself not very well defined, but let's use IQ) you get to something called "hyperintelligence", say IQ 1000 or IQ 10000, that has what can be described as magical powers, like it can convince any person to do anything, can invent things at will, huge business success, market prediction, and so on.

Whether intelligence is cummulative like that, or whether having it gets you those powers (aside from the succesful high IQ people, we know many people with IQ 145+ that are not inventing stuff left and right, or convincing people with some greater charisma than the average IQ 100 or 120 politician, but e.g. are just sad MENSA losers, whose greatest achievement is their test scores).

>Because if we allow for arbitrarily high (but still finite) amounts of compute, then some computable approximation of AIXI should work fine.

I doubt that too. The limit for LLMs for example is more human produced training data (a hard limit) than compute.
Somebody should have made a prank, and arrive to the meeting on a Mercedes EQS or S-Class sedan with Level 3 autonomy....
Machine-learning of any kind has this uncanny ability to get you really far with very little work, which gives this illusion of rapid progress. I remember watching George Hotz' first demo of his self-driving thing, it's absolutely nuts how much he was able to do himself with so little. Sure, it drove like a drunk toddler, but it drove!

And that tricks you into thinking that the hard parts are done, and you just need to polish the thing, fill in the last few cases, and you're done!

Except, the work needed to go from 90% there to 91% there is astronomically higher than the work needed to go from 0% to 90%. And the work needed from 91% to 92% is even higher. Partly because the complexity of the corner cases increase exponentially, and partly because everyone involved doesn't actually know how the model works. It's been hilarious watching Tesla flail at this, because every new release that promises the moon always has these weird regressions in unrelated areas.

My favourite example of complexity is that drivers need to follow not only road signs and traffic lights, they also need to follow hand signals from certain people. Police officers, for example, can use hand signals to direct traffic, and it's illegal not to follow those. I can see a self-driving system recognizing hand signals and steering the car accordingly, but suddenly you get a much harder problem: How can the car know the difference between lawful hand signals, and some dude in a Halloween police uniform waving his hands?

You want to drive autonomously coast to coast? Cool, now the car needs to know how to correctly identify local police officers, highway patrol officers, state police officers, and county sheriffs, depending on the car's location.

Good luck little toaster!
Good to hear this, since it encourages me to stick with the VanMoof I bought in 2019. Fancier, swishier bikes abound, but the VM just keeps on truckin’
The Netherlands does have a reputation for the best built/maintained roads in Europe. Maybe better drainage, fewer puddles and potholes? Plus flatter terrain, so less overall strain on the motor.
It sounds like a Kaabo e-scooter, a Samsung refrigerator, and most consumer electronics and appliances. Designed to fail because parts = $$$.*

* In fairness, Kaabo e-scooters aren't designed, they're thrown together and spaghetti wire is rammed in every crevice without a sensible circuit or terminal diagram.
> was to refute the above idea that the engine defect was not the root cause

You misunderstand what a root cause is. An accident has multiple root causes in the swiss cheese model.

Each process update is supposed to address a root cause.

This is separate from contributing factors. IE: It happened at night.
Printer Leaves Invisible Tracking Codes on Every Page
I've heard this is a potential issue but I've never encountered it. Do you know about the experimental WAL2 branch[0] that splits the WAL file into two to circumvent this problem? You'd have to compile SQLite yourself from the WAL2 branch to try it out, but it might be worth it at your scale.

Python is much slower than Go, so I don't think we could get 14k RPS as easily with Django, but I do have to see if I can reproduce the problem in Django. Topic for a future blog post!

Thanks for sharing this, I really appreciate knowing where the limits of SQLite are!

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/wal2/doc/wal2.md
I think it's a good strategy, but it's not the best unbeatable strategy.

In particular, in this example it'better to play top right than top middle.
Another person posted that they lost the ability to see stars due to visual aberrations. That’s really sad. And it’s not uncommon, apparently.
Bosch CX4 motors are a mere £550.
> Smith said they were working with hospitals to give them discounts of 75% or even free, for the first year

I was part of a helpdesk at a hospital system that took over a rural hospital that didn't even have net 30. Every IT vendor wanted cash up front. I'd love to try to figure out how finance will work in Microsoft's extortion in a year so they can save themselves from another Ryuk.
I love this story because it shows you really should read some docs about your storage layer before you jump in head first and just assume it’ll work forever and/or gracefully handle any load including overload. Postgres is the same, it’ll work until it won’t, in some case it’ll break in a way you can’t recover from without stopping production for a long time. (You can guess how I know - you’re right, I didn’t read the relevant part of the manual.)

Read your database’s manual, people! Even just going through the table of contents will put you in the top 20%.
There is an android app, available as an apk in the release tab of github (I plan on publishing it on the android store this summer).

There is no flatpak and no linux/mac/windows client yet. Right now client support is not a priority, I want to focus on supporting more features and stabilizing bugs before creating clients, but this is definitely in the todo.

There is no plan to support SQLite in the future, Kyoo already uses multiples executables/containers anyway. Postgres offer better scalability with little disaventages.
There is plenty of new learning to be had. For example the heliosphere may be larger than expected. By now it’s expected that voyager 1 ‘s trajectory” should be affected by the interstellar “current” of particles (well, the resulting B field), but that deflection hasn’t been seen yet: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/voyager-may-not-have-ent...
The claim was that it would always be the furthest man made object in the universe. Nothing about it being useful or scientific.
Just to be contrarian: 'Alone Together' and 'You and the Night and the Music' by Dietz and Schwartz, as well as 'Yesterdays' by Jerome Kern, feature similar harmony, just to name a few popular jazz standards. I'm looking at an original sheet of 'Nature Boy' now and see 1 diminished chord, a couple #5's and a couple b9's: not that unusual really, certainly not in jazz.
1. https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/10/apple-makes-it-re...

2. https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil...

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433
From what I know, the journal_size_limit PRAGMA still affects WAL mode, but it doesn't solve the issue of the WAL file potentially growing uncontrollably. Am I missing something?
Microarchitectural Security of AWS Firecracker VMM for Serverless Cloud (2023)
> when it actually works*

*: The definition of "work" includes veering incl. but not limited to other vehicles, road shoulders or road divisions, sometimes self stabbing the car incl., but not limited to its driver with road railings or other roadside objects. The car might catch fire as a result or independent of the event if its feelings are hurt, or just feels like it, and burns for days, releasing its densely packed magic smoke, sweat, blood vapor and condensed tears of its designers and builders. The fumes might be toxic. Please don't inhale them.
> I'm not a developer, and I made this with Claude Opus's help

PSA: just clicked into this post after reading another submission complaining about how companies don't take security seriously enough.

If you care about the security of your browser, installing a dozen random chrome extensions like this definitely isn't going to help. Especially when the author is a self-proclaimed "not a developer" and made this by copy and pasting code from a LLM.

This new wave of non-developers deploying code to production that makes its way to a Show HN on the homepage here for 7 hours is scary to me. I'm all about making coding more accessible to non-engineers, but security, edge cases, failure states, etc is something LLMs are not particularly good at.

And even the non-code part of the original release of the extension had very little thought put into the block list. (E.g. he was blocking sites like the library of Congress, loc.gov, cancer.gov, CDC.gov, etc). Pastebin list of the originally blocked sites, which the author has since went back and cleaned up: https://pastebin.com/VHuHTeqp
I think the chatbots are a fundamental shift in the game, though.

If a loonie can get their rocks off to a robot that happily goes along with whatever niche ERP scenario they have, why would they waste time harassing a real person to do the same thing, when they'd normally have a 99% chance of being rejected?

Especially as these chatbots become harder and harder to distinguish from humans, harassing a real person would simply be a waste of time when they could spend that time with an indistinguishable robot.
I wonder how the decline in personal blogs and websites (who even starts one today, when you can just be popular on youtube/twitter/instagram), affects rankings due to lack of websites linking to other websites.
After getting to know sequential incidents like the Marconi murders of the 1980's, which even today are often dismissed as being anything more than coincidence despite a lot of very weird details, I wouldn't entirely dismiss at least the possibility of Boeing being involved in his death.

Large companies are in certain ways like governments, by which different parts of them can be doing entirely different, even divergent things that aren't quite congruent with the benefit of the wider whole. In other words, often one hand doesn't know what the other is doing, even if the activity is batshit crazy and a bad idea, and this is sometimes by design.
MSFT's LinkedIn scraping was also a thing about 10 years ago until the magic method was taken away. :'(
I couldn't care less about these huge tech companies stealing from one another. Let them sue themselves to extinction.
Is it git pull?

>> "In response, Amazon proposed a workaround: encouraging its employees to create multiple GitHub accounts and share their access credentials."

Ah, no, it's git pool.
> gives you a well defined amount of time (10s?) to re-engage, with guaranteed fail-safe if you don't

I don't see it in "DRIVE PILOT Special Terms and Conditions".

> As the fallback-ready user of this system, it is the responsibility of the user of the DRIVE PILOT Subscription Services to remain receptive and take control of the vehicle as soon as DRIVE PILOT function issues a takeover request.

> Conditions may arise at any time that require the user of the DRIVE PILOT Subscription Services, as the fallback-ready user, to respond to a takeover request.

> If a user of the DRIVE PILOT Subscription Services does not respond to the takeover request within a certain period of time, the vehicle’s emergency stop procedure will begin

I think you understand that in real life the situation can go outside "well defined parameters" at any time, so the wider the acceptable set of parameters the better. And Drive Pilot seems to be pretty limited in that.
This has been happening for a while. I've heard about it before (vaguely remember before sanctions), and I can find a news article mentioning this back in 2019:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/19/companies...
In the limited time I tried I haven't found when exactly the Mossel brand was established but it probably is a very old practice given how aggressively they pursued markets under dysfunctional governments.
Every morning, I wake up about 7:00 a.m. or 7:15 a.m., and then I usually have a glass of water that I put on the bedside table the night before. Then I make my bed, and then I go into the bathroom and I shave, brush my teeth, and take a shower. Next, I come back into my bedroom, and, if it's a work day, I put on my security uniform.
There's also a great explanation of SQLite capabilities on the server and the various settings and their effects which have some overlap with Anže's settings:

https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers

Previous (brief) HN discussion on that post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383725

And, if this piques your interest, there was recently discussion on distributed SQLite from the same author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975596
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The diagram creation will be automated, but you'd still have to give read only access to tag editor and cost manager. Would that be a deal braker?
I recall a few years ago a what seemed to be ground-breaking white paper from I think a Russian scientist, who argued (and convincingly) that there are two cycles at work, one deep in the Sun, the other shallow. The co-incidence of these two cycles both being at maximum, or both being at minimum, explaining the extremes of solar activity.
Somehow an abandoned profile page on Facebook or LinkedIn is less embarrassing than an abandoned home page.