skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I walked through Salesforce Park. There were families everywhere. Some twenty kids were playing Marco Polo. I went online: everyone was miserable. Miserable people drive away others so they create a Dead Sea Effect where their world seems universally miserable.

I’m enjoying the diffusion model art. My wife is a creative director and illustrator and it’s loads of fun for us to play with. Besides I have a washer/dryer and a dishwasher.

80% of Americans are happy with their personal lives so why is everyone so miserable online? One should never forget the 1/9/90 rule of interaction.

Technology is fantastic. Today it’s amazing. Without it my wife and I would struggle to have children. Nah, this is the Golden Age.
And they are facing the demographic cliff of demographic cliffs...

Although what I suspect will happen is that North Korea will fall apart eventually and South Korea will get a demographic surge from immigrating North Koreans.
You can fill the form here: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8241253-trust-and-... and eventually you get unbanned.

Unfortunately, by the time Anthropic's next model is out you are likely to be banned by an "automatic review" again. At least that's my experience.
I'm not making an argument about the general or specific worth of Adobe software/support.
By the time I finish this comment someone else will have pointed it out, but the S and B in 'website' are the wrong way around.
That piece was written literally by the same person.

Farmers were going bankrupt because there was so much food that they couldn't sell. It was the time when people developed the habit of eating meat daily, as people were buying out the food, and fed it to animals. There wasn't at any point a famine.

It's a tall tale.
Like another commenter mentioned, the healing brush tool along with background removal + remove tool + content aware fill/move + object selection tools have improved and make life even for an amateur PS user much easier with the latest versions.
If you want to avoid Adobe software, but are familiar with photoshop, Photopea [1] is a great choice.

It supports psd files (natively, without any export/import), has similar shortcuts, can import photoshop brushes and overall comes across as a well designed software. Their subreddit has a great helpful community too.

I am not a professional photo editor or graphic designer, but I have been using it a few times every week for last year or so and have yet to come across any bugs.

[1] photopea.com
When a work of art becomes known by the general public for some very short period, like 10 years, it should enter the public domain. That’s plenty of time for creators to profit. Art that has become part of our culture shouldn’t be owned by anyone.
I guess that's going to be the future for the society where the likeness and voices will be reused over and over again using AI.
wen office365 on wine
Futurama called it 20 years ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09RObzSTQ4
Not Now, Honey I'm Trying to Compile This Code
C was hardly a performance juggernaut in the 1980's, any junior Assembly coder could easily outperform the outcome of the C compilers.

It was by exploring UB to the extreme those compilers optimizers do nowadays, that such language finally got the fame it has 40 years later.

"Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We were making so much good progress on optimizations and transformations. We were getting rid of just one nice problem after another. When C came out, at one of the SIGPLAN compiler conferences, there was a debate between Steve Johnson from Bell Labs, who was supporting C, and one of our people, Bill Harrison, who was working on a project that I had at that time supporting automatic optimization...The nubbin of the debate was Steve's defense of not having to build optimizers anymore because the programmer would take care of it. That it was really a programmer's issue.... Seibel: Do you think C is a reasonable language if they had restricted its use to operating-system kernels? Allen: Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve. By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are ... basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities."

-- Fran Allen interview, Excerpted from: Peter Seibel. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
I'm glad about that. Should keep Reddit type people occupied for days.
120bn EUR would be more than Germany spends on electricity generation in total (considering that Germany generates a bit less than 600bn kwh p.a. in electricity and wholesale electricity prices were €95.18/MWh in 2023)
> [0] These are specifically called chaebols and the group includes LG, Hyundai, Samsung, Lotte, and a few others. Japan used to have something similar, but they ate their rich... and then brutally invaded and colonized half of East Asia.

More like the Allied occupation forced them to dissolve the zaibatsu. They later reformed as the keiretsu, and while still immensely powerful, are nowhere the level of the old zaibatsu or the Korean chaebol.
> why build a Lutheran school in an Apache reservation and not expect them to integrate...

They built to school specifically to convert the locals and destroy their culture. The explicit goal of building the school was the direct opposite of "...integrate some degree of their own culture..."
Don't those functional safety classifications exist for WECs?

Now add the long history of Siemens briberies and the trust in that company goes to zero.
Do not go by the warning message. It does work just fine on Firefox latest. Cool, demo, btw!
If it's too expensive, you can get counterfeit Red Brand fence from China.[1]

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-Tensile-Wire-Gal...
What make you think the authors of these works (the workers, not the owners) would oppose this proposal?
It’s copyright. Not authorright.

The exclusive ability to copy is granted as a conceit.

The restriction only came about because publishers got mad.
The article above this on HN homepage was of Claude Sonnet 3.5. So, I used Claude Sonnet 3.5 and pasted an unchecking script. Presently I am at (-150)-ish checks.

function clickTickedCheckboxes() {
// Find all checked checkboxes
const checkedBoxes = document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]:checked');

// Iterate through each checked checkbox
checkedBoxes.forEach((checkbox, index) => {
// Use setTimeout to add a delay between clicks
setTimeout(() => {
// Click the checkbox
checkbox.click();

// If this is the last checkbox, call the function again after 2 seconds
if (index === checkedBoxes.length - 1) {
setTimeout(clickTickedCheckboxes, 2000);
}
}, index * 2000); // 2000ms (2 seconds) delay between each click
});

}

// Start the process
clickTickedCheckboxes();
Only a small percentage of the PC user base uses Photoshop. Its visibility in this sort of discussion is all out of proportion to actual utility. This is especially true once you snip out the number who use pirated Photoshop exclusively to do simple operations like cropping and resizing.

Want to have more users work on the stuff that matters to 99% of users instead of nurturing a hope that people might give up their Macs.
There's coffee/caffeine which is available at workplaces for employees who want to consume it.

If there are proven benefits without any known adverse effects, we can expect businesses to take the leap and try to make it available as long its legal, practical and cost effective.
wild to think that the web is old enough now that major media properties are shutting down websites.
> That is: the sensors cannot see far enough ahead to react comfortably when going above N miles-per-hour. That might be a dated understanding of the issue though...

It's more of a challenge when your stopping distance is low (more problematic for trucking than it is for TaaS vehicles since trucks are so damn heavy).

I suspect some challenges are risks like tailgater collisions and high-stakes lane changes at speed, and even more problematic is just profitability (what if your cars are tied up in traffic jams, what if they don't have enough charge left to make a long round trip, etc).
Account from 2023 accusing account from 2007. Mmmm.
Despite the ethical concerns, it would be very useful if Figma offered an option for large organisations to train an organisation-level model that does not share data with the rest of the world. I believe the opt-in rate would be much higher.
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Photopea is AWESOME. Especially PSD support. I can't recommend it enough.
This really highlights the need for something like a "right to culture". People deserve a way to personally preserve and enjoy the cultural artifacts that are important to them. I can mostly do that by buying digital music, but (as Jon Stewart would say) with TV and movies, ah-not-so-much.
From Dimes to Fahrenheit 451
IRC. NNTP. Email. dare i mention AOL (some of us are younger and didn't know OOP from OOM), the first 3d games that were immersive, Hotline, massively multiplayer voice chat like mpath (Mplayer.com, then gamespy), and for that matter, multiplayer gaming with people anywhere.

&c
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The AI Chatbot that does your Laundry, while taking Google out of its misery ^_^
What proofs do you have that he is doing that? I mean I'm not him and my first instinct if I saw your previous comment "What are you even talking about. When is the last time you went to comedycentral.com to watch something... This is giant self-righteous paragraph of junk." would be to downvote it.

I'd downvote it because of "self-righteous paragraph of junk." and because I strongly believe that historical content should be maintained.
WP5 was a godsend. I once found myself typing up a bunch of military documents to print onto preformatted forms. (Picture filling out an IRS tax form with a typewriter. Similar idea.) Typing was easy. The nitpicky formatting was a pain in the neck.

I was a fast enough typist that I had a little extra time to play with WordPerfect every now and then. I found its macro system and learned it. Then I wrote macros to format a bunch of raw text. Then my workflow was like typing handwritten inputs into the start of a WP doc, pressing a couple keys, then printing the results.

Our goal was to do something like 20 forms per day each. After I shared my macros with my coworkers, we could easily do that many per hour.

My boss told me to STFU and not go crazy with the productivity gains. Turns out I turned all sorts of things in that job, many involving office politics.
The arm cpu is.
That's what they're doing , but not anonymously. They're writing tech critical articles, which their friend advised them not to do
Ask HN: Which User Management (Identity, Access) tool do you recommend?
People do die using asphyxiant gasses recreationally. Xenon's much greater density and narcotic potential may make it more dangerous than nitrous oxide.
I work in a country with strict laws around firing and while I suspect our laws are generally too strict, this is one of the big upsides in my view. It just makes for a healthier dynamic. People feel (reasonably) free to speak their mind, disagree, or stand up for themselves. Management is based more on merits and consensus than power and hierarchy.

Disclaimer: I've never worked in the US. The difference is probably not as pronounced as I imagine it to be!
my 2p worth - my work involves a lot of summarisation, recommendation from a user preference statement. I've been able to do this with 4o / opus, but the consistency wasn't there, which required complex prompting chains to stabilise.

What I'm seeing with Sonnet 3.5 is a night-and-day step up in consistency. The responses don't seem to be that different in capability of opus / 4o when they respond well, it just does it with rock-solid consistency. That sounds a bit dull, but it's a huge step forward for me and I suspect for others.
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New California bill could force stores to close self-checkout
Better fill it
HN has a max length of 80 for the headline. Yes, AFAICS the "-lish" would have fit, but not both that and the "esae". Presumably OP shortened down from the error "Over 80!"and just didn't happen to notice that they could have got away with shortening a smidgheon less.

Please try to unbunch your pantaloons.
I don't really care to recover my older account on my MBP with a dead logic board. Do you want me to recover a really old account for a measurement-contest
> Tech is an out-of-control locomotive with no fucking brakes.

The way I see it, "tech" is simply the area where a very old pattern is playing out.

In another era, the dreams being peddled would involve gold from transatlantic expeditions, Dutch tulips, textile machines, railroad networks, etc.
New tool detects AI-generated videos with 93.7% accuracy
This is indeed fast! Also seems to be no issue interrupting it while speaking. Is this using WebRTC echo cancellation to avoid microphone and speaker audio mix ups?
A new software release has driven zero miles. You do not know what kind of performance it has -- regressions both happen and are expected with every launch.

The number of miles a release ends up driving is mostly in simulation + some human-supervised on-road testing, and may be low / influenced by the availability of resources ($$$). There are little to no regulations or 3rd party checks on the process used to clear releases.

They do not simulate every release on all X miles driven. They can't, it's super expensive, and that's to speak nothing of challenges like simulation realism or compatibility of the simulator with multiple generations of hardware that isn't backwards compatible.

They could have no deaths for years, then suddenly a whole lot after a bad software push. Recently they issued a recall because of a bug where the car could hit a telephone pole. Imagine if the software had a bug when their cars were ubiquitous on highways, slamming cars into concrete medians? Imagine if a fault could bork critical technologies like the lidar at a high rate across the fleet?

What happens to Waymo if they kill even 1 child due to a bug or lapse in model quality? I imagine many would wake up to the reality of their safety story and demand a way to audit software releases. Or would you continue to let your kid ride Waymo? This is also to say nothing of sensor failures and other ways the car can mess up.

The probability of your dying in a Waymo is not # incidents / # miles, because past performance does not guarantee future performance when it comes to new releases. It's unknown quantity L (likelihood of encountering a dangerous bug per unit time) * T (time spent in car). Without more data about L (which changes based on many factors, like the company's process for certifying releases), L*T could go from 0 to something unacceptably high really fast.

You trust the car you drive today because the parts are quality controlled and regulated. Software drivers are a very new part added to this chain of things to trust. Their quality control process is not yet publicly regulated. The reality is there needs to be an advancement in technology to ensure software quality / safety, ideally from the role of an unbiased auditor that can catch faults and ground the fleet asap, then restore public faith by ensuring gaps in the qualification processes are fixed. No such mechanism exists today.
This is exactly what I meant. That’s why I said it just one of the implications, out of many.
Game dev. It keeps tabs on the type of game it is, background, genre, classes, theme. Notably the difference between one decision and another - it takes note when I say "Instead of Y, do X". Like if I show a preference of Chinese names, it'll give me more of that.
In think it boils down to the difference between technology as capital that individuals could acquire and control for their own priorities, versus technology controlled by a large company to deliver--or deny--a limited service to individuals.

While the past 30 years have absolutely put the "personal" into "personal computer", I'd rather have a personal assistant than a personal overseer.
It's really weird how HN changes the title sometimes... Here it removed the "How" at the beginning, I had to re-edit it.

Do you think there is an LLM involved somewhere?
Copyright laws don’t care that nobody cares. This is a misconception of the concept.
> This is complete incompetence from their leadership who show no value to their own content

Have you not seen the U.S.? It doesn't matter. The system is orchestrated to existing money-people making money simply for having it in the first place.

Even "bankruptcy" doesn't mean anything anymore.

Your interest or legitimate use cases do. not matter. At all. Ever. For entertainment or technology.
Hi, I built the client UI for this and... yea, I really wanted to get Firefox working :(

We needed a way to measure voice-to-voice latency from the end-user's perspective, and found Silero voice activity detection (https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad) to be the most reliable at detecting when the user has stopped speaking, so we can start the timer (and stop it again when audio is received from the bot.)

Silero runs via onnx-runtime (with wasm). Whilst it sort-of-kinda works in Firefox, the VAD seems to misfire more than it should, causing the latency numbers to be somewhat absurd. I really want to get it working though! I'm still trying.

The code for the UI VAD is here: https://github.com/pipecat-ai/web-client-ui/tree/main/src/va...
This is palpably false, as Schumpeter described: “Electric lighting is no great boon to anyone who has money enough to buy a sufficient number of candles and to pay servants to attend to them. It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man.”
The Acquired Podcast has a great episode on the history of Microsoft. Well worth a listen for any one interested.

https://www.acquired.fm/
This is far from an isolated incident. Most of us who got screwed didn't get a payday or even an apology.
Skepticism is good. You should not be convinced until I can provide some actual evidence. Sadly I don't know when I'll find the time.

I don't think GC is a good fit for games, so there I wouldn't recommend using this or any other existing GC really. Maybe if I find a way to make collect incremental so you can call it only once per frame with a time budget, then it could work.
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in other words, she had a midlife crisis
You will find a country doing that somewhere every decade, so it's irellivent to this analysis.
I think something like at least a quarter of the world's population can at least get by in English, so while yes, there may be a majority that doesn't, that majority is far from "vast".
like Stormtrooper
Does it? For single player games you can just still use and distribute the original, unpatched version.

I agree that there is lock-in with online multiplayer games, but it's more on the game servers than the distributed content. So it's only marginally a copyright issue.
I think you're right. People never had all the content we can access today. So the real competitors of those few big providers are now the millions of people creating new content every day on social media, YouTube, etc.
There is always Emacs. I love this talk by Joe Dixit about how he came from things like scrivener to Emacs
https://youtu.be/FtieBc3KptU?feature=shared
Yes, correct. I would avoid going in that direction if possible, it's best to go from the GC Arena to the other Arenas.
55 Questions I Ask Before I Buy a Business
Just the standard advice: It's usually much easier to switch into a new role (MLE, manager,...) at your existing company than landing those roles directly at a new company. So if your current employer does not employ any MLEs, consider joining another company that does– but apply for a role you're currently well qualified for, and then try to make the switch internally. Consider being up-front about that in the hiring process to get signal on how supportive a company is.
Accusing people of the very thing you are doing is quite the play.
Piracy is the only realiable history preservation tool.
Nah, a dirk move is when you jet around the world and find strategically important historical (usually military) artifacts. Or possibly when you drink a lot of tea while solving holistic mysteries.
i took it to mean progress is increasing, not rate of progress is increasing. a classic case of "acceleration misuse" but nothing more
I recently opened an old laptop with Windows 95, and had the same realization there with Word.
It's not so weird to me, I don't know much about melatonin but testosterone (probably the most popular steroid) is also just a natural hormone
It started happening a long time before that. There was a popular meme in the 1980s where housewives humorously referred to themselves as “domestic engineers.”
But is this content available somewhere else then? Should it not have been archived then or given to those who hold those rights so they could publish?
Instructions didn't work for me. Tried on Windows 10 and macOS 14.3 (x86) with Chrome Canary. The "On Device Model" component doesn't show up.
"7News YouTube channel hacked, broadcasts AI Elon Musk crypto scam"
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/7news-youtube-chan...
Related One Million Checkboxes (750 points, 16 hours ago, 256 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869
Another (more portable) way to get the cache line size is to use std::hardware_(destructive|constructive)_interference_size from C++17.

While it's more portable, there are some drawbacks. Drawbacks with this approach are: (1) the statically known cache line size might not be right if you deploy your code to a target CPU different from the one you compiled for, (2) using this value to define structure + member alignment in headers could end up with interesting bugs if different source files including the header are built with different flags. Also: your toolchain might not support it yet.
> Hosting video is expensive; a Twitch streamer (Thor) mentioned that an 8-hour stream at 1080p with 8,000 viewers costs Twitch nearly $5,000, while 720p still costs around $1,300.

This sounds way too much - prohibitive, in fact, when cheap all-you-can-eat dubiously-legal IPTV services exist.

On the one hand, AWS quote something similar as an estimate ($12,000 for 10 hours for 10,000 viewers at 1080p) [0]. All but a rounding error of this is paid to AWS CloudFront for per-GB distribution costs and this assumes 99% of bits can be served by the CDN.

On the other hand, Amazon note that this is typically an overestimate because it's unlikely all your viewers will get the 1080p, and they can degrade service to some (QVBR) and pass you on the savings. Additionally, Twitch video content (disproportionately, video games) seems like it should be more compressible than most video. And most importantly, Twitch don't pay the retail price.

Still, it's going to come in an order of magnitude above what I thought Youtube/Twitch etc needed to pay their bills.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/live-streaming-...