skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I've been looking for awhile, but every one is out of stock of that new device that allows you to insert your cash bills into a website. Where did you find one that had it in stock?
Yes, Opus is the fastest and best option for real-time audio. It was designed to be flexible and to encode/decode at fairly low latencies. It sounds good for narrow-band (speech) at low bitrates but also works well at higher bitrates for music. And forward error correction is part of the codec standard.

It's possible to tweak the Opus settings to reduce that encode/decode latency substantially. Which might actually be worth doing for this use case. But there isn't quite a free lunch, here. The default Opus frame size is 20ms. Smaller frames lower the encoding/decoding latency, but increase the bitrate. The implementation in libwebrtc is very well tested and optimized for the default 20ms frame sizes and maybe not so much at other frame sizes. Experience has made me leery of taking the less-trodden-paths without a lot of manual testing.
Lol, I love the competitive aspect, draw a little figure then someone comes along and tries to undo it.
In at least a decade, torrents will be down as saviours of digital content.
Nonsense. I can definitely see completely sealed habitats buried underground in mars.
Weird thing to say, given summer solstice is 6 months away and winter solstice just happened.
>Supreme Court finds that (a) bribes and gratuities are a different crimes under federal law

This is literally my entire point. This is not a nuanced conversation because the supreme court invented a distinction. Read Code § 666, it's intent is utterly clear.
Keep a Safe Following Distance
Do you also think Adblock is piracy?
I’d say it’s far more useful than a junior engineer. A junior might know one or two areas well, but Claude 3.5 knows literally every steep learning curve across all engineering professions. Claude may not yet be able to orchestrate a large project, but it can advise on structuring using knowledge drawn from best practices across every conceivable discipline. We may not get “AGI”; we might get something far more useful instead.
Not OP, but:

> What sort of "alternative lifestyles"

The whole GNOME desktop for one. All of a sudden it seems like every PC became a tablet.

> what are the negative effects of them?

Loss of features and the rich control and customization normally afforded by a desktop computing experience. You know, the things that made it better than a tablet experience.

> What are some "traditional lifestyles"

Using KDE or Windows, where the minimize button never went away, where you have a taskbar with a tray, which shows you little tray programs that often have no durable windows outside of their tray menu -- not should they need to. Not trying to hack functionality back in via extensions that break so often that it feels like they're meant to condition you into not trying to change some Apple fanboy's Design Philosophy. My phone originally autocorrected that to Pathology, and I shouldn't have changed it.

> and how might you suggest they be promoted?

No promotion is needed, things will balance out as people realize how bad GNOME and GTK are. Projects are switching to Qt, not away from it, and KDE's market share is often reported as big as or bigger than GNOME's despite GNOME being the default in all the big distros whereas KDE is something people have to seek out on their own.
Stable, Horse, bolted ...

Other content lost in the purge were clips and full episodes of other short-lived late-night entries like The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, the Chris Hardwick-hosted @midnight (predecessor to After Midnight), and Lights Out with David Spade.

To quote Life of Brian "I know where to get it if you want it" ... these shows were archived as they aired.
Banks are simply basic human nature exploded into large corporate entities.

In reality, everyone would behave the same way if they were similarly scaled.

The idea that crypto lets you avoid banks is akin to the idea of thinking you can have an economy without humans.
I have about a dozen credit cards, 4 bank accounts, mortgage, car payment, utility accounts, github 2fa, aws 2fa, Fidelity retirement, etc. Not one has an issue with my number.

I did have some service refuse it, I want to say Twitter? But I'd definitely not consider it common. This is probably only the second or third time I've seen it, tbh.
Why would you go back to Russia? I would run as far away from it as possible and seek citizenship of a small island nation, or even the Philippines. Look what Pavel Durov did. He's anything but stupid.
I remember watching full episodes of South Park on their website. This was around 2000.
I'm beginning to think that paying by cash or having an anonymous digital payment method is critical. Also, how is it legal for places to say they only accept credit cards not cash. I am seeing this even for government run services, hospitals, etc.
There's no great fundamental invention here.
probably because they stumbled upon yet another “AI” blog post that is a complete waste of time.

I’d be annoyed too. At least this guys angry blog post is somewhat educational - reminding us of biases and how NOT to use LLM’s.

all this being said, time to go outside and touch some grass. Get off the computer for a bit.
"gpu are good to work on meshes, not really on pure particles"

Why?

Having thousands of particles, all in need of doing the same operations on them in parallel screams GPU to me.
It is just way harder to program a GPU, vs a CPU.
So wait if I have a copy of a deleted forever by Paramount episode am I a thief or savior?

My morals are confused
I use Firefox... still.
How on earth did you come up with this? Or did you hear it somewhere?

If it’s the former, you need to do improv. You have the gift.
This is one of the reasons why I avoid "collecting" anything. (Another is space, maintenance, etc.)

There's just not much point, unless you absolutely love something. But many people collect with the end-game of making a profit, which is a mistake.
Let's be honest, the US ban is all political. If they find a way around it, the goalposts will be moved.

Remember the last dispute was solved by paying Oracle a lot of money (a bribe) to onshore all of US citizens data... Yet a few years later and suddenly that isn't enough.
It appears the other way around. NATO has expanded, contravening the guarantee that led USSR to give up its rightfully owned territory in Germany and has been knocking on the doors of Russia.
It is evidently a critical national security interest for Russia, given the track record of unilateral regime change operations by NATO that have left millions dead and millions more displaced.
Could they just have uploaded these to YouTube and monetized there through ads? Might not go with their brand, but better than deleting!
You missed the poor website design that the columns are dynamic with your browser window width, so letters are random for anyone but you
Examples like this make me think, “maybe the S&P 500 will be at 15,000 by 2030.” I mean, in my own job, Claude is making me substantially better in a wide range of areas, from sales negotiation to managing my team. Add that up across millions of people…
There might already be something available in the form of binaural beats. Not a hat, but a pair of earphones and a BB app or audio track...
If wanting to reduce menial tasks in my life is classist, then sign me up.
I heard a theory today that hitting 100% on the MMLU benchmark may be impossible due to errors in that benchmark itself - if there are errors in the benchmark no model should ever be able to score 100% on it.

The same problem could well be present in other benchmarks as well.
At the end of the day the only thing that really matters for currency valuation is who sits on the right end of the barrel of very large guns.
How is there so much sci-fi wishful thinking so pervasive here? How do you even imagine that any technology could safely move an asteroid to LEO every few years (and probably have it crash into the Earth a few years after that)? Nevermind a technology that we would develop in the next 100-500 years?

I would be willing to bet that SpaceX will be long gone as a company before the first successful (cash-flow positive) asteroid mining operations will begin long in our future. And that it will barely be a memory by the time we start bringing asteroids closer to the earth to mine them, if that ever happens. They will of course have made some serious contributions to this future, but this is waaaaay beyond anything we'll see in our lifetimes, and companies just don't tend to live that long.
We need [N] more engineers
I would certainly prefer it not to be scripted. As it is, I can't really enjoy it due to anything I check being undone in an instant by scripts.
If a mozilla employee is just having fun, and clearly has no clue what they’re doing (they are new to this), why not SAY THAT at the beginning of the blog post? Is transparency too much to ask?

Ruins a company’s credibility…
I've never worked at Netflix but the above reflects my understanding of the culture there, with this addition:

Unlike the approach of being required to stack rank and fire the bottom x%, managers aren't required to fire anyone but are supported if they decide someone is no longer adding value.

I think the fact I know this means they are pretty transparent about it.

Obviously, that could be applied unfairly.

Given the transparency, you need to decide:

1. Does the hiring manager seem like a reasonable person?

2. What is the hiring manager's / company's definition of reasonable expectations?

3. Am I willing and able to sustain the kind of efforts that those expectations entail?

4. Am I willing and able to deal with the ego, financial, and hassle ramifications of being wrong about any of the previous questions?

I think it's a reasonable way to run a business.

It's not a way I want to participate in, so I hope it doesn't become the only way.

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Do you have any suggestions? Your game seemed very popular. Anything you wished you had focused more on?
Technology innovation's highest priority has always been to move money from the middle class to the ownership class. Why so many people assume altruistic outcomes is beyond me. Why so many people see any other outcome of OpenAI then increased income inequality is beyond me.
You're on a website of software developers. Our entire job description is to eliminate white collar work. Not a lot of secretaries and typists anymore. Less and less classic sysadmins as well.
You’re missing that they want you to subscribe to Paramount Plus, so they’re going to have all of their content there, where you pay them. They mention it in the press release.

Their company IS paramount plus now. It’s all going there.
Well, I interpreted it about as different as possible, but to each their own I guess. Though it makes no sense to me to call it "clickbait". Bait for what? The original commenter was just expressing an opinion, not selling ads or something.

I don't think it's a statement about "classic" at all - it's a statement that people generally enjoy writing and making art, and people generally don't enjoy doing their dishes or laundry. Tech used to be about making the "hard drudgery easier".
In Australia for example rural areas are all being wired for fibre.

And you only need to lay fibre once and you can benefit at least for the next century if not longer as we continue to invent new ways to multiplex data.
The question is rather how much profit do they make b leaving it up.
Most likely 0 or less.
Capitalism says shut it down now.
Keynote is awesome. Last I checked a few years ago though Numbers was nowhere even close to Excel. No dynamic array formulas, Power Query, lambda functions, VBA, etc. All are pretty essential if you're doing anything beyond basic spreadsheets but I may need to checkout Numbers again.
Also people living in stealth campers (fancy converted vans with no windows), of which there are more and more every year in HCOL cities. You can only get so much data with 5G.
Even if you think STL means St Louis, you can't make that sentence confusing becasue none of those other potential uses work in this place.

eg "The St Louis" is only a possible construction if you put another noun after it like "How the STL cardinals handle the pressure of big games" (I don't know, I don't really do sports but you get the idea that's a valid sentence).

You can't have a sentence "How the STL uses explicit" be at all confusing with any of the examples you gave.
They don't want you to do anything. The friction they ware attempting to reduce is between phone numbers and wallets. This isn't much different than the typo-laden email scam. It's working as intended.
Well people have discovered you can make cash irrespective of the quality of tech you pump out.

Two routes have been discovered and milked to high heaven -

Financial engineering - this is where if you accumulate more capital and faster than the next guy you win. Add to that globalization ie arbitrage on interest rates/tax rates/forex/labor cost/rent/real estate/govt regulation in generating capital.

Demand engineering - related to capital raising - since attention is finite - who spends more on marketing/ads/pr captures more attention faster than the next guy.

The creatives/engineers/scientists haven't spent enough time coming up with a response to either. So they all end up dependent on the financial and demand engineers.

This will change with time as people come up with ways to respond.
In the next couple years Waymo will have accumulated more than 100M miles driven, which is the number a human drives statistically before causing 1 death on average. Are you still going to be worried when they drive 1B miles and have 2 deaths? What about 100B miles with 30 deaths? At what point will you accept the statistical evidence?
What does 'DIP' stand for?
I'm going to guess the reason Anthropic do verified phone numbers is that, unlike email addresses, most people don't have an easy way to create multiple phone numbers.

Since Anthropic accounts come with free rate-limited access to their models they're trying to avoid freeloaders who sign up for hundreds of accounts in order to work around those caps.

Google Voice numbers are blocked because people can create multiple of those, which would allow them to circumvent those limits.
Hydrofluoric acid. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Often it is not because you'll likely be able to correlate.
Anything they own. They (and most other big Hollywood studios) are in deep shit and will probably shut down if there is no miracle.
Spain now had way more wealth the its neighbors, relatively speaking, even if it didn't have more wealth than before. In a world of mercenary armies and continental trade, that matters a lot. Sure, maybe the mercenaries are now asking for double what they asked before, but they're asking your neighbors for double too, and your neighbors didn't also get a huge injection of gold.

Also, gold wasn't used to build things, so it contributes very little to wealth (jewelery and decorations notwithstanding). Having a huge injection of iron or uranium or tritium or helium or lithium or other rare and sought-after elements today would be an entirely different story.

Of course, the whole idea of bringing an asteroid to earth to mine is pure sci-fi at this moment, so this is all moot.
For a sales lead? Why?
That's pretty demonstrably not true, historically. The explosion of the middle class of the 20th century was because technology still required a huge amount of labor, but it increased productivity to the point where that labor could live much more comfortably on their wages.
Right but..for whom? Again: AI existing doesn't stop people doing writing or making art.

What it does stop is getting paid for those activities where they are paid for: but then, that's not "unbridled creativity" anymore - that's "corporate says we need a stylized picture of a man standing in a field by tomorrow".

Or it's the exact thing the author in the linked blog here is talking about: what was their actual job?

> One morning, I sat down at my desk to craft yet another press release touting yet another "game-changing" startup that had raised - yet another - $25 million. And I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd written something I believed in. The words that used to flow felt like trying to squeeze ancient toothpaste from an empty tube.

Literally getting paid to write...just not what they wanted to be writing.
What's the opportunity cost there? How much does a rate limited account cost and how much is a signup worth?
You are absolutely right about NATO, but wrong about Russia.

At the end of the day American hegemony has essentially produced the most peaceful, prosperous period ever and America is pretty open to any country joining this hegemony as long as you play by its basic rules.

This does not mean giving up your culture. American hegemony is able to allow such disparate economies and societies as Saudi Arabia and Norway to operate in fairly peaceful markets.

At the end of the day, it is in the best interest of everyone to basically do what America says.

Unlike previous regimes, America has not completely run roughshod over anyone other than people that were already doing extremely questionable things. And it doesn't matter because if your leaders kowtow enough to American demands, you can be pretty sure we will leave you alone.

So basically, Russia is going to lose and will make a fool of themselves as they already have, and America will come out of this relatively unscathed. At the end of the day, America has no real competition. The Pax Americana is substantively different than Pax Brittanica and Pax Romana, in that Americas is worldwide and there is no country able to threaten America in any meaningful way. We are blessed to be surrounded by two very friendly countries that play well with us.

Moreover all the countries that might threaten us are literally dying out.
Obviously...You use a service, which costs money to run/build/produce, and the way that service is paid for is by advertisement. Your decision that the advertisement is annoying or intrusive isn't what makes your circumvention of it piracy or not, it is your violation of the terms according to which you're being given access to the content.

I find it interesting that I have yet to meet a single person advocating for ad blockers on YouTube who, upon being given the option to have an ad-free experience by paying for YouTube premium, choose to do so. Yet they often then immediately fall back on the tired arguments that "well if the ads weren't so intrusive I wouldn't use an ad blocker."
> if I have a copy of a deleted forever by Paramount episode am I a thief or savior?

Intuitively if this media is truly otherwise gone forever, it appears more like salvage than theft.
On the Macintosh Classic, there's a whole OS boot disk image in ROM that can be activated by booting with the keys "command option X O" held down (X-O was the code name for the machine). These are the remains of a prototype for making a diskless terminal Macintosh. It comes in handy if you've hosed your boot disk somehow.
Nothing about the quote is related to gainful employment or monetary transaction.

It is entirely about the prospect of technology serving people by freeing their time from chores to pursue luxury activities. Instead of that expectation, the reality of technological advancement that AI has given us so far has been to do those pursuits of pleasure for us, while we still have to do mundane, unfulfilling chores in our daily lives.

It's purely a tongue-in-cheek quip about our daily lives. It follows the standard formula for pretty much all one-liners jokes. Some technology- vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, laundry machines- eliminated many hours of work. Instead of advancing this kind of benefit for people, the technology took the benefit for itself.

Setup, juxtaposed by punchline.
Girl, same. I am never going to the grocery store again. Thank god for the economic underclass willing to do delivery. They're like the plankton of the economic ecosystem. Without them, it all falls apart. Sad but necessary. But, as karma, delivery will eventually be the only job left for all of us, until we get deep enough into Moravec's paradox for that to eventually be automated too.
Yes, this is called a ‘natural monopoly’. It’s the case with most infrastructure - basically there is little incentive for a private company to be more efficient than a public utility, since anybody building competing infrastructure is infeasible, but because they want to make profit there is incentive for them to charge more and to cut costs in other ways (like not investing in more than the bare minimum of maintenance). So it generally tends to work out worse for the customers.

Unfortunately some people genuinely believe the private sector will always deliver services cheaper and more efficiently than the public sector, so all around the world this mistake keeps being made. And the continual failures seem to never affect the firm belief of the adherents to that theory…
Oh no! I use Apple voice control into Claude and then copy and paste code back and forth between my IDE and Claude mostly.

For longer writing,I really like going for a walk for 45 minutes and brain dumping on a topic, and transcribing it. Then I write a brief outline and have Claude fill it out into a document, explicitly only using language that I used in the transcript. Then edit via voice
No one lives in the middle of the Gibson desert.

But they did run fibre through all of the regional towns in WA.

https://www.nbnco.com.au/blog/the-nbn-project/overcoming-rol...
But the question is what can they do that's more useful than communication satellites to people on Earth? That is, who pays for the rocket launches, and why?

More space science and exploration is nice. We'd get more for less. But I don't think space exploration budgets will increase?
And not subscribe to Paramount+?!?
Great question! With thermal based processes that can certainly be a problem, but it's quite different with Electrochemical Additive Manufacturing (ECAM).

The ECAM process operates at room temperature and deposits material via electrodeposition - so no melting is involved! The resulting microstructure is a fine grained structure (avg. grain size ~ 500 - 1000 nm) with fairly equiaxed grains that provide high strength and isotropic behavior. So we don't see the same challenge that say a laser based process encounters due to melting and cooling.

-Fabric8Labs
Also it’s an Attiny which just isn’t a very good processor. It has 2k of ram. Compare that to my favorite microcontroller, the 32 bit RP2040, which has 264k of ram!

I used to use AVR and sometimes ATTiny processors (all 8 bit) but for the last ten years I’ve exclusively used 32 bit microcontrollers and lately it’s all the RP2040.

I think someone had some fun doing a small layout, but I’d really never recommend anyone use this thing. A Raspberry Pi Pico (which hosts the RP2040) is $5. That one still quite annoyingly uses Micro USB, but there’s plenty of clones that use USB-C which are also $5 each, such as this one:
https://a.co/d/0d1foa5f
Elon has publicly stated that he wants to die on Mars. Considering that SpaceX has already launched a Tesla into an orbit that intersects that of Mars, it's not too farfetched to say that it's an attainable goal for him by EoL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster
That's above my paygrade I think. All my logic is rule based at the 600ms tick level. If you pick a berry, each tick take one step closer, then do a pick animation, then add the berry to your inventory and remove it from the bush. The client is responsible for tweening between those ticks. It might be a whole different thing to try physics/fine movements etc.
Enjoy your ads then I guess. When you watch ads for 4 hours in a row, it shows a bit of everything and that’s enough for me to compare and see that there have been no evolution.