skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voice anonymization is the use-case mentioned by the paper. If you're recording a video or communicating online, having this over your voice would benefit privacy by avoiding revealing your real voice that can be matched back to your face/name/job/etc. I think a lot of people are currently reluctant to use their voice at all online for privacy reasons, resorting to only text.

Also allows people uncomfortable with their natural voice, in particular transgender people, to communicate closer to how they wish to be perceived. Or even for someone to use their own natural voice from previous recordings if some temporary or chronic disease/disorder has impaired it.

There are probably a bunch of creative applications - like doing character voices for a D&D session or reading an audiobook. Obviously depends on the preferences of those involved, and many will currently dislike it on the basis of it being AI, but I think over time we'll see the tech integrated in interesting ways.

I imagine the majority of the use will be in entertainment/memes/satire - joining a call with an amusing voice on, or the equivalent of Snapchat's face filters. Not something critical that we couldn't do without, but still a fun application.

I don't see much benefit to kidnappers in this; if you just need to send an anonymous message without much concern about flow and latency, text or traditional TTS is fine.
just let it go and move on... don't let the negative energy eat you up, it's just not worth it.

i was screwed out of over 6 months of pay north of $50k. i wasn't keep tabs on the payments and i wasn't keeping detailed records of my work. both things i no longer let slide in any way. i spoke to many people and lawyers, but decided to move on and let it go.

in the end how much money and time and energy do you want to spend on another lousy human being or entity? it only hurts you emotionally and takes up valuable time to focus on more productive things. ten years later it's a blip in my life that forced me to learn and be better about picking clients and billing, etc. don't let the 10% ruin your work with the other 90%.
Is the overload of presynaptic serotonin receptors that ends up causes endocytosis of those very receptors. The purpose of these receptors is to help regulate vesicular release of serotonin into the synapse by shutting down release when too much is detected. Less of those receptors means more serotonin in the synapse after long periods of treatment. The current overall theory (iirc) is that this helps to drive BDNF upregulation which is a neuronal growth factor that helps to drive more dendrite and bouton formation leading to new and more robust network connections
"Torah fan fiction" by Scott Alexander at unsongbook.com . The sephirot part is from kabbalah.
> Don't military jets fly at supersonic speeds above land?

It can happen, but it is disruptive at best. It isn't something you'd want happening around a populated area on a routine basis in peacetime. And it typically is not, unless under emergency circumstances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8G-mgKycUM
When I'm evaluating whether or not I want to take a position at a company, once of the things I look for is that company's history of layoffs. Some companies have a habit of engaging in them, and I prefer to avoid them. In part out of self-defense and in part because I think it's indicative of a general business mindset that I wouldn't get along with.
> tax evasion scheme based on allegedly-unpaid invoices from foreign "customers".

Care to elaborate?
If you do, in fact, need H100s, they can be very hard to get. Even the smaller flavors of A100 you sometimes request, wait days for, and then 1 node might show up during a weekend. And for the reasons described in the article and the fact that large training jobs can be network-limited, nicer networks can be a big deal.
Being Volodymyr Zelenskiy: How war has changed Ukraine's leader
It is often taken for long term chronic pain as opposed to a occasional fever as well. Could easily take 6 500mg pills a day for a long time. Add some drinking on top.
Will K-pop's AI experiment pay off?
>I would guess both through soft power from the heads of its members and their network as well as with the threat of exclusion from the cartel and being made an enemy of it.

What does that translate into in practical terms for a lightbulb manufacturer?
Not only are linked lists rare, they are also mainly useful exactly in situations where you cannot guarantee a (even mostly) linear allocation order.
I wonder if the schools actually verified the SSN.

Would have been dank to see 666-66-6666 next to your name
Once a card is old enough you might have to switch to the Nouveau driver instead, which is probably fine since using a card that old on a modern machine suggests you aren't that interested in games or VR.
Fails on “piano keyboard” (shows a full piano) and “close up of piano keyboard,” (bizarre duplicate keyboard monstrosity.)

It’s a difficult prompt. Nobody gets the grouping of black keys right. Maybe someday?
Chloroform is toxic to the liver and kidneys and can cause arrhythmias
Nope. Being wealthy is not being rich. Perfectly normal people are wealthy by way of their assets and cash poor.
I use it when I can. There are some work-related things where I can't, and sometimes I help other people with their PCs who haven't been converted to the one true way yet (or uninstalled it because youtube and they don't know about whitelists).
The C-suite is not powerless in how it's done though - how they communicate, support and respect (or not) those being let go.
Back in my freelance days I had a client who refused to pay. I took him to small claims court and won. Actually collected the money.

- small claims court is very easy and relatively quick. no need for a lawyer.

- there is a cap on the amount, so I won $10k, not the full amount owed. But close enough and much better than $0.

- make every reasonable attempt to resolve this prior to filing but, as stated throughout this thread, do not stress yourself out. This should be a fire-and-forget process. Consider the money lost, and if you win, it's just bonus.
I believe a passive faraday cage has a high pass characteristic. You might need external antennas or repeaters for the bands you want.
I'd guess that a lot of devs it's not their main strength and their main concern is getting a working product out the door. If you're making "Bunnies go berserk" with the adventures of berserk rabbits as your main selling point, it seems unlikely that a smaller list of graphics fidelity options is going to dissuade anyone but the most hardcore graphics enthusiast from buying.

All those options are also going to need time allocated for a graphics developer to tune to suit your game if the out-of-the-box defaults aren't great, and as it's an area still in progress upgrading APIs and revalidating for your game on a range of hardware. If you're doing multiplatform with consoles/mobile that's even more in the mix, and you need to consider what will reward the time spent on it.
Nice work. Good perseverance. I like the idea and the way it came about. Some of the design aspects are similar to a project I am working on that i hope to finish before the end of this year. Its a mainboard on the wall for data recovery with custom made housing brackets for usb ports and switches. Im hoping to add a small secondary display to pipe command output to so I can monitor at a glance my recovery jobs.
Then they should improve the modeling, as a start
One of the only good things about the UK. I wonder how they pulled it off without bureaucracy and politics swamping them. I’d like to read about it in a blog or something.
AT&T didn't just buy into a significant amount of DirecTV, they owned DirecTV. As in, 100% ownership. So yes, all DirecTV customers were AT&T customers, because AT&T and DirecTV were not separate entities. It wasn't until 2021 that DirecTV was spun off into a separate company again, but still with 70% ownership by AT&T.
some nominally 4-wide intel cpus can execute 5 or 6 instructions per cycle when macrofused. For example a cmp and a conditional jXX can be macrofused.
Not only is there code but they've actually pinned version numbers in their requirements.txt!

Truly an outlier ;)
... which currently throws a 500 for me.
A dream for any contractor. Limitless funds, no connection to who spent it and for what.
Haha yes, I'm still not used to people knowing so much about my projects, thank you for watching!
I appreciate your response.
I am actually surprised about the need of pg_lakehouse by large companies. I expected that they would choose one of the prominent data warehouses (snowflake, bq, etc.) or query engines on top of s3 (athena, trino, etc.) and that this fdw approach would be more relevant for smaller ones (which want to avoid those extra costs). Do they have some special requirements or other use cases to go that route?

I follow your work in paradedb, and i look forward to seeing more development in the pg_analytics extension. :)
AT&T is a public company. Public company needs to get fined appropriately.

Start issuing multi billion dollar fines for these breaches and suddenly companies are invested in security.

Unfortunately with government agencies getting defanged as part of recent SCOTUS ruling, it’s likely not possible.

Have to rely on civil court to issue fines now (ie, class action lawsuits).
I too always hated paying bills manually but finally stopped and went to automatic online payments after my mortgage payment twice arrived late — incurring a late fee of $55 each time — even though I'd mailed my checks two weeks in advance of the due dates.

Charlottesville, Virginia, where I live, has been plagued by undelivered/late mail for many years, to the extent U.S. Senator John Warner personally intervened on several occasions to try to fix it — without success.

After I switched my mortgage payment to automatic withdrawal from my bank account I was so pleased at how frictionless it was that I changed ALL my monthly check payments — Comcast Internet+XfinityTV/AT&T/electricity/water/trash pickup — to automatic credit card payments.

So much better now, plus I no longer need to buy stamps on a regular basis.
Oh yes, i do know that.
but do YOU know how they looked back then? because they're literally just toolbars with buttons on em and canvas frames which are just fricking images / application logic! rendering these viewports/canvases are challenging for sure -- back then just like today, because thats where where the domain logic goes.

the UI back then were fucking trivial, youre deluding yourself if you think anything else.

Lets go through your first examples one-by-one, as the theme continues i will stop at some point.

* Word: literally just 1 menu/text, 2 rows of icons. And a range picker. you can do that within ~15 minutes even as a beginner.

https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/97-98-11f3805bab5...

* Excel: same as word, with the addition of a grid in the body. the challenge is in chaining together the cells. trivial as hell -- as long as you ignore the application/domain logic, which would've been just as complicated back then.
https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/57db2161e19c9e95d...

* slightly challenging for someone that hasn't encountered flex. extremely easy -- albeit time consuming just because of the quantity of buttons. still doable within <1h.
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/uploaded/old-software/graphi...

* logic: once again, the challenge is in the domain. the UI itself is just buttons in rows. trivially done by simple flex rows.
https://www.muzines.co.uk/images_mag/articles/mt/MT_93_04_no...

* winamp 2.5: once again, trivial to do. creating this UI -- without the domain logic of actually playing the music etc behind it -- can be done within <1h.
https://preterhuman.net/software/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/...

It goes on and on. Every single example youre citing is just rows and rows of icons.
Thats extremely easy to implement with pure html and trivial css.

give any of these UIs to an experienced frontend dev and they'll provide you with a click dummy within 15 minutes to 3hours, depending on the quantity of elements on it.

I'd be pointless, precisely because nobody cares about such trivial UIs anymore... But hey, whatever floats your boat, right?

And everything I wrote here is ignoring the fact that every one of your example was the opposite of easy back in the 90s. They were developed by whole teams over years to get to that point, despite what was claimed initially. And duplicating this with html5 is trivial, that itself should tell you how much easier it's gotten if you just don't chase the hippest tech that's fotm right now
It does sound interesting! But the actual paper is behind a paywall and doesn't seem to have made it onto a certain useful website yet. Do you know how to get access?
I can’t think of a better acqui-hire than NeXT + Steve Jobs
Ask HN: How do you find projects or ideas to generate money by yourself?
I have been self-employed for the past 3-4 years and I mostly developed blockchain technologies (back-end & front-end). I realized that this environment was mostly about creating hype for a quick buck and I got bored of it.

For the past months, I have been hired through short-term contracts to help a company to build a framework for stochastic simulations like Monte Carlo. Although, I got tired of working for someone else.

I have a diversified background in mathematics and computer science but I have no idea how I can generate money by myself without depending on an employer.

Anyone has ever been in such a place where they want to build stuff and generate money by themselves without depending on an employer?
Just like NT4 Server :-)

Intended use vs. potential use.

And yeah, NT4 Server was just NT4 Workstation with some registry fiddly bits flipped.
> Why did they build a system that permitted a bulk database dump of hundreds of millions of rows

Should all databases be capped at a few million rows total or something? I don't quite understand where you're going with this.
The website has no about page or any other links. I am not the dev and I don't know who the dev is. I found the site yesterday on Stackoverflow.
https://chatgpt.com/share/715eb79d-f6e4-4487-95ba-9bfad0d117...

Geeeeh, 4o really took a lot of work. It's like getting it to win at tic-tac-toe. It CAN be done, and possibly even repeatably, but it's non-trivial.
Maybe at some point it was, but we are well past sbux owning the term. You can see for yourself, do a google search for "third place -starbucks" and filter down to results in the last 24 hours. You will still find news articles, reddit threads, etc, using the very same definition we are using here.

I've seen articles in strong town use it, I've heard the term come up in meetings of my local pro-development citizen's organization, etc. Starbucks has no claim to the term third place, especially given that since covid, the majority of them don't even qualify as third places.
> the massive increase in the number of sensors dramatically improves reliability and changes the game

A guy with a submersible said the exact same thing; he is now in a 1cmx1cmx1cm cube with 4 other people at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Why did you want to use Nix to make impure binaries for other distros? Much of the appeal of it for me is using it to distribute software in a more reliably portable way, but that of course always means shipping a whole chunk of /nix/store, once way or another.

What made your team/company want to use Nix to build binaries and then strip them down for old-fashioned, dependency hell-ish distribution? Why not install Nix on your target systems or use Nix bundle, generate containers, etc.?
Dawn Aerospace's Rocket-Powered Aircraft, Certified for Supersonic Flight
Do we have any browser extension to run this on a specific webpage & suggest code blocks with potentially bad patterns from a Performance standpoint?
Major carmakers carving out their engine creation departments as a seperate company, with the explicit business plan to supply engine to the other carmakers who they expect to stop making engines entirely is being very positively spun here.

That they got, needed?, investment from oil producers is again something that could have been spun either way.
I may be a luddite, but I neither want nor need this.
More terrible AI features to turn off. great.
I would say the title alone kept me away from reading it. And this is coming from a person that worked in systems neuroscience and machine learning for a decade.

The scientific community (at least the neuroscience and atmospheric science I know about) does itself few favors with the manner it writes. Orwell's essay on politics and the english language comes to mind:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Please noooooooooo
Related, from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40941219
Why do you think that qualifier is random? There's very little risk when things hit the ocean, it's a non populated area. That's why we do launches over it. In a populated area, there are things like houses and roads which can be hit, and cause a lot of problems. I really don't see how people can think it's "negligible" when we already have space junk hitting houses, and the pieces are getting larger. That sounds like... Negligence to me.
True. They’re brand new to me though. I’ve been getting the former for years, the latter for only weeks.
In principle a compiler via JIT or PGO could do this optimization automatically.
it's undermined by `debugger` statements these days designed to make it difficult to inspect page content
Firefox is bad now
IMHO, dampen might be a more suitable verb. Unions are not a panacea to all issues an employee can face. And sometimes the union will put its own interests first, or the company’s, before the interests of the individual employee. But on the whole, unions can play a useful role on the market of labor.
> Mount a bell on your cat. Maybe more than one, with different sounds - collar, back and (if you can get him to tolerate it) a leg.

No, don’t do this. Would you like to have bells mounted on you in several different places, just jingling all day with every movement? That becomes stressful for both the cat and the humans.
Each GPU is connected with 400Gbps. The rest ist just the normal dataplane which is independent from the GPUs.

Source: Was personally involved in design of that deployment.
I don't think you could cover a data center with enough solar panels to power it
Wasn't able to read the whole article, but if this installs locally on my machine and can find a way to use my GPU to generate responses, I'm all in.
For anything we inject secrets in via env vars (which really is only supported by ECS, maybe EKS?), it is easy to add a lambda to kick off a nightly ECS restart. Easier if you are already using the AWS CDK for tooling.

The purist in me thinks restarts are a hack, but the pragmatist has been around long enough to embrace the simplicity.

Adding another dependency/moving piece that AWS could drop support or it could just break also steers me away from this.

For Lambda, processes should be getting swapped fast enough and you also normally load during a cold start only. I could see some argument there around improving cold start performance, but would need some testing.

So, maybe this is to save a few cents?
SpaceX Falcon 9 suffers rare failure on orbit during Starlink deployment
I was hoping there would be a choice, at the very least, for local LLM use, but alas, after reading the article, it appears that is not the case.

LadyBird is our only alternative.

Edit: Well and the FF forks that won't have AI. :P
Israel should be sanctioned for the damage NSO Group has done.
History of the US M-209 cipher machine
Similar story to Cairo with Microsoft [0].

Both visionary, both only partial successes.

WinFS :-(

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)
> I've long had in the back of my mind some kind of cloud-based platform for writing, running, storing, and sharing scientific code.

And now there are 15 competing standards.

Everyone uses the computing resources available at their institution, and each institution makes its own choices. Running someone else's code almost always involves migrating it to a new environment. Even using something as common as Docker is problematic, as it doesn't always interact nicely with the rest of the environment (such as Slurm).
Identity: Self-Hosted or in the Cloud?
how far away is it from being a (even as a joke) daily driver?
It will be interesting to see how well it actually works. I would like the idea of being able to track where my cats are and what they are doing. And more importantly, find them when the fire alarm starts going off...

I could also see some interesting use cases of this with home automation, particularly with lights and being able to say that someone is actually in a room instead of just sensing motion (see: cats).

That being said, I do not like the severe potential for abuse and privacy issues here. Given that it can identify specific people, I have to imagine this is a bit more detailed than just a human sized blob? Could it theoretically identify what you are doing, could it theoretically give you a real time view of someone (or multiple people). Even if not super detailed it could still give you an idea of what is going on.

I could see this particularly problematic in apartment buildings.
Nope. I was asserting that confusion comes from people believing that a "lossless" conversion exists. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Are you close to them? I hired someone (a friend) to go to their office and present the invoice in person. They told him that the finance guy was out, so he said, “I’ll wait” and he made himself comfortable in a chair. They paid him the full amount around 10 minutes later.

YMMV!

You could probably turn it over to a professional collection company as well.
So this is semantic sugar for selecting text then pasting into chatGPT interface? What real advantage does it offer other than saving a click or two?
Seems to be a German chap: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/58tlmv/created_...
She was one of the true greats. Among my top 10 favorite actors. Rest well.
An extension doesn’t have the sort of reliability, maintenance and security expectations that the main application itself has.

Complete support within the application itself doesn’t just include the effort to create the initial implementation but is also a promise to pour continued resources to maintain and fix issues as they arise over a period of time.
> Scientists build robot controlled by a brain in a jar

Would have been cheaper to travel to the nearest parliament building for the same result. /s
I'm presuming they meant 'made redundant' rather than 'fired'.

The former is still fairly easy, and just has some process involved, the latter much harder unless gross misconduct can be demonstrated.

It's absolutely true the the UK/EU/etc. have much better rights than the US in this regard, but perhaps the higher pay in the US (at least in tech) pays for that.
Didn't most people subscribe to HBO for its original series? In the 2000s they had Entourage, Sopranos and Six Feet Under and probably many more I can't remember.
Librewolf will hopefully strip it out.

- https://librewolf.net (Firefox but with good defaults and bloat stripped out)