skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here you go - problem solved - maybe? This link shows animated transparent webp:

https://static.crowdwave.link/transparentanimatedwebp.html

Seems to work on Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

The video file is here: https://static.crowdwave.link/transparentanimatedwebp.webp

I put the result of the code below here:

This python program will generate webp frames and if you have ffmpeg will convert them to transparent animated webp:

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
import random
import subprocess

# Image parameters
width, height = 640, 480
frames = 1000
shapes = 10

def random_color():
# Generate a random RGBA color with varying levels of transparency (alpha)
return (random.randint(0, 255), random.randint(0, 255), random.randint(0, 255), random.randint(50, 200))

def random_position():
return random.randint(0, width - 80), random.randint(0, height - 80)

def random_size():
return random.randint(20, 80)

def create_gradient(width, height):
base = Image.new('RGBA', (width, height))
top = Image.new('RGBA', (width, height))
for y in range(height):
alpha = int((y / height) * 255) # Alpha varies from 0 to 255
for x in range(width):
top.putpixel((x, y), (255, 255, 255, alpha)) # White gradient
return Image.alpha_composite(base, top)

# Create a series of images
for i in range(frames):
# Create an image with a transparent gradient background
img = create_gradient(width, height)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)

for _ in range(shapes):
shape_type = random.choice(['rectangle', 'ellipse'])
x1, y1 = random_position()
x2, y2 = x1 + random_size(), y1 + random_size()
color = random_color()

if shape_type == 'rectangle':
draw.rectangle([x1, y1, x2, y2], fill=color)
elif shape_type == 'ellipse':
draw.ellipse([x1, y1, x2, y2], fill=color)

# Save each frame as a PNG file
img.save(f'frame_{i:04d}.png')

print("Frames created successfully.")

# Create an animated WebP from the generated frames
subprocess.run([
'ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', 'frame_%04d.png', '-vf', 'fps=30,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos',
'-loop', '0', '-pix_fmt', 'yuva420p', 'output.webp'
])

print("Animated WebP created successfully.")

Then put the output.webp and this index.html on your local disk somewhere and load the index.html in a browser.

Pull the slider to change the background so you can see it is transparent.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Animated WebP Display with Background Image</title>
<style>
body {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
height: 100vh;
margin: 0;
background-image: url('transparentanimatedwebp.jpg');
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
img {
max-width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<img src="transparentanimatedwebp.webp" alt="Animated WebP">

</body>
</html>
Why? Representative forms of electing a head of state / government are the norm. For example, it's common practice in the Westminster system.

In my opinion the only thing that ought to change is we ought to elect the elector directly. That would make it easier for them to make proper deals and compromises.
No, they actually don't know how to type in a link. Most people still don't know how URLs work. People still type in Facebook to the Google search box.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41231644
Instead we have an inability to act due to minority propaganda.

I'm not sure enabling the minority to completely lock up the machinery of governance is a preferable alternative.
SakanaAI – Fully Automated Scientific Research
90% of AI companies are just thin layers on top of an LLM, sometimes useful but they have all the problems LLM have (I will explain)

For existing companies with AI features: more useful but mostly LLM bolted on with the same use cases. They can improve the product if used right. But for me it’s mostly often just a gimmick.

The problem with LLMs: They mostly generate stuff they have seen and are bad as truly new stuff. They make mistakes You need to put time and energy in the review it.

For stuff that transforms data it’s useful. Like rewriting a piece of text.

It’s also useful for search queries on the corpus the LLM is trained on.

It’s good at pattern recognition and lastly: human like voice interfaces.

But for generating novel stuff: good luck reviewing it.

People who just blindly copy paste the output of an LLM: that’s quite dangerous and potentially plain wrong.

At least that’s my experience.
When I worked on Windows Phone during the good ol' days, my team used this for a sort of retail mode assert, for situations that really shouldn't happen. Instantly recognizable. The definition went something like this:

// This is a shout out to that 80s hit. You know the one.

#define E_JENNY_JENNY_WHO_CAN_I_TURN_TO 0x88675309

The 1 in bit 31 was required to signify that it's a Win32 error code. The other high bits are essentially a namespace, which we used correctly for all our other error codes.
Fiction can point out real possibilities that the reader had never considered before. When I imagined simulated brains, I only ever thought of those simulations as running for the benefit of the people being simulated, enjoying a video game world. It never occurred to me to consider the possibility of emulated laborers and "red motivation".

Now I have to weigh that possibility.
I'd start here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12552

I will say that less is more and "The Bitter Lesson" applies here. Chasing biologically-inspired rabbits, such as STDP and LIF (see paper above/wikipedia), does seem to be a waste of time, especially when we have this thing entirely outside of biology that can arbitrarily replicate, serialize, mutate and simulate billions of instances of the same parent candidate in minutes-hours.

Leaky charge carriers and inability to persist learned weights between candidate instantiations are limitations, not features to emulate. Imagine if you could be reincarnated with all of the exact knowledge you have today. Then clone that 1000 times and apply subtle mutations to it. Then, put these clones in an FFA arena and see who wins based upon a very well crafted fitness function. Then, do all of that over and over thousands of times per hour.
> Antimemetics remains a top 10 all-time though.

It's good, but didn't leave that big of an impression on me, maybe because I didn't know all the SCP stuff beforehand, I just liked qntm's other works so I read it.
A must read collection: https://mirtitles.org/2011/06/02/little-mathematics-library/
The Goths
220-222 MHz is Part 90 now and it is definitely in use.
Sounds DefCon has become an unpleasant conference to go to. Other conferences don't merit such scrutiny.
It seems great but it's unusable to me as it does not support any port forwarding and my connections always go through a few jump boxes.

The built in multiplexing is like magic.
Faithless electors are constitutional but illegal, and most states ignore their votes.

> The electors can go by another state's voters, the phase of the moon, or what their pet frog is saying, as far as the Constitution is concerned.

Sure, but not as far as the law is concerned and the moment the states mandate an elector vote in accordance with a national interstate compact is the moment there's a constitutional issue, because the federal government guarantees to all citizens of states a representative form of government, which means their vote needs to choose a representative that represents them, not citizens of a foreign state.

> This country was not built as a democracy.

That's right, which is why we have representatives elect the president.
That's because it's just like IE was back in the day. No web dev is going to build a web app that doesn't work on it, no matter what a turd it is.
This doesn't convey the concerning lisp that I heard prominently.
Remember this cartoon of some bloke standing at airport arrival hall with a placard "Mr.. bin Laden". That was before he was found.

He says seems as good idea as any.

Guess this too.
I never liked this term. Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information? Something like "PAT" would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information.

Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?
The fun bit is that the other 10% are just bog standard ML/DL models with the added benefit of being called "AI".
Nice try, competitors
Huh? Samsung has adverts all over the place about how their phones have AI. They don’t even talk about what it does. Just that they have AI.
Check out this reddit thread as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/bbza6p/what_is_t...
Re. "every key stroke has a unique sound signature": is this because each key in a keyboard has subtle differences/defects unique to that particular device, or because of where the key sits within a QWERTY keyboard, geometry-wise?

I'm trying to understand whether this requires a "decoder ring" recording ahead of time (in the case of the former—okay, on this keyboard an A sounds like this, a B sounds like this...), or whether you'd be able to pull this off with no prep work because an A always sounds like an A and a B always sounds like a B.
> It is still competition even in this context, it just happens on a slightly slower cadence. The Apple customers, by and large, are paying good money to avoid Google's app store because they believe Apple is a better steward on net.

You're looking at a different market. The customer in this context is Patreon and the product is app distribution. Patreon needs a way to distribute their app to all of their customers. Many of their customers have iOS, so Patreon needs app distribution to customers with iOS, and there is only one supplier of that.
This is my (current) favorite list comprehension: https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/871eabc7b23c27d... Someone was feeling awfully clever that day. (Not that I'm not occasionally guilty myself.)
>They literally offer no significant advantage other than being an alternative to Github.

Gitlab had many features first. Namely, they had integrated CI way before GitHub did. Their open CI runners are really cool and easy to setup. GitHub had to scramble to put out their Actions product to compete.

I don’t know what the feature comparison looks like today, but many of the innovative features you probably use on GitHub were on Gitlab first. They had a way more innovation velocity for quite a while.
>> It just moves the problem around so it hits the poorest the hardest.

> Could you expand on this? I can’t think of a scenario where that is the case.

Pretty straightforward: there's no unlimited wellspring of young people from poor countries for rich countries to tap, there is a limited amount. Those poor countries also have declining birth rates, they're just a few decades behind on the trend. It's unlikely there are enough poor young people satisfy the labor demands of all the depopulating rich countries.

So the rich countries suck up all the available young "doctors/garbos/crop-harvesters" from the poor countries. That leaves the poor countries with screwed up, unbalanced demographics (without necessarily even fixing the screwed up, unbalanced demographics of the rich countries), and they're in an even worse position to deal with the problem, since they're poor.

So poor African grandma's doctor moves to American to treat rich American Grandma, and African grandma gets to do without.

> Ha, how will you track it?

How does the government track anything? They come up with rules and definitions and bureaucracy, then implement them.

And the types of records needed to implement the idea for 90%+ of cases have been kept for 100+ years.
You would presumably need todo this for the exact keyboard and acoustic properties of your target. And , what if they move the keyboard to their lap? Or put the keyboard legs down?

Also many keyboards are very quiet clicks these days. And what if I’m playing music?

I imagine a surreptitiously planted keystroke logger is far simpler. Or perhaps camera(s).
> Can anyone comment on nextnav's intended duty cycle or just how much they'll occupy? They're asking for a lot of bandwidth, so perhaps it's in a short enough burst and infrequent enough to not cause real problems?

According to the FCC doc nextnav plans on "making excess spectrum available for commercial broadband service" (LTE/5G or similar I assume). So, it could be pretty impactful to current users of the band.
It gives me the vibes of those NFT companies from a few years ago. All marketing, no substance.
You appear to have replied the first draft of my comment as I was expanding it. Thank you for the response.
Clarkesworld sci-fi magazine temporarily closed submissions due to low quality AI spam. I'm sure the irony will not be lost on them if ML journals are the next victims.
> This means they remain inherently controllable, predictable and safe.

I have no major problem with the overall tone of the article which says "AGI is not going to happen from this" and sheets blame, such as it exists, to the intent of the owner/user. That keeps the human in the loop.

But they do not remain "predictable and safe" if they continue to repeat bad input, or are used a-socially to justify shit policy outcomes.
The Mccormick center is also hosting the DNC. (Alongside the United Center)

It's very capable to handle large conferences and does throughout the year.
Select all seems a bit risky in a terminal because it could contain way more information than you'd expect.

e.g. I want to `cat` a file to make sure i've got the right one, but I accidentally cat a full 1gb sql backup rather than the tiny 50 line script I was expecting. Sometime later, I try to select all, copy, switch application, paste for some reason but now I'm stuck waiting for 1gb to copy over

Personally I'm a bit more cautious about copying from a terminal.

Either way if that's what you really want to do, you can check the repo to see how other people scripted it into wezterm:

https://github.com/wez/wezterm/discussions/2026
I'm still not following - you're talking about restrictions on use, but what restrictions on use does AGPL apply? What can I not do with AGPL software? What are the forbidden activities you reference?

The only caveat seems to be making the source code available to users of the software, which is also the case with GPLv2, just under narrower conditions.

I have no dog in this race, nor any particular attachment to any particular license, I'm just trying to better understand what these restrictions are that you're referencing.
if you believed it was real you are too easily motivated by your own bias, it was spaces compression seen many times in other spaces
This is neat and links to some great papers. I wish the comparison was with OpenMP tasks though; I’ve heard Rayon has a reputation for being a bit slow
Is there any self-hostable software that supports both Git and SVN?
But their products are quite different. There's a large market that self-hosts GitLab for data soverignity reasons, and Datadog has no such offering.

I'm a GitLab user, I can't use Datadog because our customer contracts forbid data leaving the system (PHI, BAA won't suffice). I would reconsider GitLab if they were acquired.
I first started to block ads for privacy and to prevent those that takes over the screen, but once you have blocked ads once, you start to enjoy the actual peace and ability to concentrate.

Plus ads are for shitty products, since good products end up selling through recommendations and reviews.
Anyone is contemplating this should sincerely reconsider.
Full Transcript of Donald Trump and Elon Musk X Space
Clearly if this was true we wouldn't need thermal plants. That makes me think this is not true.
I was interested in this book until you compared it to Scott Alexander
Brilliant to begin every video with "blah is my favorite command." I watched the video for 'paste' first and I thought it wonderful that someone else also thinks paste is their favorite.
> Running a program, as a service or not, isn't redistribution. It is use.

Hard disagree. You're redistributing the software in a manner for people to easily use it.

If you rip a movie you own, there's no distinction that I'm aware of in copyright law between hosting the .ISO on an FTP server and hosting the .MKV as a stream. They're both redistributing, it's just that one is designed for ephemeral consumption.
Let's discuss the parts you left out in your carefully constructed attempts at character assassination.

1) kitty has a template for issue reporting that the person that reported that issue didn't use, which means it isn't a carefully constructed report.

2) The issue is probably with kkp.el. I don't know about you, but I don't expect maintainers of open source projects to debug all issues in their own projects let alone unrelated ones. Kovid went out of his way to tell the OP exactly how to provide useful debug information. And he did so within a few minutes of the issue being opened.

3) The part you complain about is him saying he has zero interest in debugging kkp.el and emacs. Which is perfectly reasonable, again, why should he have an interest in it. He provided the OP with the means to give him information that he would be interested in debugging instead.

4) He then gets told that the OP would rather use some other terminal rather than provide the debug information he was asked for. Do you have any conception of how rude it is to go to some projects issue tracker and then state you are going to use a competitors product.

5) You tried again to insert an unjustified swipe at Kovid, with "the keyboard protocol he insists everyone get on board with". In reality that keyboard protocol is completely optional, an no one has to use it. The fact that everyone does actually use it, is testament to its being light years ahead of any of the alternatives and represents weeks of hard work on the part of Kovid to finally bring sanity to this corner of the terminal ecosystem. An effort he made for the good of the community. And an effort that has succeeded, since pretty much all modern/maintained terminal software support the protocol as it is clearly superior to the alternatives.

6) You were at best mistaken in making your claim that he doesnt like settings, but given you clearly have an agenda against someone who has done nothing to you other than provide the world free software, I think the default assumption is malice not incompetence on your part.

And yes by all means dont use kitty, I have a strong feeling that Kovid, who has been providing software used by millions of people for decades has reached a point in his life where he recognizes that some users cost way more than others. He is likely very happy that you and people like you give his work a miss.

A position I greatly sympathise with. People that report issues to open source projects need to remember they are asking for help, it behoves them to put in the maximum effort they can to reduce the burden of the free help they are NOT entitled too.
Same. Been using Gitlab for years, but joined a new company using Github. I was appalled by how bad everything is compared to Gitlab, but especially ci/runners vs actions.
Looks great man! I think we are doing something different conceptually, my app intentionally doesn’t have expense tracking, and is purely about budget planning.

But I like the idea of automatically generating a sankey from your expenses, good job on that!
Twitter doesn't ban "the other political side"?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/06/business/white-dudes-for-harr...

And is there any evidence that there was a coordinated denial of service attack vs the site being overloaded by normal traffic?
That was always a bullshit date. No different than elder Bush's Mars in 2030. 2028, maybe if everything goes well with Starship, and the suits. Their lunar variant is still a disaster waiting to happen without a better design. We've seen how Starship destroys a launch pad with ill-conceived flame diversion. How is it going to land on unprepared regolith without toppling in its own crater or destroying the engines with rebounding shrapnel? SLS is also supposed to somehow fit into the picture which is still not tested in any way resembling the baby steps Apollo took.
Ontario Science Centre – late 1970s – firefighting game
Is DEF CON still requiring IDs to attend?
Unfortunately these two don’t track head movement. An essential feature is being able to position (and size) an arbitrary number of virtual screens in 3D space around you. Otherwise it’s pointless, just a normal screen in front of your eyes.
If you're trying to split a sub-second task across multiple threads, then latency is probably your main concern.
I just priced laser projection keyboards. 40.00 or so. I think that’s the ”safest” option.

Presuming you have sufficient levels of assurance that no software exploits are present and no keystroke loggers etc. The only way to attack and the value of the attack being high enough (root CA compromise?) that an adversary would deploy (laser) mics.

I figure that anyone this concerned would program a coupe of rubber duckies or yubikey static mode ? Then the emitted strings would be unknown.

Also what about collecting from the screen via emissions?
(2009) But presumably related Ontario Science Centre to close immediately due to risk of roof collapse (64 points, 2 months ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40752904
Has the Recession Started in the US?
California's Fire-Insurance Crisis Just Got Real
No, I replied to your full post. Just wanted to point out that your examples showed stability, not antifragility.
That's not true anywhere unless you're grid tied. In which case if you don't like it why not go off-grid?
I couldn't get those Google searches to find my resume. I wonder if I was doing something wrong...
what wearable transponder has that kind of accuracy? ultrawideband is cm level in ideal conditions
Show HN: I manually curated 130 modern AI Agents and platforms
Hi, I'm Oliver. I believe that AI agents will be next step in AI evolution, so I created a niche specialized directory. Updating daily.

This is my first side project, so I would love to hear what you think. Any feedback, roast or encouragement will be appreciated!

Thanks
I like being unemployed.

But on the other hand, I cannot socialize without a job.

I have embraced the antiwork mentality, but it needs to be said that it doesn't solve everything.

I still want to get a job just so I can get up in the morning and have a routine and see people and feel included.

I would say antiwork is the expression of mental illness through politics or vice versa. It's not going to get solved soon.
The defending democracy team strikes again
This link is directly to the comment, I believe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1eoe4u7/comment/lhe...
My instance doesn't have this, and I'm kinda glad that it has not been enabled.
State actors breaking into systems aren't doing it to use them in a botnet...
The Register has weighed in with a Yeah, Right skeptical attitude:

The Register has found no evidence of a denial of service attack directed at X. Check Point Software's live cyber threat map does not record unusual levels of activity at the time of writing. NetScout's real-time DDoS map recorded only small attacks on the US.

If a DDoS was indeed the reason for the delayed start of the event, it appears not to have impacted the rest of X's operations – there were plenty of posts commenting on the problems with the Space occupied by the interview. And Musk was tweeting from the very network said to be under attack.

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/trump_musk_livestream...

They've also thrown shade on the numbers:

The interview commenced some 40 minutes after its advertised time. Live audience statistics reported 1.1 to 1.3 million attendees during the portions of the event The Register observed – although during the stream Trump claimed that the event had an audience of 60 million or more, exceeding targets of 25 million.
It truly is a shame legal ramifications for monopolizations of major markets has fallen so far behind.
This is my favorite observation.