skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Critical posts are often downvoted andor flagged to extinction. It's not unique to Google. If your post is not on board with the "SV moneymaking at all costs" mantra, ethics be danged, you'll likely find it disappear.
IIRC, there was discussion comparing these exams to the leetcode hazing rituals that comprise tech interviews today.
> This is not about impersonation

It's 100% about impersonation. We've already seen AI voices get used for impersonation countless times.

Because, in a typical fashion of what AI proponents miss, the voice itself doesn't matter. What matters is the human quality the voice represents! If a voice sounds like person X and person X is trustworthy, then I (either implicitly or consciously) will believe the product they're endorsing is probably good.

This is why we get famous people and experts in commercials. This isn't new, we can just do it without any honesty now.
It's mentioned right below "14-day Free Trial" but I need to make it more obvious.

"You can try THB out for 14 days for absolutely free. At the end of the trial period, you can choose between our monthly ($5 per month) or annual ($48 per year) subscription plans."

I have also added it in the bot before you subscribe to the free trial. Thanks for the feedback.
Its a first class city with a second rate country attached to it. The problem is that outside of the London and the South East the rest of the country has a very begging bowl mentality. Its all about what government can give to them.
Good god, I nearly did a spit take. That's the most irresponsible and horrifying tech idea I've ever heard. That's great, but we can do better- what about Project Orion but for local food delivery?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Your entry doesn’t discuss the finishing step between printing and use.

My experience has been that a great deal of sanding and other tool use can be needed to get to smooth results.

Did you go through a finishing process after printing to get to the smooth results you show here?
I've written about this before as my home state of NJ enforced a similar ban a little while ago. In our case, they banned paper bags as well!

It all points to a larger question: who is writing these laws?? It's such an anti-human law. It makes your life considerably worse off in a noticeable way. And it doesn't actually reduce waste, but makes things worse. Here is a few things that happened:

- Reusable bags have to be reused dozens of times to make up for the additional environmental impact, so damage likely went up

- People have to pay more to buy more expensive plastic bags to carry their goods that are ironically also wrapped in plastic.

- Whole Foods home delivery had to send you more sturdy and expensive "reusable" bags. Just what the typical Whole Foods home delivery patron needs, about a dozen reusable bags delivered to them every week

- People started stealing hand held shopping baskets

It really doesn't bode well for the political process that politicians can force these ham fisted reactionary laws at a considerably cost to nearly all denizens for absolutely no purpose.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/new-jersey-bans-paper-ba...

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/an-update-on-new-jerseys...
> There are certainly issues with "agile", but it never really says much other than keep-it-lean-and-iterate: it really is "let engineers build software the way they think they should".

Yes, we all know that, and every time somebody like me comes along and points out that agile basically sucks this line gets trotted out by somebody or other because that's not the way agile works in any company I've ever worked for.

"Let engineers build software the way they think they should," is an alien concept to all the businesses I've experienced. Now, as it happens, I don't necessarily think engineers should have the last word either, because I've seen too many people disappear down too many rabbit holes and not deliver anything valuable, but clearly agile is broken.
Sure it's not legally binding, but if I see >100000 requests coming from 1 IP address within a week, I'm also not legally bound to make that 402 error go away. By having an automated payment mechanism, the two parties could come to an agreement they're both happy about

> there's nothing stopping scrapers from just ignoring them

Feel free to ignore HTTP errors, but those pages don't contain the content you're looking for

(For the record, I don't use HTTP 402, but I noncommercially host stuff and know what bots people are complaining about.)
I've seen people 3D printing this exact thing on Instagram for months.
I wonder how much of that growth is because the bags themselves are so much thicker/heavier now. It would be interesting to compare count vs. weight.

It looks like the new, thick bags are 5x thicker than the old, thin ones (0.5 mils vs 2.5 mils) [0]. 11lb is a lot less than 5x 8lb, so the per-person bag trashing must be drastically lowered, unless weight and thickness aren’t correlated.

[0] https://1bagatatime.com/learn/what-is-a-mill/
Also if it was so easy to cut out meetings, why wouldn't companies have done it already and get that extra productivity with 5 days.

At my current work it's already quite difficult to find available slots to fit everyone in, I feel like it would be worse with 4 days.

Also probably how meetings are used can vary wildly from one company to another.
In my experience, AI is helping people code faster, not precisely better! It does not take long before we find the limitations of AI code-gen running you in circles.

As far as I know, most of us do research with AI to get ideas and find pros and cons but we are still the ones mostly driving the logic with AI filling in the function level blocks.
all videos should be available on YT by end of month
nebula.org privacy policy.

https://nebula.org/blog/privacy-policy/
Geerling joins Scarlett Johansson on the AI impersonation list
Microsoft's largest ever security transformation detailed in new report
The Brainfuck extension should obviously be .fmb, for "fuck my brain".
I think you actually answered my question. I was not 100% sure if there is no VC money for a company that solves some verticals with STAN. I assume there are still some quant companies out there using some flavor of HMMs.

But yes, the question may be phrased a bit poorly. Are people still using probabilistic graphical models without deep learning as their go-to model in startups in some verticals? What verticals would that be?
And if there is no VC money for this? What are they actually doing? Some combination of PGMs with deep neural network nodes?
There is a CVE issued a week ago for all Apple OSs that are not on the latest update (Mac iOS, etc). Maybe you were affected.

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/09/18/apple-rel...
I wonder how many of those captchas are controlled by competitors of Firefox?
The reason it's so poor is because for over 10 years it was run by a conservative government bringing austerity to the people, making them poor. They deliberately increased inequality. Inequality is a huge problem and it's disappointing this article ignores it and talks about private investment instead. It's rather silly.

When the government doesn't spend, it makes people poorer. It's basic accounting.
I think you actually answered my question. I was not 100% sure if there is no VC money for a company that solves some verticals with STAN. I assume there are still some quant companies out there using some flavor of HMMs.
But yes, the question may be phrased a bit poorly. Are people still using probabilistic graphical models without deep learning as their go-to model in startups in some verticals? What verticals would that be? And if there is no VC money for this? What are they actually doing? Some combination of PGMs with deep neural network nodes?
This is not really explaining the purpose. Does it scan video-Files to collect entries? Or is it manual input? Can I import data from somewhere? Does it play files? Does it integrate into netflix&co. to gather new entries? And let's not talk about more special features..

Why is it called media, when it seems to only handle movies & series? There are many more types and categories of media. And why is the feature-list on Github just a long list of filters, while it at the same time sells itself as "THE frontend" for whatever it's doing. The small bit of data managment and filters I see on github is on the level of an excel-sheet, which very far from what I would call "THE frontend".

So my question is, what is missing here?
The problem Britain has had in the last 30 years is that government was scared of offending Nimbys, so nothing got built. Not power infrastructure or homes. Even new airport runways. They're such a bunch of cowards.
Of course that can be problematic still but I don't see how they can extinguish the founding company when you are working with a license like the AGPL (with proprietary dual licensing). They are still the upstream and "parasitic downstreams" have very limited opportunities to build trenches with such a strong copyleft in play.

The upstream can provide:

- Hosting (as mentioned before) or assisting in managing colocated infra.

- Proprietary Licensure for more permissive uses (as mentioned before).

- Support/Security contracts for LTS/Enterprise releases.

- Bug & Feature Bounties for priority changes (or a "hire our engineer" type system).

- Contracting and consulting services for companies building on top of their product.

That's just naming a few but there are plenty of ways to build out a reliable income base for a popular open source product as long as you pick the right licensing early on.
Previously flagged for some strange reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41600388

The people behind Foundations (and this author, since he's their buddy) are beating the same old drum: deregulation blah blah blah if only we cut the red tape and pave over everything with concrete then we'll all be rich!

This essay is not that "groundbreaking" and their proposed solutions have been tried. We did Thatcherism!

This feels like some right-of-center mirror of "True Communism has Never Been Tried(tm)". If only we deregulate even harder we'll be like America.
There is no difference between this and a well known bot prevention mechanism, from the scraper perspective.
It has a different click-baity title: "Britain is poor". No Britain is not poor. Declining, maybe but definitively not poor.
> what's wrong with asking another one?

It's illegal, you can't hire an impersonator and allude to it being the real deal. That's the issue.

> Is it scummy to hire "discount" Matt Damon instead of Matt Damon?

If you imply you've hired Matt Damon by tweeting something about Matt Damon and your "discount" had a profession as a Matt Damon impersonator, yes. Yes 100%.

This is illegal with or without AI. We've literally had these laws longer than the tech.
Just checked SkyMass's radio + labels and they are fine.
Everyone wants some boogeyman to blame. In reality, it's probably just that food is really cheap these days, and America is really rich these days.
I see it as a sort of leaky inheritance.

The Duke of Westminster is going to pass Mayfair down to his kids forever, but the CEO of Google can only do so much for his kids. In all likelihood, they will be well educated but never get the top seat at this kind of corporation.

If you couldn't pass down anything, eg if you had to put your kids in the same schools as everyone else and not give them any advantage, it would seem to be against our instincts as parents. Yet it also isn't good for society if we gave guarantees.
Thanks. Telegram bot sounds perfect too. Let me give it a try.
Thanks Sasha - this looks like a great resource.Just to be clear, would you recommend going through other newer resources than this instead?

Not sure if your comment is to discourage someone from going through this.
Thanks, seeing this before is actually what reminded me to make this post.
Phones with replaceable batteries typically were more durable, not less. (Though that may have to do with using plastic cases that are more durable than glass.)
Hmmm... Good point that I should keep in mind in the future :D

I would assume throwing at least some of them in the laundry would work well enough, or even just hand washing, but I guess that'll depend on the material itself.
>Because Google Music was merged into YouTube.

I'm still annoyed about that one. Bought music via google music. poof gone
I was a Writely user pre-Google Docs. Writely was great because it didn't focus on the page/paper paradigm that Google Docs stuck to for far too long ("pageless" didn't come back until 2022!)
I’ve just taken to blocking entire swaths of cloud services IP networks.
I don’t care what the intentions are, my personal sites don’t get the infinite bandwidth to put up with a thousands of poorly written spiders.
Public spending doesnt make countries or people rich. Its funded from taxes, which rely on economic growth, which we've had very little of since the 2008 reccession and banking meltdown.
Here's a primary literature review on Nick Land's thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical and will converge on the event horizon of the techno-economic singularity.

It's AI hype to the max.

https://retrochronic.com/
I've had much success integrating Brainfuck in a legacy C++ codebase. As the team adopts modern idiomatic C++ patterns and practices, we found Brainfuck via https://github.com/tfc/cpp_template_meta_brainfuck_interpret... to be a natural and seamless fit for C++ template metaprogramming.
Discussion (500 points, 2 days ago, 393 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614490
one point not discussed is the ongoing deconstruction of the middle class. They are the bedrock of any modern society and all really important and successful social changes start with a strong middle class.
Banning across the board is stupid. In Washington state, you can buy plastic bags for $0.08. Enough to incentivize most people to bring their own bag, not enough to cause adverse consequences because a bag is only $0.08 in the event you don’t bring a bag.
I'm at around 100, but I don't read them directly. I feed them into an RSS aggregator with some filters to sort the feed entries into topic-specific RSS feeds, which are what I read directly.
How long does the world-wide-web have left? It's always felt like it would be around forever, but at some point it will fade into obscurity like IRC has done. The golden age, I feel, has been gone a while, but "AI" seems like the beginning of the end.
Perhaps one of the few positive benefits of British teenagers being hooked on TikTok is that, by viewing the lives of their contemporaries in the United States, they might come to appreciate just how poor their own country is.

And meanwhile in America, we're propped up on debt. Federal debt*. Consumer debt. Thanks to such financial smoke & mirrors, our seats on the Titanic feel wonderful.

Yes, thank gawd we're looking down. Thank gawd we're excessively TikTok'ing. Thank gawd no one can be bothered to ask, "How did we get here?" Thanks gawd we have "leadership" and politicians who don't dare own their role in putting us on the road to nowhere.

* If you didn't catch the Steve Ballmer interview on Jon Stewart last week or so, highly recommended.
Ontario has had this law for a while now. Its occasionally inconvenient when you drop by the grocery store unplanned and have no bags, but is really a big nothing burger.

Just means we end up with more and more useless shopping bags at our front door, which almost seems worse than single use ones that end up becoming garbage bags for the kitchen. Now we end up buying single use plastic bags for our kitchen and bathroom garbage and end up with more and more reusable plastic bags.

So the single use plastic bags still get used at the same rate, just now I purchase them separately for garbage and we end up with more and more reusable plastic bags, which I'm guessing are worse for the environment.

These laws so far don't seem to be very well thought out.
The highest quality product is finished first, yeah.

Often the difference is between finishing within an order of magnitude of the predicted time versus not finishing at all. But the highest quality product is almost always finished first.

There are exceptions, and AFAIK, those are all for very small projects. In my experience, high-quality takes about a week to be paid back. So if you have something smaller that you'll throw away after a use, you may want to cut corners.
Before the first ban went into effect I would see plastic bags caught in all the fencing, especially near the railroad. Now I see none and its beautiful. Im willing to let others be inconvenienced to see these gone.
On my recent first trip to Japan, I couldn't believe the number and quality of 7-Elevens/Family Marts/Lawsons.

You're never more than a five-minute walk from one in Tokyo, and they've got good stuff.
> Some variables may have changed slightly without documentation updates, but we're sure you can figure it out

I hope they're not hoping for mass adoption with an attitude like that. Not exactly inspiring confidence in the longevity and maintainability.
Yes - I would love that too. Please back that up?
It is indeed a huge waste to scrape the same whole site for changes and new content. If Cloudflare is capable to maintain an overview about changes and updates it could save a lot of resources.

The site could tell cloudflare directly what changed and cloudflare could tell the AI. The AI buys the changes and cloudflare pays the site keeps a margin.
I tend to agree with this take. Shifting from home cooked meals to processed meals probably has far more impact on diet and health than published guidelines.

The only nuance I'd add is that it doesn't follow that the optimal solution is for women to leave the workforce and get back in the kitchen. Domestic responsibilities can be shared by husbands and wives.

Also, when eating processed foods it's a good idea to pay attention to the nutrition information. Most people don't do much of this, which is why those published guidelines probably don't have much impact anyway. Those guidelines should be updated, and most people should probably start paying more attention to them.
Could you rescale the model to fit an iPhone 13 Mini?
It could easily be the other way around; new technology leading to new wars as nations feel empowered by their new toys to act on their ambitions. The first world war occurred shortly after the introduction of smokeless powder and machine guns. These inventions were certainly funded by some military spending and perhaps even prompted by earlier wars, but in large part they were technologies who's time had come; precision manufacturing and chemical technology had only made these things possible shortly before they were invented.

The development of "smart bombs" like the Walleye television bomb happened about as soon as they were technologically feasible; the idea for a fire-and-forget television bomb came from an engineer who was playing around with a new model of commercial TV camera. Emboldened by these new weapons, American politicians started wars which previously they might have considered too politically costly if they had to be fought using older methods. Desert Storm particularly.
"YouTube is still making an effort to secure exclusive content"

The whole reason I actually favor YouTube is that it's already got more "exclusive content" than all the rest of the other streaming platforms combined. It may not have super-produced content that takes hundreds of people to produce, but it's got so much STUFF that it blows everything else away in the aggregate. There is an art to navigating YouTube for sure, because The Algorithm wants to stick you with all kinds of lowest-common-denominator content. I find that if I do indulge in the occasional Cute Animal Video I need to go remove it from my watch history to retain the discovery capabilities of the platform (because it'll serve you Cute Animal Videos until the end of time if it gets even a whiff that you want that), but there's so much stuff in my YouTube channel list that is just non-existent on the other streaming platforms.

Hollywood et al is still a bit myopic on this front. If it didn't cost at least a million dollars they don't consider it "real content". Well, the money YouTube made on all of the videos made from ideas Hollywood wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole is plenty real.

I agree with almost every criticism of YouTube that could be made... but it's still where you can find, to pick just one example out of my subscription set, 3Blue1Brown. You are never going to see CBS just airing a 3Blue1Brown video one evening, or Peacock, or HBO Max. By the time that statement is untrue the world will have shifted so much that CBS isn't CBS anymore.
American giant cars and houses are kind of obscene and pointless. I realize others disagree, but as someone who has lived it I don't think the American lifestyle is aspirational.
Your pronoun antecedents got confused there, but just to be clear, France is 5x larger than the UK in terms of land area.

I don't know that this really points in one direction or another. The UK might have more difficulty doing large projects due to being relatively "crowded" and having less free space, but on the other hand it might also benefit from needing to build less total mileage of road and rail, and for amenities which are mostly bound by the travel distance to them being needed in less quantity.
This was reduced to rubble on reddit for being an advertisement, with the suggestion being the testing is rigged to their product.
> TIL voice imitators are criminals. /s

First off, this reddit speak needs to go in a fire and die. Seriously, stop typing like this, nobody likes it.

Secondly, yes voice imitators CAN be criminals. If they attempt to or allude to being the real deal. You can't get on a phone interview with the news and say you're Barack Obama, even if your impression is really good. Yes, that's illegal and has been since before AI of this form existed.
Exactly how I feel about every new React framework. It’s strictly worse than using any other framework and every recruiter continues to ask for it.

Don’t want to speak too negative in regards to the orgs which use it but definitely wouldn’t be the best choice from an engineering perspective for a new project.

Sorry I am not a front end developer. I am a general software engineer please don’t effectively sabotage my career because Silicon Valley wants to make the entire discipline a group of hamsters learning tools which aren’t used by the largest organizations.
> Almost every battery in a phone is a 'non-standard' shape

The metaphor is not literal.

> Making knockoff components using Apple's logo and such is not the same thing

I think I was misremembering the lawsuit you are probably thinking of.

> Where, exactly, is this message on an iPhone

Again, the metaphor comparing iphones to cars is not literal.

Whoops! I guess you got me!

After all it really is actually super easy to buy new parts for Apple products either from Apple themselves or the thriving third-party market!

And on top of that, once your local repair shop has the parts, they are super easy to install.

Surely my damaged iphone mini 12 will be easily repaired at a reasonable price by the skilled technicians at the Genius Bar who have parts in stock and tools ready to go. It would be absolutely wild if their price for that service was based on the price of the latest iphone rather than the cost of parts and labor for the actual service. But certainly they wouldn't be able to get away with that due to, as we agreed earlier, the thriving market for third party parts and repair.
Would be very interesting to study classical stress analysis in compositions of these shapes subject to external loads. Not to mention vibrational analysis and the forms of wave functions.