skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single game dev on Earth has been thinking that since the very first GANs, but the state of the art when it comes to generative AIs that are actually useful for asset generation is still pretty bad.

Much like LLMs are still pretty bad at logic. It seems like we're plateauing in that regard...

The thing about assets is that they have to be coherent with each other. You can't just generate them one at a time in a bunch of different styles and sizes or they'll look terrible. In the simplest case you want to generate at least an entire spritesheet for a single character or object. And that's still fundamentally impossible with modern generative AIs
This might be unpopular, but I think this is a problem that can never scale well. It is possible to get to know someone, and spot incompetence or deception; but it involves spending time with people. Once you scale you need an objective measure, such as testing, an testing has some specific failure modes. On a smaller scale, human intuition and appraisal can work more effectively. I know someone is going to point out that these can be very limited and biased. This is true, but the "objective" and "merit-based" systems don't seem to be winning over anyone either.
As someone who has lived on 4 continents the dentistry industry in the US is radically corrupt. As well as studies proving this, the fact dentists are rewarded for treatment means that even with the best intentions dentists are motivated to over-react under the guise of being “preventative”. Hence the American idea that wisdom teeth should almost always be removed, while in other countries the “crowding” issues Americans have been taught to fear only become problematic in a minority of cases and can be dealt with as and when they appear.

X-rays are just a revenue stream. Funnily enough Americans I know who experience dentistry in places like Scandinavia are often confused as to how little is done, despite outcomes being better overall.
A bit disappointing that it just ends at "we have this magic compiler bug that was magically fixed in the next version" without any attempt to find the cause (e.g. by bisecting Clang). How can you know that it was really fixed and isn't just hiding until something unrelated in the codebase moves around again?
Thank you. I find it quite valuable that you shared your experiences, especially as I come from a background of never having used proprietary password managers and so haven’t been familiar with that world.
You still need access to the key to decrypt it regardless of the browser.
Also being able to count number of letters of a word is not required for language capability in the Chomskian sense at least.
> The other version in the West is he moves to rural Montana and sends bombs through the mail.

There might be a middle ground between the two?
Can you point to at least 10 different trustworthy sources about this?
Any dispute which has a Wikipedia page (like the Malaysia/Singapore water dispute) is:

- Too complicated to assign blame to one party

- Futile to rehash in HN comments
Very rude comment imho.

Do 1password/lastpass extensions not include remote code/resources? Of course they do.
I'm giving a C# class at a university-like institute (for the first time in my life) and I'm glad I had the time to learn the language while it evolved over the last 15 years. Learning nowadays is daunting because of the size of the language and the N ways to do even simple things. You also need to understand the programming landscape before C# (mostly C and Java) to understand some decisions made by language designers.

As much as I like learning by myself, sometimes I have to admit that taking (and paying) for a class is the good solution. The way I organize notions for my students would take them months/years to understand by themselves, if at all.
Have you done any blind listening tests? I'm having a hard time believing this, though it depends on the bitrate of the AAC.
Oh, this is crazy
In the Netherlands at least, you just get a voting card sent to you by mail, and you have to hand that in to vote. Since you just have a single card, you can only vote once.
You do, just not a democratic one. "Republic" just means it's not a monarchy.
everybody here all gangsta about making big $$$ until they are on the receiving end all flabbergasted having to realize that companies like amz are hypercapitalist companies which also only care about making big $$$.
It took 4 years for me to get any communication from the USPTO after I filed. I had a patent lawyer prepare the application and transmit it electronically. There was a confirmation code of receipt and that was it. Nothing for 4 years and then an office action saying no. Ok, fine. One of the reasons offered was that there was a Chinese patent for something similar, owned by Bytedance. I read their patent and it is a huge word salad of a vast array of concepts, with very little application. When it comes to technology, I believe the whole America patent system is dominated by corporations and foreign players. Despite the new marketing of USPTO there is no way an independent inventor has a chance in this system.
Makes sense to skip the 128-bit step and go straight to post-quantum (PQ) cryptography, especially if it’s inevitable. And yeah, good riddance to ECB, that should’ve been axed ages ago.
Which Northern African country would you pick that is trustworthy enough to have your economy depend on for energy need over the coming decades?
No, you're not; however, since there weren't any comments here condemning PyShell's (lack of) speed and stating the absolute need for rewrite in another language[1], it was easy to deduce that Python-the-language really wasn't mentioned in the article.

[1] with the obvious advantage of improving performance by 2 orders of magnitude thus solving Earth's carbon cycle issues
> JS of the era was a pain to use; CoffeeScript made writing and reading things much easier

It didn't. Anything you learn / are familiar with will be easier to write - Coffescript was easier to write for people who learned Coffescript. Which in hindsight wasn't time well spent as they would've eventually had to bite the bullet anyway & just learn JavaScript like everyone else.

JavaScript is much much easier to write and read for a person who has chosen to learn JavaScript & has not had the occasion to learn Coffescript (i.e. most people) so you were also doing others a disservice if readability was one of your goals.

> which is the reason it took off

The reason it took off was the Ruby was going through a popularity trend & Rails devs wanted to work in a front-end language that felt syntactically familiar. It was purely aesthetic.
At a certain point reality has a refletivity bias
>HVDC transmission lines have losses of about 3.5% per 1,000 kilometers, while HVAC lines have losses of about 6.7% at the same voltage.
Shameless plug:

https://www.merklemap.com/
Surprising that someone care to invest so much effort in it unless it can unlock some institutional level threats to leverage on for some geo-political negotiation or at least plots between big companies. But impressive hack, not necessarily.

https://xkcd.com/538/

https://xkcd.com/2176/
School is for training good test-takers, not finding geniuses.
They're extremely annoying, aren't they? I was the only one that could hear them out of 5 people in my group, all aged about 35, and they definitely caused me to avoid walking by that shop. Hell, I would have avoided ever buying anything there if I were a local.
I don't know how well attested it may be, but somewhere I ran across the notion that second-tier chimps get the most action, because the alpha chimp must spend almost all his time shoring up his (male) political base.

[if NB had the same habits at home as in the field, imagine him busy with paperwork trying to run the empire from 0100-0600, during which time his Marshalls ("Ein bisschen dreist, ein bisschen Mut"?) were occupying themselves in sidesprings?]
Meta: the linked post is undated, but available on the Wayback Machine as early as November 2005, so a (2005) in the title is warranted and, in any case, this isn't new advice...
Imagine being student taking an exam... Normaly you would be disallowed to have bluetooth earpiece, but you would be allowed to have hearing aid. I'll let you think of the possible outcomes...
You can calculate or 'measure' an arbitrary approximation of that ratio by various methods, but calculating all of it takes infinite time, which I don't have and thus can't do it.
Modular Borrowing Without Ownership or Linear Types
Not only is that link really old, the IEEE has their own preprint server now, TechRxiv:

https://innovate.ieee.org/techrxiv_launch/

Everybody should use preprint servers, and TechRxiv deserves more love and attention than it gets.
The Moore-like downward costs of solar panels and battery backup killed satellite mounted panels, worldwide grids with cables across Pacific and Atlantic oceans, mechanical trackers etc. Seems Singapore is an outlier.
2005

Discussed in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051014
Zapatos: A non-ORM Postgres library for TypeScript
In this case it makes sense because if you needed the actual truck capabilities they'd buy a different truck because the Cybertruck wouldn't fit the criteria of others from a category that would fit. The only reason people can change between both models is they didn't need truck features in the first place and it was more of an aesthetic choice, which is fine but that's what I meant by "not needing it".
It's very impolite to label lived experience of another educated and probably somewhat accomplished adult as immature.

At 45 years old I can confidently say that anything I've "learned" on my native language classes through 12 years of having them was totally useless garbage and I'm using none of it in my writing, reading and culturural appreciation or understanding of the world. Everything I use was self-acquired in the time I had that was not spent in native language classes. Ideas of education are great, but the implementation is terrible to the point of being useless.

On the other hand math, physics and chemistry I learned at school has been immensely practically and culturally useful and I wouldn't know a fraction of it if I wasn't taught it in school.
"Depending on voltage level and construction details, HVDC transmission losses are quoted at 3.5% per 1,000 km (620 mi), about 50% less than AC (6.7%) lines at the same voltage." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...
No one is talking about a satellite guided surface to air missile system.
Great story about Kisch, thank you. Five metres, that's some leap!
I can't speak to Apple Music or Tidal, but I did a test between the Spotify and CD versions of Xtal from Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin and the difference would be clear to absolutely anyone - the Spotify version is very tinny.

People often trot out the "most people can't tell the difference" argument, but I wonder how many of those people have actually tried a variety of tests? My hunch is very few.
Yes, because it is well known that these tests were in fact designed to be unfair on purpose (to a specific racial group). So it's not a stretch to think that these "unfair on purpose" examples are realistic.
Last-Modified: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:40:39 GMT
It's been around since ~2008 when rfc5280 was released.

But it's long been stuck in a cycle of "CAs won't issue name-constrained certificates because not all clients support it properly" and "Clients don't bother to support it properly because CAs won't issue name-constrained certificates"

And even if today's clients all support it properly - there will always be some users running ancient smart TVs and android phones that haven't received a software update in a decade.
It's working good for me. My technical debt is to always make sure that I'm able to renew a certificate and that the distribution occurs successfully.

I don't see how other solutions are less problematic.
This is for an internal network.
> Certainly Mathematica’s term rewrite loop is optimized to death, and I only spent an hour or two making the most basic optimization

I suspect this benchmarks begint libraries more than term rewriting. A way to test that may be:

bif[1] := 0
bif[2] := 0
bif[n_] := bif[n-2] + bif[n-1]

Timing[Do[bif[15], 1000]]

You can check that neither tool is smart enough to solve that to

bif[n_] := 0

by comparing running times for different large limits.
Meh...not immune, just resistant. There's unfortunately a big difference. LLM slop is coming in at the corners, typically on articles that are less well-patrolled.
No, this is a wrong argument.

There are a large number of continuous physical quantities, not only length (though all continuous quantities are dependent in one way or another on space or time, which are the primitive continuous quantities), and the reason why you cannot encode an arbitrary amount of information into a specific value of such a quantity is because it is impossible to make an object for which such a quantity would have a perfectly constant value. All the values of such quantities are affected by noise-like variations so you could store information only in the average value of such a quantity, computed over some time and any such average would still be affected by uncertainties that limit the amount of information that can be stored.

One of the most constant lengths that have ever characterized an artificial object has been the length of the international prototype meter kept in France and used to define the meter until 1960. To minimize the length variations, that meter bar was made of platinum-iridium alloy and it was measured at a temperature as constant as possible.

Despite the precautions, which included gentle removing of the dust and handling with soft grippers, the length of that meter bar fluctuated continuously. Even if it was attempted to keep a constant temperature, very small fluctuations in temperature still caused thermal expansions and contractions. Every time the bar was touched, a few metal atoms were removed from it, but other atoms from the environment remained stuck to its surface, changing the length.

All these continuous variations have nothing to do with the possibility of the space being discrete, but they limit the amount of information that can be stored in any such value.

For now there exists absolutely no evidence about the space or time being discrete and not continuous. There have been attempts to make theories based on the discreteness of the space and/or time, but until now they have not provided any useful result.
A kilometre of undersea HVDC line costs $4mln, or less than half the price of the same length of highway in the EU on average.

It's expensive, but an economy such as Singapore has the means to pull it off.
One that they(EU) don't see bombing or invading
How is are win-wins rare? They're literally what capitalism is based on.
You don't need to publish the IP addresses publicly if you use an internal DNS server. I think even Pi-hole could do this.
Show HN: I created a simple word logo maker tool
It's a simple word logo maker. You don't need complicated tools for making simple word logo.
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018)
From the description in the article, it sounds more like what you would have called an "adventure game" ~30 years ago. And going by this quote:

> In practice, you will end up dying quite a few times until you find out the nature of the curse that ends up killing you, which is a hint on how you can avoid its effects.

...it seems to be more in the tradition of the Sierra adventures (try to cross street -> get hit by a car).
It is important to know project management types; if you know them then it will be easy to execute a project; go and read: https://speadinfo.com/types-of-budgeting-in-project-manageme...
A free and open source web application firewall(WAF), SafeLine
Not easy to search for... I found 3G https://github.com/P1sec/LTE_monitor_c2xx
More than 80%?

Ambiguous: 1 10 11 20 21 22 26 27
Ambiguous execution (e.g. "draw a line around"): 4 5 7 8 9 12 14
Easy on the face of it: 2 3 13 15 16 17 18 25
Nonsense: 6 23 24 28 29 30
Difficult to execute (e.g. "draw this complicated set of shapes in a small space while under time pressure without making any mistake"): 19

That's just my quick assessment and might vary for you but I probably took more than 10 minutes just to think about this. At best (and I was generous) 7 out of 30 questions are clear.

And that is assuming the questions have been formulated in good faith, which is evidently not the case. Question 2 could mean just as well instruct you to draw a line under the whole expression "the last word" in that line, or a line under "the last word in this line", or just under "line". Who's to say?
Cybertruck was supposed to be first by taking a radically different approach to building a truck that would let them deliver a lighter (structural exoskeleton) and cheaper (no paint) truck to offset the expensive batteries.

In the time it took them to do that, cheaper batteries in a standard truck became feasible.
I was disappointed that Apple had to downgrade the ANC in Airpods back then because of copyright problems, but they went full in and created a much stronger product out of it!
I'm going to point out to you that insufficient power generation capacity and/or transmission infrastructure, the reasons behind brownouts and blackouts, has nothing to do with "unclean" energy sources.

In fact, if the cause is insufficient generation capacity then renewables will exacerbate it because fossil fuels are much more energy dense and consistent.
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Following LLM Manufacturer's Instructions
Publishing in Academia is a scam. Nowadays everyone puts their papers also on arxiv.org so at least we can read each other's papers for free. While of course still paying the fees to these publishers who are doing nothing but messing up the PDF (I have to fight them to fix the mistakes they add every time a paper is published), while claiming to do a value-add, which happens to add value to nobody but their own pockets. It's a scam through and through.

Of course one has to examine why this system is still in place. And it's mostly to do with policies in universities, where certain journals/conferences are valued more, and changing that is hard, because e.g. Springer happens to own the name. So we all pay millions to Springer, for the use of this name (that we, together, made great, not Springer), and in return, they charge us the privilege of reading the papers that we reviewed, edited, and wrote. It's insane, but it can't be changed as long as universities refuse to change.

So the hard truth is, it's not Springer/IEEE/Nature/etc, it's ultimately, us.
Consistency was for sure the biggest issue when I tried this approach last time. Also most of the images were a bit off, like having misaligned limb or some visual glitch. Sometimes fixing those details can be harder than drawing some crappy image from scratch.

I really wish there was a tool where I can select the theme, which objects I need and it would spit out some half decently looking art. I even don't care if it was some simplified, cookie-cutter art as long as it was low-effort and consistent. It could be a real time saver for prototyping.
Electromagnetic fields? Emitted by fibre-optic cables?
mkcert might be getting this as well: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/pull/309/commits/92215... (this is linked from the current submission's readme)
MQTT turns 25
If I may add two links for people interested in helping people in impoverished regions.

It seems that people on the ground living there also really need basic things like mosquito nets, clean drinking water, proper nutrition, medical equipment, facilities where they can be treated, medicaments, and so on.

Malaria in Africa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQHjB6Nepog
What we actually need - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpnJ76EHNxU
I think it’s just a personal quirk
There are three reasonable interpretations I see. The instruction is clearly to draw a line under something. That something may be whatever is followed by "under", so you underline "the last word in this line". Or "in this line" just narrows it down, so only "the last word" is to be underlined. Or the whole "last word in this line" is meant as an instruction to be interpreted, so it's "line". In that case, be careful not to underline the period, as sentence marks clearly aren't part of a word. Or maybe they are.

Oh wait, it could also refer to "the last 'word' in this line", so you would need to underline "word".
Can you point to at least 10 different trustworthy sources that show the reliability and quality of power? Specifically in Thornbury, Footscray and Brunswick.
It was already dubbed into a song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjN3UclYzU
I'll go try to answer these for myself, but — using the "both things can be true" argument — I have a couple if follow-up questions:

1. Do they still require transfer of copyright to IEEE?

2. Or, conversely, do they publish public domain articles?
A lot of people don’t realize just how many mosquito (and closely related) species there are, and how few actually go after humans/mammals. Most just go after birds or reptiles/amphibians exclusively.

In the ag fields where I work in the Willamette valley of Oregon, most of what I actually come across during the day are non-biting midges that look like mosquitos. Coming across actual mosquitos during the day is a rare thing because whatever species we have here tend be out during very short seasons or only when it get’s dark. Far different from Michigan or Minnesota imo.

Mind you, you can absolutely find mosquitos if you go out looking for them in the woods.

The very low amount of biting mosquitos that I noticed is actually my big reason for having originally moved here, since bites for me tend to be dime-quarter sized and intensely itch for 2-4 weeks, avoiding mosquitos is a high priority. I’ve yet to find any chemical that adequately deals with the itching, and while heat based solutions like hot water or thermal sticks work they are still only temporary.

Unfortunately, the pollen levels here are a special hell of its own. If you aren’t allergic, you will be. I use a PAPR respirator when out in the early summer during grass pollination.
Why Don't We Have More Privacy When We Use a Credit Card?
Computers are faster at lookup tables than humans.
If only browsers cared about making useful infomation available.
For those who remember Lulzsec days there was a core member called Avunit who was the only one never apprehended.
I wonder if he was a fed or just lucky
I really hope that you are a human and not a self-improving AI.
I used many times and sometimes I used py-spy. That helped me to improve several projects where people told me there were network problems but it was actually not
To move forward you need a starting place.
> Publishing in Academia is a scam

Relatively soon after starting work on my PhD, one of my more-experienced colleagues explained the affect of "impact factor" on academic publishing. Back then I was young and naive, and assumed that at least impact factor itself would be some kind of open system based on freely-available data.

Many years later, I read up on this and discovered Web of Science/Clarivate :(

How is it possible that scientists and academics are gated from the most important metrics based on their own output and by which they measure themselves and are measured by those who fund them?

It's completely nuts.
Yeah fair shout. I guess my perception of their frequency’s been beaten down by HN cynicism over the years
A weapon is a weapon.