skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My favorite quote on this topic is "Why should I bother to read something you didn't bother to write?"

"If you're like the average consumer, because you have no life, and would doomscroll whatever shit we post for you, and watch whatever slop we produce for you. You did it with the tons of crap remakes, rehashes, franchize, and "multiverse" crap in the 2010-2024 span, you ain't gonna stop just because it's an AI writing it. It's not like the commercial hacks writing the stuff you watched earlier were any more creative than AI".
Thanks! It sounds like we should be able to help. I'd love to chat more in detail, feel free to send me a note at antonio [at] circlemind.co.
Best course of action at this time would be to properly arm Ukraine.
Sure can, full disclosure, copied from a comment below:

Thanks for the question! Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a FUSE layer that doesn't support full POSIX semantics. For example, you can't use Mountpoint for Amazon S3 for random writes to existing files, appends, or renames. This means that you have to carefully instrument your application to understand whether or not it's compatible with Mountpoint, which can be error-prone. Regatta, on the other hand, provides full POSIX compatibility for the file interface, which means that it works out-of-the-box with all file based applications.
> (so far)

This parenthetical is doing a lot of work here.

Also, you make a lot of claims that just don't seem to reflect what I've seen. Many human-made movies are cookie cutter plots (ie the new Twisters), and many AI prompts return seemingly novel results. Whether or not that are actually novel isn't all that relevant, since humans aren't databases that have memorized all the source material.
Well that is something we agree on. Minimum wage should be livable and pegged to inflation, and the reason its not is because the rich have too much power.
The point is: art is a means of communicating _between people_. We can appreciate pictures/movies/music generated by machines but at the end of the day we (people) are in a deep need of connection to _other people_.

I don't believe replacing people with machines in this context is possible (one might say: by definition). But if it happens it will be the anti-utopian world of loneliness.
Some fun Google Scholar history from another perspective.

https://youtu.be/DZ2Bgwyx3nU?t=315

I recommend you watch the rest of the video, on the subject of open/closed and enclosure of infrastructure.
Surprisingly, it’s also present in live sports, see for example this article (in Finnish) about sounds in winter sports broadcasts: https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10005843
Meet is as shitty on Safari as Google feels they can get away with
it's ironic when you point out dupes, even though there's often an earlier comment with a link to the dupe. you don't even think to check for dupes while playing dupe police in your obsessive mania
Russia has been involved in sabotage, shooting down planes with Europeans (MH17), killing people they don't like in EU/UK for years now. If anything EU is extremely timid and does not retaliate.
Ahh good point. I was thinking about “machine plays itself repeatedly until it gets good” aspect of AlphaGo Zero and my brain jumped to brute forcing, but agree that’s a misnomer.
Netflix did that many years ago, interesting idea even if a bit disruptive in the beginning https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
Mystery of the lost US nuclear bomb in Greenland
When do estimate there to be quality AI generated content better than say the 90th percentile of Hollywood output?
Similar to objectiveFS - we use this in production for email sync between multiple postfix servers and dovecot. Is this a supported use case?
To be fair, though, pg has said in the distant past that it's fine to downvote to express disagreement.

I personally try not to do this too much (unless something is egregiously, probably wrong), but it's a thing that I think we should just accept as a norm.
IMHO TypeScript is the best mainstream language to write code in right now. It is incredibly expressive and feature rich, and you can model in almost any paradigm you like. The ecosystem around it allows you to choose whatever blend of runtime vs compile time type safety you prefer. Lots of people just runtime type check at their endpoint boundaries, and use compile time for everything internal to a service, but again, the choice is yours.

The Node+Express backend ecosystem is also incredibly powerful. Node is light weight, the most naïve code can handle a thousand RPS on the cheapest of machines, and you can get an entire server up and running with CORS+Auth+JSON endpoints in just 5 or 6 lines of code, and none of that code has any DI magic or XML configuration files.

JS/TS is horrible for numeric stuff, but it is great for everything else.
Saying movies are inherently a superior product to TikTok shorts is incredibly untrue. I would rather watch 90 minutes of the dumbest TikTok crap imaginable than sit through Madame Web again.
Unity is still a lot more popular then Unreal and alternatives exist and are created all the time-- others have mentioned Godot, or Cry Engine which are old. People are working on Rust engines. Lots of commercial developers use their own tech. Game engines don't have to gravitate toward a standard. They only do when the cost/benefit works in their favor.
I have been using upstream kernels on multiple machines including network equipments for more than a decade now. I will take the risk of regressions over back ported patches any day.

Apart for regulations mandating vulnerable (we can call them outdated if you prefer being coy) versions, the elephant in the room is obviously non mainlined drivers but I wouldn’t touch that with a ten feet pole anyway.
How does the saying go? Once [1] is happenstance, twice [2] is coincidence, but thrice [3]...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/finnish-governme...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-says-telecom-cab...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/europe/undersea-cable-disrupt...
Hybrid sales have actually skyrocketed in the past year for light duty vehicles and represent a greater percentage than BEVs now [1]. Most western manufacturers completely leapfrogged HEVs and went from ICEs to BEVs, so Japan seems to rule the market, and will reap the rewards. There seems to a zeal surrounding reducing carbon emissions that is counterproductive. The contempt of hybrids is incredibly reminiscent of the disdain of nuclear energy in favor of pure renewables.

1. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62924
I use AI coding assistants every day and while they're helpful, they're nothing more than a glorified autocomplete.
Getting closer every day.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1
Excellent art might be attributed less to genius and more to a selection process and creator-audience feedback loops.

We might be falling into a bit of survivorship bias when missing that excellent art is the product of a variety of processes, not just human inspiration.

Machines can probably replicate much of that process, for better or worse.
Elon Musk is probably the private individual who has done most for Ukraine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrain...
We're gonna get to the point where peoples' gaming rigs won't even start because they continually trip standard circuit breakers. Gonna need to build a special service to play games in 5 years.
Contextually no one is using nanometers in aviation nav applications. Many aviation systems are case insensitive or all caps only so capitalisation is rarely an important distinction.
Hiring someone who knows how to manage bare metal (with failover and stuff) may take time %)
This release is huge. I really love the attention to compiler errors and making them easy to understand - all of the general developer experience improvements are very welcome!
Art is the domain where "the cost to create it from the seller" matters.

Now, for those OK with slop, they can have it, but that's called content. Hollywood and SV (and most consumers) conflate the two all the time.
Like you: I too - is part of said brain drain.

Though, my reason - or rather: my litmus test, is much simpler.

For me, it all comes down to drinkable / potable tap water. That's it. That's all I care.
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Yeah, I love talking about my ideas with an LLM. They can be good at finding holes in my planned approach to a project. And if the holes aren't relevant, it's usually because I didn't explain myself very well at the outset, which means I need to go back to basics before I talk to a human about the project.
As someone who worked in the ML infra space: Google, Meta, XAI, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon have clusters that perform better than the highest performing cluster on Top500. They don't submit because there's no reason to, and some want to keep the size of their clusters a secret. They're all running Nvidia. (Except Google, who uses TPUs and Nvidia.)

> El Capitan – we don’t yet know how big of a portion yet as we write this – with 43,808 of AMD’s “Antares-A” Instinct MI300A devices

By comparison XAI announced that they have 100k H100s. MI300A and H100s have roughly similar performance. Meta says they're training on more than 100k H100s for Llama-4, and have the equivalent of 600k H100s worth of compute. (Note that compute and networking can be orthogonal).

Also, Nvidia B200s are rolling out now. They offer 2-3x the performance of H100s.
Art is not a means of content generation. It is communication between consciousnesses. Why would an AI have anything interesting to tell me?

I feel absolutely insane when I read views like this, like I share the planet with body snatchers.
>In every field we don't consider deeply "human," Ai has jumped light years ahead, in astonishing ways

Didn't you answered yourself?
https://spirofloropoulos.com
There isn't any reason that it shouldn't be a supported use case, depending on your exact performance needs and workflow. It's very similar to ObjectiveFS except that it operates on the data in your S3 bucket in it's native format, so you can point it at existing data sets, and use the newly written data directly from S3.
Also the Stack Overflow thing has more to do with all of us being generalists, not incompetent.

I look up "how do I sort a list in language X" because I know from school that there IS a defined good way to do it, probably built into the language, and it will be extremely idiomatic, but I haven't used language X in five years and the specifics might have changed and I don't remember the specific punctuation.
A noble effort, good sir.

Are you taking any actions in the cases where you detect cookies being set by a website without consent?
Culture is not the cause of development. It's the result. The complex human system always has a central area of development and an extended periphery. You can't have homogeneous development because development is the concentration of resources. Wherever these resources concentrate will have a privileged economy, and culture (because it can afford it) and it will develop a superiority complex. And it will keep moving. In 2100 when the center of the world economy has moved on from the US, the new center will have beautifully constructed narratives about how their culture is superior and their rise inevitable.
If what the churn mills are any indicator the coherence is already starting to get there. Saw one this weekend where it was star trek set in the 1940s sci-fi vibe. The coherence was a bit off. But way better than it was last year with the same kind of videos. Even from scene to scene it is getting better. In scene the warping is starting to go away. Add in the ability to write a story using chatgpt (or something like it) then add in the 'ai voices' and you can pick and choose who/what you want.

Movie making is about to radically shift to an extremely lower cost model to produce. Just not quite yet.

I can already ask chatgpt to 'write me a SCP story about a couch found in an abandoned factory that is keter class' and it will pump out something mildly entertaining in that style. It is not that big of a leap of logic to say 'good enough' will win out. Even now you can kinda pull it off with a small amount of work and stitching several tools together. There is no reason to think it will not be automated together.
just flagging it properly
Anything close to N/2 is going to have varying magnitude that requires filtering and likely oversampling to remove.

How close to the Nyquist bandwidth you can get depends upon the quality of your filtering.

44.1KHz is a reasonable compromise for a 20KHz passband. 48KHz is arguably better now that bits are cheap-- get a sliver more than 20KHz and be less demanding on your filter. Garbage has to be way up above 28KHz before it starts to fold over into the audible region, too.
Not sure if you were being sarcastic, but garbage is handled locally. Some garbage is sold to other countries, but they pay for it because they want it, it's not dumped on them.

Zero garbage is just sent elsewhere to be dealt with in some random way.
I know for a while Fuse was considered a security nightmare. My own org banned the use of it. Have things gotten better?
There’s another option, spend huge amounts to hire the very best and don’t provide any training.

That’s what the top end hedge funds do with seven figure starting compensation.
You're conflating the reality of the situation with me. I didn't say I wanted AI generated content. Just that it seems like it will inevitably win. All the insults in your comment just stem from an imaginary and inaccurate picture of me, a stranger, that you created in your head.

> don't feel compelled to enter the discussion with your growth oriented bullshit mindset

Then why respond?
It also sends two messages: "We can do this to any of your cables", and "we're willing to" – with an implied "we could easily do it to all of them at the same time".

And the last scenario is the real problem: While there are enough cable repair ships to continuously handle a normal rate of simultaneous peak failures, fixing multiple cuts can quickly exceed their capacity. (There's nothing that says an attacker can only cut the same cable in one spot!)
Ah! I thought this was a case where the locations were just BARELY different from each other, not that they're very far apart.
> But it does feel weird to wander among humans, listening to the nonsense being discussed so earnestly.

It's even weirder when you're from any place on Earth other than the USA.
The point was to discourage doing the sort of data collection that requires consent. Websites that don't want to spy on you and don't have an inherent need to collect protected information about you don't need to get consent to begin with.

The very fact that a website is presenting a cookie popup to you is effectively an admission that the website is engaging in unsavory practices. When I see one, I think twice about using the site.
???

show me an AI prompt that can generate a movie premise in the last decade where the underlying model hasn't already been trained on that movie's plot.
Mechanizing the expression of artist endeavour seems silly. Does an LLM know the pleasure and pain that love can instill or does it just regurgitate tokens in a pattern it thinks is best fit?
These distributed storage systems solve very similar problems, depending on how you use them. Our target customers aren't looking to deploy their own infrastructure, so having a "single-click" option without having to think about how much capacity they need is very valuable.
I don't think pursing happiness in itself is a noble goal, especially for a society at large. The article talks about some sort of happiness metric which is based on the standard of living and such. It just seems like Bhutan is sticking to a traditional bhuddist agrarian society, and not pursing some metric of happiness directly.

IDK about capitalism, but people seem to like it because it creates a dynamic society with internal competition, which is the kind of society young people want to immigrate to.

Young people don't want to live in a "utopia" where everything has been solved for them. That's the problem described in the article.

I remember reading someone who classified activities like exercise "surrogate actions" or something, but their point was that it was bad only because they aren't useful in modern society but that the impulse to pursue challenge like this is natural.
well java on the desktop and java in the browser are two entirely different beasts. the problem here is not java but the changes that have been made in the browser.
> humans reason in a fundamentally different way

After having formulated an idea, do you put it on your intellectual bench and re-examine it, purposefully, analytically? Well, that is more than plain pattern matching over intellectual keys - it is procedural.

And what about those intellectual keys or «schemas», how are they generated? Through a verification, consolidation that is further to the original (pattern matching) intuition.
My prediction. As more and more movies are made with AI, and when they start replacing real actors with AI, people are going to value movies less, and live performances more.

I expect AI will bring a resurgence of live performances like live theater. Why? Because we value what people do more than what machines do.
I think it's really hard to draw that line, though. You "know" it when you see it, but others -- quite reasonably, sometimes -- know it and see it differently.

As an example, I'm fine downvoting an opinion that I find morally gross or anti-social, even though others (such as the person commenting) might think it's fine, and even agree with it.
I think you just made the case for some flavor or another of socialism.
It really only likely matters if you're one of those who is tempted to let it run on `0.0.0.0` instead of loopback only.

Assuming you're not, there's certainly no urgency to migrate. But keep it in the back of your mind that it's unmaintained, and if things go weirdly wrong during an OS or ruby upgrade, remember that you will need to fix it or pick up something else that's kind of similar.

If you're not already using it, it might be a good idea to pick up something else.

I like [mailpit](https://github.com/axllent/mailpit) because it's a single static binary and because it has a nice api I can use during testing to see if a message made it out of the system I'm testing.

But none of that argues for switching away from a thing that's working for you.
DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data
Thanks for that inside scoop, even if it's a bit dated; I wonder if they read this discussion, perhaps.

An important feature request would be a view where only peer-reviewed publications (specifically, not ArXiv and other pre-print archives) are included in the citation counts, and self-citations are also excluded.

A way to download all citation sources would also be a great nice-to-have.
We pass all these struct labor and environmental rules in the US, then just import goods made with far worse labor and environmental treatment. This is why we need high tariffs.
Maybe the main actors, the stars of the movies are safe for now. But background actors who just sit in the background or have some small extra role will be decimated, because those roles can be replaced with AI.

Since many actors start with small roles or background work, it will have an effect on the industry if entry jobs are eliminated.

In the long run even the main stars can get into trouble, because it may be true that AI won't be able to reproduce what they do, creating a new, creative scene, but most movies are trash even today, so if AI can make an average, good enough movie in the future which is cheap to generate, but people still watch it then the bottom of the industry will fall out, lots of people who work on movies will lose their jobs which can have a huge impact on the industry.
I have a strong suspicion that people who think AI-generated characters are "similar" to people are borderline autistic and simply can't grasp nuance.
I don't think there's necessarily much not understood.

Here in Sweden have almost 2x as many physicians you do, and we pay them about half of what you do, so we end up paying approximately the same in salaries (the average Swedish physician is paid 131k) and I think it works out completely.

We start our training of physicians right after high school, so we push them to get an MSc in Medicine, rather than treating physicians as some kind of pseudo-PhDs, with however requiring head physicians to have an actual PhD; and this system is fine. I think it's the same way in Denmark, and given the stuff they've come up with I imagine one can't complain much about their system.
It definitely is, I was also there, just like everyone was doing IE only sites, not only plenty of people do the same with ChromeOS vision of the Web, they ship Chrome alongside Electron crap.

Safari is the last man standing before a ChromeOS world.
For a lot of the iCE40 chips, it's extremely difficult to reliably get fMax > 50MHz even with extremely aggressive pipelining. I assume 80MHz is only possible on the highest-speed parts in the iCE40 family

I switched a design from iCE40 to ECP5 and got a ~3x speedup "for free"

Agreed that using Lattice FPGAs is super nice, mostly because you get to use the open-source Yosys toolchain, which is vastly better than proprietary toolchains IMO
Is there any deep fake video that is possibly convincing that is 100% generated synthetically?

All the deep fakes I've seen that don't look incredibly weird at first glance essentially re-use clips (like Back To The Future[0]) and they replacement an element, like a face, but the rest of the footage already exists.

If you look closely though, particularly at the mouth of the video I linked, something isn't quite natural about it still.

Same deal with this Taylor Swift fake[1]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OJnkJqkyio

[1]: https://x.com/McAfee/status/1745226438641602866
Unity is not dying.
Automatic Inbox Cleanup with Two Simple Filters/Rules

http://blog.leftium.com/2023/11/automatic-inbox-cleanup-with...
Open-source is good for solo and small projects, but there are commercial solutions with continuous support, etc. and other features (e.g. SMS) like Mailosaur too

https://mailosaur.com/
You are replying to a Russian bot, most likely.
Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink
Well it's a least starting to change, as countries like Canada, and to an extent the US, see the people several generations after their immigrants look back or outside their countries of birth. There are lots of opportunities outside the US for someone who doesn't feel super-comfortable because of the culture or ethnicity, but is educated and ready to move around the globe.
I did. It was a whole lot of nothing.

In any case, I just wanted to point out that if you cared about the welfare of damn arthropods, you're going nowhere really fast.

Consider this: the quickest, surest, most efficient way and ONLY way to reduce all suffering on earth to nothing forever and ever is a good ole nuclear holocaust.
I almost always find that when sites do not work with Firefox (also Wayland on Linux) it works with Firefox (on the same machine) without the same plugins and settings.

Enabling JS is not enough, so I think its liked to privacy plugins, or running inside a container.
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