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>Move 37 was so astonishing the world champiion Go player, hardly known for theatrics, got up and left the table.

This is an incredibly minor nitpick, but I recently went down the rabbit hole of move 37[1] after reading Richard Powers' latest novel, Playground, and Sedol didn't get up, he was already away from the table. He did, however, take far longer to make his next move (iirc something like 12-15 minutes instead of 2-4).

1: A good start, maybe is <https://www.wired.com/2016/03/two-moves-alphago-lee-sedol-re...> and ofc wiki <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol>
Strong claims.

Have we seen any other form of communication and/or artistic expression become totally automated?

Even 2d art hasn’t been automated by image generation models.

It’s just another tool in the bag.
Cake-wrecks: incredibly bad cake creations
We’ve entirely lost the war and some people are still fighting the wording of the declaration.

> the first organic result is outside my screen.

And it’s only a referral blogpost.

Is it even worth fighting? What have we won by attempting this fight? The Internet is unusable today.
AFAIK the swat teams involved in the OP incidents didn't kill anybody, so they more or less did their jobs properly. Nonetheless, the intent was there; this guy committed hundreds of attempted murders.
It does not matter. AMD is shit when it comes to low-level processing, their algos are stuck that go nowhere. Nvidia is killing it. There is a reason why Zookerberg ordered billions in GPUs from Nvidia and not from AMD.
The only time NATO has actually gotten involved in a conflict was in Afghanistan after 911. So no, it is not only because of Russia.
It's just practice. Locate the cables, establish a means of damaging them, deploy the means as a test and a show of force.

The western economy is almost completely built using off-prem in Cloud PaaS environments. It should be pretty fun when WW3 starts and not a single hospital, school, laboratory, or factory can operate.
'Hundreds' was a bit of hyperbole, but it ain't far off.

47k in 100 countries, they say. These are $100 fully refundable 'preorders', so they're more like placeholders in line than anything else. They will absolutely have a high attrition rate because most of them are speculatory. And of small number that are serious -- how many of those are in a regulatory region where they will be launching? ...and in a way that they are normally registrable? I think even they'll be shocked to ship 10% of those preorders.

For a bit of a reality check here -- the cybertruck preorder originally had the exact same terms (before it got more expensive), and had 2 million preorders. They've sold almost 30k of them, and it has already been reported that all waitlist reservations have been fulfilled. So at best, a 98% attrition rate. If the Aptera ever ships, and they are able to convert sales as good as Tesla did with the Cybertruck -- then yeah, the number will be measured in hundreds, not thousands.
How do you feel about the removal of the downvote numbers on YouTube? This debate about downvotes on HN seems like a similar scissor statement:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

I didn’t mention flagging, which I reserve for guidelines violations.
I'm getting 25ms from my mailserver at hetzner helsinki to amsterdam. Looks more then OK to me.
My reply was purely around ChatGPT's response which I characterized as a rationalization. It clearly was following the S3 template since it copied many parts of the API but then failed to call out if it was deviating and why it made decisions to deviate.
Even you don't care about owning, just the idea that you can afford 10x space for less money than a crappy studio in a HCOL area.
Seriously? From whom do I buy a computer or a car or a refrigertor?
It should have been designed in a way that doesn't allow such malicious compliance, but this is still an improvement
Who says they don't do that constantly, but missed it this time?
Also don't confuse the law of diminishing returns with "therefore the remainder is fine," either. There's room for regulation of many of the ills of our society, but you will always reach a point where trying to stamp out that last bit you can't get ends up taking away things that make life worth living.

I can't imagine more of a hell than being forced to live a life wrapped up in bubble wrap so someone else is convinced I'm "safe."
That's a very arrogant attitude.

I'll give you one example: I sometimes can't open OpenAI API documentation due to some stupid Cloudflare captcha checks. No, on Firefox, however many times I click that checkbox, I can't go through the verification, just to read some static content. Not even if I disable adblock and tracking protection.

I don't even see a checkbox at all on Chrome or Edge.
The endorsement and verification would need to be continuous, or else the anonymous users will sell their accounts for the value of the accrued positive reputation. I.e. what people already do with Reddit accounts that accrue a lot of karma.
I used the same approach based on Rclone for a long time. I wondered what makes Regatta Storage different than Rclone. Here is the answer: "When performing mutating operations on the file system (including writes, renames, and directory changes), Regatta first stages this data on its high-speed caching layer to provide strong consistency to other file clients." [0].

Rclone, on the contrary, has no layer that would guarantee consistency among parallel clients.

[0] https://docs.regattastorage.com/details/architecture#overvie...
Hey, thanks for asking. It very much depends on which aspect of Regatta you're interested in using. I know of a couple of different architectures -- some folks wrote in "rclone" in the thread, I know of people using SeaweedFS if you want to host storage infrastructure yourself, etc.

I'd love to know a bit more about why you're looking for an open source alternative. Is it because of costs (i.e. you'd like an open source alternative that doesn't require you to pay) or if it's because of the operating environment (i.e. you want an open source alternative so that you can deploy it to your own infrastructure)? There are some things that we are exploring around deploying onto your own infrastructure over the next 12 months, but I'd love to learn more. Feel free to respond here or email me at hleath [at] regattastorage.com.
States don't realistically have options unless the Feds want to allow them to have options. The Feds do this by controlling the purse strings of Federal money. The Feds have the right to deny State X federal funds if State X refuses to adopt Federal Regulations as required by Congress.
I'm never that consistent and usually get through. I think they are looking at things like mouse acceleration, smoothness, etc. rather than the actual answer to the questions.
The Zulus won a pitched battle or two, but lost the war.
I feel like many fields are going to basically cut out junior level jobs for AI, then 10 years down the line complain that there are no more people they can hire for mid level/senior jobs.
> Why should I bother to read something you didn't bother to write?

The answer seems obvious: because it's better.

Obviously it isn't better now. But it's easy to imagine a day in the not-too-distant future where AI can shit out 1000 hours of content that is better in every way than what humans create. And it will even feel more human than the human made stuff because the AI will have learned that we like that.

What do you do then? Watch the worse stuff? Maybe, and I think a lot still will. But how long does that last?
This paper is not comparing against MOLMO or Qwen, so I would take it with a grain of salt
But if people drive up even just to gawk at it, you've won.
I had a really hard time stomaching the cannibalism. I had no idea this all happened until I started digging into it more recently. The stories of people being disemboweled while still alive and having their intestines feasted on just seems incomprehensible.
[Citation Needed]

What google site or service requires Chrome?
The API part isn't thaaat hard. Indeed HIP already works pretty well at getting existing CUDA code to work unmodified on AMD HW. The bigger challenge is that the AMD and Nvidia architectures are so different that the optimization choices for what the kernels would look like are more different between Nvidia and AMD than they would be between Intel and AMD in CPU land even including SIMD.
The undeveloped world doesn't have, and never had, enough money to be "drained" into a pool as large as the current US economy
The trope of the sci-fi robot has been so engrained into our cultural narrative that I think people constantly underestimate the creative capabilities of AI. People still think in terms of this dichotomy of math/science and art/creativity. But AI has already broken through so many boundaries of what anyone would have believed possible just a few years ago.

I hear people complaining about uncanny valley stuff all the time, but I think these guys are just hanging on to old-world thinking. Because it cannot not be what must not be.

But even today AI is doing incredibly hard stuff that most people would have thought could never be done "mechanically" by a mere machine. Think coding assistants. If you don't think they are absolutely amazing, you are nuts! Sure, there's still a long way to go to perfection, but we don't have to wait until we get there because a lot of what is possible today, let alone tomorrow, is already incredibly useful.
This is also my experience. But to be fair I have a heavily modified privacy-centric Firefox, and I disabled some features in the config, and I disable js and large images and of course tracking/ads by default, and I delete most cookies on browser close, and I run Wayland on Linux so... any breakage is probably on me.
I always find it comforting to know that a site would work in chrome.
The Solar System Model of Collective Learning
Are you objecting to single sign on or something? Or some browser extension that is only published for Chrome? What are you talking about?
Russia warned that they were going to do this last week. I think it's pretty reasonable to conclude that 1) this was sabotage and 2) it was Russia.
Ski Warfare
I lived in Finland most of my adult life. Gladly. Freedom isn’t free, I understand that
Maybe that is true in your industry. It is not true in my industry. NM is the legally accepted abbreviation for nautical miles when used in the context of aircraft operations.
On the other hand he was right about music and video on demand back in 2003…
Puts a new spin on it when lefties tweet to "eat the rich". Stomach churning stuff.
Yup, can recommend mailpit, running a couple of instances here as well.
This is the classic expression of the fallacy that the value of something is based on the cost to create it from the seller, not the benefit it brings to the buyer.
Hey there, I have mutual friends with some of the Nasuni folks, and I have a lot of respect for what they do. In particular, Nasuni stores data in a proprietary block format in your S3 bucket, so you can't connect it to existing data sets or use that data directly from S3 out the other side. Whereas with Regatta, we store data in its native format in S3 so you can do these things.

What's cool about the storage market is that there are so many impressive companies because there are so many varied needs from customer applications! We're hoping to become a simple "default" for teams who are writing applications in the cloud.
> People who think generating language is very much different from generating audio/video are in for a ride, which I think is the flaw with his reasoning.

How could anyone think they are similar?

You don’t just pump video data into an LLM training pipeline and get video models.

A lot of work goes into both. It’s non trivial and only barely related.

It’s only recently that transformer models are being used for video.
The advanced capabilities of state-of-the-art game engines are extremely impressive in a technical sense. Unfortunately, in recent years this cutting-edge tech is rarely the enabling element in delivering games I enjoy playing. This is one reason I've changed my gaming focus to retro-gaming (of course, the DLC and other monetization-centric sins of big game studios are also a major factor).

While there are a few newer games I do enjoy, as far as I can tell, the bleeding edge features aren't needed to create what I find enjoyable about them. For me, I think the issue is that, outside rare exceptions, beyond a certain point increasing fidelity doesn't add value to game play. Admittedly, this is my own subjective assessment. Although I'm not in the game industry, I also worry that the increasing breadth and complexity of SOTA engines requires increasingly specialized knowledge and skill sets to leverage thus raising the bar out of reach of the smaller developers who often create the new games I do enjoy. It would be reassuring to hear from smaller and indie game developers who've found the new engine features in recent UE versions to be both accessible on small-team time budgets and enabling of significant new game play value.

Outside of gaming, I think newer capabilities like using SOTA engines for real-time virtual sets during film production are more creatively exciting because they can enable big budget story-telling on smaller and indie budgets.
> If the American police are based on Peelian principles, then an awful lot of the principles have gotten lost in translation.

"Peelian police, but with guns!" isn't that far off, I believe.
I know as a matter of fact that many teams'/companys' approach is "We'll develop and run our CI tests on Chrome only. If it breaks on Firefox or Safari, we'll fix it, but that's as much as what we care about." And I'll be honest, for many organizations, it's a good business and financial move.
I don’t disagree with everything he’s saying but it’s odd seeing the responses this is getting when it sounds extremely rehearsed.
A risky strategy. There's a moderate chance that the EU comes to its senses and mandates an automated way to opt out of cookies.
An Investigation into How Prosecutors Picked Death-Penalty Juries
This is useful for non prod environments, especially local, where you don’t want some background job sending emails welcome to jdoe@gmail.com when you are testing the sign up flow. It allows you to safely send outbound emails to any address without worry that they will actually be delivered, without having to change your application code.
Is source available for zyme? I don't see anything on that page about how one might download and install their compiler.
https://archive.ph/v8ocS
Slightly on topic for anyone interested; Unreal Engine 5 now runs on WebGPU!(unofficially through my company, a third party)

Demo here:

https://play.spacelancers.com/
It would obviously fuck with the cultural reference replacing US for the world in the phrase.

But if you believe that only the US has this problem, I am sad to inform you that Taylor Swift and Hollywood Movies are not the only American cultural exports eagerly consumed around the world.
Convincing deepfakes is a strong word. There are also people out there who think modern CG looks good, too. There will always be people who are ultra-sensitive to things like this. So convincing might take 2x as long for some vs others.
I would go to the library and pull volumes of Science Citation Index off the shelves. Yes, Google Scholar was a revolution.
HN seems pretty in love with plausible.io every time it's mentioned. It's pretty minimalist, but we never had an issue with it not tracking something we actually cared about.

The real issue is ad tracking. If you either show ads or buy ads that lead to your website you are basically forced to add tracking cookies.
Exactly this.

I work in the LLM-augmented search space, so I might be a little too tuned in on this subject.
My job revolves around adopting software solutions to solve practical problems and let me tell you, this mentality of one solution to everything goes beyond just the coding. I've encountered countless developers that seems to believe that the reality of a business should conform itself to how the developer believes your business/industry should operate.
The movie industry is already endlessly pumping out crap with real actors, I suppose it won't get much worse if it removes them entirely.

On the other hand, there's a whole other medium for actors that AI can't replace.
Is nm the official abbreviation for nautical miles? I assume it is natural miles. For me it is nanometers.
> "it’s obvious this wasn’t an accidental anchor drop.”

If it's "he who shall not be named", gotta admit, that's a clever strategy: ramp up sabotage and see how NATO/EU will feel about their "red lines", and how well does that article 5 really work in practice. Is it worth more than the paper it's printed on? Let's find out!

People have been laughing at the West crossing multiple Russian "red lines" and the Russians not doing anything. So the Russians can follow a similar route: a cable torn here, a warehouse blows up there, maybe a bank website is hacked, water supply or power station company blows up "randomly". Is anyone going to launch nuclear bombs because of that? That's absurd, of course not, yet NATO/EU just looks weak and pathetic in the process.

Ideally, these countries should ramp up similar acts of sabotage on the Russian territory if they confirmed that's exactly who it is. A dam fails in Siberia, maybe the payment system goes down for a week, a submarine catches on fire while in port for repairs. Honestly I don't think they have the guts to do that.

Some regimes only speak the language of power. They have to be believably threatened; calling them on phone to chat and beg for them to behave, is just showing more weakness. Scholz just called Putin. Anyone remember Macron talking with Putin for tens of hours at the start of the war? A lot of good that did. When they see a credible fist in front of their nose, that's the only way they'll stop.
'King Arthur's Hall' is five times older than thought, researchers discover
That sounds borderline feasible – in a world where submarines don't exist.
Wow, looks like a great product! That's a great idea to use NFS as the protocol. I honestly hadn't thought of that.

Perfect.

For IBM, I wrote a crypto filesystem that works similarly in concept, except it was a kernel filesystem. We crypto split the blocks up into 4 parts, stored into cache. A background daemon listened to events and sync'ed blocks to S3 orchestrated with a shared journal.

It's pure magic when you mount a filesystem on clean machine and all your data is "just there."
For those not familiar with these old IBM machines that used decrementing of the index registers, this will help explain all the ??D instructions are there.

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/704/24-6661-2_704_Manual_1955....

Another lens for the FORTRAN case specifically, in the modern way we tend to say Fortran arrays are 'one' indexed, looking at this old code it is sometimes useful of thinking of it as a limit index, pulling from n-1 -> n. Or at least I found that useful for myself when digging into some of this a long time ago.
Should Russia "fight back"? Did NATO aligned countries cross multiple red lines with too much provocation? ... This has been argued to death, and I'm not wasting my time on that here.

Were it not for the nuclear concern, Russia could be dispatched by a modern military in short order. They're having enough of a challenge with Ukraine. Against a real military with SEAD/DEAD, you would witness an Iraq 1991-style collapse within weeks, perhaps less.

Of course, the problem is the nukes. Which is exactly why you see these countries work so hard to get them.
But a game is something with an objective measure. Either a move is good or it's not. Can you say the same of parts in a movie, where it's more about taste?
I use the MOBA as a resource for my classes of what not to do (I teach at an art university).

There are so many spectacularly bad examples useful for any topic I'm teaching.
UN falls short on coral funding as reefs face largest bleaching event on record
In (March?) 2007 (correction 2008) myself and two other engineers in front of Bruce Chizen - Adobe's CEO in a small conference room in Bucharest demoed a photo taken with an iPhone automagically showing as a file on a Mac. I implemented the local FUSE talking to Ozzy - Adobe's distributed object store back then, using an equivalent of a Linux inode structure. It worked like a charm and if I remember correctly it took us a few days to build it. It was a success just as much as Adobe's later choices around http://Photoshop.com were a huge failure. A few months later Dropbox launched.

That kickstarted about a decade in (actual) research and development led by my team which positioned the Bucharest center as one of the most prolific centers in distributed systems within Adobe and of Adobe within Romania.

But I didn't come up with the concept, it was Richard Jones that inspired us with the Gmail drive that used FUSE with gmail attachments back in 2004 when I got my first while still in college https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive. I guess I'm old, but I find it funny to see Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
???

Show me a movie in the last decade where the premise of it couldn't be generated by some AI prompt.

(I'll even make it easier by stating that said AI prompt can be generic and to some degree trivial; i.e. not the premise explicitly laid out in the prompt).
NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels
> Denying the existence of something that you and everyone else has experienced is certainly an approach.

You've experienced this mystical thing, and so you know it's true?

> They give an 11% prior probability of earthworm sentience

I'm having trouble holding in the laughter. But you don't seem to understand how dangerously deranged these people are. They'll convert you to their religion by hook or crook.
It's not. Heaps on heaps on heaps of small businesses have been destroyed by cheap international goods that Walmart and Amazon push, and customers have crappier products that don't last as long as a result.
I wouldn't worry. This cool tech looks mid when the games are in motion. It's great for static renders and tech demos, but a lot of folks are just turning it off.

There are still a lot of engines. Plenty of people are starting to incorporate Godot, Unity hasn't disappeared, and companies build and leverage their own engines all the time.

The main reason Epic Games is so big is Fortnite, not Unreal Engine. They're still incredibly focused on that metaverse play.
I don't think so. The idea was the users care so much about privacy they will be grateful that they get informed about their options and get to choose not to be tracked... every 5 minutes.
Super interesting project. But I cannot understand why you support only EC2 instances as clients. For what it is worth, it looks strange and limiting. By default I expect to be able to use Regatta Storage from everywhere: from my local machine, from my Docker containers running elsewhere, etc.
Nato is a defensive alliance against any offensive act. Russia, ...as in: the mafia of the few profiteering rulers currently at the helm, is not fighting back anything. Firstly, its mad Ukrainian adventure has meant it has made its border very defence-free on its border with Nato countries. Secondly, it is constantly attacking in hybrid warfare mode, paying local lowlife to do propaganda graffiti and sabotage. The appropriate response is to hold all responsible individuals accountable. Eventually the lower ranks will understand that playing along to Old-man-putin's tune of death won't bring them closer to anything but grief.