skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was more of an exploration lull and not much industry had came out of it quite yet as privatization was being implemented and so it’s the case the industry was actually just being born.
Russia, China, Iran or any combination of the three. Any correct response is bound to draw indignation from those who consider the enemy real rather than virtual, but this is to be expected - given that every popular story of manipulative governments (including of course 1984) is told from the perspective of a dissident, we lack the narrative framework to conceptualise what such a system looks like through the eyes of someone broadly on board with it.

The warring US tribes certainly made an effort to associate their internal enemy with these (Democrats insinuating Republican subversion by Russians, Republicans insinuating Democrat sympathies with China and Iran). Arguably, this did not really catch and the majority of people are more preoccupied with their internal outgroup, which suggests that the external-enemy strategy is currently falling flat in the US. You could make a better case for it being in place in various European countries.
That's what enshittification looks like right before the company dies.
Here ya go:

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Implement new SSO feature
Ah ok :) Still - I’d fund this game on kickstarter or wherever, to see
it polished more.
The Freescape 3D Engine was in use in the 80's (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescape ).
If you make buyout offers to 10000 startups, how many of those say "no" to those offers? Not everybody is willing to send an "our incredible journey" post to all their users.
So we've gone from 'no rights were suspended' to 'rights were suspended but if you successfully got them un-suspended they were never really suspended before.'.
Him being convicted should be a verifiable fact. Why is it a conspiracy?
There's a recent video with what look to be armed forces (weapons visible, to be more exact) entering a building which is labeled as the Parliament's building [1], so I'd call this a big thing.

[1] https://x.com/BigBreakingWire/status/1863964015376089313
poetry readings in person. no robots allowed.
Overseas students do not cost the state anything. They are not entitled to any benefits. They are limited to working 20 hours per week.
National Assembly has been suspended by the military so they will have trouble meeting.

> Following Yoon’s announcement, South Korea’s military proclaimed that parliament and other political gatherings that could cause “social confusion” would be suspended
Every gay person I know, myself included, is on prep. From the VP at a Fortune 500 on down to a coffeeshop barista. Cost is not an issue, at least not in the United States.
AI poetry IS human poetry.
Nor was Mars Polar Lander – the most likely cause of its loss was a mistake in units that resulted in it using too short a deceleration burn as it prepared to land, meaning it hit the surface far faster than intended (IIRC we don't know for sure if it impacted in one piece, broke apart during descent). Tabloid headlines of the time dubbed the mission as a “close encounter of the thud kind”.
Yeah I've also heard that it's more of an annoyance than it's worth, in fact I'm not really sure of anyone who has said it's a benefit in any way. It's just not really an aspect of music that people usually enjoy anyway. Naturally, music is engineered more to be relatively pitched rather than absolute
It's just an anecdote, but: I remember playing in a band with an amateur musician friend who told me had perfect pitch, and it was "very annoying", according to him, when we transposed songs to fit our voices. They just "sounded wrong" to him. He would make beginner mistakes since he relied on pitch memory rather than listening to us to know what to play/sing.

I have no idea how it works in general, but it seems like it was a problem for at least this one guy.
Maintaining forks/extensions of opensource upstream projects is a pretty good use for it.
For clarity, Americans claim the WORLD champions of baseball. The championship series is called the World Series. In American football, it's just called the Super Bowl.
WW2 seems to be on that optimum age for peak disinformation campaign. Nobody remembers it anymore, but it is still relevant enough that people have an emotional response to it.
Orwell learned his cynicism the hard way as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish civil war 1936-37.

He arrived as an idealistic anti fascist fighter. After experiencing Stalinism in person, he became the man we know.

https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/commentaries/how-spai...
That's PDF ligatures for you.
IntelliJ and SmartGit are my two favorite tools.

SmartGit has had drag and drop for a long time. I actually rarely use it but there is almost no Git problem I can’t fix in like 2 clicks.
I get depressed enough when people tell me I'm not funny...
I don't need an AI to do art so I can wash the dishes.

I need an AI that can do the dishes so I can do art.

- Someone else on twitter.
I bet AI can write better clickbait titles than human editors.
Canada, UK, NZ, and Australia had absolutely draconian polices related to COVID.
These results speak towards the absence of an audience for poetry as much as they do the aptitude of LLMs for creative writing.
Probably got turned into some strange ligature by the typesetting program.

conﬂict
vs conflict
If something has to be worse than slavery in order to qualify as an abuse of freedom, then nothing is going to qualify ever.

> Anyone who thinks the government asking you sternly to "please stay inside" is an abuse of power

American states jailed pastors, fined churches, and charged individuals with violations of 'laws' against things like worshipping together or assembling.

> must have fallen asleep in American history class.

Site rules :)
They are artists all the way down.
Interesting, could you elaborate? I'm unfamiliar with that usecase
Eventually for various definitions of eventually (most of which denote a time period longer than your life).

Longer, if they keep diluting the term and selling shit labeled as AI.
awful font.

distributed Erlang is like saying ATM machine
Every digital camera I've ever owned takes "better" pictures than my iPhone 15 Pro. The iPhone is fantastic for taking a few snaps to remember a trip or event, or recording an ephemeral "story", but when I am actually trying to take photos there's no comparison to my ~10 year old digital camera.

It's partly about sensor size and tech., partly down the the limitations of tiny smartphone lenses, and partly down to what's added (or should that be taken away) by the "computational photography" software in modern smartphones.
> new gTLDs introduced in the last few years command just 11 percent of the market for new domains, but accounted for roughly 37 percent of cybercrime domains reported between September 2023 and August 2024.

> .com and .net domains made up approximately half of all domains registered...they accounted for just over 40 percent of all cybercrime domains.

Hardly earth shattering. .net and .com are still pulling 80% of their weight when it comes to cybercrime. And the article concludes that the main reason the new TLDs are disproportionately used is because you can sometimes buy them cheap in bulk.

Maybe the real story here is that the ccTLD registrars, who weren't mentioned, are disproportionately good at deterring cybercrime.
Something that’s frequently lost in the discussion I think is that in the long term, Mars is a stepping stone.

While proponents think that Mars should be permanently inhabited and have cities, the larger point is to light a fire under the development of the technologies and techniques involved in crewed spaceflight and human habitats beyond Earth’s gravity well. Mars does this better than the Moon does because it has a higher baseline level of self-sustenance due to its much greater distance, and so if you get to the point that getting people to Mars and having them live there long term is no big deal, you’ve also essentially made humanity a proper spacefaring species — we’d no longer be so tied down to LEO and could have substantial crewed missions traversing the solar system and beyond.
> we've gone from 'no rights were suspended' to 'rights were suspended but if you successfully got them un-suspended they were never really suspended before.'.

Who said no rights were suspended? You're arguing with yourself [1].

The wrong statement made at the head was that we had martial law in the West during Covid. We did not. Not even close. If civilian courts can overrule anything, you're not under martial law.

(Also, every state is constantly passing laws that are struck down, if this is your standard for martial law then everyone is always under martial law and the term is meaningless.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Countdown until the nutrition influencers start pushing them.
Wow that's some high praise. For anyone wondering, Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler that is really cool (and also I'm one of the devs and also I don't live in a monastery.)

https://spritely.institute/hoot/
Wetherspoons might well be the sort of company Broadcom wouldn't want as a customer.
You need a waiver over 18k feet. https://www.faa.gov/space/licenses/amateur-rockets / https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/pham_htm...

A little higher (150km) and this would've been out of the realm of amateur rocketry entirely.
It doesn’t need to be that specific the only problem I can foresee is that it cannot go downstairs. In my case, I just got two of them one for my upper floor and one for my ground floor. If you get some of the more advanced ones now they’re not particularly affected by wires, tassels, etc.
I don't go into the office often, but when I do, I'm always frustrated that I have to turn off my VPN (which is just to connect to my Jellyfin server back at home) and randomly have my internet throttled during large downloads.

IMO, anything that needs to be secured on-site should be airgapped anyways, and treat your LAN/WAN as if it's a public access point.
I think its a very good sign to see people deep within the industry having emergent intuitions about the direction of the entity that puts food on their table…

But please, please dedicate more time to reading outside your sphere and beyond video games. They can be a part of the path to enlightenment, but there is much more going on.

None of the current status quo is a surprise to anyone who has been studying media or history or polemics or even poetry. In fact it’s just been agonizing to watch the cycles.

Equip yourselves, because if you don’t people will use those unknown ideas against you and the wider world.
Like so many scientific pursuits, this one has its roots in science fiction. A terrific trashy futuristic novel from the 70's by Lawrence Sanders called The Tomorrow File[0] features preserved heads that are kept around to spout ideas in the future, when they might become useful, among many other Brave New World-type concepts.

[0] https://archive.org/details/tomorrowfile0000sand_t5i1
Honestly the only "legitimate" use for these TLDs seem to be fediverse/bsky vanity URLs.

Everything outside that just looks like a scam, even if it isn't.
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Which case was that?
Once I found I couldn’t iMessage a .xyz link I decided to stay away…
There must be some rule on the internet where if some geopolitical thing happens anywhere in the world at least one person will blame Russia.
I think this line of reasoning is really bizarre, as if there's this straight-line path of progress, and then we stop the second it starts doing shit that we consider "fun".

Who is to say that "washing dishes" (to use your example) is a less complicated problem than art, at least in regards to robotics and the like?
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It's a bit obtuse to recommend weather.gov when https://merrysky.net/ exists.
As someone with more-or-less the full Apple ecosystem in my home: I don't think it expresses any sort of individualism or artistic freedom. It just all works together really well without any nonsense.

I understand that was Apple's marketing a decade ago, but it doesn't really seem to be their pitch anymore.
> Despite this success, evidence about non-experts’ ability to distinguish AI-generated poetry has been mixed. Non-experts in poetry may use different cues, and be less familiar with the structural requirements of rhyme and meter, than experts in poetry or poetry generation. Gunser and colleagues14 and Rahmeh15 find that human-written poems are evaluated more positively than AI-generated poems. Köbis and Mossink16 finds that when a human chooses the best AI-generated poem (“human-in-the-loop”) participants cannot distinguish AI-generated poems from human-written poems, but when an AI-generated poem is chosen at random (“human-out-of-the-loop”), participants are able to distinguish AI-generated from human-written poems.

This is a huge difference. Writing is a two-step process: idea generation, and selection. The first part is similar to what a randomized algorithm or an LLM might do, in smaller chunks (and indeed, the history of aleatoric processes in creative endeavors is long -- see Oulipo for one example in literature.)

The second step -- selection -- is the heart of creativity. It's about taste. Knowing what is and isn't "good."

When you consider the creative processes of Dada, Duchamp, Brian Eno -- I think it becomes clear that this automation of creative generation is a continuation of existing trends rather than a sudden disruption.

If an LLM were able to, on its own, generate and select poems, independently developing a new style of poetry that resonated with readers -- that would be something else entirely.
You said:

> Martial law in America would mean suspending the Constitution.

I pointed out that constitutional rights were suspended. Thus, by your logic, martial law was declared.

Then, after making the simple claim above you continually change the goal posts. First, martial law is suspension of the constitution. Then, it's suspension of the constitution and the inability to appeal to courts.

Pick one. If it's simply suspending the constitution... then we saw that. But you've changed the goal posts, not me.
Mostly tooling, machining. Autoclaves to cure the carbon, lathes, CNC fab. Total cost not including the space is easily over $100k. Few hobbyists can do this, but a university can sponsor it when it'll be used by multiple groups and for research.
Aren’t tattoos injective?
It isn't just the military industrial complex.

It extends as far as Zuckerberg hiring PR firms to write hit pieces on Tiktok and lobbying government officials in order to stave off competition.

"China bad" is profitable for everyone it seems, except the commoners.
Well… If you are in Purgatory, you will eventually enter Paradiso (=Heaven), and for t→+∞ the ratio between the time spent in Paradiso and Purgatorio will diverge in favor of the former!
> Dance for the computer, it will judge you

Those games are wildly popular!

In fact, being judged by the computer is a favorite way for many people to spend their time.
Please--do tell more re: China. I hear a lot of parroting of negative talking point about China here in Canada, I see a lot of crazy footage from China that looks like the future, but I'd love to know more about your actual experience.
I have always thought the infinite proliferation of TLDs was a stupid idea. I'd be enlightened if I could think of one scenario that benefits from it outside of the registrars.
This is a really good article that puts very clearly some of the WTF moments I've had since having to take over a React project. However, if the title is "If not React, then what?", then the author should've answered that question.

I did find some recommendations for other reactive front-ends buried in the article, but I didn't see anything that set them apart aside from the fact that they are smaller projects. Now, if I want to follow the article's advice and get off of React I have a ton of research to do, research that the article's title didn't hint that I'd have to get going on.
An often overlooked aspect of beauty is that it's not all about how a person looks, so a photo doesn't actually tell you that much about how beautiful a person is.

Beauty also comes from how people carry themselves, how they move, how they speak, and so forth. Usually, those aspects are more important then just simple physical appearance.
> Martial law is the imposition of punishments without due process

That might be something that happens under martial law but not every occurrence of this is martial law by definition.

> In no world can one argue that being under the equivalent of house arrest is not a punishment.

Watch me do it: Punishment implies intent to make you reconsider your behavior due to perceived misbehavior. If I lock a dog in a kennel to protect him from a larger dog and forget to let him out for 5 hours afterwards, I wasn’t punishing him at any point.
Unless the government did the „house arrest“ to make you suffer (instead of preventing spread of disease, for example), it’s not punishment.
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We were working on voice agents in healthcare, and kept running into the same problem: manually testing was incredibly time-consuming and error-prone. Testing voice AI in a comprehensive way was far more difficult than we had anticipated – not just the setup, but the ongoing monitoring of production calls. Despite our best efforts, some calls still failed once we went live.

The main challenges we faced were: (1) Demonstrating reliability to customers for production was really tough; (2) Manual testing was incomplete and didn't cover edge cases; (3) We couldn’t easily simulate all possible conversations, especially with diverse customer personas; (4) Monitoring every production call manually was a huge time sink.

We built Vocera to solve these problems. Vocera automatically simulates real personas, generates a wide range of testing scenarios from your prompts/call scripts and monitors all production calls. The result? You can be sure your voice agents are reliable, and you get real-time insights into how they’re performing.

Our platform tests how your AI responds to diverse personas, evaluates the conversation against different metrics and gives you directed feedback on the issues.

What’s different about us is that we don’t just automate the evaluation. We generate scenarios and metrics automatically, so developers do not have to spend time defining their scenarios or eval metrics. This saves them a ton of time. Obviously, we give them the option to define these manually as well. Also, we provide detailed analytics on the agent's performance across simulations so developers do not need to listen to all call recordings manually.

If you’re building voice agents and want to ensure they’re reliable and production-ready, or if you’re just interested in the challenges of Voice AI, we’d love to chat.

We’d love to get your feedback, thoughts, or experiences related to testing voice agents!
In an interview, Michael Lewis has said that he wrote 'Liar's Poker' as a cautionary tale, but it was taken as a 'How To' manual. Robert Caro has said (e.g. in 'Working') that he writes to expose how power is acquired and used in the US... which, as you say, also cuts both ways.
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> A Google can stop 10000 potential startups simply with RSUs

The real killer here is the Bay Area housing market. You need those RSUs to pay for a place to stay.
It's a matter of proportionality in power and influence. E.g: Yes, most football fans are likely well meaning folks, but the World Cup is still ending up in absolute monarchies with all excuses under the sun suddenly appearing to defend it, not rarely from the same influential people that would scoff at the idea a short while earlier.
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