skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the Botley Road will be reopened and the improvements to the train station will have been competed by then?

I suspect they'll have been delayed by another archaeological dig when they find some artefacts left over from when the road was first closed.
It's in the Wikipedia article. It was a device he invented to help himself get out of bed after having been disabled by polio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
Soho spacecraft marks 29th anniversary of its launch
Extracted from the video

+---------------+---------------+------------+
| Virtual Users | Digital Ocean | Hetzner |
+---------------+---------------+------------+
| 50 | 593.4ms | 575.99ms |
| 100 | 754.84ms | 626.04ms |
| 250 | 1.4s+ | 950.23ms |
| 500 | 6s | 1.8s |
| | $6/month | $5/month |
+---------------+---------------+------------+
I've been there once, and it was quite cozy and nice; I would have liked it a good bit even if there had been no Inklings in its history (although that certainly added something). Their plans for it sound good, I hope they follow through!
> Hollywood is gonna be changed big time especially with cost and speed reduction

Over 100 years of history suggest that Hollywood experiences an ongoing, strong pressure to make productions more expensive and slower. Productions have been much cheaper and quicker in the past, and there's no technical impediment to making them that way again already (nothing has been lost), but studios and audiences generally want to see the limits of spectacle.

But generative AI does not deliver on "the limits of spectacle" and has no clear path to doing so. It makes average-ish digital content, by definition, and has unsolved challenges with maintaining coherency and consistency across and within sessions/segments. It does do that pretty cheaply and quickly though.

We can expect it to see the most use in already budget-constrained projects, where its compromises are a tolerable backdrop against some other focus (writing, humor, romance, etc), not the blockbusters that have huge budgets and polish demands and that mark the signature of "Hollywood". There, it'll expedite some creative utility tasks as people get the hang of using and improving it, but we can expect that the money and time saved there will just get routed over to other artisan, limit-pushing tasks.
Thats beautiful..
Ethanol was a choice at the time. The fuel companies didn't like the idea of putting what was essentially a competing fuel in their fuel to make it work better and went with the known poison instead.
I like that feature! But now I’m wondering if Google is selling that data back to airlines.
The intro sounds like everywhere I've worked. Hahaha...Looks awesome...

>Disasters, enemies, and incompetence conspire to make each shift aboard the station a unique and hellish experience.
Well maintained pool water is pretty close to as safe as drinking water, so I wouldn't worry much about relatively small amounts ingested. But at a splash pad with recirculating water, or a popular public pool with a lot of bathers ... yuuuuck.
This is... something different. It will be interesting to see how we will integrate our current 3D tooling into that prompt-based world. Sometimes a "place a button next to the the door" isn't the same as selecting a button and then clicking on the place next to the door, as it is today, or to sculpt a terrain with a brush, all heavily 3D oriented operations, involving transformation matrix calculations, while that promt-based world is build through words.

The current tooling we have is just way too good to just discard it, think of Maya, Blender and the like. How will these interfaces, with the tools they already provide, enable sculpting these word-based worlds?

I wonder if some kind of translator will be required, one which precisely instructs "User holds a brush pointing 33° upwards and 56° to the left of the world's x-axis with a brush consisting of ... applied with a strength of ...", or how this will be translated into embeddings or whatever that will be required to communicate with that engine.

This is probably the most exciting time for the CG industry in decades, and this means a lot, since we've been seeing incredible progress in every area of traditional CG generation. Also a scary time for those who learned the skills and will now occasionally see some random persons doing incredible visuals with zero knowledge of the entire CG pipeline.
More likely: uploaded with the intent that a very limited audience would see it, thinking it would drown in the pool of videos uploaded to YouTube or maybe not even aware that other people could stumble upon it.
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The issue is the training data isn’t some constant. Let’s suppose OpenAI had 10x the computing power but a vastly worse dataset, do you expect a better or worse result?

The question is ambiguous without defining how much worse the dataset is.
Saudi Arabia Is Losing Its Iron Grip on Global Oil Markets
Mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand I am absolutely terrified for the future of anything touched by Larry Ellison. On the other hand, there is definitely scope for it to be improved- last time I went there (which was a long time ago admittedly) it was cool to be there because of its history etc but it wasn't that great an actual pub. Like if you're into historical drinking places somewhere like Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese near fleet street in London where Pepys and Boswell used to drink is a much better actual pub than I remember the Eagle and Child being at least the one or two times I went there.
> Interacting with the actual physical world is very different from creating a video game

The major difference being the former scales very poorly for generating training data compared to the latter. Genie 2 is not even a video game and has worse fidelity that video games, the upside is it probably scales even better than video games for generating training scenarios. If you want androids in teal life, Genie 2 (or similar systems) is how you bootstrap the agent AI. The training pipeline will be: raw video -> Genie 2 -> game engine with rules -> physical robot
You need a metal barrel and bolt to contain the explosion and that's it. FWIW, you can make a single shot shotgun with two metal tubes and a nail. Traceability only matters if you recover the firearm.
This reminds me of MIT’s work on femto-photography to see around corners. They used ultrafast laser pulses to bounce light off walls, capturing the reflections from hidden objects. By analyzing the time-of-flight data, they could reconstruct 3D shapes of objects not in direct view.
<https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/cornar/>
I got this error for your PNGs:

> Access denied
> The owner of this website (prunt3d.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/images/hn_dimensional_analysis_2.png).
I think this happens because networking is always proposed as a way out of a bad career situation. Someone complains online about lack of opportunities then commenters come along to parrot networking as a solution. It sounds like a task you do for career gain.

I have another theory that this creates a lot of rebound anger at the idea of networking. When I was doing mentoring (external to my company, people I didn't work with) I spent a depressing amount of time convincing young engineers that it was a bad idea to burn bridges as they left a company. Way too many people are enamored with the idea of ghosting their job or telling off their coworkers on the way out the door. It takes some convincing to get them to realize that leaving a bad impression on an entire office of people is the fastest way to poison their potential network. Nobody will want to refer you for future jobs if you're a jerk in your final days.
Start with 150 V instead.

You probably don’t need voltages that high. DIYers can stick with 200 V or something reasonable. The remaining people who deal with 450 V are probably servicing guitar amps.

Plate voltages can exceed much more than 450 V. The 811A is rated for 1500 V of plate voltage. But the same is true for transistors—you can find transistors with similar voltage ratings.
Other items on the "essential medicine" list include propofol, morphine, and fentanyl. Each can very easily kill if incorrectly used, and each has serious dangers if used for the wrong conditions.

Ivermectin is specifically listed in the "anthelminthics" section, i.e. for worms. It's an essential medicine because it's good at killing worms, which widely affect billions of people in developing nations.

It didn't win the Nobel prize and hasn't been used for decades to treat COVID-19.

Water is essential, too, but that doesn't mean a tsunami is good for you. Hydrating a sick person can save a life; waterboarding them can be a war crime. Context matters.
You don't even have to pretend that the ask is not the main reason you called. Of course you call me because you need something, I do this too.

But if you called, and you are not even slightly interested in catching up, that just makes you a rude ass.
I think most Clojure implementations take the lesson from the original that to be embedded in a platform rich with mature libraries is a great strength, but aren't dogmatic about some idea that only a few runtimes are worthy of such embedding. The idea is more 'make it practical to bring a Lisp to work and integrate it with your existing projects', rather than 'create one implementation to rule them all by choosing the biggest ecosystem to integrate with' (though a consideration aligned with the letter was doubtless a factor in the choice of platform for the first implementation).

So the thought is more like: because Go is popular, a good Clojure implemented in Go will let me bring all the Clojure goodies to many additional projects with tight integration for little fuss— not 'finally a big ecosystem, the JVM has no software'.

Another way to think about it is that different platforms often have their own 'killer libraries'. Maybe for working with some Docker or some IaC tools, a Go-hosted Clojure would be especially convenient, for example.
Drum brakes can capture this dust for safe disposal, but are seen as old fashioned and for poor people.
Can you post your source? Last time I checked (and quickly checking around now) I didn't see any announcement from Google about Youtube being profitable.
> This is the Unreal Engine killer. Give it five years.

We need to calm down with the clickbait-addled thinking that "this new thing kills this established powerful tested useful thing." :-)

Game developers have been discussing these tools at length, after all, they are the group of software developers who are most motivated to improve their workflow. No other group of software developers comes close to gamedevs' efficiency requirements.

The 1 thing required for serious developers is control. As such, game engines like Unreal and in-house engines won't die.

Generative tools will instead open up a whole new, but quite different, way of creating interactive media and games. Those who need maximum control over every frame and every millisecond and CPU cyle will still use engines. The rest who don't will be productive with generative tools.
Your rant was great. It leads one to ponder, among other things - ants. They produce formic acid. Ants like to live under houses, especially in the late summer. How much formaldehyde fumes do they produce? Does it come up the cracks in your foundation?
(Formaldehyde is also a preservative - but that's for another day.)
Nah, I think you're you're overstepping with that characterization. All of those good qualities existed, the fact that they don't anymore doesn't take away from that, and now you have fond memories of experiencing it while it did exist. I get that you feel some sense of betrayal, and you don't need to have any particular impression of him permanently, but you also don't need to retroactively erase his face from your photos (metaphorically). You got to enjoy it for a time, and now you can't, but places come and they go, it's just the nature of things.

I was sad to see that most of your downtown had been replaced with Amazon campuses and seemingly sanitized, and that your council is butchering the already awful waterfront with a new highway, but at least they mounted the pink elephant sign next to some fake grass out front, and have ample parking.

In that context, I can see how a few more sentimental cultural spaces going away would hit a bit harder. Take the Showbox away and that would be another hit. But when it does, it doesn't mean the owner hates the Seattle population, it means time marches on, people value what they value, and you adapt.
Forget video games. This is a huge step forward for AGI and Robotics. There's a lot of evidence from Neurobiology that we must be running something like this in our brains--things like optical illusions, the editing out of our visual blind spot, the relatively low bandwidth measured in neural signals from our senses to our brain, hallucinations, our ability to visualize 3d shapes, to dream. This is the start of adding all those abilities to our machines. Low bandwidth telepresence rigs. Subatomic VR environments synthesized from particle accelerator data. Glasses that make the world 20% more pleasant to look at. Schizophrenic automobiles. One day a power surge is going to fry your doorbell camera and it'll start tripping balls.
Cue the weekly RTO discussion.
You also have to consider alternatives. Ethanol was skipped because it was more expensive, and then we circled back around once we realized that we were contaminating ground water with MTBE.
It’s interesting to me that we continue to see such pressure on video and world generation, despite the fact that for years now we’ve gotten games and movies that have beautiful worlds filled with lousy, limited, poorly written stories. Star Wars movies have looked phenomenal for a decade, full of bland stories we’ve all heard a thousand times.

Are there any game developers working on infinite story games? I don’t care if it looks like Minecraft, I want a Minecraft that tells intriguing stories with infinite quest generation. Procedural infinite world gen recharged gaming, where is the procedural infinite story generation?

Still, awesome demo. I imagine by the time my kids are in their prime video game age (another 5 years or so) we will be in a new golden age of interactive story telling.

Hey siri, tell me the epic of Gilgamesh over 40 hours of gameplay set 50,000 years in the future where genetic engineering has become trivial and Enkidu is a child’s creation.
It's not the 18th century where rats traveled along guy ropes on to shore. Rats will travel in containers, but that's a problem for where the containers are opened as much as it is for the ports.
"Yup, you get a lot of people complaining about the pointlessness of small talk, but the reality is that small talk is social glue."

Only with some people. Trying to do smalltalk with me, will not make me your friend. I simply hate smalltalk. (Talking unimportant things for the sake of talking)

But there are a million of other interesting non buisness things I am willing to talk about at length. I also like to joke around and be silly. But that requires a connection, you won't get with me while talking about the weather. And I know many people are like me, most just adopted to "like" smalltalk, as they think this is the way it has to be.
Genuinely surprised this doesn't happen more often
Maybe that dozen lines of code isn't sufficient to characterize performance differences?

Nearly 25 years ago, nested loops and fibs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010424150558/http://www.bagley...

https://web.archive.org/web/20010124092800/http://www.bagley...

It's been a long time since the benchmarks game showed those.
> Or is your point that the outputs from these timers can't be muxed to the pins that current hardware wires up?

This. As far as I'm aware, other boards are just designed in the way that makes the layout easiest. The timers we're using are also fixed to specific pins with no muxxing (HRTIM on the STM32G474 specifically).
If you weigh 160lb on the Earth, you also have 160lb of mass. You would weigh 26lb on the moon and still have 160lb of mass.

I don’t know how to make the point any clearer that there are two units of measurement, both with the same name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)
HunyuanVideo – Tencent's Text2Video Model
The Counterfactuals of his ideas are very interesting.

Chilean socialism didn't work (just ignoring the coup, it couldn't actually run the economy), but the reasons why it failed, or in other forms could have worked bear consideration.

In short, it failed for the same reasons central planning tends to, considering modern understandings of complexity theory and ideas suggested in books such as Seeing Like A State. Just having a dashboard and greater access to information is still subject to the same forms of hubris as is general central planning, even if these shortcomings are better anticipated.

Yet, many of the innovations in this project bare similarity to how large enterprises CAN run will, such as with ERP and Business Analytics in the private sector, and modern intelligence and command and control systems in the military.

So in all, they didn't completely work, but in the way is ideas did work they were very early.
If this really happens, its going to take human kind to next level.. Can't image the pros and cons
Thanks! Added now.
In 2024, what you're describing is rich. The neighbors you describe feel like they have a place in society. They had (and likely continue to have!) a steady and decent government income, rather than the continual screw turning of the corporate-inflationary wealth extraction machine. They all have assets to lose if their kids were to step out of line. Their specific jobs also provided them with the non-monetary benefit of firearms and other defensive training that would have otherwise cost ~ten thousand dollars of discretionary income to learn on its own. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're on the pleasant side of the bifurcating society.
Please, then flick the pen and make this improvement for all of society. What? It's actually not that easy. Okay then, thanks for playing
I can't wait for Schizophrenic automobiles
Tax it. Do a carbon tax too while we are at it.
Unfortunately that depends on the level you would be hired at, because of immigration law intricacies. I would just apply and see how it goes!
Oops, turns out hotlink protection is on by default. Fixed now.
> a quick search engine query will show it is used safely in humans as an antiparasite drug

That just means it's safer than being infested with untreated parasites.

It doesn't mean someone without worms should take it for funsies.

Your same Google search will reveal ivermectin carries (as with almost any intervention) potential serious side effects. Doctors prescribing medication balance those risks with the potential benefits; it's why you don't get fentanyl (safe! effective! widely used!) for a papercut, even if it would be very helpful for the pain.
It's easy to determine if pipes are made of lead if you can access the pipes. It's less easy to determine if they have some residual lead from upstream pipes that's settled into the corrosion layer on the inside of the pipe (and could be released later)

There are testing services and test strips available for testing your water, which works even if you can't access all the pipes on the way between your source and your sink. A testing service will likely check for a list of contaminants and not simply lead, and most likely have better accuracy and precision than test strips you use yourself.
Pokémon Fan Calculates How Long It Will Take to Collect Every Card in TCG Pocket
Terminal Velocity: A 300-page novel made 100% autonomously by 10 AI agents
I use AI all the time, so I trust my own experience more than some random internet reports. I'll try Gemini again in a few months.
Still? You're still skeptical, after all these decades of research & being able to draw direct, 1:1 lines between lead exposure and the health issues it causes?

There's plenty of room for debate on how to fix this problem. The debate on if it's a problem has been dead for decades, if not centuries.
Happy to answer any questions around this! As far as next steps we are going to be adding in more database support as well as bringing in some of Outerbase Cloud's AI features.
Beta turns booking into two clicks.
It's worth keeping in mind that "there exists X such that Y is true" is not the same as "Y is true for all X". People love using these sorts of statements since they're technically true as written, but most people will read them in a way that's false. Eg, the statement is true for the Minecraft demos, and for any model which doesn't exhibit literally zero persistence for (temporarily) non-visible state.
You'll see vast numbers of rats any night in downtown Seattle or San Francisco.
You can see artifacts common in screen-space reflections in the videos. I suspect they are not due to the model rendering reflections based on screen-space information, but the model being trained on games that render reflections in such a manner.
That's the problem with populists (not bashing OP here, just general observations) - its trivial to pinpoint failings or potential problems down the line in modern society, we are all hyper-exposed to various info about them from all directions.

Now coming up with a reasonable acceptable good solution that would actually work long term and not bring down civilization to its knees, that's another level very rarely seen.

Something much better than 'X is a problem, although with 10,000 side effects, dependencies and benefits, so lets attack X mindlessly full force with no second thought'. It would appeal to me when I was maybe in 15-18, but understanding how hyper complex and connected whole world is can be sometimes quite depressing.
https://archive.today/JvWBt
In my unpopular opinion I believe a better approach would be to stay on the platform and only use it to let people know when there are updates on their own platform, website, forum, etc... Let citizens know up front that interactions will only take place on their own platforms and that comments on X will not be replied to and then set up automation to delete any comment that is not theirs or block external comments. There's always a few cops that get assigned a desk job that could find themselves useful maintaining such things.
Many people still believe that 4chan et al are Alt Right.

They’re just what 14-28 year old boys are up to, sans filter algorithms. It’s the whole spectrum.
That's all fine but if I've learned anything in 20 years of using Linux it's to stick to the beaten path. It's rarely worth deviating (to me). There be dragons

It's fun to mess around but we should manage expectations. It likely won't be trouble free.
all the authorized immigrants

That should have read "unauthorized", and without the negating particle the rest makes very little sense.
> Forcing people to pay for things they don’t want to buy simply because you think it would be good for them is a special kind of tyranny.

Wait until you learn where the rest of your tax dollars get spent.
> Density is even more important when considering random crime because you have even more people who will be potential victims when someone is targeting an area.

This is true—it's why rural towns and small cities are often really dangerous, while the overall state they're in might not have high violent crime stats, if a large proportion of the state's population isn't in towns or cities at all. Living far away from people is an effective way to avoid crime.
Done! https://phoenixframework.org/feed

You can thank Steffen from the Phoenix team :)
> Every government will do as much harm as it can and as much good as it must. [1]

Claude Cockburn

[1] https://jacobin.com/2024/12/claud-cockburn-guerrilla-journal...
Today you have Manufacturing Execution Systems integrated with other software. It is equivalent to Stafford Beer's vision but limited to one company and without the nice scifi room.
The Hoare Cube