skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big question now would be: has anyone used BoldVoice or any other method to convert from 90%+ of accent A to 90%+ to accent B and can switch between those seemlessly?
20 years lol Off by a factor of 2.5x, but your expectation is reasonable --so is having a Defense Secretary that tells his staff when he's checking into the hospital for a serious medical condition and an airspace that doesn't allow balloons to get within range of broadcasting firmware updates to ESP32s.

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2024/12/11/d...
Id rather hear Cold War email stories
Directional antennas also are a benefit on the receiving side.
I'd never heard of this protocol, and I try to keep up so I can't blame Google.
Now I have this image in my head of a mom talking her son to the mall to queue to meet a porn star; to sit on her lap and have a photo together...
64% of websites had a traffic increase due to Google's November Core update
For me procrastination is generally a symptom of anxiety. When I catch myself killing time instead of doing what needs to be done, it is useful to ask: what is it that I am afraid of, and what can I do about that fear to make it less overwhelming?

Sometimes I have a lot of different things to remember, and I am afraid that if I focus on one thing I will lose track of something else. Maybe I'm not sure which of many not-obviously-ranked tasks would be the best one to start on.

Solution: write everything down in a list. Nothing fancy, no complex task management system tempting me into further procrastination, just a text file: one line per task, write them all down, everything I can remember.

Relief: I no longer need to remember all of this anymore, I can just refer to the list. Okay, where to start? If one thing is obviously most important, forget the rest and go do that. If nothing stands out, then it doesn't matter: pick whatever looks easiest and make some progress. One will begin to feel better immediately.

Sometimes I am facing some big thorny problem with a lot of unknowns, and I am afraid to start because I don't exactly know where I am going. It's easy to get caught in analysis paralysis, waiting for the big picture to emerge, which often doesn't come until you are in the middle of it.

Solution: start chipping away at the big scary ball by identifying the easy bits around the edges. Maybe I don't know enough to do the whole job, but surely there's something I can do, yes? I'll need to load this file format, or I'll need to talk to this service, or whatever it is - just do that little piece. Get it out of the way. Doesn't matter if you're not sure it's the right design and worry that you'll have to rewrite it later: whatever you do now will help you get where you need to be. Break off whatever piece looks like it could stand alone, get it done, and worry about the rest later. Apply this approach over and over until what's left of the problem no longer scares you.

Sometimes the anxious feeling coming from the state of procrastination itself gets in my way. Knowing that I am failing to get my work done doesn't feel good, and it can be easy to avoid that discomfort by thoughtlessly distracting oneself, which of course perpetuates the situation.

Solution: envision as clearly as I can what a relief it will be to stop feeling the looming dread of work un-done, stop thinking about the whole big ball of wax, pick some easy thing I know I can get done before lunch, or the end of the day, and go do that. Is it the most important thing to do? Wrong question! If it's a thing, and it needs doing, that's good enough. What's most important is to keep moving in some fashion at all.
Seems like it would be wise for Americans living abroad to get USD-termed mortgages ("Foreign Currency Mortgage" as far as the UK lender is concerned).
Which of the classical groups are compact?
> the only real limit is until you start interfering with other people to the point they notice and complain. it's not like the FCC has vans roving the streets looking for unlicensed TV usage like the BBC but for wifi

In the area of radio, you must be extremely careful with this mindset. Keep in mind that interference may affect important / safety-critical infrastructure (and you may not even realize). For example, I am frequency facing issues from wifi (with deactivated or nonfunctional DFS) towards a weather radar in the same band (which indeed is the primary user, and weather forecasts are critical to aeronautical and maritime safety ! This is a nightmare to troubleshoot).

If you want to tinker with radio, I would suggest to pass your HAM radio license (which will give you the minimum background with regards to radio, propagation, regulations, etc.).

Because an increasing number of people do not care anymore about any regulations, I see many administrations worldwide are increasingly pushing for locked firmwares and bootloaders (i.e. no more openwrt), more import control, etc. If you want to still be able to tinker with hardware and radio in the future, you should always ensure peaceful coexistence with others i.e. know what you are doing and work within the boundaries of regulations (be it txpower, duty-cycle, listen-before-talk, etc. Those limits are there for a good reason !).
What sort of noise do they make? Do they sound like normal drones?
This will be very unpopular with the children of helicopter parents who are in year three of grad school and have never had a real job.
Quadcopters occupy the same flight regime as most clutter does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutter_(radar)

Truth is, a Patriot system would probably also miss something like this unless it had special SHORAD or CIWS defenses alongside it. A lot of these drones are going to be invisible to conventional radar if they want to be.
> There’s a variant of this advice which you’re more likely to hear from the PostgreSQL faithful: use TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE or its convenient alias timestamptz. This stores the exact value in UTC and sounds like it might store the timezone too... but it doesn’t! All that’s stored is that UTC value, converted from whatever timezone was active or specified when the value was inserted.

This behavior was changed in a more recent edition of the SQL standard. Now, we have `TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE` which works the way `TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE` used to work: basically just converting everything to/form UTC when it's stored/retrieved. The semantics for `TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE` are now supposed to work more like the author's suggested approach: just gluing a time zone name to a regular old timestamp.

I'm not sure when Postgres will adopt the newer type semantics. Oracle has for a while now: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...
> It's so clearly trained on my own replies that it parrots stuff I've said, but it tends to get the sense of the words literally backwards and wrong.

"Yeah back then I was weirded out by their now standard response prediction thing, it was always just one or two words off exactly what I wanted to reply (usually missing/adding a negation, or substituting a word with an antonym)"[1]

[1]: https://qntm.org/perso
For me, it just says "failed to generate preview" at that same screen .
Oh, here, I'll make you feel better. Go check sub of the alien/ufo subreddits. Literally you'll see comments that amount to "my life sucks and is boring, this would be exciting even if bad".

It's uh, a bit maddening and a bit sad.
The latter seems to only be RV64GC, meaning no vector instructions, right?

Your first link though, based on PIC64HX, seems to be what I'm waiting for. I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks!
> I'd love to have a flag "-fno-surprizing-ub" or "-fhighlevel-assembler" combined with the above `assume` function or some other syntax to let me help the compiler, so that I can write C like in the 90s - close to metal but with less surprizes.

The problem, which you may realise with some more introspection is that "surprising" is actually a property of you, not of the compiler, so you're asking for mind-reading and that's not one of the options. You want not to experience surprise.

You can of course still get 1990s compilers and you're welcome to them. I cannot promise you won't still feel surprised despite your compiler nostalgia, but I can pretty much guarantee that the 1990s compiler results in slower and buggier software, so that's nice, remember only to charge 1990s rates for the work.
I wish we as people could have meaningful conversations on the internet.

To clarify some common logical issues I see spread across dozens of responses in this thread:

Drones != Quadcopters

Drones COULD use a housing to mimics common aircraft or helicopters.

The military and FBI do not commonly monitor ALL airspace at all times beyond air-traffic radar.

The government is not a hive-mind and individuals only know what they know despite the fact the are asked to make statements.
I can vouch for a large amount of usage in LATAM, people that won't bother with instagram (like older folks) eat it up, just swipe and you're watching your nephews birthday photos, just like Mr Facebook intended
> If you can easily and perfectly detect an error, it should just go into the compiler (and perhaps language spec).

Nobody seems to care much about removing UB even when it's super easy. For example, a bunch of basic syntax errors like forgetting the closing quote on a string or not having a newline at the end of the file are UB.
Some of the very first WiFi was 915mhz. Slow, but reached everywhere!
Features like this are why I prefer using QEMU directly rather than an abstraction like libvirt on top of QEMU.

Graphical interfaces like virt-manager are nice at first, but I don't need an abstraction on top of multiple hypervisors to make them all look superficially the same, because they're not. Eventually the abstraction breaks down and gets in the way.

I need the ability to use the full capability of QEMU. I'll write a shell script to manage the complexity of the arguments. At least I don't have to deal with XML, validation, and struggling with enabling the options I want that are only supported by one specific emulator, which libvirt doesn't support, because it's not common to all of the backends.
Nah dude, all of these people in the comments thread who live in northern California and have no knowledge of drones beyond playing with a buddy's DJI one time at a cookout are insisting it's your imagination, and that you're gripped by a mass hysteria.

Who are you gonna believe? Them, or your lying eyes?
Just my 2 cents but I would try with a suction gripper on a swiffer-broom-like joint so you can pick vertically (TCP facing +Z) and place horizontally (TCP facing +X): https://img.uline.com/is/image/uline/H-1960
> The inbox, though, is still at least a little bit sacred.

> Email is still your own little corner of the internet.

I love that the author can say something like this and then provide a guide for ruining the last sane piece of the internet any of us have left.
In classic capitalist fashion the only thing AI is unambiguously responsible for is to fulfill its shareholders' interests.
Maybe if the AI was trained to manipulate people into being wholesome.
I didn't like this number either, but it's more mainstream than you think. For example, from last year: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo.... This is an opinion article citing a contemporary Pew Research study that appears to support the 60% number, although it's stated as "63% of men under 30 describe themselves as single" (emphasis mine).

I don't think you needed to imply that someone was an incel.
In decades to come this will join the likes of "would you like to buy the brooklyn bridge" in the ranks of classic ripoff strategies...
I don't see any use case where you couldn't write your app in a garbage collected language.

Rust is great for command line apps, tooling and well systems programming but UI stuff? Sure can be done but it doesn't really play to Rust's strengths.

Tauri at least allows people to use their JS knowledge so it is a much easier sell.

Of course if you just enjoy writing Rust that is fair, just saying it doesn't make business sense for most people.
Google has 4 Billion users. It's delusional to think that you don't know anyone or you live in an incredibly small bubble
Agents are the worst idea. I think AI will start to progress again when we get better models that drop this whole chat idea, and just focus on completions. Building the tools on top should be the work that is given over to the masses. It's sad that instead the most powerful models have been hamstrung.
Right but why is a magic mirror that agrees with everything you say (including your darkest impulses) a good thing? What benefits are these other people getting from their mirrors?

Should the magic mirror salesman have warned the king before he bought the queen the mirror? Does the fairy tale conceit make this discussion more confusing rather than clarifying?
People who are used to working with an undo stack (or with savegame states) are usually terrified when they suddenly have to make do in an environment where mistakes have consequences. They (we) either freeze or go full nihilistic, completely incapable of finding a productive balance between diligence and risk-taking.

If by social skills you mean high performance manipulators, yes you would get some of those. But for everybody else, it would be a substitute to social interaction, not a preparation for.
No, but it's also not good enough to just look at "are they positive on average". We are talking here about actions that even a pig-butcher would think twice about.
There is a standard for it, 802.11ah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah). But I don’t know how many devices are shipping.
> but the hype of the Segway didn't allow it to take over the world.

That was just a product / form factor thing: Bird and Lime scooters are everywhere in my city. And, moreover, lots of people use personal scooters, e-bikes, hoverboards, electric skateboards, Onewheel, electric unicycles, etc. I don't go a day without seeing these things.

It'll be the exact same with this technology. Give it a few years and more men will be using AI chatbots and AI porn than the existing tools in the space, such as PornHub and OnlyFans.

> the idea that people will remain interested in talking to bots long term

Porn has never gone away, it's only grown.

AI porn can match a person's exact preferences in an unparalleled way that hasn't been possible before. Add in VR, photorealism, voices, and trainable agentic behavior and you've got a market that will likely contribute to the decline of real, actual relationships and marriages.

More men will probably be using AI porn over actual sex, too, due to difficulties with dating, dead bedrooms, etc.

I'd be willing to place bets on marriage numbers going into a steep decline over the next decade.
I just get "English" - that's not an accent
That’s known as mass psychogenic illness, and history is full of examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
The thing is, this (admittedly common) opinion is as facile as the opinions of progressives who act as though all of reddit is /r/TheDonald. Overall, both are actually very left-leaning websites (in reddit's case, almost overwhelmingly so), they just tolerate the existence of pockets of very right-leaning individuals - because of lofty ideals of "free speech". However, even then, you'll usually see legitimate social conservatism get downvoted pretty heavily, and even fiscal conservatism will garner rapid disagree in most cases.

(That said, to a lot of those people, it doesn't matter if the "majority" are left leaning. And for some of those (e.g. trans people), they're even somewhat justified in that stance, since it doesn't make a difference if the harassment they get from being brought to the attention of "orange site" users comes from the majority or the minority)
Fung's book The Obesity Code received a 31% score for scientific accuracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Fung
As someone who has been messing with LLMs for various purposes for a while now, there's... Some interesting issues with a lot of the models out there.

For one, 99% of the "roleplay" models eventually drag into one of a handful of endgames: NSFW RP, suicide discussion, nonsensical rambling, or some failsafe "I don't know" state where it just slowly wanders into the weeds and directs the conversation randomly. This can be anywhere from a few messages in (1bq) to hundreds (4-6bq) and sometimes it just veers off the road into the ditch.

Second, the UIs for these things encourage a "keep pressing the button until the thing you want comes out" pattern, modeled off of OpenAI's ChatGPT interface allowing for branching dialogue. Don't like what it said? Keep pushing the button until it says what confirms your bias.

Third, I can convince most of the (cheaper) models to say anything I want without actually saying it. The models that Character.AI are using are lightweight ones with low bit quantization. This leads to them being more susceptible to persuasion and losing their memories -- Some of them can't even follow the instructions in their system prompt beyond the last few words at times.

Character.AI does have a series of filters in place to try and keep their models from spitting out some content (you have to be really eloquent at times and use a lot of euphemism to make it turn NSFW, for instance, and their filter does a pretty decent job keyword searching for "bad" words and phrases.)

I'm 50/50 on Australia's "16+ for social media" take but I'm quickly beginning to at least somewhat agree with it and its extension to things like this. Will it stop kids from lying? No. It's a speedbump at best, but speedbumps are there to derail the fastest flyers, not minor offences.
This is 6Ghz, not 60Ghz. So not much different than the WiFi connection you're probably using right now (5Ghz).
This is a bit of a head scratcher for me. I feel Django very much has a way in which projects are supposed to be structured. Maybe you do not like it, but if you ask me where the settings/templates/tests are stored, I could tell you immediately. In a bigger app, where you might want to break things apart, you have options, but it always struck me as you would maintain the existing structure (maybe debate a views/ with multiple modules in there vs views_x.py, views_y.py in the app root)

Unless, you are more angling at the project vs app distinction? Which does seem a bit of cruft. I only ever create a “core” app and put everything in there. Avoids any potential headache.

My only really basis of comparison would be Flask, which has basically zero standard. You can organize your app however you want. Given the barebones nature and need for third party dependencies, no two Flask apps will look alike.
Give it a day
“Frontage” is the nomenclature I usually see in lieu of “feeder”. Though I agree that feeder is more descriptive of what the road actually does when we consider a road as being as a network or graph with flow.

Though the roads you reference would probably not be called “feeders” in the same way. I take feeder specifically in the Houstonian meaning to refer to a frontage road that is used for local access that runs parallel to a limited access highway. Notably it must run parallel to the highway and exist for the primary purpose of providing local ingress and egress while preserving the limited access nature of the highway.
Hate to tell you but I'm fairly sure she's dating the previous owner of our condo now; we keep getting their love letters in the mail.
Excellent. I’ve never smoked but I am obese as hell.

Maybe soon it will kill me and I can finally be done with this forever worsening hellscape called life.
Reminds me of the hysteria we had about drones shutting down an airport in the UK, with loads of reported sightings yet no evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatwick_Airport_drone_incident
This isn't SR-IOV which is a hardware feature for virtualizimg GPUs. The problem is the OEMs that gate this feature for enterprise products. Few people buy them so the state of the software ecosystem for virtual GPU is terrible.
That's what I think too, but it's hard to know for certain.
The impact of digital media on children's intelligence (2022)
Had such a good laugh with this :D
I think he'd try to do a lot of good, but I don't see this happening since it doesn't seem like it'd support the culture of grift and corruption being cultivated. My guess is that the job will go to someone who will screw consumers even harder to boost profits for corporations.
I'd recommend taking the ham radio technician license, as it explains the various antenna types and radiation lobe patterns. You can learn a lot, meet some smart people, and may develop a different perspective on electronics in general.

Best regards =3
I must ask - does Mr Jones really sound like that - as if loud throat is getting hammered while functioning perfectly fine and loud and fast and at the same time pressing hard voice breaks, or is it some kind of voice modulation?

Also, @RealAlexJones says "EXCLUSIVE: Alex Jones Responds Live On Air" → is this about two separate Alex Jones, or the same Mr Jones is talking about himself in the 3rd person?
What blows my mind, is that damn near every single person seeing this has a phone that can record video, and the best we can do is grainy night pictures.

I mean fucking hell we've got people in this thread saying "yeah but they don't move like that" ,which fine, cool, and yet somehow the only stuff circulating is pictures?

This whole thing reeks of overreaction to something small signal boosted by filtering of bad data. Send a clear video "oh that's obviously a helicopter". Send some barely readable photo "MASSIVE DRONE SIGHTING", put it on the front page.
But they're still acting on the company's behest. If I hire a jerk to work tech support and they insult or cause damage to my customers, I don't get to say "shrug, they don't represent my company". Of course they do. They were on my payroll. I think it'd be pretty easy to argue that the AI was performing the duties of a contractor, so the company should be responsible for its misbehavior, just as if a human contractor did it.
In any case I think society and building of society should be directed in such a way that we don't have to censor the models or baby the models, but rather educate people on what these things really are, and what makes them produce which content, for which reasons. I don't want to live in a society where we have to helicopter everyone around in fear of one single misinterpreted response by the LLM.
I miss them and had to move elsewhere due to the discontinuation of port forwarding.
Fair point RE: "thermocline", though despite the rest... I find little distinction. It's there. Just little.

The body is regularly an 'accountability sink' (forgive likely abuse of the term). Sure, they can be made to do the job. They often don't [prepare or participate]. Hell, they have a robot to meet the requirement of posting a reply within a certain timeframe. It's a charade

I guess, most simply, I don't find them considerably worse as consultants than those who they consult for. I have yet to find a job where people - or whole departments/subsidiaries - don't behave as you describe. Truly constant.

Anyone who works for a company being acquired by EIG knows what's about to happen: set phasers to 'screw customers'. Along the lines of "Sorry, your shared hosting account includes five processes. Googlebot keeps you suspended by trying for 100." This stuff is commonplace/systemic, available to be seen by those so inclined.

Considering the gaps between knowing, admitting, or simply perpetuating... I don't think it's worth figuring out to such detail.