skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They know what humans are, and certainly have some way of calling us.

I'd imagine they don't consider us any similar to them. But they know those indestructible whale-like surface gliders are shocking full of us, and that we can kill a whale with way more easiness than them.
I found that book in our bookcase one day and read through it twice before asking my father whether we had GW-BASIC somewhere. I ended up starting programming with QBasic instead. From there I went to Pascal, Visual Basic and eventually all sorts of languages. But that book was the start.
You don’t just press a button that says “war economy” and then everything turns out fine. You drive massive inflation, weaken consumer markets, take on
massive debts and eventually run out of young men.

Pretty much every nation bar the US was on the verge of economic collapse by the end of WWI (and Russia’s did). The financial burden of two world wars killed the French and British empires. Germany’s WWII war economy was totally unstainable and the USSR’s was bankrolled by the US lend-lease program.

It’s not a panacea - it’s just what you have to do to drive enough military production to sustain a near-peer conflict.
Making it opt-out instead of opt-in means that that vast majority of people won't care, or have better things to do.

You don't have to have your photo taken to enter the US if you're a citizen, but who wants to deal with the hassle? And on and on it goes.
Tasted like chicken?
I wasn't too interested in my son till 1 yr old but I did all the housework ( cooking, cleaning, laundry), taking my son to all doctors appointments, taking him with me to grocery shopping, outdoor walks and to the park.
Ironically, this post would benefit from showing some examples.
> It would be a good thing that it removes incentives for the creators to create.

Absolutely. The Internet has way too many "content creators" and not enough "artists, writers, and musicians."

When I go online, I'm not looking to "discover and consume content." What a bland way to describe the output of creativity.
> NYT says

The author is Gennaro Tomma, a freelance journalist.

https://gennarotomma.it/
US labor productivity has increased considerably since just after that book was published, so I strongly doubt the "they were done" claim there.
I think money only goes so far. Consider the employees of every large tech company are over 90% one side.

Also Trump received 85% unfavorable coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC. In contrast, Harris enjoyed 78% positive coverage from the same networks

How do you quantify that monetarily?

I agree local non presidential politics is more balanced but that's kind of pointless considering reelection rate is around 90%

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/31/18039528/tech-employees-polit...
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why is this flagged? how do we vouch for a submission
> My hand is usually already on the mouse. Switching apps, scrolling text etc.

When using Linux my hand is almost never on the mouse and I groan when I have to do it. My terminal, browser experience, mp3 player, IRC client, etc, are all usable with only a key board. Even rearranging windows is just a keyboard action.

Even on windows, I can't remember the last time I switched windows with a mouse instead of alt tab. Scrolling text is just pressing j in vimium or even in vanilla chrome just pressing spacebar. If your hand is on the mouse that much you're probably not being optimal
Wouldn't those "documents" need to be code for that to happen?
US labor productivity has increased considerably since just after that book was published, so I strongly doubt the peaking claim there.
> two characteristics that Guardian writers naturally have a blind-spot for; being smart and working very, very hard.

Only in the sense that Trofim Lysenko had a "blind spot" for Darwinism. Despite the Big Five personality traits being 40-60% heritable [1], and adult IQ 80% heritable [2], The Guardian simply rejects this evidence - from the article:

So either talent is hugely unequally distributed, concentrated among richer families, or opportunity is. It’s the latter.

That's leaving aside how upbringing is completely omitted as a factor - we are supposed to simply consider it "unfair" that e.g. the best blacksmiths were the sons of blacksmiths.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5068715/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
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This is a huge space to get into. I’m on my fourth year doing an outdoor light show.

My personal preference is 12v ws2811 bullet-style voltage-regulated nodes. They’re extendable, individual nodes on a strand are replaceable if you’re willing to do some cutting and crimping.

I like the 12v because you can go for longer strands without losing colors from voltage drop. Regulated over a resistive voltage divider = less heat.

As has been mentioned, you can install WLED onto a microcontroller and have a web-page for a remote control.
> X is allowing users 10 free prompts every 2 hours

That’s not a lot.
What's the obsesion of Musk with the X? X (twitter) SpaceX, xAI...
TCP can get confused by satellite handovers

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/17/a-transport-protocols-view...
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I had "real fiber" run to our farm. 18 miles of cable was run and it took a year going back and forth. Originally it was a priced at $4500, which was to be a business expense. After install I had consistent issues with performance, after doing a lot of work to show them the issues and threatening disconnect, they upgraded the circuits for proper speeds and knocked it down to $2100. It's definitely still a car payment but it's much cheaper than it was.

Ultimately I get the SLA, Direct access to cloud providers maximizing performance, i'm also able to host a few IP blocks which allow a couple internet facing machines.

The home we sold recently had it pretty good too though, ended up with 3 5gig AT&T lines (no redundancy obviously) for only $450 a month total. That was pretty darn rad, even if the SLA wasn't the same.

Benefit of working from the farm is that I can also snag some bw for personal use ;D
If that's all it means, it's extra meaningless.
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But it doesn't even seem expensive?

4k monitors are cheap these days, as are used 35mm film cameras. I bet you could build the system estebank mentioned for less than $500.

Adding a depth map to a simulated image sounds cheaper than adding it to a real image.
I’m 40, rich, coupled, live next door to my parents and close to my inlaws, have plenty of free time. I have no kids and no desire to have kids. My girlfriend is the same and plenty of our friends too.

I’m very happy for people who have children and love them to bits, but many of just don’t want to.
The "good guys" are the citizens, who were unjustly imprisoned for protesting against a blatantly oppressive government. These prisoners have been released by the rebels, which is a "good" enough cause that people can celebrate for the rest of the week.
It's an impossible problem to solve. If you want welfare programs to have means-testing, then almost by definition you'd have the welfare trap. Getting rid of means testing (ie. UBI) theoretically fixes the issue, but practically is a non-starter because that would increase the size of the program by several times.
Apparently they sent the device in themselves. I suppose they were expecting "cup the balls" sponsored content treatment rather than an unbiased video.
I'm not involved in the project in any way, but I can probably give an explanation.

This is a risc-v virtual machine that supports rv32im instruction set (the bare minimum + multiplication). You can compile and run programs there as you would on a usual microcontroller.

The "ZK" thing means that you can pass program code + data to this virtual machine, and as a result of execution get some output and a short sequence of bytes that allow the "other side" to verify that the result of program execution is correct without having to re-execute the program. This verification is computationally cheap. In order to do the verification the "other side" only needs that sequence of bytes and a hash of original code+data.

Blockchains use this in context of achieving "byzantine consensus", especially in cases where multiple systems that lack mutual trust are involved. Think for example about if you want to relay information that's been computed on one blockchain to the other. If both blockchains can prove their state transitions with such virtual machine, then it is possible to make a sort of trusted "event queue" between them. There are of course caveats that rollbacks can happen, so it's not a silver bullet.

Not sure how this applies to day-to-day software, but the thing that comes to mind is that it could serve some cases where TPM (hardware modules) are traditionally utilized. The TPM assumes you don't have means to break the hardware, and so it can attest to certain computation by signing the result with a baked-in key.
I am not sure if people are aware, but with SEPA you can transfer money to other peoples account without any fee (depending on where you live of course).

Only downside is that you have to reveal your account data online.

I know a guy who runs an online shop with a single product and it is a static website saying "Transfer 12 € to the following bank account with the following subject and your name/address" — apparently this works quite well since the mid 90s. The website still uses frames for its layout and has animated gif flags.
Thanks, we also do support swapping models at runtime!

Will incorporate this feedback.
That comment was completely neutral
Air travel is like that everywhere, not in the US only.

And the 100-mile checkpoint thing is complete nonsense. I've lived within 100 miles of USA border for 25+ years, I drive all the time. I have never been stopped by this "border check". I haven't even met anyone who was stopped by them. Sure, it probably happens occasionally, but it's not "burdensome" to an average driver, because it's not a thing.
Thats like saying older member of family transferring all of his equity to Asian Pig farm also had agency and decided for himself. He liked what he saw being presented with, and made the final call himself on who to give his lifesavings to.
> Start feeding them more than just milk/formula at 6-8 months.

This feels out of place. What did you do the first time?
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I was surprised that Trackpoint-style devices still remain a niche product since it explicitly solves the "I need to move the cursor but don't want to reach for the mouse" problem.

I'm aware of about four models of standalone keyboard with it available, but that's trivial even compared to the bazillion keyboards with touchpads for couch typing.
Not sure. But I think this follows logically from the definition of intelligence he is using. Also, see II.2.2 in the paper.
Am I missing something or is there no way to see those generated images except in postage-stamp sizes?

tldr:

you can view the image directly at https://news.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AI-street...

Still not overly useful.
>You can control people’s minds to a large extent by the language you put in their heads. So, it’s very important that some of the first words you want to get people to hear are the words good, bad, right, wrong, normal, abnormal, should, shouldn’t, have to, and can’t. If you want people to be controllable by authority, the key unit of education is language.

So, what--there is a cabal of ultra-powerful sociopathic geniuses that design the language used by lesser mortals? That seems highly implausible.
No. And that’s a bit of an issue - I’ve encountered people that plan to become parents and their understanding of the process is all wrong. Not saying that they’ll end up being bad parents - most people rise to the occasion, but it feels like society tricks people into having kids.
FYI that article is an interview with Jo Boaler, the main architect of removing middle school Algebra in SF and California (attempted). Her views are pretty controversial among those promoting math excellence.

That's not to say there isn't anything worthwhile in the article, but figured people would want that context.
> One of the reasons birthrates have plummeted in the West, and sentiments about having children have dropped, is that we have no "village", so to speak. Having children is not only an astronomical expense -- every single element of life is dramatically more expensive, made much worse with the housing crisis occurring in many Western nations -- a couple is often entirely on their own. There are no respites or breaks.

It’s the opportunity cost of having children. When you’re poor, it’s not changing what you can do with your life. You were never able to go to dinner or on vacation. When you’re wealthy, you can afford to bring them with you, or better, pay somebody to watch them while you’re gone. The well-off middle class needs to weigh completely changing their lives.
And you don't think the destruction of the village and sharp decline in birth rate feed of each other? Individuals have outsourced so much to abstract "institutions" that they can't see alternatives whatever precarious and worsening services these institutions provide.
$12B for a second rate service, and counting. I continue to be amazed by the speculative investment going into GenAI.
Xflr5?
OpenFOAM?

I've used neither but I hear others in the gliding and model airplane scene talk about those.
It appears you can only vouch for [dead] submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Somewhat related topic: anyone used something like the Luxedo to do a projection mapping? It seems like it’s more complicated and expensive but I love the idea of doing something cool to the house for Halloween and Christmas without having to lug out a ton of lights and decorations.
Not all Comcast Business, no. There are different tiers of product for sure. I have "normal" Comcast Business in my house, where I have basic Comcast coax service for a little more money with some better service guarantees and a little less nonsense. (The biggest upgrade is being able to email an account manager. The biggest downgrade is no bundling with TV because Business won't install it in a house, so if someone in your house wants Xfinity TV you get two unbundled bills.)

At work we deal with the sort of folks in this blog, where adding a link between a couple sites requires four or five months, multiple teams boring new fiber runs, etc.
First order approximation is 10 years’ worth of aging, or 5 years’ worth for a child under 16. These are the timelines in which you must renew your American passport photo.

Apple Face ID is always learning as well. If your brother opens your phone enough times with your passcode, it will eventually merge the two faces it recognizes
That's very good to hear, because last year on Black Friday I got a couple of dual 36' Govee light strips and am just planning on putting them up today, as a permanent install. It's been a long-time dream of mine to have permanent holiday lights. These are the ones that are the strips with an LED every few inches, individually controllable. Looking over at Amazon it looks like they have the 65ft kit I got for $70 right now ($40 off coupon).

Last year we put up this Govee LED grid "curtain" and my son had some fun programming it.
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I took a few music-centered copyright classes in college and thought I had a decent understanding of copyright. How in the world does this qualify for copyright claim? Is it that taking a photo/video of the physical device is making a derivative work? That too doesn't seem to make sense.

Or is this just another bogus claim, like the one UMG made against the Esoterica channel recently against their own recording and arrangement of a Debussy piece that's 150 years old?

It seems to me that there needs to be some sort of escrow that large copyright claimants need to put into when making these claims. If they make bogus claims, that should go to the person they accused incorrectly of a copyright violation. This would balance things out a bit, as currently last companies can just go claim anything they like, bully others, and have nothing behind it.
It’s not. But I see it says Premium is only $8 a month. That seems cheap compared to alternatives.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/nyc-holiday-season-cost...
Hmm I'm assuming that this means that noone is really wanting to sign up to pay, given the plethora of freemium models out there.
Their conclusion reminds me of this lady in China, Lao Rongzhi, who was a serial killer along with her lover, Fa Ziying [0]. They both went around the country extorting and killing people, and, while Fa was arrested in 1999 via a police standoff, Lao was on the run for two decades, having had plastic surgery to change her face enough that most humans wouldn't have recognized her.

But in those two decades, the state of facial recognition software had rapidly increased and she was recognized by a camera at a mall and matched to a national database of known criminals. At first police thought it were an error but after taking DNA evidence, it was confirmed to be the same person, and she was summarily executed.

In this day and age, I don't think anyone can truly hide from facial recognition.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7D3mOHsVhg
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You’ll certainly never find me stating my true feelings on the matter, outside of internet anonymity or a HIPAA-protected environment.
I am inclined to find a Streisand album to play on a "Tom Evans" amp.
Unfortunately (for them?) Grok is quite poor quality compared to GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and numerous open source models.

It's worth noting that xAI is also focused on photorealistic image generation, which none of the others seem to be focused on. I believe that's because they're going to position themselves as the platform for generating pornography, which we all know will be a lucrative business, but none of the other major players want to touch. It's the only thing that justifies the enormous amount of funding.
I use aider but I'm not familiar with this feature. Care to elaborate?
I would categorize that with violent activities. You’re taking action that physically harms someone with an obvious causal chain.

Give me some leeway here, by the way—I am allowing myself to be “socratized”…
I know programming but only very rudimentary hardware, how difficult is this to do? Are there guides?
I wonder how much of that is how and when one comes up in the industry. I learned a little vi at uni only by necessity after years of DOS and Windows 3/9x. It felt so awkward. Decades later I only use vi on servers, but slowly its macro ('normal') mode has grown on me.
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A look back at the last 24 hours:
No view on the first post here
No publication for direct promotion, but some return in dm via reddit and X.
Gotta keep the growth momentum going.

Suggestions welcome.
It's a show stopper that there's no macos support (afaiu). Eagerly awaiting that...
Those documents would need to be cryptographically signed machine readable data, json, a pdf (difficult).

Getting governments, banks, and other trusted third parties to sign documents is very difficult, but is happening in some cases.
Thank you. I was about to just write "confirmation bias" as a comment.
haha, did you JUST notice this? dont forget his kid's name, and the model x
A verbose explanation of LLM decoding parameters
Fun 40-year incarnation history page!
> We are the only creatures who can choose to manifest a selflessly compassionate ethos

Many cetaceans' brains showcase extremely complex and large insular cortex and neocortex regions of their brain, even when compared on a relative scale to their rest of their brain compared to human brains. Additionally, the complexity and granular size of their folds are much more than human brains. It is inconceivable that some of these cetaceans are not capable of the emotions of humans. In fact, it's even a pretty strong argument that these cetaceans possess more intelligence and emotional regulation than humans.
Yes, exactly. See [0] for a concrete example of an abstraction that can't be grokked without grinding concrete examples, and how people who have already grokked it forget this fact.

[0]: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...
The word "copyright" is slowly transforming into a more generic meaning where a big company silences a little company/individual that it doesn't like. This case doesn't seem to have anything to do with actual copyright. Did the company specify exactly what content they believed was copied?

If you have a kid under 20, ask them what "copyright" means. They'll probably describe it to you in terms of corporate bullying rather than anything that has to do with intellectual property or copying.
I'd be very interested in the reverse: A background sound generator for still images. Would be nice to have for advanced picture frames...
This is some great stuff! A beautiful deconstruction (literally) of Aztec symbolism of their pantheon.
You should not compare GDP to GDP, because you cannot fight with paper. You should compare amount of equipment produced, human resources etc.

Also, GDP is easy to manipulate: simply increase the bread price and your bread GDP will magically rise without any changes.
The point of trails in parks is to preserve nature and to localize and constrain the damage to it.
He wanted to rename PayPal to X back in the day. The simple answer is that he thinks it’s cool.
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The fact that there's not a household-name porn generator yet shows you just how expensive it is to get in the AI game.
Makes sense. I always intuitively understood that going from for example electronic engineering to computer science is probably easier than the other way around, but this article makes a great point. Without some low-level knowledge, you do not fully understand the higher level. Then you can only parrot the higher level (I’m also looking at you here LLM).
Clough42 gets free 3D printers from manufacturers sometimes to review, and every once in a while he tears the product a new one. And every once in a while the company actually uses said negative feedback to improve the product
He's had it for a while — he founded another company 20 years ago, x.com, which merged into PayPal. Following that, he wanted to rebrand PayPal into x.com, and was eventually fired for it