skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bookmarked this comment a few months ago because I thought it was hilarious and increasingly accurate:

It's approaching a very strange situation where people make overly wordy and bloated AI generated content and other people try to use AI to compress it back into useful pellets vaguely corresponding to the actual prompts used to generate the initial content. Which were the only bits anybody cared about in the first place.
One guy pays the AI to dig a hole, the other guy pays the AI to fill in the hole. Back and forth they go, raising the BNP but otherwise not accomplishing anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635079

More seriously though; I wonder if/when we will reach a point at which asking for a Neuromancer-esque précis summary video of a topic will replace the experience of browsing and reading various sources of information. My gut feeling is that it will for many, but not all scenarios, because the act of browsing itself is desirable and informative. For example, searching for books on Amazon is efficient but it doesn’t quite replace the experience of walking through a bookstore.
The thing about biometrics as discussed in more intelligent circles,
is "compromised once compromised for all time". It's a public key or
username not a password.

Fortunately that's not true of governments. Although your government
may be presently compromised it is possible, via democratic processes,
to get it changed back to uncompromised.

Therefore we might say, it's easier to change your government than it
is to change your face. That's where you should do the work.
"God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed; Give me courage to change things which must be changed; And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer
We have scientific evidence that parenthood floods your brain with all sorts of chemicals, and changes how your brain responds to stimuli. It’s a deeply rooted biological reflex. It may not be true for everyone, but it’s true of close to everyone.
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If you compare the Assad regime to your own western country, you'd think what happened here was a good thing.

But that's the wrong comparison to make. The rosier Dutch government won't be taking over control here. The rebels will be.

And if you compare the Assad regime to the actual alternative, the rebels, you'll instead realize: the hard times have only just begun [1].

[1] https://medium.com/opacity/the-syrian-war-condensed-a-more-r...
I definitely feel a lot dumber compared to ~8 years and three kids ago. Lack of sleep, lack of agency, continuous need for some background level of vigilance...
This reminds me of the early days of applying speech recognition. Some use cases were surprisingly good, like non-pretrained company directory name recognition. Shockingly good and it fails soft because there are a small number of possible alternative matches.

Other cases, like games where the user's voice changes due to excitement/stress, were incredibly bad.
This is great. Please put together an extension. I use Safari but this might get me to switch.

Something that would give me a button I could press to de-bullshit a site, not one that tries it on every single site maybe?
The posters here were warned hundreds of times that the tech monster they were cheering on because it was being used to destroy their ideological foes could turn against them, but most were sure they had reached the end of history where they were going to finally be victorious over their foes, dispatching them to the dustbin of history. Hubris is a hell of a drug.
It uses a sprite sheet png file. I am curious how you would target a simpler machine without a bunch of code to display those. I am having trouble picturing this.
I really enjoy using qutebrowser.

It’s a shame that I often end up using more than 100GiB of RAM with a few dozen tabs, almost like it leaks memory. I’m aware of the inherent fragmentation of memory with python over time- so could be that.

There’s also been a few times where the limitations of using qtwebengine (chromium wrapper) underneath were frustrating - though I can barely remember what they are at this point.

The python config is great too, I use it to disable javascript conditionally. :)

Theres also some magic feeling when pressing “o” and having access to the world.
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Fatherhood transforms men. Becoming a father was by far the most transformative event of my entire life so far. This is the common refrain I’ve heard. Of course, you also have to live up to the vocation.
It is possible to rule out such things. Lets suppose that physicist invented a theory of everything, and all the predictions of the theory were confirmed experimentally except for proton decay. At that point physicists will declare that protons do not decay and leave physics because there is nothing more to do in physics.
But usually only upon acceptance for publication (i.e., an editor of a scientific journal has decided to accept the manuscript, after peer review and usually multiple revisions based on said review). Preprint papers might as well be some crank’s blog posts. (Not implying that this is the case here, I just find it odd that the nytimes take it as is.)
As much as I hate cheating, I wonder if these apps will lead to invisible and ubiquitous AI helping us navigate life.

As a teacher, it is my job to make sure my students control that AI instead if being controlled by the AI.
Reading this just re-confirmed to me that I’m not cut out for parenting. I’m glad he’s digging it, but my reaction to all of the little miracles he described was either rolling my eyes or thinking “that sounds terrible”.
I definitely remember ( and miss) both uzbl and luakit.
In our time is such a fantastic show. It’s always fascinating hearing true experts dig deep in their favourite subjects.
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I always tell my spouse: “the easiest day we had with the kids was yesterday” and they’re 2, 4, and 10.
In context I assumed GP comment meant gut feeling is a lagging indicator rather than predictive.
I read a conversational stream of consciousness that’s well thought out and moderated to be cautious/nuanced around controversial topics.

Feels like a self-taught person, perhaps a non-native speaker themselves.
I was gonna say you must be new to HN, but it appears you’re not. I assumed the anti-Christian sentiment had finally driven most Christians away from here.
I've never seen the point of multiple desktops, but I went and found out the answer to the first question anyway. You hold down win+tab, a nice layout appears showing all your windows and all your desktops, and you drag a window to a desktop.

I notice you can also reorder the desktops: right click (while holding win+tab), select "move left". Maybe it will then boot into whichever one's leftmost.
I’ve used both for many years. I’ve stopped using qutebrowser because it has some limitations due to be a bit behind on the web engine, which leads to problems with some sites. I still think it’s brilliant.

I wouldn’t say they do the same thing exactly. Vimium is similar to a vim-mode in something like VS Code, while qutebrowser is more like Vim itself. The Vim “spirit” is built-in and is the expectation rather than a layer added on top. The qutebrowser UI, already minimalistic, is also very configurable and scriptable.

The flip side to me is that some of the experience will be nicer with Chrome, the same way VS Code can be nicer and easier to manage.
I am not by any stretch a mathematician but AI research like this reminds me of things that excite mathematicians - it’s like people spent three hundred years playing with Prime numbers and all of a sudden “oh yeah, silicon, fibre optics, ahah secure encryption”

There are going to be real useful tools - but we need to play for another century before we have that aha moment. Probably :-)
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I love this one:

> My mother came in with a great tip: when in doubt, ask second time parents, not other first timers.

So true in so many levels.
One does the best one can. But I guess "intentionally detaching" doesn't convey the best.

Even ignoring the extra work for the mother or whoever is actually providing the care, this conscious decision is not cost free for the future of the relationship with the child. It makes it harder to straighten the ship later.
PH blocks users in jurisdictions that require invasive age verification. They do not collect drivers license numbers from viewers.
That hypervisor, in the case of Azure, does more than normal... AWS seems to offload a LOT more to extra hardware. only ever seen MS mention hardware offload for networking... could be wrong, mind you...
The large drop in price is an example of "major innovations that have changed society and the economy in large ways". It has caused a fundamental restructuring of the US electrical energy supply, moving from coal to natural gas. I am merely going by the criterion the post above me was giving.

We can see other examples of changes that are so large that quantitative becomes qualitative. The cost of passenger air travel dropped by an order of magnitude (adjusted for inflation) over the time period. SpaceX's Falcon 9 has done the same, or even more so, to the space launch market. US steel production has overwhelmingly moved to recycled production in EAFs.

(BTW, the fuel tanks of Falcon 9 are assembled using a technology called Friction Stir Welding. This technology, which was a game changer for welding aluminum alloys, was invented in the 1990s.)

Yet another example, and another one illustrating the difference between invention and adoption, is standardized container shipping. There was a very long incubation period where shipping containers were experimented with, but standardization, and then widespread adoption, took decades. The real burst was in the period since 1980. From 1980 to 2021 the mass of cargo shipping internationally on standardized container ships increased by more than two orders of magnitude. Globalization of production is about as significant a change to the society and the economy as you can get.
Relatedly: struggling is learning [0].

[0] https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/09/embrace-struggle-e...
You got me interested in how the signal was transmitted, so I looked a bit more into it (see https://segaretro.org/File:SegaChannel_Applications_Scientif... ). It turns out that the 8Mbps number I eyeballed from looking at newspaper coverage of the service was incorrect. When the cable provider received the Sega Channel data stream, they'd split it into two 6Mbps carriers. This allowed them to transmit Sega Channel data without having to dedicate a channel to data, as they could put the carriers between cable channels or in the portion of the spectrum used for cable FM radio. I updated the webpage with the corrected figures.
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Divorce, child support, alimony, and two weekends of time with your kids per month (what the majority of men end up with), can also be transformative!

If anyone reading this is thinking about having kids, be really careful who you have them with.
I voluntarily left the workforce a few years ago, and I'm fortunate that my wife, a teacher, has a solid job earning over $100k a year. While that’s not a huge amount, it’s enough for us to live comfortably. What we discovered during this transition was eye-opening: most of my income had been going toward discretionary spending, much of it wasteful. Now, even though I only generate $200–$500 a month in passive income from a few books I sell on Amazon (gotta love passive income), we’re actually living better than before. This is thanks to paying off debt, living more within our means, and both of us feeling more personally fulfilled.

So, what do I do now?
* Household management: I handle cooking (about half), cleaning, shopping, finances, repairs—basically all the day-to-day stuff.
* Supporting my wife: I act as her personal assistant. I write emails, grants, and curriculum; create her presentations and visuals; and handle whatever else she needs so she can focus on teaching. With my help, she’s raised over $100k in two years to support her program—not too shabby!
* Pet parent: I’m a proud cat and dog dad.
Side projects: I’m working on a web app that I hope will generate income someday.
* Writing a novel: For the first time, I’ve moved past the endless planning stage and am actually writing! I’ve also got more ideas in the works.
* Tabletop game design: I have about ten tabletop games in various stages of development, and a few are done. I’d love to get at least one published. A friend and I even created a tabletop game that teaches condensed matter physics (CMP 101 level) with funding from an NSF grant. It’s more of a euro-game than an edu-game, and we’re looking to publish it and maybe turn it into an app.
* Self-care: Decades of work, especially in startups, took a toll on me emotionally and physically. Today, I'm more organized, more productive, more focused, and more motivated than ever. I have a lot of work to do to repair my health, but I'm working on it.

What I’m finally able to do:
* Engage in emotionally rewarding activities instead of draining ones.
* Pursue personal goals and dreams I’ve always put on hold.
* Channel my energy into supporting my wife, which has made her happier and more fulfilled in her career—a first for her.
* Be the master of my own destiny rather than living on someone else’s terms.

I do feel some anxiety about putting the financial burden on my wife. She understands and values the contributions I make to our household and her career, so there’s no resentment on her part. Still, I worry about what would happen if she lost her job or couldn’t work. I cope by focusing on the fact that the things I’m pursuing can generate income. If I channel my energy positively and healthily into these pursuits, I believe they eventually will.
> some degree of fatherly aloofness towards infants is natural.

That may have been your experience, but I would push back hard against generalizing that notion.

For my first child, we bottle-fed formula, and I was very involved in her routine: night feedings, diaper changes, counting days since the last poop, all of it. I felt very invested in every tiny milestone. It was a lot of problem solving, and I was very invested in her progress.

For my second child, because my wife breast-fed that time, I felt a little bit more like an outsider. I jumped in to help where I could, but it took longer for me to feel the same kind of connection. I also got much less paternity leave the second time around, which is likely the bigger factor.

All that to say, I think there are a lot of environmental factors that can play into infant attachment. No one should feel guilty for not having attachment right away, but it should still be pursued.
What happens if a fire at your house destroys both your computer and the NAS? Or if a thief steals both? Are your data permanently lost?
"Because it sounds like you're implying that the religion has intrinsic authoritarian aspects to it."

No, it implies the focus on the authorian aspects of Islam, just like certain groups in the US would like a authorian christian rule of law.
It might be overkill but a VR headset would make that significantly easier for people.
I think you are misunderstanding. I don't think the network matches the audio to a ground truth image and generates an image. It just takes in audio and predicts an image. They just use the ground truth images for training the model and for evaluation purposes.

The generated images are only vaguely similar in detail to the originals, but the fact that they can estimate the macro structure from audio alone is surprising. I wonder if there's some kind of leakage between the training and test data, e.g. sampling frames from the same videos, because the idea you could get time of day right (dusk in a city) just from audio seems improbable.

EDIT: also minor correction, it's not an LLM it's a diffusion model.
EDIT2: my mistake, there is an LLM too!
Sometimes when they have a temper tantrum (at home) it’s ok to let them scream for 5 minutes. Usually when they realize you don’t care they start to calm down.

Letting a baby fuss in their crib for 5-10 minutes won’t kill them if you need to take a shit.

Start feeding them more than just milk/formula at 6-8 months.

They’re going to fall and hurt themselves a lot, kids bounce.

Kids feel your energy and reflect it like a mirror, and they hear fucking EVERYTHING you say when when you don’t see them.

Saying “no” is a good thing, kids actually crave structure, and rules create structure. And tantrums, see first point.

Always, always, always follow through. If you say “throw that again and I’m taking it” and you don’t take it, you’re setting yourself up for more testing of boundaries. Also, don’t make a threat you don’t mean.

I could probably write a book, if this was helpful I can keep going.
The word "accurate" in that headline is doing a LOT of work.

Here's how the results were scored:

"Computer evaluations compared the relative proportions of greenery, building and sky between source and generated images, whereas human judges were asked to correctly match one of three generated images to an audio sample."

So this is very impressive and a cool piece of research, but unsurprisingly not recreating the space "accurately" if you assume that means anything more than "has the right amount of sky and buildings and greenery".
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Is this useful outside the cryptocurrency crap?
I'm curious what extras you can do with your tool. I use spotlight style search with Microsoft powertoys with good effect. Admitidly stuff like unit conversion doesn't come up often but very helpful for finding files and apps compared to Windows search.
> Quickly they showed me a video of my entire time with all my movements at the airport so they could pinpoint the employee.

This is just as interesting as it is creepy, but that's the world we live and this is hacker news. So, how quickly was was quickly. You made your report, they get the proper people involved, and then they show you the video. How much time passed before you were viewing the video?

For someone that plays with quickly assembling an edited video from a library of video content using a database full of cuepoints, this is a very interesting problem to solve. What did the final video look like? Was it an assembled video with cuts like in a spy movie with the best angles selected in sequence? Was it each of the cameras in a multi-cam like view just starting from the time they ID'd the flight you arrived on? Did they draw the boxes around you to show the system "knew" you?

I'm really curious how dystopian we actually are with the facial recognition systems like this.
Yes they totally have a bias to manipulate user submitted results to show that more people are running new versions of Java than old ones.

Please.
A bigger problem that rarely gets noticed is that "democracy" is a bit of a magical word:

a) if you were to survey people for a meaning, answers would be all over the place, and many of them with technical untruths

b) if you were to compare the same people's object level claims (over time, when they don't realize there is a test to being conducted) about democracy, you'd find many inconsistencies with both their definition, and with what is actually true

And even funnier: this strange phenomenon, regarding one of the most important phenomena in existence, is basically verboten for serious discussion.

I wonder if this situation is 100% organic, because if I was running a simulated democracy, this is exactly how I'd like to arrange things.
Even if the other first timer is years ahead of you in parenting because they have an older child, whereas you have a newborn, they just don't remember the newborn stage anymore, and only went through it once. It is all a distant blur to them.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8294566/

>Surveys conducted over the last few years on representative samples in the US and Germany suggest that the percentage of parents who regret having children is approximately 17–8%.
How to make interfaces for popular software. Or even unpopular software.
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If you don't like your co-workers, why are you even working there? Just for the money?

Life is too short to spend weekdays without having nice people around you.
Climate change alone could kill off more than a hundred thousand species
I don’t know if retrocomputing makes me feel younger or older, but it makes me feel nostalgic for the younger days of computing. My retrocomputing niches are classic Macs, NeXT (I own a few machines, including a NeXT cube), and older versions of Windows (pre-XP). I dream of owning a Symbolics Lisp machine, but they are very expensive whenever they show up on the market.
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Good luck when the fbi inevitably kicks in your door after running a tor node in the US on a datacenter connection in your name, with the physical hardware sitting in your home.
It’s also magnetic, making MRIs (and floating frogs) possible.
Gas stations make very little money from selling gas. The vast majority of their profits come from the building itself, to the point that if they only sold gas, they wouldn't be able to operate in most cities.
> We can ask Ukraine to do this, but we they will need an ironclad commitment that we will supply them with everything they ask for

Sounds like a good way to escalate the war.
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What strikes me as odd is that this browser is not in a terminal, but in a window. So no usage through SSH, no terminal benefits, which are the origin of the keyboard-oriented workflow.

When I press F12, does an inspector open? Where does it open? When I select some words, how do I send them to a new tab in YouTube, Amazon, Google or Stack Overflow? How do I open all the links which are within a selected rectangle in new background tabs? Or use uBlock Origin's element picker?

I'm pretty sure this browser is super fast and all is super optimized and a top tier workflow, but mostly in certain limited scenarios.
That's the same principle which makes it wise to first do some copy pasting before you abstract stuff into a common library. Gathering some (more than two) concrete use cases before you factor out the common functionality makes much better library functions.

A common sign of prematurely deduplicated code is a common function with lots of boolean flags and other knobs to tweak its behaviour for every use case added after it was written.
Ask HN: Should I invest in this domain?
I want to buy to know if a good domain is worth it? I found domains like derik.ai, derek.ai. I sent in an offer for $2k to the first one. Is it worth it?
Yes, though they have other types too. We’ve been thrilled with ours. I’ve never done Christmas lights because I don’t do ladders, so having a permanent fixture is attractive. Plus we can use them on big holidays too.

I have big reservations about ‘smart home’ stuff, and it’s only the second such device in our house. But I’m clearly losing that battle, and will be looking into some ways to mitigate the privacy concerns. But gosh, it sure is nice to pick from a gazillion light patterns.