skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should watch how movies are made sometime. How a script is developed. How changes to it are made. How storyboards are created. How actors are screened for roles. How locations are scouted, booked, and changed. How the gazillion of different departments end up affecting how a movie looks, is produced, made, and in which direction it goes (the wardrobe alone, and its availability and deadlines will have a huge impact on the movie).

What does "EXT. NIGHT" mean in a script? Is it cloudy? Rainy? Well lit? What are camera locations? Is the scene important for the context of the movie? What are characters wearing? What are they looking at?

What do actors actually do? How do they actually behave?

Here are a few examples of script vs. screen.

Here's a well described script of Whiplash. Tell me the one hundred million things happening on screen that are not in the script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kunUvYIJtHM

Or here's Joker interrogation from The Dark Night Rises. Same million different things, including actors (or the director) ignoring instructions in the script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQdEh0hUsc

Here's A Few Good Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hv7U7XhDdI&list=PLxtbRuSKCC...

and so on

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Edit. Here's Annie Atkins on visual design in movies, including Grand Budapest Hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzGvEYSzHf4. And here's a small article summarizing some of it: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/annie-atkins-grand-buda...

Good luck finding any of these details in any of the scripts. See minute 14:16 where she goes through the script

Edit 2: do watch The Kerning chapter at 22:35 to see what it actually takes to create something :)
Is "absurd" a term of art here, or you just mean it conflicts with common intuition? This sort of thing comes up a lot in programming languages. For example, is Null=Null true or false? What about Null!=Null? Maybe they can both be true or both false. It's strange because there's no simple obvious right answer but we need some answer and programming languages manage to define that sort of thing so it ends up logically consistent. Closer to this topic, how about a typed collection with no item in it? We expect the type system to enforce "all its items are green" but when it's empty, that constraint would become absurd and we can no longer pass an empty collection to a function that requires a collection of greens?

A simple program to test "all my hats are green" allows the empty set to be all green:

AllGreen = True
For each hat in MyHats:
If hat <> green:
AllGreen = False
> Obviously, using atomic weapons to dig a hole for an infrastructure project is profoundly stupid.

It can be used to plug holes too. There's an old video that made the rounds back when BP caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster, showing how the Soviet Union used nukes to successfully control a years-long gas well blowout in the Pamuk field. IIRC there was serious consideration of using a similar technique to plug the botched Macondo well as a last resort, if conventional measures failed.
I haven't tried, but the README mentions Office 365 and OAuth, so perhaps?
C has its limits. If you know where to look
It's easier to make a "ghost drone" than a "ghost gun." Banning will not be feasible for bad actors.
If you want to know what tokens you want to obtain _exactly_ Mona Lisa, or any other image, you take the image and put it through your image tokenizer aka encode it, and if you have the sequence of token you can decode it to an image.

VQ-VAE (Vector Quantised-Variational AutoEncoder), (2017) https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00937

The whole encoding-decoding process is reversible, and you only lose some imperceptible "details", the process can be either trained with a L2Loss, or a perceptual loss depending what you value.

The point being that images which occurs naturally are not really information rich and can be compressed a lot by neural networks of a few GB that have seen billions of pictures. With that strong prior, aka common knowledge, we can indeed paint with words.
Even Thompson didn't use the linear time algorithm that's named after him in Ed and Grep. The Python and Perl implementations were inspired by Henry Spencer's regex, which was in turn reimplementing Thompson's backtracking implementations.
Honestly they're just trying to cover all bases / their asses. It's a totally clueless act, but root detection is something that exists and therefore they use it. Realistically it's not making anything truly safer, but it exists in security reports and audits and whatnot, so they're putting it in. It makes managers happy.

Source: I've had to add this to some apps I've worked on. I tried convincing managers and gave up. They _really_ think it adds security. Our apps didn't even handle sensitive user data or anything. It just looked good on some security report they ordered.
Key features:

- fix() never fails. It can parse any data.
- Types are inferred from the schema.
- "null" and "undefined" are transformed to default values.
- exclude unwanted properties to prevent code injection.
> Once known for its budget-friendly habits and prudent financial planning— the Indian middle class— day by day is finding itself trapped in a vicious cycle of debt. The pressure to maintain a certain lifestyle, fueled by the rise of social media and the fear of missing out, has led many to take on loans which are way more than their income.

Wild to see the similarities between India and the US as it relates to social media being an economic FOMO flywheel.
nice investigative journalism! how did you find this when the profile is private? is there an easy way to search reviews by name?
Count of grey hairs on my head and face is only increasing so I'm gonna be that guy:

Nix/NixOS and Guix are two solid solutions to the problem, because they spin up completely independent, immutable, environments. You don't need to mess around with shell hacks to swap out the correct `npm` or `ruby` binary based on a string in one of several dozen dotfiles.

More or less python-style virtual envs on steroids where it's not just python stuff that isolated, but the entire setup. All your tools, all your config. Throw in `direnv` so you can make your editor and GUI tools aware of it.

The only initial headache is making sure the package is available to pull in -it's easy when it's distributed, but when tools are published through NPM or RubyGems or Crates or just on github that you have to run `go install` to get, then it's a bit of faff. But the same faff that distro managers have keeping, say, debian's sources up to date.
In that case someone is gonna come in and yell 'LET'S DO ELM WITH ELM-UI'? No?
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If you didn’t select A, then the test is great for weeding out less intelligent people; which means it’s a good test if that is the objective.
And their T&C have the same termination clause as anyone else.

> 6. Termination

> The Provider may terminate this Agreement at any time, for any reason, with or without notice to the Adopter. Adopter may terminate the Services upon notice to the Provider.
...

Fab + design... its apples to oranges.

TSMC for example has 77k employees and looking to add 23k more.

Packaging and testing are labor intensive, and require folks to be added in different geographies.
That's totally fair, there's a balance. Maybe a better argument I could make is that I find people often lean too far to the end of being verbose without any real reason to it. You may not want to be blunt or rude either, the balance is in the middle.

For the career fair grad you mentioned, a couple paragraphs would have been my expectation - three paragraphs isn't off base. If I were them I'd want to say I want to work for you, but I'd also want to at least mention why I want to work there and why you'd want me there. To me that extra context is a better email than just saying "hire me" in one or two sentences.
This is a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350351 which was flagged (hopefully those reasons have been addressed) and would really like to continue the convo with those interested.

The job search view (URL linked) can be done without signup so hoping feedback can be given and you don't have to signup if you don't want to. You can also delete your account if you get cold feet (all data is indeed deleted).

This is a scraper (and UI) of job listing from ~200k company websites. Full transparency the service is $15.50/mo but you can always use the job viewer to see if there are relevant jobs in your field without signup.

Would love feedback and input. I built this out of frustration in the current job search tools. Employers don't pay for listings which is why I ask the job seeker.

Thanks and look forward to any discussion :)
Changes to Google Maps Platform
For example, you used to receive 100,000 static map embeds per month for free. Now it's 10,000.
The title says "my laptop". A Mac mini is not a laptop.
As with most things - it depends. Hard to give you a clear cut answer without knowing a lot more.

For us, multi-country added a lot of complexities because we expanded from the UK to Australia. So we needed to staff and integrate different teams (which is where most of the complexity was).

If you're a pure SaaS with no sales GTM, I think it would be a lot simpler if you can stay centrally operated.
First I hear of Project Binky but this might be one of those "because they can" projects. This is quite ingenious though, hat off!

And btw, this does harken back to the heyday of the 3D-printing hype where they hypists were saying that we would "soon" 3D-print entire electronic devices. That never materialized, of course. Maybe that was one inspiration.

Afaik, this seems like it's probably the easiest way of metal 3d printing at home - I wonder whether that's the more interesting thing about this achievement.

I don't really know much about in-and-out of melting metals, toxicity and so on but there are some lower melting metals like zinc at 420*C which could be reached with a 3D printing hotend with a resistive cartridge and copper block I think. That would be rather intersting.
Text generation is the most mature form of genAI and even that isn't even remotely close to producing infinite engaging stories. Adding the visual aspect to make that story into a movie or the interactive element to turn it into a game is only uphill from there.
Considering google image search is polluted by AI-generated images at this moment, perhaps google is afraid of making the search even worse?
You are correct, and anyone that couldn’t come to that conclusion needs to stop overthinking the problem it is pretty basic 101 intro to logic type question.

Not sure why so many people got it wrong maybe ESL is at play here
Can't you just give it a photo of a dog, and then say "use this dog in this or that scene"?
I don't think it's purely cultural. Starlark is interpreted, which presents some challenges to type checking. You either need to make the interpreter more complex, or have an out-of-band type checking step.
For those scenarios would be helpful a draft generation mode: 16 colors, 320x200...
Something being available OSS is very different from a turnkey product solution, not to mention that Tencent's 60 GiB requirement requires a setup with like at least 3-4 GPUs which is quite rare & fairly expensive vs something time-sharing like Sora where you pay a relatively small amount per video.

I think the important thing is task quality and I haven't seen any evaluations of that yet.
Sora had some sweet cherry picked initial hype videos. That was more impressive than anything we could do at the time. Now, yea, it's questionable if it's on-par let alone better.
Even looking through a state lens, I think the commutativity requirement makes sense to think about.

For example, one of the simplest state CRDTs is the MAX function. The commutativity rule requires that if we merge some set of states A, B, C, ... in any order, we get the same result. This requires the MAX function to be commutative - ie, MAX(a, b) == MAX(b, a). (And also MAX(a, b, c) == MAX(c, a, b), and so on.)

This must hold for the CRDT to converge & be correct.

I thought the C stood for commutativity for the longest time after learning CRDTs. I admitted that to Martin Kleppmann the first time I met him. He thought for a solid minute, then laughed and said "yeah, I think that works too!"
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I read it as they were saying the manual part of the process never happened, so the backup from the first week was just sitting ejected forever and they had no alarming to notify them that the new backup failed to write to tape.
You can read here https://www.jstor.org/stable/249202?read-now=1#page_scan_tab... I am sure there are other resources available.
no, the first Sunday night after the backup process completed. It ejected the tape. It sat there for years until someone realized they needed to restore from the most recent backup. Since a new tape was never inserted, the backup was from years ago.
I get your point but the literature on this I’ve read leans towards:

- ubiquitous surveillance is here (your point broadly)

- the data engineering to work the data isn’t quite there, or isn’t full spectrum in the manner you argue (what prevents your theory as of now)

However, what is clunky tech today can be scaled and effective tech tomorrow, so maybe your argued future is possible, if not likely.

https://www.mitre[.]org/news-insights/publication/decipherin...
If you want to allow undefined statements that’s actually fine from an inferential point of view even though in predicate logic statements are always either true or false.

He’s a liar so his statement has to be specifically false.
You use the same procedure you used to register that phone, to register a new one.

May not be possible if you need your old phone to login.

This reminds me of Internet Service Providers who direct you to get support online when failure to get online is the very reason why you need support.
The performance difference is practically unnoticeable in day-to-day desktop use. People don't really care about 15 second vs. 20 second boot time, and that first boot of Firefox is going to be another pretty meh comparison. Subsequent boots are going to be loading small enough data that the difference between will be meaningless.

The main appeal to an NVMe on the Pi isn't speed, it's cost effectiveness. SSDs are cheaper at larger capacities than SD cards. A 1tb SD card is 2x the cost of a cheaper 1tb SSD.

Storage speed is a bigger consideration on something like a gaming PC or a video editing machine, where you're going to be streaming gigabytes of textures/videos off of storage, not just trying to launch Firefox.
> We’re introducing our video generation technology now to give society time to explore its possibilities and co-develop norms and safeguards that ensure it’s used responsibly as the field advances.

That's an interesting way of saying "we're probably gonna miss some stuff in our safety tools, so hopefully society picks up the slack for us". :)
Because we don't have as much data about mundane bullshit.
This was in the 1950s when a nuclear war was still considered winnable.

This all changed as hydrogen bombs were combined with submarine launched ICBMs. That's when the MAD concept influenced political leaders on both sides.
Dynamic cycling enhances battery lifetime
Uh, no? Not for large N.

There are about 2^152 possible legal chess states. You cannot build a classical computer large enough to compute that many states. Cryptography is generally considered secure when it involves a search space of only 2^100 states.

But you could build a computer to search though sqrt(2^152) = 2^76 states. I mean it'd be big--that's on the order of total global storage capacity. But not "bigger than the universe" big.
They should have kept this amazing tech under the wraps because you have a bad feeling about it? Hate to break it to you, but there have been fake videos on the internet ever since it has existed. There are more ways to fake videos than GenAI. If you haven't been consuming everything on the internet with a high alert bs sensor, then that's an issue of its own. You shouldn't trust things on the internet anyway unless there is overwhelming evidence.
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AI is neither.

A director letting actors "just be" knows exactly what he/she wants, and choses actors accordingly. Just as the directors that want the most minute detail.

Clint Eastwood tries to do at most one take of a scene. David Fincher is infamous for his dozens of takes.

AI is neither Fincher nor Eastwood.
> The Intel Xeon is not a less exotic example of a DMA controller.

The full context is:

> The DMA controller is just used as an “memcpy() hardware accelerator”. And this is not a joke. Sometimes those blocks are used in microcontrollers to copy large swathes of data inside RAM. A less exotic example of this we can mention are Intel Xeon platforms.

I interpreted this as a reference to the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) [1], which is a programmable DMA peripheral on the SoC that can be used to accelerate writes to and from I/O devices (amongst other things).

[1] : https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/accele...
> But if the algorithm responds equally well to highly engaging posts from team A and team B, then ultimately the algorithm is fair, there's a level playing field

That doesn't work well for topics where one team, A say, is free to just make up stuff and the other team, B, is constrained by trying to stick to verifiable facts. It gives A a massive advantage.

First, it often takes time for B to develop a response to something new from A and by the time B's response comes out A has added several more posts. Even if B's post completely refutes that first A post, people will see that it hasn't addressed the additional A material and might think that means that additional material is fine.

Second, it is easier, cheaper, and faster to generate A material than to generate B material, so A can make it so there is always plenty of un-refuted A material. They can also tweak any A material that B has refuted and claim that it was just a minor issue and they fixed it.

The result is that readers see a lot more A than B material. Some might figure out from the B material that the people pushing A are not being truthful, but remember there are another dozen or more topics showing up in their feed each with its own A and B.

Most people aren't going to be able to successfully figure out which is being truthful in all of those topics, and so we end up with a lot of people getting misled and scammed.
I'm going to guess all of your friends and social network use the same sites and are in the same echo chamber as you. And please don't delude yourself into thinking that if you poll everyone on the spectrum of social media, that you will have any idea what the general American public think about a topic.

Neither here nor there, but were you surprised by Trump winning in the fashion he did?
Do you mean that in the sense of that old quote, "we are the universe experiencing itself"?
How do you know they are a net negative? What's your source?
It's not clear to me that that would satisfy the categorical properties of coproduct that are wanted.
The host might be selecting between two goats, or might be selecting between a goat and a car. Either way, it doesn't matter because we don't get any additional information about whether our original choice was correct. (To clarify, this applies to the original problem, not the Crawl variant, where we either sometimes get definitive information, or sometimes get no information)

Edit: Furthermore, I don't think that author's solution to the Crawl problem is correct. When the host eliminates a door, either you will get information that says you should switch, and you'll win 100% of the time; or you won't get information, and you should still always switch and win 2/3 of the time.
Sub-$1k list price now, with https://www.sawstop.com/product/compact-table-saw/ being $899.

Still a pretty fair assessment, though.
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I know there are people acting like this is obvious that this is AI, but I get why people wouldn't catch it, even if they know that AI is capable of creating a video like this.

A) Most of the give aways are pretty subtle and not what viewers are focused on. Sure, if you look closely the fur blends in with the pavement in some places, but I'm not going to spend 5 minutes investigating every video I see for hints of AI.

B) Even if I did notice something like that, I'm much more likely to write it off as a video filter glitch, a weird video perspective, or just low quality video. For example, when they show the inside of the car, the vertical handrails seem to bend in a weird way as the train moves, but I've seen similar things from real videos with wide angle lenses. Similar thoughts on one of the bystander's faces going blurry.

I think we just have to get people comfortable with the idea that you shouldn't trust a single unknown entity as the source or truth on things because everything can be faked. For insignificant things like this it doesn't matter, but for big things you need multiple independent sources. That's definitely an uphill battle and who knows if we can do it, but that's the only way we're going to get out the other side of this in one piece.
It's moot because it makes no sense to mine on CPU or even on an entry level GPU that Hetzner did provide at one point. You will make a couple of $/m.

Besides, no mainstream crypto is mined anymore except Bitcoin.

So moot.
I'm not particularly worried about verification or epistemologically responsibility when something is manifestly obvious. The same reason I'm not jumping out of an airplane without a parachute even if I haven't read a study on the relative effectiveness of parachutes vs no parachutes when jumping out of an airplane.
The two reals are selected via some distribution, and the only way you can do better than chance is if you have some knowledge of that distribution.

The question leaves that distribution completely hidden, and your answer smuggles it back in. That feels less like a counter-intuitive math/stats question and more like a badly worded gotcha.
Yeah, I worry myself - actually invested some of my portfolio in Intel too, my original belief was so high - But, at least by the forums I checked out, the people who know the technology say it still is really good and on track:

https://semiwiki.com/forum/index.php?threads/intel-18a-too-g...

But of course, the sources may be biased/overly-optimistic/hiding-info.
It's moot because it makes no sense to mine on CPU or even on an entry level GPU that Hetzner did provide at one point. You will make a couple of $/m.

Besides, no mainstream crypto is mined anymore except Bitcoin.
You need to distinguish between "physical qubits" and "logical qubits." This paper creates a single "first-of-a-kind" logical qubit with about 100 physical qubits (using Surface Code quantum error correction). A paper from Google in 2019 estimates needing ~20 million physical qubits ("How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits" - https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09749), though recent advances probably brought this number down a bit. That's because to run Shor's algorithm at a useful scale, you need a few thousand very high quality logical qubits.

So despite this significant progress, it's probably a still a while until RSA is put out of the job. That being said, quantum computers would be able to retroactively break any public keys that were stored, so there's a case to be made for switching to quantum-resistant cryptography (like lattice-based cryptography) sooner rather than later.
> Worth spending a little time doing some long tail strategizing I’d say.

What do you mean by this?