skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Could you give me a few examples? A DDG search is proving hopelessly inadequate. It only finds information about new/remodeled terminals, and the proposed Central Communication Port in Poland, which is greenfield (literally) but hasn't started yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Germany helpfully lists airfields in Germany which don't have regularly scheduled commercial passenger service. The first I picked was Kiel Airport, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel_Airport , which fits my description of how airports don't benefit from a simple network effect.

It had "27 national and international destinations" back around 1930, then was mixed military and civilian. The first terminal was built in 1965. In 1987, "Lufthansa began offering scheduled flights to Frankfurt, and later to Cologne/Bonn, Munich, Copenhagen, Kaliningrad and Riga." The last commercial scheduled passenger flight was in 2006.

I'm curious if any of the military airports you mention once had passenger service, reflecting how airports used to be more common as technical limitations prevented them from carrying many passengers or going all that far.
No.

(assuming you have no unicorns) "all of my unicorns fly" is true; "some of my unicorns fly" is false; "true->false" is false.
Nearly all of quantum computation is theoretical algorithms and the hard engineering problems haven't been solved. Most of the math though has a large amount of overlap of AI / ML and all of deep learning to the point that Quantum computers could be used as "ML accelerators" by using algorithms (this is called Quantum Machine learning) [1]. Quantum computing could be learned with a limited understanding of Quantum theory unless you are trying to engineer the hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_machine_learning
I built my own version on nvm (called nsnvm, for "Nuño's stupid node version manager") to solve this. You can see it here: https://github.com/NunoSempere/nsnvm Absurdly fewer features (and might break npm install -g), but very worth it for me for the reduced startup times.
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I hope somebody pays 100.000 pro subscriptions and uses AI to request Sora to generate videos 24/7. Maybe Elon?

Even if they use queues, I'm sure they are running at a loss and the GPU time is going to cost 100x more than what they charge.

Creating false demand for AI can easily bankrupt their business, as they will believe people actually want to use that crap for that purpose.
Yeah, it almost feels like gambling - 'you're very close, just spend 20 more credits and you might get it right this time!'
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> Now expand that to movies and games and you can get why this whole generative-AI bubble is going to pop.

What will save it is that, no matter how picky you are as a creator, your audience will never know what exactly was that you dreamed up, so any half-decent approximation will work.

In other words, a corollary to your corollary is, "Fortunately, you don't need them to be, because no one cares about low-order bits".

Or, as we say in Poland, "What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't mourn."
>It didn’t turn out well when we took him off the board.

No? The post-invasion process turned into a simmering insurgency followed by a loose civil war, but since then and so far, Iraq has stabilized into a more or less functional state in which investment is growing and living standards are again moving upwards. I don't see how the automatic response of "it didn't turn out well" applies. The shaky morality of a historical decision (invasion and toppling Saddam in this case) doesn't necessarily translate to a bad outcome in the long run.
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The law doesn’t literally get updated with a bullet point. Subsequently attorneys have to do ever greater searches to analyze all the precedents.
Obligatory Xiao Xiao reference: https://www.newgrounds.com/series/xiao-xiao
You can apply typescript-based strong typing and code completion to JSON and similar. And then you can avoid making arbitrary code execution part of your config format.
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Everett interpretation simply asserts that quantum wavefunctions are real and there's no such thing as "wavefunction collapse". It's the simplest interpretation.

People call it "many worlds" because we can interact only with a tiny fraction of the wavefunction at a time, i.e. other "branches" which are practically out of reach might be considered "parallel universes".

But it would be more correct to say that it's just one universe which is much more complex than what it looks like to our eyes. Quantum computers are able to tap into this complexity. They make a more complete use of the universe we are in.
... Have you _seen_ the output from these things? I'm not sure actors need to panic just yet.
This is called out in the article:

>Note: this question was originally set in a maths exam, so the answer assumes some basic assumptions about formal logic. A liar is someone who only says false statements.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42224783

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
What’s your expectation from CCD drive circuit? Understand enough and repair it? Make a similar device? Make a micrometer exact clone?

In that case with old crap we used X-ray pcb inspection machine. Made enough pictures to recreate all the copper traces on paper. Was enough to understand how it works and repair.
“A frame is worth a billion rays”

The last production I worked on averaged 16 hours per frame for the final rendering. The amount of information encoded in lighting, models, texture, maps, etc is insane.
I mean, yeah, the animatronics are weird in today's age, but honestly, the whole premise is what does the chain's image in.

Is it really anything other than chaos and sleaze distilled? You can have stoned 19-year-olds cavorting in the supply closet, drunken parents slugging it out at a birthday party, a man sneezing on a pizza he just baked, and a crying child defecating in the ball pit simultaneously. All against a hypnotic background of flashing lights and arcade sounds.

This is a grotesquery, torn from the pages of Huxley. One can only imagine the Romans had a similar palace of decadence for children shortly before their collapse.

No sane society would allow this to exist, let alone as a profitable enterprise. I know anglophone North America isn't sane, but isn't this a little too far, even for us?
Genuinely curious who is doing this for adult content?

Complaints about Sora's quality and prompt complexity likely not as important to auteur's in that category, especially with ability to load a custom character etc
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Anyone else feeling their servers melt a bit on sora.com?
I don't see a large message on the Funko site with a profuse apology for taking down Itchio. This indicates to me they fully endorse their action and are not willing to make amends.
> They may not match exactly what the writer had in mind, but they are fit for purpose.

That's what GenAI is doing, too. After all, the audience only sees the final product; they never get know what the writer had in mind.
even in this mammoths demo, the dust clouds keep popping behind them even after they have moved forward
It does. It's up to engineering to make errors uncorrelated. The google paper being referenced actually makes an "error budget" to see what the main sources of errors are, and also run tests to find sources of correlated errors.

The claim about this is that correlated errors will lead to an "error floor", a certain size of error correction past which exponential reduction in errors no longer applies, due to a certain frequency of correlated errors. See figure 3a of the arxiv version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687
I feel like there is a sweet spot for AI generation of images and videos that I would describe as "charmingly bad", like the stuff we got from the old CLIP+VQGAN models. I feel like Sora has jumped past that into the valley of "unappealingly bad".
Its actually mostly commercial afaik, Foundry is like data pipelines for big corps.
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SeekStorm comes with an http interface.

The SeekStorm server features an REST API via http: https://seekstorm.apidocumentation.com

It also comes with an embedded Web UI: https://github.com/SeekStorm/SeekStorm?tab=readme-ov-file#bu...

Or did you mean a Web based interface to create and manage indices, define index schemas, add documents etc?
Super cool project! Nice work :)
Is there not a convention within formal logic defining this type of statement to be true or false?
This is actually a different version from what they had before. What they released today is Sora Turbo.
This gets such a huge thumbs up that I had to scroll up and reread it to make sure this wasn’t my own post from a revived thread from last year!

I’ve been using a pixelblaze with a long string of cheap 2812 LEDs on my Christmas tree for three years now with tons of compliments from neighbors.

I’m an embedded software guy, and every year I mean to dig in and try roll my own, or do something clever with an RP2040 board (also a shoutout for the Pimoroni Plasma), but the demands of life and “get the light show started” mean I keep using the Pixelblaze.

I even upgraded to their newer versions last year, and used some of the smaller ones to make some LED tutus for my girls that synced pattern with the tree (the tutus were synced with each other for a Christmas show, but it was trivial to then add the tree for fun afterwards).

The mapping is huge for the wow factor, and the pixelblaze makes it so much easier to get something fast and good enough.

There’s so many community-shared patterns to choose from, and it’s been easy to make small modifications to look better once mapped to a tree, though most work as-is.

My project I won’t get done this year is to try to make some calibration patterns and use ChatGPT to analyze some photos/videos to make a 3-D map, but I’ll realistically probably end up with the vaguely-triangular 2-D map again; I can get it done in about 30 minutes now.

The following is a couple years ago. I think last year I was up to 1100 LEDs and the mapping was a bit better, but I didn’t take good videos.

https://youtu.be/hu-RQx_NpAY?si=BMYbafbPAn2XAlU9
Your rationale could apply to all comments in general. Hey, just have folks scour through the commit messages instead!

Yes, I still think a commit message is important, but it absolutely does not take the place of a comment. Suppose you'd like to do something like this:

// DO NOT change to latest version. MUST pin to version 1.2.3 because
// 1.2.4 includes a subtle bug that doesn't work with our version of
// the zed library. We have an open issue on zed, see
// https://github.com/zed/zed/issues/1234.
// Once that is fixed, we can upgrade.
"foobar": "1.2.3"

There is zero chance that comment is going to be seen if its just in a commit message, furthermore you should never depend on git blame showing a particular comment because it's easy for later commits to overwrite it due to simple things like formatting changes, etc. Yes, in that example case there should be tests too, but IMO the primary purpose for comments is to highlight issues and concerns that aren't immediately apparent just by reading the code.

I simply cannot think of another file format that is used for configs that doesn't support comments.
It seems intuitively wrong that you can say "All X are Y" and yet that doesn't imply "At least one X exists".
The fact that we have to pick and choose how to best prevent crime does not mean the crimes themselves are beneficial to our economy. And like I said in my original comment, at this scale it’s easy (and relatively cheap) to ban mining activities that don’t benefit society as a whole.
You also have to understand that a^T b is a popular way of writing the dot product. <a,b> is for dumb high schoolers.

Then there is the fun part in German that the dot product and inner product are both called Skalarprodukt. There are many inner products of which the dot product is only one.
Deliberately wasting electricity isn't exactly a moral win.
One of the obfuscated C contest winners in 2001 was a program that generated ASCII Magic Eye images of text strings, suitable for viewing on a terminal.

It is the herman2 entry here: http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2001

Note that the source code is itself such an image.
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> What will save it is that, no matter how picky you are as a creator, your audience will never know what exactly was that you dreamed up, so any half-decent approximation will work.

Part of the problem is the "half decent approximations" tend towards a clichéd average, the audience won't know that the cool cyberpunk cityscape you generated isn't exactly what you had in mind, but they will know that it looks like every other AI generated cyberpunk cityscape and mentally file your creation in the slop folder.

I think the pursuit of fidelity has made the models less creative over time, they make fewer glaring mistakes like giving people six fingers but their output is ever more homogenized and interchangable.
This feels like computer graphics and the 'screen space' techniques that got introduced in the Xbox 360 generation - reflection, shadows etc. all suffered from the inability to work with off screen information and gave wildly bad answers once off screen info was required.

The solution was simple - just maintain the information in world space, and sample for that. But simple does not mean cheap, and it led to a ton of redundant (as in invisible in the final image) having to be kept track of.
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If you can build a system that can generate engaging games and movies, from an economic (bubble popping or not popping) point of view it's largely irrelevant whether they conform to fine-grained specifications by a human or not.
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Classic OpenAI. I don't care, there are so many better alternatives to everything they do. Funny how quickly they have become irrelevant and lost their moat.
Telegram - 80% this is my preferred method of communication

iMessage - 10% for friends who refuse to install telegram

Whatsapp - 5% for video calls. Surprisingly Telegram video call quality degraded over last 4-5 months for users in USA. So now I have to use facetime + whatsapp combo

Misc - 5%

Telegram is years ahead of the rest by user experience and features.
I really don't think it's reasonable to expect them to onboard what is likely tens of thousands of sign ups in the first hour.
anyone done a comparison with the open-source hunyuanvideoai.com?
The odd part to me is that back when I was a kid Chuck E Cheese _did_ have a play area section, with at least a tube climbing thing, ball pit, etc. When I took my daughter there a few years ago though it was nothing but arcade games, and I think it was the same one my parents used to take me too.

IMO this is an extra bad move for them because it means they're directly competing with all the arcade places near me and those are much better maintained (and/or have various other attractions).
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I don't work there so I'm certain there is no one with enough knowledge to make it work with Hamiltonian constraints because the idea is very obvious but they haven't done it because they don't have the wherewithal to do so. In other words, no one at OpenAI understands enough basic physics to incorporate conservation principles into the generative network so that objects with random masses don't appear and disappear on the "video" manifold as it evolves in time.
Your eye sees just about every frame of a film…

People may not think they care, but obviously they do. That’s why marvel movies do better than DC ones.

People absolutely care about details in their media.
Giving biometric data to Sam Altman has to be one of the worst ideas we could pursue. Not only is Worldcoin a know scam, rightfully being banned in several countries, Sam and OpenAI are one of the major reasons realistic-looking misinformation became easier to proliferate.

He’s done enough damage, let’s not make the creator of the problem in charge of the “solution” that benefits him too.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
The couple we frequent have had digital screen "bands" at least the last 5 years and the kids mostly just ignore it. They usually have someone wear a mascot uniform and come dance during the main event, but most kids could care less. They're over in the arcade area. The addition of the trampoline area just occurred recently and the whole time we were their they had a teammate chasing kids off of it because most of them didn't have the necessary grippy socks. Initial observations on my end was that it's going to cost them more to manage it than it will bring in in revenue.

We go there sometimes alone because my son is obsessed with a particular arcade they have and it's like a special treat to take him, outside of birthday parties the place seems dead. Also, I never see anyone actually eat there. I think birthday parties is their entire business at this point. It's even a joke amongst our parent groups that if you are late to plan something, just do Chuck E Cheese because it's easy and pretty much always available. The kids enjoy it either way
This is not a "fundamental law of quantum theory", as evidenced by the field of quantum error correcting codes.

Google's announcement is legit, and is in line with what theory and simulations expect.
I have read a lot about that time and it doesn't seem particularly biased. Microsoft hated working with IBM and their horrifically old-school way doing software development (e.g. counting lines of code, etc).

The bias, in my opinion, is the other way -- which is exactly what I said at the top.
If you want to make a statement about bubbles, then you have to ground it in global perception which is operationalizable and empirically verifiable - speculation isn't epistemologically responsible.
Sora (along with DALL-E 2 well before it) specifically has safeguards against NSFW content.
Those are indeed 3 papers.
With this plus the weather model announcement. I’m curious what people think about the meta question on why corporate labs like Google DeepMind etc seem to make more progress on big problems than academia?

There are a lot of critiques about academia. In particular that it’s so grant obsessed you have to stay focused on your next grant all the time. This environment doesnt seem to reward solving big problems but paper production to prove the last grant did something. Yet ostensibly we fund fundamental public research precisely for fundamental changes. The reality seems to be the traditional funding model create incremental progress within existing paradigms.
So you claim that in normal English “all” doesn’t imply “some”?
I was just going to say this. If you have an artistic vision that you simply must create to the minutest detail, then like any artist, you're in for a lot of manual work.

If you are not beholden to a precise vision or maybe just want to create something that sells, these tools will likely be significant productivity multipliers.
A lawyer might argue that, but it's not going to be a compelling argument. Recklessness is generally a conscious disregard of the consequences; as applied to defamation-like claims, it's generally seen as "you specifically voiced doubts about the truth". Failing to vet automated abuse reports is going to be at best negligence (and I'm dubious of even that, because given the nonbinding nature of abuse reports, it's not clear there is even a duty to candor in abuse reports that one can be negligent of), absent internal complaints about "the accuracy of these things is total shit".
Okay. I just don't understand. Are you saying Quantum Computers are also implemented without assuming the computations run in parallel universe?
And some of us have no intention of publishing any output and find the existence of these tools extremely worrying and problematic.
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>Fully agree. We should just settle on a single internet currency thats fast, interoperable and not a market for speculation.

I wish we would all agree to just go back to mostly using paypal (or venmo, zelle, etc) for online shit and leave crypto out of it. The only advantage to crypto is anonymity, and possibly the ability to send smaller fractional payments, but honestly the existing non-crypto solutions could come up with solutions to those things.