skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting, I'd assumed that they were using the controls for inactive channels on their console to literally jog the camera like they'd pushed the button on the remote. If a few controls on the last 3 of 32 channels happened to line up in an inverted T configuration or something like that, you'd relabel the buttons up/down/left/right and instead of muting/unmuting they'd be bound to those functions.

I understand how the automation of "point at stored location when something happens there" could be useful on some sets, but it also looks like you could do the jog button automation with this toolkit. Vary the speed of the movement with a volume slider, use fade in and fade out to smooth out the motion...

To paraphrase Malsow, I suppose it is tempting, when the only tool you have is a customizeable digital mixing console, to treat every problem as if it were an audio channel!
1024 is for RSA-1024, which is believed to be broken by classical means at this point. Everyone doing anything with RSA is on 4k or larger.
> My main annoyance with surveillance in London is it wasn't good enough to catch the bastards

Well that’s the norm with all surveillance: it pretty much never helps you and might hurt you, regardless of the promises. Obviously after decades of constant spying, men are still getting ads intended for women and vice versa, and yet micro targeting is changing election outcomes. Banks and governments watch every single transaction, but it doesn’t reduce the administrative burden of compliance for tax paperwork. Airport experiences are worse than ever and at greater expense, but anyone with a few brain cells to rub together knows that it’s just security theater. Even more basically.. google reads all your email and searching for that exact phrase you know you read or wrote just a few weeks ago somehow turns up zero results.

This will all just get worse, because as the amount of data collected increases, everyone can be suspected of something just because of coincidence. Your insurance company is getting the memo about your poor diet or know that you’re driving too fast, and just won’t bother to find out about your healthy exercise regimen or that your job is driving an ambulance! To be presumed innocent you’ll need to opt into more data collection or disclosures of course, that’s the way it goes, but this only makes things worse because the extra data is just more stuff that can be used in a case against you.
How did you build your own data center? Is it in your house, or renting a place somewhere? How much did it cost?

I would be curious about any details you can share.
then how will I have time to flash my sign to the audience that says "uh-oh"?
Why would you think drug abuse and mental illness cause people to become unsheltered rather than the other way around?

I feel like a lot of commenters here have never experienced poverty and chronic stress.
*Without descending into a madness that decentralizes your very thought process and identity
I'm sure you could use all polymer capacitors and no electrolytics if you did everything digitally. Audiophiles probably wouldn't like that though.
> Does this actually prove that antimatter necessarily exists?

Antimatter definitely exists, it is detectable, and used; e.g, PET scans use positrons (anti-electrons), and there have been experiments (only in animal models last I knew) with anti-proton radiotherapy for cancers.

This is the first evidence of a particular configuration of antimatter, not the first evidence of antimatter.
It is an exotic nucleus composed of two protons, one neutron, and one lambda particle (which is a type of hyperon -fermions with three quarks- containing a strange quark). This configuration distinguishes it from regular helium-4, which consists solely of protons and neutrons. The inclusion of a lambda particle introduces "strangeness" into the nucleus, making it a hypernucleus [1].

PS: By exotic here it I use the term as used by particle physicists which just mean not your ordinary stuff discussed in the "popular" working groups. Not the linguistic meaning of the word exotic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernucleus
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Of course Millers is the best book, I'm just joshing.

He created the language.

And I'd argue it's more than just a "language", it's a creative
paradigm.

What's more TTEM is still available for free download from World
Scientific Press, whereas MIT allowed me only to make a subset of mine
free.

Another thing of note; Miller has carefully conserved the development
of Vanilla Pd such that every example in his book (and mine) still
work exactly as they did more than 10 years ago. How many languages
can boast that stability?
They've gone the route of multiple AWS accounts in my company to avoid the issue they introduced with horrible planning.

First they wanted us out of on-premise, and told us costs wouldn't matter.

Then they wanted us to be 'cloud agnostic', but when given deadlines changed to 'get it working in AWS ASAP, doesn't matter the tech debt'

Now they're freaking out about AWS costs, and we're back to juggling 'cloud agnostic' and 'reduce cost to serve in all clouds' priorities on top of features and maintenance, both of which are 10x slower due to tech debt and the plethora of bugs.

I really need to find a new job soon. Its insane how badly the execs and upper management are running this company. Every day is a knee jerk reaction from someone so detached from the reality of things or with so little understanding how it works, they do nothing but add process problems that barely address the issues they think they're solving.
Why login to get public data?
Brazilian government is making difficult to download data (requesting login or captchas or putting slow servers) and they say is a MUST to check this data before trading with farms. So why would you not let people download the data if they do not have one option on it?
Seems like Microsoft is intentionally doing a leftpad. One day people are going to wake up and a host of CI pipelines and the like will start failing.

NPM, Maven and other package management systems don't generally allow revoking older libraries for security flaws. The pain from this if it goes through will be felt widely.
Their loss. I'm not touching them with a ten foot pole unless they acknowledge what went wrong and what they will do to make sure they don't fuck up like this again.
Don’t worry, you are.
There’s also a huge difference in what people, even children, expect when sitting down to watch a movie versus seeing a clip of some funny cat/seal hybrid playing football while I’m looking for the Bluey episode we left off on. My daughter is almost five and cautiously asks “is that real?” about a lot of things now. It definitely makes me work harder when trying to explain the things that don’t look real but actually are; one could definitely feel like it takes some of the magic away from moments. I feel alright in my ability to handle it, it’s my responsibility to try, but it isn’t as simple as the Looney Tunes argument or, I believe, dramatic effects in movies and TV.
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Me too. While I'm generally optimistic about generative art, at this point the models still have this dreamlike quality; things look OK at first glance, but you often get the feeling something is off. Because it is. Texture, geometry, lights, shadows, effects of gravity, etc. are more or less inconsistent.

I do worry that, as we get exposed more and more to such art, we'll become less sensitive to this feeling, which effectively means we'll become less calibrated to actual reality. I worry this will screw with people's "system 1" intuitions long-term (but then I can't say exactly how; I guess we'll find out soon enough).
Hmm ... you're right, I could have worded that differently to help people like you understand the point being made.

s/domain names are not/DNS is not/
Information-dense written words are beneficial in the corporate setting too. We just call them "executive summaries".
Fair. That study on writing only new things in Rust was surprising!
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...

I do think for an OS/Kernel, it's worth having everything in a memory-safe language, and possibly worth formal verification too, if the very core of it is small enough…
sorry for the tangent: can't remember a launch they've had where you could just use it. it's always "rollout", "later this quarter", "select users", what's the deal here?

it's given openai this tinge to me that i probably won't ever manage to forget.
I'm sure it depends on the person. Some people like to see raw numbers, others a more general problem.
It depends on the algorithm you use to encrypt your data.

Only asymmetric cryptography is threatened. There is no realistic threat to symmetric encryption like AES.

If you are encrypting your cloud data with ed25519 or RSA, then yes, a quantum computer could theoretically someday crack them.
Don't be an asshole. When learning to fly, learn by starting on the ground first, not from a tall building. --Bill Hicks
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https://github.com/mahmoudimus/py2star
and how about regimes where people think they have a right to other peoples life? history would suggest that this mindset means that people are outright gonna get slaughtered.

buy a gun and bearspray, if you dont want to have bears invade your property, put a fence. If someone doesnt want to pay for that and risk it, well, I am kinda okay with that too. If someone breaks their legs and needs help to complete their bear fence, I will help them too, but if they DEMAND and insist they have a god(=government) granted right to force me to help them with their fence under the threat of imprisonment, I will not, and I will consider them criminals as they are
Correct. The laws of quantum mechanics (used for building quantum computers among other things) make very little assumptions on the nature of the universe, and support multiple interpretations, many-worlds being only one of them.

Quantum mechanics is a tool to calculate observable values, and this tool works very successfully without needing to make strong assumptions about the nature of the universe.
Exploring via Search can become O(1) instead of M^N
I somehow doubt it's (lack of) technology that's stopping you from creating your ideas.
Ok but I guess once again we end up at rust.

Rust has its fair share of corners and weird syntax.

It also has missing features so to speak.

Go evolves at a more cautious pace, and is actually more successful. To the extent that rust also borrowed from Go.

The point is not even comparison but I'm still unconvinced about the whole, ignoring everything.

Minimalism, caution, and starting from first principles with a clean slate is obviously the right choice.
I worry about sets and consideration of edge cases. Legal, programmatic, medical. Adhering to a convention that presupposes meaning and claim that interpretation is the only interpretation, cannot be resolved with repetition. I remain unconvinced.
Bullet point lists aren't always the most optimal. Anything longer than 6 bullet points actually reads worse.
I would assume that the possibility space has a truth axis relative to which the whole space can be inverted.
eh, they will add a quantum-resistant signature scheme (already a well-understood thing) then people can transfer their funds to the new addresses before it is viable to crack the existing addresses
This is really great advice not just for this situation but in general really. For the proxies/what goes in front, I recommend cloudflare workers.
I wonder if anyone else will be forced to wait on https://scottaaronson.blog/ to tell us if this is significant.
My last sentence. Or which parameter do you think was modified?
A bit over 4 hours at 18 billion per second, but yea. Impressively fast and also a completely reasonable amount of time for an attempt - the CPU version was 10m per second, which is most of a year to search the whole space.
My guess is that you are confusing "antimatter" and "dark matter".

If you want some antimmater, you can go to your nearby physics suply store and buy some radioactive material that produce positrons. It's quite easy. (Radioactive material may be dangerous. Don't fool with that!) If you want antiprotons or antihydrogen, you need a huge particle acelerator. They make plenty of antiprotons in the CERN, to make colisions. They are very difficult to store, so they survive a very short time on Earth.

Dark matter is very different. We have some experimental resuls that don't match the current physics theories. The current best guess is that there is some matter that we can't see for some reason. Nobody is sure what it is. Perhaps it's made of very dark big objects or perhaps it's made of tiny particles that don't interact with light. (I'm not sure the current favorite version in the area.) Anyway, some people don't like "dark matter" and prefer to change the theories, but the proposed new theories also don't match the experimental results.
bitcoin proof of work is not as impacted by quantum computers - grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speedup for unstructured search - so SHA256 ends up with 128 bits of security for pre-image resistance. BTC can easily move to SHA512.

symmetric ciphers would have similar properties (AES, CHACHA20). Asymmetric encryption atm would use ECDH (which breaks) to generate a key for use with symmetric ciphers - Kyber provides a PQC KEM for this.

So, the situation isn't as bad. We're well positioned in cryptography to handle a PQC world.
and a few extinctions!
That's really nice. On a side note, do you happen to know where (other than Ebay) one can get reliable supply of 12-inch iBook G4 batteries?
The Amazon story recreated the origin story of scrum, in 1986.

The "crushing" is taking its sweet time

https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game

https://www.se.rit.edu/~swen-356/resources/TheNewProductDeve...
I have only seen bitemporality being useful in two contexts. 1 is a timeseries store which as I say usually 2 tables is all you need. Secondly is an EAV (entity/attribute/value store) which is just one table. So again entirely manageable. I’ve seen it work just fine with 10s of thousands of logical timeseries and billions of ticks or entities up to the millions without much of an issue. You definitely don’t need a special database and if anything the special database would probably scale worse than normal databases of the kind I’ve mentioned.
The full essay is available on Gwern's site - https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/humor/1922-kafka-investigation...
This is one of the worst article I read on this topic. The author is confusing the structure (pyramid versus network) with the type of leadership (authority versus direction and autonomy).
Yep. Basically the same reason there are so many lua implementations, or WASM ones.
I kinda think everything before the century is retro. But I guess it's personal.
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After seemingly acting so carefully right before and after the shooting I’m perplexed as to why he had so much evidence still on him (Gun/silencer, Fake ID, manifesto) during the arrest. One would think he would have discarded or destroyed those things as soon as possible after the incident.
One good reason is that you can try stuff that would screw your laptop. Whereas with a pi it's just flashing the card again.

I used to work for a company that sold pi kits for schools, you could let 7-9 year olds try stuff that teachers and parents would not let them do to a laptop. Totally breaking a computer and fixing it again is a great experience, but not one you want to have on your primary machine
Do you work for Tesla FSD? That's exactly their stance. If I'm still dependent, then it doesn't do what it says on the tin. I want my money back.
Not a bad point, those representations have, in some cases, caused widespread misunderstandings among people who learn about those concepts from movies... and this is all while simultaneously knowing "it's just a movie".
It is money that Blackrock does control (hence under management). So when they move money, the market does feel it.

xAI has yet to actually move the market needle, other than getting venture capitalists to sign away money they would have done otherwise.
SD does not generate video, does it?
Yeah I mean I would never pay you for anything.

You’ve convinced me that you’re small and know very little about the subject matter.

You don’t need to reply to this. I’m done with this convo.
A minimum setting video took an hour 480p 5s 1:1. Servers getting cooked
You are half right. Its funny because I use the same same. Mine is "A picture is worth a thousand words. thats why it takes 1000 words to describe the exact image that you want! Much better to just use Image to Image instead".

Thats my full quote on this topic. And I think it stands. Sure, people won't describe a picture. instead, they will take an existing picture or video, and do modifications of it, using AI. That is much much simpler and more useful, if you can file a scene, and then animate it later with AI.
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Are they still using CPUs and not GPUs for rendering?

Weren't the rendering algos ported to CUDA yet?
YouTube Shorts are full of AI animal videos with distorted proportions, living in the wrong habitat, and so on. They popped up on my son’s account and I hate them for the reasons you outline. They aren’t cartoonish enough explain away, nor realistic enough to be educational.
Young generation that will grow up with this tools will have completely different approach to anything virtual. Remember how prople though that camera stole part of their soul when they see themselves copied on picture?
It is a good point…

Although, plenty of kids have tied a blanket around their necks and jumped off some furniture or a low roof, right? Breaking a leg or twisting an ankle in their attempt to imitate their favorite animated superhero.
Damn this really looks nice. Will join.
How do you reliably compare it with the GPT-4 released in March 2023?
> This means that I have to try to guess the state of mind of the questioner rather than solve a logic problem

That is an excellent way to put it!

It explains why it appeals to non-math people. They are (usually) better at these more verbal-based games ime.
they certainly can't hang out together for very long :)
Forget about restaurants. The problem is the same goes for reviews on more vital businesses like doctors.
My understanding is that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution is the clear legal basis of birthright citizenship. If a provision of the constitution can be struck down by an executive order, what basis do any laws have, and under what circumstances can we rely on them?
I’d ask, “have we worked together?” since this is a spot on description of my former employer, except it’s probably a spot on description of thousands of mid sized companies.
no one is shooting blockbuster-grade CGI for stock footage though; the casualness of this is what will be the most impactful
Non of that honkey ponkey is needed if you just give up locality and a hard deterministic explanation like De-Broglie-Bohm gives all the same correct measurements and conclusions like Copenhagen interpretation without multiverses and "wave function collapses".

Copenhagen interpretation is just "easier" (like oops all our calculations about the univers don't seemt to fit, lets invent "dark matter") when the correct explanations makes any real world calculation practically impossible (thus ending most of physics further study) as any atom depends on every other atom at any time.
Over the years it’s hard to grok just how small ‘traditional’ media has become. Messing up programmatic and letting a ton of scam tech vendors take most of the money out of the system is a large part of that problem.

My experience is that the big vendors are better than scummy programmatic platforms in terms of ‘safety’ but even then not by much.

Even YouTube’s ‘for kids’ product consistently has scandals break out about it which says where the company’s priorities are.
And as IDE for Sony and PlayStation toolchains.

While Microsoft has embraced clang as well, including on XBox, I am certain it does not consume all Windows SDKs, not yet.
Why keep building AI to do the things that people find fun to do rather than the mundane bullshit? All we’ll be left with is cleaning, folding laundry, and doing the dishes while AI does all the interesting things.
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Do not forget though that not all CRTs were made the same. There was a huge variation in dot pitch, or even the "subpixel layout" (think Trinitron). Also, not all CRTs had nice black levels; either the screen still reflected/scattered a lot of ambient light, or some CRTs just had a black offset level that ensured even fully black pixels still emitted some light, or a combination of both. Phosphor decay times also varied.

The graphics cards themselves also mattered, RAMDACs aren't perfect.
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I’d prefer the passive data never existed, it’s actively collected and that activity can be banned. Meaning, when I’m on strava I’m actively collecting data and have opted in to that. But, if I’m jogging, I didn’t opt in to the cameras on every pole using facial recognition to triangulate my location (my face + camera location = my location) and so I think this is a bit of an overreach.

Just like everyone though, I’m just going to gripe here and move on with my life as the mass surveillance infrastructure rollout proceeds
A picture is worth a thousand words.

A word is worth a thousand pictures. (E.g Love)

It is abstraction all the way
That's the optimistic version and in theory I would agree - it will be a great enhancer of creativity for some poeple.

But mostly it will end up like the smartphones - we carry more computing power in our pockets that was used to send man to the moon, and instead of taking advantage of it to do great things, we are glued to this small screen several hours / day scrolling social medias nonsense. It's just human nature.
So is yours! Mine isn't, however. I am a hard-nosed real boy now.
Well, let's see...

NOT(FORALL(x): my-hat(x) -> green(x))

EXISTS(x): NOT(my-hat(x) -> green(x)) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_quantification#Negat...

EXISTS(x): NOT(NOT(my-hat(x)) OR green(x)) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_implication_(rule_of_...

EXISTS(x): NOT(NOT(my-hat(x)) AND NOT(green(x)) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws

EXISTS(x): my-hat(x) AND NOT(green(x)) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negation#Elimination_an... (note that this assumes non-intuitionistic logic)

EXISTS(x): my-hat(x) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_elimination

So yeah, the liar must have at least one (non-green) hat.
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration...
Erm... the syntax?
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I see. Well, I agree to an extent, but there's no clear agreement about what constitutes art with human-generated works either. There are examples of paintings where the human clearly "just" slapped some colors on a canvas, yet they're highly regarded in art circles. Just because something is low-effort doesn't mean it's not art, or worthy of merit.

So we could say the same thing about AI-generated art. Maybe most of it is low-effort, but why can't it be considered art? There is a separate topic about human emotion being a key component these generated works are missing, but art is in the eyes of the beholder, after all, so who are we to judge?

Mind you, I'm merely playing devil's advocate here. I think that all of this technology has deep implications we're only beginning to grapple with, and art is a small piece of the puzzle.