skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you understand that this is an extreme view? It’s a valid one…but extreme.

I’m not sure how air travel would even be banned practically speaking. Would your country ban it, or a global ban? I doubt all countries would agree to that. If your country bans air travel, I suspect many people would just leave your country to move to one that permits air travel, for a better quality of life. A ban only works if it’s banned globally.

Also, banning air travel means none of this is possible:

• professional sports (teams can’t travel)

• olympics

• flying for funerals, honeymoons, or for a better life (war refugees)

• MUCH slower package and mail delivery across the globe

• is medical travel allowed? Not all areas in the world have good specialists or can do all procedures.

• scientific research in the wild

• leisure travel for vacation, spending time with family, etc

I could go on. You personally may not care about any of that, but many people DO.

I don’t have children but I plan to someday. Yes each future generation will likely suffer more from climate change, we are on a bad trajectory. But guess what? Life itself is literally suffering. From birth until death. People may need to migrate to new regions that are less affected by climate change. That’s life…suffering. And the climate change train left the station a looooooooooong time ago after the industrial revolution and population explosion globally. Future generations would be better served by humanity being more aggressive with switching to renewable energy instead of trying to ruin fun for everyone alive today.

just my opinions. clearly we disagree here. Hope you have a nice day and thanks for reading lol. :)
The irony is that users want more freedom and fewer safeguards.

But these companies are rightfully worried about regulators and legislatures, often led by a pearl-clutching journalists, so we can't have nice things.
How would that even work? A dog has physical features (legs, nose, eyes, ears, etc.) that they use to interact with the world around them (ground, tree, grass, sounds, etc.). And each one of those things has physical structures that compose senses (nervous system, optic nerves, etc.). There are layers upon layers of intricate complexity that took eons to develop and a single photo cannot encapsulate that level of complexity and density of information. Even a 3D scan can't capture that level of information. There is an implicit understanding of the physical world that helps us make sense of images. For example, a dog with all four paws standing on grass is within the bounds of possibility; a dog with six paws, two of which are on it's head, are outside the bounds of possibility. An image generator doesn't understand that obvious delineation and just approximates likelihood.
could even't spell derp right. need food lol
I'd start here:

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rymy7ret6
The onus will be on the rest of society to defend itself from all the grift that will result from this.
> Here's a question that boils down what I'm trying to say: If you have a pet bird that sits next to you as you play Fallout New Vegas, and taps the keyboard occasionally, is your bird playing Fallout? Is playing Fallout a purely physical process?

With regard to your question about the bird, what do you suppose a 'yes' answer would imply, and ditto for a 'no'? It is unclear to me that this question would have any relevance to the one you follow it with, yet you present it as if an answer to the first question would settle the second.
it's equally stupid for a company of 10k. Even if you have poeple watching inboxes it still has to get routed up some kind of management chain before a response can be considered.
I answered it correctly, because it seems obvious to me, even though probably to some people it is not obvious.
The funny thing about the leaky gut truthers is that they aren't wrong about intestinal issues causing systemic inflammation... but they're still totally wrong about what those intestinal issues are and what the ensuing systemic inflammation looks like.

I guess "leaky gut causes autism" is more exciting than "Crohn's can give you eczema and uveitis" :P
Kudos to the researcher for finding this, and to the openwrt team for the impressive response.

I know that opnsense is preferred over pfsense when it comes to performance, but does openwrt compete at speeds at or above 10gig?
Google is betting on digital quantum computers.

There are, however, analog quantum computers, e.g. by Pasqal, which hope to capitalize on this to optimize AI-like high dimension optimization problems.
hurt people hurt people.
Generative AI is a waste of electricity by definition.
Does it support email filters? I'd love to manage my gmail filters programmatically or use a configuration file to manage them so I can reuse the filters across multiple emails.

Edit: there is a separate tool for this for gmail https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl
How everything became surgery
There's already techniques for controlling AI generated images. There's ControlNet for Stable Diffusion and there are already techniques to take existing footage and style-morphing it with AI. For larger budget productions I would anticipate video production tooling to arise where directors and animators have fine grained influence and control over the wireframes within a 3D scene to directly prevent or fix issues like clipping, volumetric changes, visual consistency, text generation, gravity, etc. Or even just them recording and producing their video in a lower budget format and then having it re-rendered with AI to set the style or mood but adhering to scene layout, perspective, timing, cuts, etc. Not just for mitigating AI errors but also just for controlling their vision of the final product.

Or they could simply brute force it by clipping the scene at the problem point and have it try, try again with another re-render iteration from that point until it's no longer problematic. Or just do the bulk of the work with AI and do video inpainting for small areas to fix or reserve the human CGI artists for fixing unmitigatable problems that crop up if they're fixable without full re-rendering (whichever probably ends up less expensive).

Plus with what we've recently seen with world models that have been released in the last week or so, AI will soon get better at having a full and accurate representation of the world it creates and future generations of this technology beyond what Sora is doing simply won't make these mistakes.
well, they are part of the original, canonical problem. it's not the original problem's fault if re-tellers omit key information.
I had a sacrificial fence (wood) on the aluminum fence to reduce blowout. I had the aluminum extend to near the blade to reduce the deflection of the whole thing. It was too close.

Really, I should have sacrificed a crosscut sled for dado usage, but it really chews them up.
Heh, this happened to me the other day. I had hooked it up to paypal and didn't realize it wasn't set up to autopay, so I had an outstanding balance of $8 for about a week and they nuked everything. It was just for a hobby project so it was no big deal and I'll provision a new server with them, but I'm not sure I'd use them for a serious project, even though their prices are good. Granted, if it was for a serious project, I would have spent more time and care setting stuff up.

The funny bit was I paid the invoice, and then my account remained suspended. When support finally got back to me a few days later, they said (and I quote)

Dear Client
We want to give you one last chance as a gesture of goodwill, so we revoked the cancellation for you.
Kind regards

which made my account accessible again. You'd think they'd be a little lenient for new accounts where the debit is less than $10, but I guess not.
That's what I thought. Last week, two of my domains were frozen by the TLD owner without notice, and they'd take them offline altogether in 7 days if I didn't supply some paperwork to my registrar

I've had these domains for ten years, now all of a sudden this is super urgent and if I'm on holiday that'd be a real shame I guess

So I contact the registrar and a link to the relevant legislation was sufficient to send them a perfectly agreeably censored version of my identity document (removing just irrelevant information they can't use or verify anyway), but apparently all they do is forward it to support@afnic.fr and not actually mark the domain holder as verified. So AFNIC, predictably, rejects it because GDPR doesn't exist in France

I saw no other choice but to send everything into AFNIC's email inbox / support system, which famously never get leaked and they assured me was "highly" secured when I asked to at least remove it after verification

With just 7 days' notice and half of that going to the distraction of a registrar, there's also no way to figure out what's even going on or have any sort of conversation. They hold all the cards and you jump when they say hop

I'm considering my options for any TLDs owned by AFNIC... evidently .io isn't better, but how to know who is
Do you think it would be good for Flemish too or speaking standard Dutch in Belgium?
You don't necessarily have to sue them in their place of registration if they're doing business elsewhere. "Defending trademark rights" probably counts as that.
OT, but does anyone have updates on potential for antihelium detection on the AMS aboard the ISS? Seems like they have a handful of detections, but aren't quite statistically good enough to be conclusive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Magnetic_Spectrometer
Great comment, which incidentally serves to illustrate just how much energy you can store in a flywheel.
co-develop := we are in f** around and f** out mode, please bear with us.
Think about it this way - banks are prohibited from asking certain questions. However, if they have a strong correlation with another factor, then they can ask that and get the same result.
> People love to take credit for their state of health, but mostly it is down to genes and luck.
There's plenty of evidence that combining a good diet with regular exercise can improve how long you may survive.
It responds with 4500 characters: https://hst.sh/olahososos.md
Erm what? It's very very obviously based on Python. The docs even explicitly say that. This is the example they give:

def fizz_buzz(n):
"""Print Fizz Buzz numbers from 1 to n."""
for i in range(1, n + 1):
s = ""
if i % 3 == 0:
s += "Fizz"
if i % 5 == 0:
s += "Buzz"
print(s if s else i)

fizz_buzz(20)

Does that look like YAML or TOML?
This is correct. I worked in quantum research a little.
Users, not tools, should be judged.

It is unlikely anyone is going to perform act of terrorism with this, or any kind of deep fakes that buy Easter European elections. The worst outcome is likely teens having a laugh.
That's true. Then again, complaints about "lack of firm creative vision, and clear evidence of design by committee over artist direction" is something I've seen levied against Disney for several years now; importantly, they started before generative AI found its way into major productions.

So, while GenAI tools make it easier to create superficially decent work that lacks creative intent, the studios managed to do it just fine with human intelligence only, suggesting the problem isn't AI, but the studios and their modern management policies.
> Plus the ancient mathematicians did very well with just their intuition.

They did. But they also got things wrong, such as thinking that pointwise limits are enough to carry over continuity (see here for this and other examples: https://mathoverflow.net/a/35558). Anyway, mathematics has changed as a discipline, we now have strong axiomatic foundations and they mean that we can, in principle, always verify whether a proof is correct.
No one is looking at her face though, they're looking at the giant hello kitty train. And you were only looking at her face because you were told it's an AI-generated video. I agree with superfrank that extreme skepticism of everything seen online is going to have to be the default, unfortunately.
To save others the clicking and scrolling (if you're mainly interested in the conclusion, as I was), the summary at the end says that the risk of fire starting in your battery energy storage (or in your EV) is lower than that of your average house fire (or in your ICE car). They liken the risk of a fire starting in the battery storage to that of fire starting in a clothes dryer. But, depending on the placement of your batteries in/around your home, the severity of a fire, if one should happen, could end up being worse than a fire that starts in some other household appliance.

I was pleased to read that the risk of fire is reasonable and low; I wasn't sure what to expect, but was afraid the conclusion would be that they're higher-risk. I suppose I expected to see the result that a fire that included large batteries could be a much worse fire. Li ion battery fires can be pretty bad, and those batteries are much larger than what you'd find in your phone or other small electronics.

I still would like to add rooftop solar to my house (even though California's metering system is all kinds of anti-rooftop-solar now). When I last looked into it a couple years ago, battery storage seemed like it was a little too pricey to be worth it, but it seems like that's been changing.
Exactly.

I’ve seen lots of people dismissing this as if it isn’t impressive or important. I’ve watched one video where the author said in a deprecating manner “quantum computers are good for just two things: generating random numbers and simulating quantum systems”.

It’s like saying “the thing is good for just two things: making funny noises and producing infinite energy”.

(Also, generating random numbers is pretty useful, but I digress)
I'll turn 70 next year and am about to do my first single arm pull up. I think, if you set yourself a goal - even an ambitious one - and keep pursuing it, by defintion you will improve your physique and ability. Just keep at it.
The problem is less with phoning home per se, and more about doing it in a way that's against user expectations. I already acknowledged that there are legitimate use cases out there, but for the overwhelming majority of users, their phone is primarily a communication and media consumption device, which doesn't need 24/7 background access. Yes, it's tragic that the handful of people are being harmed by this, but it's hardly because of "spite" as OP suggested.
Maybe, but alternative would be to not demo results with state of the art processing at all, which I wouldn't like either.
I think it's weirder to dig though my comment history and link to it.
Please don't take it as a personal attack, but you're 28 and from the way you're talking, it sounds like kids are not a priority for you right now, so apparently you want to do certain things before getting them. Many people who end up child-less are just like you - they don't actively decide "I'd rather game than have children", they just make excuses and postpone until it just doesn't work out at all.

One thing which I kind of regret about having children relatively late in my life (although I wasn't that much older when I had my first than you are now) is that I won't be there for them (and potentially grandchildren) as long as I wish I would be, esp. in good health. A depressing way to think about this is that every year I've enjoyed the freedom before them is a year I'm not going to spend with them.
This is why I raised an eyebrow when TFA wrote,

> When I saw this, I wondered why it has several inner hashes instead of using the raw string.

The inner hash constrains the alphabet on that portion of the input to the outer hash, thus easily letting you use a separator like "," or "|" without having to deal with the alphabet of the inner input, since it gets run through a hash. That is, for a very simplistic use case of two inputs a & b:

sha256(','.join(
[sha256(a), sha256(b)]
))

If one is familiar with a git tree or commit object, this shouldn't be unfamiliar.

Now … whether that's why there was an inner hash at that point in TFA's code is another question, but I don't think one should dismiss inner hashes altogether.
If your phone die, you replace it or do your operations at the ATM or at the counter during opening hours.

Replacing it is the problem. This can't be done at an ATM and if you're on a trip or you use an online bank, a counter may not be available.
> "The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music is a uniquely complete source of information for the computer synthesis of rich and interesting musical timbres."

It's really a great book, but it is far from "complete" as it omits some very important synthesis techniques - most notably granular synthesis and physical modeling! To be fair, no single book would be able to cover the entire spectrum of electronic sound synthesis. The second edition of "The Computer Music Tutorial" by Curtis Roads (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044912/the-computer-music-tu...) comes close, but it is a massive book with over 1200 pages and took literally decades to write. (The second edition has been published 27 years after the first edition!)

What I find really cool about Miller's book is that all examples are written in Pd so anyone can try them out and experiment further.
Take Shelter[0] (2011) is a great movie there, just not on the funny side.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Shelter
"Just don't make mistakes!"
If the worst we ultimately get from this kind of tech is grifting, I will consider that a very positive outcome.
The bear video is quite funny - two bear cubs merge into one and another cub appears out of the adult bear’s leg.
We put a 15 kWh battery storage system in our garage and had to build a fire-rated room around it with a 60-minute fire-rated door to maintain code -- which is a pretty heavy weight steel door. It wasn't easy. All to maintain county code. The funny part is by the time we got the inspection, the fire department had a new inspector and he said "wow, you did all of this for the battery?"
I used Nexus a decade ago, and they didn’t even have simple video calling figured out. There was a new app every month.

Also, a Nexus wasn’t $200 in 2014, and in no way was a $200 mobile phone in 2014 as good as a $500 iPhone (or any other $500 phone).
> Anyway, some people don't like "dark matter" and prefer to change the theories

It seems a bit more complicated than that, mostly because the vulgarization often available too is quite bad to explain the issue.

My understanding:

- Our current theories fail to predict/match an array of observations, as if more matter than what we can detect exist. Some scientists called that the "dark matter problem", that's what most physicists working on the subject refer to when they talk about "dark matter".

- Every theory you talked about: dark matter big objects, dark matter particles AND the "change the theories" (i guess you talk about the Modified Newtonian dynamics, where you alter Newton's second law at low speed to match some observations) are dark matter theories: theories that tries to explain why the universe act as it is, not matching our current theories, either by adding new things, or by modifying our discovered laws to match our observations. Each of those theories have multiple branch investigated.

- the "dark matter particle theory" is sometime vulgarized as "dark matter" on podcasts or in books/articles. This is because more scientists work on particle physics than on gravity or astrophysics (my country present like 3 astrophysics thesis each year, and dozens of particle physics thesis). I think this caused a huge misunderstanding.

- Some people with a common understanding (like mine, i meant non-physicists, it's absolutely not derogatory) like MOND because philosophically it is quite nice, and also tend to draw in people with minority/anti-etablishment habitus[0] (cf: most physicists working on those subjects are particle physicists). I'm not saying this theory is worse than the others at all, i'm just saying that the kind of layperson drawn to it can be _really_ sure they're right and profess their beliefs everywhere, and sometime claim that "MOND isn't dark matter", when they really confuse dark matter as a problem to be solved with "dark matter particle theory". Misunderstanding happen to everyone btw, it's really not a big issue.

In case you did not talk about MOND but about theories that claim that the issue are with our tools to observe at a distance, some theories include that to explain some of the inconsistencies, never all of them, and those theories seems to really be a minority atm, so hopefull it wasn't about that.

[0] Also, those habitus seems to draw in grifters who know they can make quick bucks by selling books/conferences if they look convincing enough, which is why MOND has a weird reputation now, but absolutely serious physicists and mathematicians work on the subject very, very seriously.
I don't think it needs to be illegal – it should be enough to just hold companies responsible for the consequences, just like they are for using any other kind of technical system without appropriate supervision.
What we know about CEO shooting suspect
> Ok but I guess once again we end up at rust.

Yeah I guess because it is really good.

> Rust has its fair share of corners and weird syntax.

True, but IMO they're in smaller bits of the language, like trait bounds. Not something as basic as blocks, function calls or variable declaration.

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

Go is more successful because it is older. Give it a few years. I actually don't know of a single feature Rust has borrowed from Go. It is not even listed as an influence:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html

> Minimalism, caution, and starting from first principles with a clean slate is obviously the right choice.

Throwing away learnings from other languages is pretty clearly a bad choice IMO. It would be like creating a new language where everything is nullable... oh.
There are at least 2 problems with this setup (besides the fact that brightness and colors are a lot better on hue then on any of the others)
1) non hue lights wont be homekit compatible (they dont even get exposed to homekit)
2) non hue lights cant be used in multimedia zones so no ambilight there
Make AI Mediocre Again – Cadbury 5 Star Ad [video]
> musical traditions where the expressive content primarily comes from timbre and synthesizers are common instruments

What traditions are you alluding to?
Chessbase is one of those pieces of software that would be completely eaten by a cheaper alternative if the market was bigger. $400+ for a single download, selling mostly open source data, and it looks like it was made in 1998.

The thing is, there is money in chess but not that much money. There will never be a unicorn in chess software.
It's disheartening that what is essentially a fully synthetic study (using the opinions of 10 people that mostly aren't programmers to train a model that only examines literal commit activity and then come to a conclusion that many thousands of people do nothing at work all day and can be safely laid off) can be used to grab headlines in this way.

PR firms all over the world are taking very detailed notes about this, since it's a template to push essentially any narrative they want about anything but with the veneer of it being a "study" and therefore in some sense scientific and rational. This will only further tarnish the brand of science and rationality.
How much did that cost, as a percent of the total cost of the system you built? My feeling is that a requirement like that could make the project financially infeasible for a lot of people.
I agree. The one shining hope I have is the incredible art and animation style of Fortiche[0]'s Arcane[1] series. Watch that, and then watch any recent (and identikit) Pixar movie, and they are just streets ahead. It's just brilliant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortiche

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcane_(TV_series)