skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey now, no need to downplay the product here, it's also useful for spamming other video sharing platforms! Think Facebook timelines, which are already full of AI image barf, Twitter feeds, which mostly consist of AI text barf, and Youtube Shorts, which is full of existing AI animation barf!

Soon, lots of people can pay a modest sum to make the internet just a worse for everyone in exchange for a chance to make their money back!
That's not the upstream source. You're looking for this:

https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo/

This isn't "too good to be true" - this is the holy grail. Hunyuan is set to become the Flux/Stable Diffusion of AI video.

I don't see how Hunyuan doesn't completely kill off Sora. It's 100% open source, is rapidly being developed for consumer PCs, can be fine tuned, works with ComfyUI/other tools, and it has control nets.
The biggest issue I see here is the misguided assumption that Cloud is just automatically and unilaterally better than on-premise or professionally managed, hosted hardware. This isn't true in most cases.

There are so many providers, and therefore examples, of physical tin being accessible in under a minute with cost:hardware ratios that blow Cloud out if the sky (pun! ha!) OVH have a server for USD $95/month (with no commitments) that can be brought up and made available 120 _seconds_ that has six 3.8GHz cores, 32GB of RAM, 2x960GB NVMe SSDs, and 1Gbit/s of UNMETERED, guaranteed bandwidth... that's absolutely insane, and that's fully managed from the hardware down, so arguments like, "bUT yoU haVe to MAintAin hardWARE!" are just not true _at all_.
>The next step is to automatically add "nodes" to the 3D images where the model can pivot, rotate and whatnot and then boom, you have on-demand animated, interactive content.

The next step is to generate models with higher quality mesh topology that allows animation and editing without breaking the mesh. I've done a lot of retopologizing and if I (or AI) were to rig these models as-is there would be all kinds of shading and deformation issues. Even without animating they are glaringly triangulated up close. But I suspect really high quality 3D asset generation is just around the corner because all you'd have to do is join up the approach seen here with AI quad re-meshing based on estimated direction fields and feature detection, which is also getting scarily good.
I agree it's an issue, you're describing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law . How do we fix it though?
If you use it in a utilitarian way it'll give you a run for your money, if you use for expression, such as art, learning to embrace some serendipity, it makes good stuff.
Also a good point. If each gallon of gasoline is equivalent to about 33kWh of energy, I could have 1.3MWh stored in two ICE powered cars. I guess it’s harder to put out a battery fire than a gas fire?
The ACA caps health insurers' profits. When you say "the healthcare industry", you're confusing insurers and providers, who are not allied.

Doctors (the AMA) killed the public option because it would save money by lowering their salaries. American healthcare is expensive because of providers.

(Another example is that we banned opening new hospitals unless nearby competing hospitals approve of it. This is called "certificate of need".)
Are you saying you're not glad that the EU has chosen for you?

I would ask an AI to generate a riff on a "I am the very model of a modern major general" but for some EU bureaucrat but I'll spare you the spam.
I feel like this conversation isn't complete without referencing Hillel Wayne's "Are We Really Engineers?"

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
> The Schrödinger equation inherently contains a multiverse.

Just to be clear, where in the Schrödinger equation (iħψ̇ = Hψ) is the "multiverse"?
Red Dead Redemption video game series features the Pinkertons:

https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective...
> Dude thought he was smarter the cops. It would appear he wasn't smart enough.

He outwitted them for long enough to get his arrangements in order, kill someone else, or himself if he chose to. Given his flippant reluctance to leave the area and stay in PA, it really does seem like he was just waiting to see how long it would take for them to find him.
Debanking (and Debunking?)
Nit

https://github.com/lnmangione

...."Active" GitHub?
Curious, what kinds of things are you all gonna make with Sora?

Personally, I think I'll just be making weird memes to send to my friends!
"This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom"
They're already too slow. Hunyuan Video came out a few days ago and beats them on every metric.

Hunyuan is 100% open source and it's set to become the Stable Diffusion / Flux of AI video.

https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo/
I think the process of learning is in fact making larger pictures into smaller quotes and this does not help learning in the way that it’s trying to. The process of diluting context is something that fundamentally must happen inside a person and trying to replace that with Ai is contrary to the point.

I do find significant use for this in something like review and considering the legibility of my own note taking, that is one handsome solution.
Thanks for responding! Welcome to HN!

I write long form text posts as well, so I appreciate the format. It just had a number of things that didn't seem quite right to me, being in similar deep technical weeds.

Now try the attack on Qubes. ;)
The shooter is from one of the richest families in Maryland and is richer than the guy he shot. His cousin is a state congressman.
> for good cause

Did you miss this part?
Not the Pinkertons, but John Sayle's Matewan from 1987 features the Baldwin-Felts agency behaving similarly.
Knowing that you'll absolutely generate false positives and not providing a method of automatically fixing those would be a deliberate action, not recklessness or negligence. I wouldn't be surprised to find code that pings staff based on account size.

It seems like providers could remove themselves from the situation by just giving their clients a "fair use!" response button?
The Unabomber case was more complex to track [1]. I'm not suggesting it was because he had a higher IQ, as someone with an average IQ could have executed similar actions successfully.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
GP-SIMD Processing-in-Memory (2015)
I can't relate to per-year risk percentage numbers. But the inverse is quite illustrative I find. Here is the expected time between events for each category according to the paper:

General house fire: 360 years

ICE fire: 1100 years

EV fire: 4200 years

Battery storage fire: 20'000 years

Tumble dryer fire: 27'000 years

PV system fire: 71'000 years

This way I can understand that while I might see my house burn, the battery storage is very unlikely to pop in my lifetime. Because these numbers are not very accurate anyway, I've rounded to two digits. The authors note that the number for battery storage in particular are very unreliable.

On the other hand: just looking at probabilities of events does not tell you how lethal or destructive the event will be. And lithium fires are very bad in both categories. Comparing to tumble dryers is not very useful when you factor in the properties of the fire. Quite possibly the danger to life is higher with an EV compared to an ICE, even if the ICE is assumed to catch fire at four times the rate of the EV. In addition, the wear-out failure rate of EV is to be discovered yet, because the fleet is so young. The EV rate may still climb. Or maybe battery manufacturers improve and the danger will be reduced? Some things do get better after all!
Do you think that having a default of "Delay, Deny, Defend" is a good-faith approach to healthcare?

Cuz sure seems like you're on the side of DDD by default.
In what universe are the politicians and healthcare companies not in cahoots? Like the rest of our industries?
the rainbow colored marshmallows tip them off.
It's hard not to see this person as being the fall guy.
Oh right! I remember now. That meme was from xkcd.
YouTube is not doing the bare legal minimum IIRC.

For instance the three strike system that results in your entire channel being demonetized is not required by law.

Additionally they could work with creators to get them in touch with people who can help rather than relying on social media to forward them the worst instances.
RunwayML too but not sure they also won't get commoditized by OSS video generation.
Selected the left hand of the guy (hand on the right from our perspective) dribbling the soccer ball and it ends up highlighting both arms after a mid-point frame where the left arm is only partially occluded by his body. Very interesting that it will go from tracking a single discrete object to multiple discrete objects.
I think the idea here is that the choice on which hypothesis to verify is based on the risk assessment of the scientist whose goal is to optimize successful results and hence better theories are more likely to surface. In this way one does not need to form a consensus around the theory but instead make consensus on what constitutes a successful result.

Ideally this would be true, but funding agencies are already preloaded with implicit asssumptions what constitutes a scientific progress.
He took his mask off at the hostel, the kind of place that often requires its employees to verify that a photo ID matches the holder’s face. “Let me see you smile” is a common thing that service employees learn to say to get strangers to take off their masks without angering them
Or push their luck to the limit because they think they’re invincible. To be fair I was losing confidence they’d ever find him until today.
I've had the same experience with them and OVH. I've yet to try the other players in the market like Scaleway.
Sure, but that is not what people will read when you say "I built my own data center".

"I setup my own server" would be a lot less misleading.
After encoding the models are usually cascaded either with a LLM or a diffusion model.

Natural Image-> Sequence of token, but not all possible sequence of token will be reachable. Like plenty of letters put together form non-sensical words.

Sequence of token -> Natural Image : if the initial sequence of token is unsensical the Natural image will be garbage.

So usually you then modelize the sequence of token so that it produce sensical sequences of token, like you would with a LLM, and you use the LLM to generate more tokens. It also gives you a natural interface to control the generation of token. You can express with words what modifications to the image you should do. Which will allow you to find the golden sequence of token which correspond to the mona-lisa by dialoguing with the LLM, which has been trained to translate from english to visual-word sequence.

Alternatively instead of a LLM you can use a diffusion model, the visual words usually are continuous, but you can displace them iteratively with text using things like "controlnet" (stable diffusion).
Outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains
I didn't post the full thing because the clarity is still vague and that it ended on the full-stop.

"Such good cause is deemed to exist, among other reasons, if the Customer fails to meet its payment obligations or violates other important customer obligations."

https://www.hetzner.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/
At 1:20, a small bit of text pops up in the lower right, just right of the "Soon..." which says "Dec 11th".
Disinformation spreads so fast, ‘cause we’re glued to our screens all day.

Apps like Roots help cut down on mindless scrolling w/ features like app limits & downtime. Less time scrolling = more time to focus on real, verified info and staying intentional online.
> I would not say that the first gen of Zen is was a clear winner over Skylake.

In 2017, I would not have said that either for Zen 1 without qualification[1]. Zen 3 on the other hand, was a winner.

That said, 1st gen Zen had better bang-for-buck than Intel, for multicore workloads - in my case, I had built a workstation and thr equivalent intel build would have cost much more, expensive Ryzen motherboards notwithstanding.

1. In my comparison as I buyer, I didn't compare Intel and AMD processors by core count, but by what I'd get with my budget. The AMD build I eent with was better than an intel build for the same amount of money.
You don't need to worry. Open source video is already pulling ahead of closed source.

Hunyuan [1] is better than Sora Turbo and is 100% open source. It's got fine tuning code, LoRA training code, multiple modalities, controlnets, ComfyUI compatibility, and is rapidly growing an ecosystem around it.

Hunyuan is going to be the Stable Diffusion / Flux for video, and that doesn't bode well for Sora. Nobody even uses Dall-E in conversation anymore, and I expect the same to hold true for closed source foundation video models.

And if one company developing foundation video models in the open isn't good enough, then Lightricks' LTX and Genmo's Mochi should provide additional reassurance that this is going to be commoditized and made readily available to everyone.

I've even heard from the Banodoco [2] grapevine that Meta is considering releasing their foundation video model as open source.

[1] https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo/

[2] Banodoco is one of the best communities for open source foundation AI video; https://banodoco.ai/
This sounds uncannily similar to Barbara Minto's "Pyramid Principle"…
D'oh. Yep, it was re-diluted uranium.

MOX fuel is used by Europeans, though.
I'd like to see wider adoption of battery swaps. This would mostly solve the problems you describe.

https://www.gogoro.com/gogoro-network/
That depends on whether you think that MWI is making claims beyond what QM claims, or if you think that MWI is just a restatement of QM from another perspective. If the latter then the falsifiability of MWI is exactly the same as the falsifiability of QM itself.
Do endgame tables take the 50 turn rule into account?
>What do you think is a reasonable profit margin for a for-profit insurance company?

Healthcare should not be for-profit, full stop.

>How many people are dead because you didn’t personally volunteer all of your disposable income to pay for their medical care?

A false equivalency that is so disingenuous that it feels intentional.

>Why are you more entitled to your earnings than UHC?

I'd be happy to have my earnings taxed more so that everyone could have equal access to healthcare. That's why I voted for Sanders in 2016.

But hey, keep trying to insinuate that I'm super greedy!
Jet-Validators
This is a list of common typescript validator functions to shorten your application's boolean logic. It also contains some utility functions for transforming values before validating them and also validating object schemas. It isn't meant to replace complex schema validation libraries like zod, it just a big list of simple validators.

Link: https://github.com/seanpmaxwell/jet-validators

Background:

So under my projects utils/ folder I had a long and growing list of validator functions. It got so big I decided to make a separate repo for it (https://github.com/seanpmaxwell/ts-validators/tree/master) so I could copy and paste the functions to multiple projects.

Due to positive feedback for the repo on reddit and to avoid having to update multiple projects whenever the logic for a validator-function changed I decided to create a library for my validator functions:
it’s everywhere now hard to avoid but tbf Apps like Roots make it easier to set limits and be more mindful. Stuff like tracking usage and scheduling downtime can really help break the cycle and stay more present IRL.

Balance feels harder to find, but it’s doable.
I personally like using it for my monorepo projects. At least for Java the Maven dependencies for all of the services get defined in a single top-level MODULE.bazel file which prevents drift in the dependency versions I'm using across the project.

I'm sure it's possible to do the exact same thing in <NAME ANOTHER BUILD TOOL>, but I found it to be easy enough in Bazel without the configuration being overly verbose.
>They got to experience grief but no living thing was actually harmed.

Except for the kids, that is, who've got hit by unneeded and unexpected grief.

Yay.
Which edition? There seem to be several.
The whole video was probably mirrored before being posted. Doesn't seem to be related to being AI generated.
There has been an idea that quark matter with roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks could be absolutely stable, the ground state of nuclear matter. Ordinary charged nuclear matter would be inhibited from converting to it (or being absorbed into it) by a strong potential barrier at its surface. However, if this were true neutron stars would actually be quark stars. There is some evidence that this isn't so, so the theory is not held to be very likely these days.
GoFundMes for Luigi Mangione's Legal Defense Emerge After Police ID Him
If this slop is what you consider a revolution, I dread to see what else the SV visionaries come up with next. Perhaps some iris scans in exchange for fake digital currency? Oh wait, Mr Worldcoin Altman already got us covered there!
Closely related: The idea that a market-priced transaction is fundamentally neutral and creates a moral and ethical firewall between both halves.

Satirical example: "Okay, so maybe we knowingly sold guns and mustard-gas to the Elbonian death-squads which they used to kill millions during the genocide, but it's not our fault they were the highest bidder. You can't blame us for a perfectly moral transaction because all parties made a voluntary agreement to exchange goods. In fact, it's people like you who are the real evil ones here, trying to infringe on my right to do whatever I want with my property!"
That’s a false dichotomy.

The correct answer is “both, they are willing accomplices”.
Can you use Starlark inside Python? We have a rules engine where we'd like the rules themselves to be maintained outside the regular codebase, but we'd rather not invent a new DSL for them.
Location: Newcastle, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Typescript, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/keloran

Email: jobs[at]develbox[dot]info
It flashes "Dec 11th" at the 1:20 mark. I thought for sure this must be a prank, but the account says "Joined Jan 20, 2024". It seems it's possible to change your YouTube username, though. Could it be that it was a different account and someone just changed the username as a troll?
I like the picture, but I'd be more impressed with the exploration argument if we were collectively actually doing a good job giving recognition to original and substantial works that already exist.
It'd be of greater service in that regard to create a high-quality artificial stand-in for that limited-quantity "attention" and "engagement" all the bloodsuckers seem so keen on harvesting.

(And I do blame the advertisers, but frankly anyone handing them new amplifiers, with entirely predictable consequences, is also not blameless.)
That’s not the problem being solved. If it were, the answer would be to pay out the same amount taken in. As evidenced by the fact that the company in question has investor meetings, the problem being solved is to pay out as little relative the amount taken in.
Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler
Why OpenAI is only letting some Sora users create videos of real people
People who do nothing is not an issue compared to people who can create issues that may require 10-100 times more time to fix (I've never seen 10x engineer but I've seen those that make their team 0.1 as productive as it could be).
I'm holding out for 105
shameless plug: i wrote emlv[1] (EMaiL Viewer) in the same mindset. it displays raw email files on the terminal.

[1] https://codeberg.org/hband/gemlv#emlv
https://www.alexirpan.com/2015/09/09/the-other-two-envelope-...

If your solution is the same as this article's, it's plain wrong. Even the natural number case is plain strong.

It's very easy to demostrate as well: consider a trivia case where the distribution is just {P(1)=1/3, P(2)=1/3, P(3)=1/3} and you see 2 in the first envelope. There is no strategy to get a better chance than 50%. Therefore, any strategy that gives a better chance than 50% must implicitly make an assumption over the initial distribution (and therefore excludes a distribution like {P(1)=1/3, P(2)=1/3, P(3)=1/3})

Actually the article is even "wronger" than this, because "started A" and "switched" aren't independent and one can't simply use the product of their probability. The above example is a quick way to demonstrate it's not a general strategy without assumption to get >50% winning chance. Similarily, one can just use {P(1)=1/3, P(2)=1/3, P(3)=1/3} (this is a valid distribution over real numbers!) to demonstrate the real number strategy isn't general.

Again, for both natural number and real number case, the discussion over strategies is only meaningful is we know something about the distribution.

Interestingly, this article is wrong more or less in the same way as believing switching does give you more expected value in the original "twice money in another envelope" variation.

Edit: For people who are interested in the switching strategy, check Randomized Switching in the Two-Envelope Problem (2009). Spoiler: full of discussion over the initial distribution.
There are compelling arguments to believe in the many-worlds interpretation.

No sign of a Heisenberg cut has been observed so far, even as experiments involving entanglement of larger and larger molecules are performed, which makes objective-collapse theories hard to consider seriously.

Bohmian theories are nice, but require awkward adjustments to reconcile them with relativity. But more importantly, they are philosophically uneconomical, requiring many unobservable — even theoretically — entities [0].

That leaves either many-worlds or a quantum logic/quantum Bayesian interpretations as serious contenders [1]. These interpretations aren't crank fringe nonsense. They are almost inevitable outcomes of seriously considering the implications of the theory.

I will say that personally, I find many-worlds to focus excessively on the Schrödinger-picture pure state formulation of quantum mechanics. (At least to the level that I understood it — I expect there is literature on the connection with algebraic formulations, but I haven't taken the time to understand it.) So I would lean towards quantum logic–type interpretations myself.

The point of this comment was to say that many-worlds (or "multiverses", though I dislike the term) isn't nonsense. But it also isn't exactly the kind of sci-fi thing non-physicists might picture. Given how easy it is to misinterpret the term, however, I must agree with you that a self-aware science communicator would think twice about whether the term should be included, and that there may be not-so-scrupulous intentions at play here.

Quick edit: I realise the comment I've written is very technical. I'm happy to try to answer any questions. I should preface it by stating that I'm not a professional in the field, but I studied quantum information theory at a Masters level, and always found the philosophical questions of interest.

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[0] Many people seem to believe that many-worlds also postulates the existence of unobservable parallel universes, but this isn't true. We observe the interaction of these universe's every time we observe quantum interference.

While we're here, we can clear up the misconception about "branching" — there is no branching in many-worlds, just the coherent evolution of the universal wave function. The many worlds are projections out of that wave function. They don't discretely separate from one another, either — it depends on your choice of basis. That choice is where decoherence comes in.

[1] And of course, there is the Copenhagen "interpretation" — preferred among physicists who would rather not think about philosophy. (A respectable choice.)
A 2nd video is premiering in like 40ish minutes, might be fake.