skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see more modern text-to-speech that sounds good, but also inhuman. On one hand very easy to understand but on the other obviously constructed and not something a living person could generate. Like the scifi where robots always look like robots and it's illegal/immoral/taboo to have a robot that's indistinguishable from a person.

Maybe just an ordinary human sounding TTS that gets put through a mild vocoder of some kind.
Of course it's clear: AGI is achieved when a machine can completely capable of simulating a human being.

At that point remote / office work is 100% over.
He is no longer CEO, but he is on the board of directors and huge shareholder:

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/officers-and-directors/default.as...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052816/top-4-...

It's very much still his company.
> It's so easy to blame it all on the feet of oligarchs, but it is ultimately our collective responsibility. The democrats lost the popular vote. Think about that.

Democrat or republican; both support the oligarchy in separate ways because both support the advancement of technology. And increasingly powerful technology supports oligarchy and that power structure cannot be stopped by democracy because democracy functions within technology.
Haha and here I was going to suggest a discord channel for each location. I checked out the two cities I've worked in and was pleasantly surprised by the number of brave people who added their LinkedIn accounts, and doubly so when seeing some old colleagues as mutuals. Not sure I'd want to add meet.hn to my main, maybe make a "real me alt" specifically for that. I wonder if others have done the same since it's a lot of users with old accounts and no comment histories.
I can believe it, after all it’s just a heuristic. And of course the world is bigger than HN, but they went to HN to talk about it.
Like Jonny Depp in that movie.
Author here: I think the main problem nowadays is that most of the Android devices sold on the market are running a heavily customized version of Linux (and in most cases incredibly outdated too).

Some (newer) Android devices seem to be migrating to the "AOSP Common kernels" / "Android common kernels" [1], but I doubt this is that common outside of the Google Pixel devices.

Until the manufacturers (e.g: Oneplus, Xiaomi) will start using a close-to-mainline kernel (and distributing the sources!), we'll just have to hope that the amazing people who contributed to support arm64 devices [2] or simply porting devices to mainline, will keep doing so. Of course anyone is free to contribute - but it would be way easier if the manufacturer themselves started to help towards this goal.

Having said that, and assuming good mainline support (to be honest, for me it's enough to get access to the storage, CPU, network), my old devices generally come with a somewhat powerful octa-core SoC that can handle workloads better than my Pis. I would have to benchmark them to support my claim, but already having 4 more CPUs helps - despite they might be in weird configurations (e.g: big.LITTLE [3]).

[1]: https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/and...

[2]: https://aarch64-laptops.github.io/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE
It's still the very best for symbolic math. But it has fallen behind on other domains.

And even in the symbolic math niche, I am afraid that Python and Julia will slowly erode its market-share.
They are working on automation to replace the bigger system, they rely on.

China just rolled out a police drone, even though china has more than enough people to train for that job.

This is where my dystopian nightmare begins. Autonomous weapon systems, so targeted and unlimited in reach and capability, that no number of civilians thrown into the frey will make a difference. A single machine gun could have stopped the french revolution, and yes, i think humans are very much capable of pressing that button.
For the most valuable applications it is also "good enough" to find a superconductor that can be cooled with cheap liquid nitrogen and retain the magnetic field tolerance, current-carrying capacity, and thermal stability of a superconductor cooled with expensive liquid helium.

Some so-called "high temperature" superconductors begin superconducting at liquid-nitrogen temperature or higher. However in real life applications like MRI and particle accelerators it turned out that they still need to be cooled with much colder liquid helium to get the desired magnetic field tolerance, current-carrying capacity etc. Finding a high-quality liquid-nitrogen-grade superconductor with these desired properties would be a revolution in itself.
I was thinking of this
https://x.com/Benioff/status/549339156854214656
Sources: San Francisco police identified Luigi Mangione 4 days before arrest
Yes, which means his post is an attempt to smear the credibility of musk, not make a legal defense.

If this were a legal defense, this would be heard in court.
Yes, I'm referring to the genocide of Palestinians. It's not something I, or other American voters, could overlook.

Unfortunately, I don't think the issue of Palestinians are important driving issues to American voters. I wish I have a source to point to but this is based on what I read.

Dems refused point blank. Trump's presidency isn't on voters, it's on the Dems themselves; and any analysis which misses this fact isn't worth a pig's fart.

I have said it before, collective responsibility and sin. There's no get out of jail free card for everyone. People made their decisions and now they have to lie with it. You can blame it on the oligarch or the media or whatever you want but it doesn't absolve voters of anything.

The only people who can truly sleep at night with a good conscious are people who voted Democrats and campaign workers who's working hard to execute strategies.

I wish I had engaged with my family more on political issues as they all voted for Trump in a battleground state. I won't be making that mistake again.
> A monthly "Meet HN" post– for each area (per city might be too small?)

Per city would definitely be spam! There are 720 cities as we speak.

Or it could not be, but it would require locating them under a specific route like news.ycombinator.com/meet or something.
These guys didn't get to where they are now by admitting mistakes and making themselves accountable. In power play terms, that would be weak.

And once you are way up there and you have definitely left earth, there is no right or wrong anymore, just strong and weak.
Facetime was announced as an intended open standard. Shortly, Apple realized their advantage of keeping it closed.
> How do you know how good things "could be"? Just because you can imagine something doesn't mean it's possible

It's not necessary to know how good things could be. Part of the meaning of life is to work towards a good you think could be, and the modern oligarchy strips us of that right.
That's a good idea! I have a feeling that Perplexity and ChatGPT are doing something similar, since common questions I'd ask like "top movies this year" will be answered nearly-instantaneously, way faster than GPT-4o could have done on its own.

The only explanation for this is that so many users ask certain questions, they cache the response and return the cached answer.

I'd love to do this for Ithy, but it'll be a while before I get the scale of ChatGPT/Perplexity that's needed for this...
> Indy: an Indigo without the 'go'

They couldn't have named that machine more accurately if they tried.
5 months old now, prior small discussions

(13 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41105304

(6 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41111157
I can’t believe the screens are from 1981. They look at least a decade ahead.
> Wrong

?

OpenAI's non-profit+for-profit structure is detailed at their own site: https://openai.com/our-structure/

It's a non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary. Please elaborate on "wrong."
UnitedHealthcare's Optum left an internal AI chatbot exposed to the internet
I index a lot of tabletop RPG books in PDF format, which often have complex visual layouts and many tables that parsers typically have difficulty with. If this is just a wrapper around PDFMiner, as noted in another comment, I don't see any value added by this tool.

This handles them... fine. It either doesn't recognize or never attempts to handle tables, which makes it fundamentally a non-starter for my typical usage, but to its credit it seems to have at least some sense of table cells; it organizes columns in a manner that isn't fully readable but isn't as broken as some other solutions, either.

It otherwise handles text that's in variable-width columns or wrapped in complex ways around art work rather well. It inserts extraneous spaces on fully justified text, which is frustrating but not unusual, and sometimes adds extraneous line breaks on mid-sentence column breaks.

The biggest miss, though, is how it completely misses headings! This seems fundamental for any use case, including grooming sources for LLM training. It doesn't identify a single heading in any PDF I've thrown at it so far.
I think a lot of this comes down to semantics confusion for most people. Intuitively one would assume "unused" memory would be the inverse of "used" memory, with not everyone thinking what even counts as "used" or "unused" in the first place. In reality on macOS/Windows/Linux "used" memory is counted as a specific type of usage (e.g. processes/system/hardware), cached things are counted as cached, and there are multiple ways to refer to which "unused" portion you mean (e.g. free vs available) as well as anywhere between a half to several dozen ultra specific terms to break things up further with which probably don't matter in context.

Once you clear the semantics hurdle it's surprising how much people are in agreement that "used" should be optimised, "cached" should fill as much else as possible, and often having large amounts of "free" is generally a waste. The only remaining debate tends to center on how much cache really matters with a fast disk and what percentile of workload burst should you worry about how much "free" you have left after.
I would choose (3) -- i.e., an ATProto project. The idea would be to have public but "local" discussions that could lead to in-person interactions when people feel comfortable.

P.S: I just signed up. I am in the Chicago area. Would love to grab coffee.
I've definitely noticed this going on. `jj log` uses the right colors, but `watch --color jj log` somehow breaks and prints black-on-black.
Chilling foreshadowing playbook for the next four years of DOGE, DOE, DOJ, DOD, et al in the US
Reddit tests a conversational AI search tool
How thick is the ice that Elon Musk is on. At some point he’s going to impact an agency that someone who matters (I.e. a Republican) cares about. Not that money doesn’t matter, but is there something more substantial then money keeping Musk on trump’s good side?
Ongoing discussion (78 points, 1 hours ago, 69 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411608
A clickbait title - they reflected the existing sun.
Surface Duo would like to have a word
In grade school when we read aloud (taking turns in class), I would be able to read my section out loud, but have no idea what it said until I went back and "really" read it.

When I started reading out loud to my son, decades later, I finally learned how to "really" read at the same time as reading out loud. I also learned how to read ahead to see who was going to talk next so that I could do the voices properly. (Discworld books are great for this, because his writing really helps you know how to pronounce the dialog.)
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350780
Anki, Netflix, Preply and social clubs.

I start by front loading all the grammar study up to upper-intermediate level as fast as possible. Usually a premade Anki deck of a few thousand sentences will be available for this.

Vocab I pick up from native media. I just read or watch whatever I'm interested in, lookup words as I go and put them into Anki. I do full immersion and it works well as access to entertainment in my target languages is a key goal.

Pronunciation I pick up through a crap tonne of exposure to native media.

Conversation is through a combination of private tutoring and finding people who speak my target languages to hang out with.
What is the trend called? Hacker news.
I worked at large retail store, massaging excel files for sales dept. One day I got to their floor, only to see their A3 printers working all day long. They made all excel sheets into paper because the screen aren't large enough, then write down fixes with a pencil and later update the spreadsheet on computer. 2010. (learned about cultural inertia and corporate "efficiency")
Smarter Postgres LLM with Retrieval Augmented Generation
What's proposed in the article is mostly what I would call, low level refactoring. It's what's done almost all of the time. Group some things together, split some things, use better names, move to other files etc.

Technical debt on the other hand originates more from a design that does not fit the application anymore, because of added features or change of goals over a latge time span. That's where what I would call 'real refactoring' needs to take the stage.

Document/draft the current architecture as well as an architecture that fits better the purpose of the application. Work out a path to move from one to the other. Usually but not necessarily, this path is executed in steps, while keeping everything functional. New skeleton / middleware code is needed, some parts need rewriting, some parts need moving, some parts need deleting.
He'll be under scrutiny, just not by anyone with any power whatsoever to stop or even meaningfully influence his behaviors.
Algorithms for high performance terminal apps
You asked who is pushing this. The answer is people who are paid full time to work on Git. These are Git developers. Their names are mentioned in the article, it is not hard to look up what these people have done, what they are doing now, and who they work for.

What are you trying to get at? It's not a conspiracy theory, it's people who just want to be able to be more effective at getting things done.
For clarity, I'll admit that I do not have industry experience with Dart. I have built a medium sized mobile application with it, and have spent a pretty good deal of time digging into Flutter's architecture and reading it's source code.

If you are debating the statement I made: "It's clear just from using the language that it was designed as a more 'serious' Javascript replacement", it's simply a fact that the Dart language was originally designed to be a Javascript alternative in Chrome, and the language clearly takes a lot of inspiration for Java and C++ which are widely used at Google.

> Maybe I am confused. We are comparing Dart to what again?

I'm comparing it to other garbage collected languages. I don't think Dart really even has a backend story, but in that case I would compare it to Go, any JVM language, and Javascript/Typescript. For frontend applications I'm comparing it to Javascript/Typescript.

Maybe you could tell me what about my comment is confusing, but I'll rephase it and add some more context. From everything I've read, the Dart team at Google is small an insular. Google has a nasty reputation of cutting niche products and has been doing lots of layoffs in recent years. Even though Dart has an good UI library, there are numerous attractive alternatives that are more familiar and popular. Putting all that information together, I would not choose to use Dart for basically any new project.
Einstein's Tutor: Book Review
Thank you for the suggestion. I will do just that.
Apparently he doesn't own a computer. Imagine a world where none of us owned computers!
Michael Dell – Podcast – In Good Company – Norges Bank Investment Management
Fujitsu's Monaka CPU: ARMv9, SVE2, and 3D Stacking
He bought Twitter for $40B.

His Tesla stock was 0% ytd until the election.

Post election it is up roughly 70% ytd & has paid for Twitter & the Mars colony multiple times.

Hard to say if that happens without him owning Twitter.
Some discussion in 2021 (27 points, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709802
I'm not a believer in that timeline. There's a large distance between superconductivity in the lab and commercial application (since you specified "changes the world immensely").

E.g. MRIs still use NiTi (critical temperature of ~10 kelvins), discovered in 1962, for a number of reasons (this is in spite of MgB2 having a critical T of ~39k, ReBCO with a critical T of ~90k, and BSCCO with a critical T of ~108k):

> In this paper, we analyze conductor requirements for commercial MRI magnets beyond traditional NbTi conductors, while avoiding links to a particular magnet configuration or design decisions. Potential conductor candidates include MgB2, ReBCO and BSCCO options. The analysis shows that no MRI-ready non-NbTi conductor is commercially available at the moment. For some conductors, MRI specifications will be difficult to achieve in principle. For others, cost is a key barrier. In some cases, the prospects for developing an MRI-ready conductor are more favorable, but significant developments are still needed. The key needs include the development of... [omitted]

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5472374/

Unfortunately, it probably won't be as simple as "step 1 discover material, step 2 manufacture, step 3 profit".
It's been clear for a while now Elon has no one in his life that's willing to push back on his inane ideas
I read up on this and "cooked but character-by-character" is apparently something called "cbreak mode" (or "rare mode").
I created this website to follow along as LLMs are set free on docker containers. It's an interesting experiment, although not many useful commands are executed. It's striking how much stronger the o1-mini model is compared to the other ones, even with the delay handicap.

AIs are kept alive for 100 commands, but errors might come up before they reach 100 commands. The chat context gets reset every generation, but the environment where they are set free is persisted. So, every generation they build upon their last generation. Each bot is isolation from one-another, they do not share environments.

Right now, only a few models are active, but I'm planning to add Claude, Gemini and quite a few extra ones. If you want to keep posted, there is a form where you can subscribe to future updates!
yes, I did. using Intel extension for pytorch instead PyTorch 2.5 (I know it has supported but it's not stable and library like torchvision still build manually for windows). btw I'm using Intel Arc A530M (mobile version), I'm just using for light weight training task for instance classification (CNN) by using ShuffleNet V2 architecture. works great for me (I don't have another gpu for be compared)
The One Hundred Pages Strategy – On how to read one hundred pages every day
> let's assume that `Val` is an argument to the current function in which `SumFun` is defined, and so the compiler cannot reason about the actual value that was bound.

That was exactly the case I was talking about, because otherwise there is no need to even make arity 2 function. If the value is known at compile time, the constant is embedded into the body of inlined function.

>At runtime, when the closure is executed, the underlying function receives the closure environment, from which it loads any free vars.

To my understanding, no it doesn't, as the value is resolved when the function pointed is created, not when the underlying function executes, which the code you linked shows too. I know it uses the "env" as a structure field, but it's partial application, not the actual closure which has access to parent scope. Consider two counter examples in python:

for x in range(1,10): ret.append(partial(lambda y: y*2, x)) # that's what erlang does

for x in range(1,10): ret.append(partial(x, lambda y: y*2)) # that's an actual closure, as all lambdas will return 18 because x is captured from the parent context

But then again, it doesn't matter since variables are assigned only once.

>Like I mentioned near the top, it's worth bearing in mind that the compiler can also do quite a bit of simplification and optimization during compilation to BEAM - so there may be cases where you end up with a function capture instead of a closure, because the compiler was able to remove the need for the free variable in cases like your example, but I can't recall what erlc specifically does and does not do in that regard.

I was looking into it a week ago, and erlc does what I described when it can't figure out the constant at compile time.

add: If we are at it, BEAM doesn't even know about variables, only values and registers anyway, so it has nothing to capture anyway.
Agreed!(assuming that wasn't sarcasm)

Has a nice "nailing my grievances to the town square bulletin board" feel. Doesn't result in any real legal evidence either way, but it's fun to read along.
Genetic algorithm for a AI and a neural network for video games on Python
Dev.to: https://dev.to/__1cffd5aa1a/creating-a-genetic-algorithm-for...

Medium: https://medium.com/@lanskoyk/today-i-will-tell-and-show-how-...
My father once referenced the “voice in your head” and I had to clearly articulate that I don’t hear a voice, and such insinuations are sort of weird.

I see words, as if written gliding through my mind as I think my internal thoughts.

My father didn’t believe me, and probably still doesn’t; but it is interesting to me how our brains can be so different as to not even be able to understand another persons easy to define alternative internal experiences.

I also always wondered if we all perceive colours the same or if colours are different to us but we just give them the same words- since colour could, in theory, be completely subjective.
Sorry, I meant: if you do a non-colonscopy screening first and they find something, the follow up colonscopy isn't covered as preventive. And the non-colonscopy screenings have a higher false positive rate than a colonscopy screening.
This dude pulled out a microscope and said "there's your problem." Super impressive work. Really great micro-read.
AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying "stop hiring humans" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385727 - Dec 2024 (2 comments)

Y Combinator Funded AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Sparks Outrage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380054 - Dec 2024 (47 comments)

SF tech CEO's billboards are 'dystopian.' That's how he wants it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379078 - Dec 2024 (21 comments)
> A lot of these shortfalls have been artificially created

Can you point to a link showing this?

Officially:

Our revised budget for 2024/25 is a $1.1 billion deficit. This is significantly lower than the $1.76 billion deficit we were heading towards without our cost reduction programme,” Ms Apa says

https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/corporate-information/news-an...
"As many as VC money is prepared to pay for" is the answer here.
So you have decided anyone who can read faster than you is a fraud? Meaning you think you are in possession of the fastest non-fraudulent human reading abilities possible?

Do you have any evidence of this beyond the fact that if you sped up your own reading you would lose comprehension? The person reading at 150wpm could make the same case against you.
Maybe a weird question, but how does a capitalist economy work where AGI-performed-labor is categorically less expensive than human-performed labor? Do most people who labor for wages just go unemployed, and then bankrupt, and then die?
Nobody seems to remember how the Segway was going to change our world, backed by many of the VC power figures at the time + Steve Jobs.
Twentieth century Chinese history isn't a good comparison. The Roman empire sometimes had multiple emperors and multiple capital cities, and this complicated situation lasted for hundreds of years. Despite being called the Roman empire, the capital's location was no longer essential.