skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use the phone productively, everything I tried I endup concluding it can't do? So it's only use is complaining about things in hacker news for killing time.

The most recent idea was trying to use it for sounds but I had the mentioned issue. Does the lavalier works for environment sounds or you only use for voice?
I like pocketable non-interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras.

I rarely carry it because my cellphone is usually good enough but it’s good for travel and for lower light areas where cellphones struggle. It won’t fit in my pants pocket but it fits in my jacket fine.

When I first got it, I didn’t know when I should carry it and when I shouldn’t but now I know and don’t even bat an eye about it.
Musk's takeover and move of twitter servers is absolutely not an example of "10x" engineering. It is sociopathic hero worship.

An untouchable authoritarian oligarch saying "how hard can it be" while taking a blowtorch to societal support structures is going to inflict death and pain on people, the neediest among us.

The Wolf is a much better exemplar of the patterns of a truly effective 10x engineer who makes things better for the business. Were a Wolf to behave like Musk, they would be fired.

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-wolf/
> What is the practical requirement for a world-class tactical unit (or near that level, e.g. D1 basketball or a bad pro team)? I wouldn't expect current militias to be at that level, but what about less developed nation-states?

One common form of US military aid is training elite units in partner militaries, often in less developed countries. This has an evil history, training death squads and other war criminals, knowingly or unknowingly. It also has a cost-effective and good history, training Ukraine's elite units, for example.

(My impression is that it's a cost-effective compromise solution to a very difficult, expensive problem: The institutions of militaries are sometimes highly corrupt and incompetent; the Afghan military is an example. Fixing that problem would require building a new military, which could take 20 years at great cost and may be impossible: The corruption usually comes from the government, whose corruption comes from elites and from society-wide political problems.)

You can find some competent people and create a small, isolated organization, and train and equip them, and do it cost-effectively. The Afghan military was hopeless; their elite units were reportedly very good.
Have you got a link or do you remember the name of this person?
I guess anyone, no matter how privileged, can find reasons to whine. This person has a dream job, one that’s AI-proof to boot. They’re so close to the center of current affairs that people literally line up to talk to them at dinner parties.

And they proceed to bitch for a dozen or more paragraphs. Cry me a river.
I’ll try to take your point and let’s assume that it worked for me due to “therapothropic principle”. But I have three questions, all seem to be related.

1) It still involved structured work without which it couldn’t sort out on itself. Okay, this is still religious. I believed (wanted) that it should work, and it did. But we’re talking about modifying thinking itself here, beliefs themselves. That’s a strange area because how can you even avoid that? It’s sort of an incompleteness theorem thing. Like, a therapist changed me, but he can’t change those who don’t believe in change, while “belief” is a part of the… yadda yadda. Iow, how does one falsify a therapy, I guess?

2) Since we’re talking statistics and not structure (are we?), can it be that naturally only a part of population can be “cured”? Like, you can’t cure really bad medical cases either, and some of these are common. What if there’s a consistent set of prerequisites and “therapothropism” is not random? I guess this question is naive and there’s more to it, but can’t think of anything here.

3) In my experience, religion is much more shallow wrt to “you”, and is fixed. In a sense that cbt solutions are more “meta” and then get tailored to the personal events. While religion is usually an omnidude watching you and many others and rules and requirements are all the same. CBT actively refrains from judging and giving specific advices. Even from both-religious position, is it fair to put both on the same line?
It's a billionaire, the point is to undermine the possibility of a market.
It was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision song contest, so it won the Portuguese contest.
That was never ANT+ anyway.
there's also a nice movie & book called "Men Who Stare at Goats" - a reference to the fact that they tried to kill goats with their mind as a weapon. Haven't read the book, but have seen the movie docudrama(?) starring george clooney and that guy from star wars and big fish, it's not bad, taps into some of the hippie energy of the whole thing
For all of my cars, its centrally located, near the dipstick.
The micro plastics people really need to link up with the urbanism people - having kilos of tire dust shredded on your doorstep isn't a necessary condition of living in a city, it's a result of how (at least in the US) car dependent our urban forms are.

I'm grateful to have moved from the Bay Area, parts of which are so criscrossed with freeways that it's impossible to not live near/under one (all of Oakland), to somewhere where, despite the density being overall much higher, I live far enough from a freeway or highway that I can't hear them at all at night.
Echoing IDA but its pricing is a huge PITA if you’re using it in a hobbyist capacity i.e. you don’t have an employer willing to pay for it. Could opt for the home version but that’s a yearly cost and you have to use their cloud decompiler. Ghidra’s your best bet if you want something FOSS and community-driven although not as great at decompilation.
I don't think you understand the context, the person I was replying to was making that comment about NotebookLM. I'm fully well aware of how my UI looks, the whole reason I'm using Gradio for right now is that it is a single person project that isn't a product for sale. Not quite an intern, but same amount of funding.
The current UI is a placeholder, because the idea is to migrate to an API first design so users can have whatever kind of UI they'd like.

SoundStorm/Podcast creation is one of the big draws, but I would question as to whether its one of its most-used features, considering hallucinations and shallowness.
What would be really interesting: porting DOSEMU 1.4.0 to it. This would give us a maintained unix-like OS combined with a huge abandonware dos library turning those old machines into something fun and maybe useful.
I notice no one scheduling AM love making on here. Telling.
https://github.com/radareorg/r2ai
The rings of Saturn will disappear in 2025
Reverse Network Effects: Why Social Networks Can Fail as They Grow Larger (2012)
brain aging is not unlike say aging bodies for athletes, eventually you won’t be able to compete at the highest level. but just like athletes change the way they play as they age so do people in professions where they use their brain. michael jordan was ridiculous in his prime, basically outrunning and outjumping everyone. as he aged he was still ridiculous - once he could not outrun and outjump his opponents he developed a fadeaway and lowpost game that carried him through his last few seasons. I am in my 50’s and my brain is definitely aging, I have been feeling it for a decade now… but I have also adjusted to that with almost 3 decades in this industry to use a cliche I work smarter not harder now :)
The solution is for all foreign wire transfers to be insured and reversible which would drive up the cost of doing business with countries home to scammers.
https://archive.ph/UdVUt
There is certainly some erroneous ‘extrapolation’ going on here.
It’s so weird that Perplexity decided to go with sponsored posts/results for their first rollout of ads.

It’s not very congruent to what they’re known for.
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You should do it! It's never been more accessible and affordable (relatively speaking, of course). And it's a lot of fun!
This is very similar to my experiments, and something I was mulling over enough when I wrote the original comment, that I wrote a rant about it:

https://pdx.su/blog/2024-12-29-using-kagi-for-a-bit-over-a-y...
> Check out the famous NASA coding rules. Rule number one is no recursion.

And rule number 3 is no heap allocation.
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Excellent! This has been on my todo list for a while now, instead I’ll use this and contribute if needed.
Luigi was the first educated one we've seen in a while, not sure if its a trend yet. the rest are young with not much going for them, or homeless and have mental problems
Is that a PS/2 55SX?

That was the computer I had between ages 9 and 14. I wish I had one now.
> This post makes me wonder why videos of militias training always look so farcical.

This exactly - a few 300-pound dudes taking a break from their McDonalds to look like they really mean it by firing long barrelled weapons at some cardboard target. All this escape and evasion training, with all the wilderness stuff too - it's nonsense, little guys playing soldier is all.
You aren't the only one who may read the article.
Mechanical engineering: a good career choice for AI dominated future?
The right of rebuttal!
Wow, that little? I LOVE Firefox. I guess that market share should either make me feel real good, or quite lonely...
Hard to publish interdisciplinary stuff in scientific journals when it's usually shot down by disciplinary specialists who don't get it
I do not get why some tech people read some random articles in internet and think they are neurologist, experts in endocrinology, etc… ahhh Hubris.

Now I do not know by what measure my brain gets slower, and I do not care. Productivity can be achieved in many ways. Let me tell you about a friend of mine: he was unable to study engineering in his 20, he was barely able to keep a job. Was doing minimal wage… then (maybe?) his brain got slower… but you know what? His testosterone went down, and was able to keep his 3 neurons working without thinking in sex; by age 45, got an engineering degree, then got to CTO at big company…

You see?! Life is soo much complex as you seem to be able to understand. So again, I know lots of people, that because of many reasons, e.g. no more kids at home, broken (bad) marriage, whatever, are far far more productive.

You keep doing the same mistake: you read some article, and think that little piece of information you just discovered ,or happen to know, is all there is to know about it.

I apologize in advance if there was some typo, from which you want to make an ad hominem argument (you should google that, because is annoying that seems is all you can do when you have no more arguments)
Reportedly they didnt like a review on Audio Pils' "Bad Gear" youtube show and asserted a youtube takedown.
> Hypothesis: the world's most valuable data is screen captures of outlier competent people going about their work. But very little of this data is recorded, let alone made publicly available.

It's not quite screen captures, but the way in which any given email is responded to by competent users in your own organization is highly relevant in this context, especially if you place original+reply email pairs into a RAG framework and add function calls for structured domain knowledge.

Unified APIs like https://www.nylas.com/ which an admin can unilaterally connect across an entire org can make this quite viable - assuming you've done the work to build a culture where radical transparency is seen as an opportunity rather than a threat.

There's a lot of nuance required to avoid hallucinations, but organizations that are merely training chatbots on explicit Q&A documents are just scratching the surface of the depth of their semi-structured data.
I have never heard of that book, but a quick Google search reveals that the author is in the process of "releasing version 2". Refer to the previous comment for my opinion on that matter.
Using OpenAI Advanced Voice to Create Mermaid Diagrams
the most recent profile they added was an update to the cycling shifter profile. before that, the most recent actual new device type they added was radars in 2016.

ant+ is not a protocol that has or needs to have frequent updates. opening it up could have been a lot more significant than stopping the development of new profiles.
It's currently showing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, through February 17, 2025.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5746

From the museum website:

Encapsulating 100 years of moving-image history, Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour montage composed from thousands of film and television clips depicting clocks and other references to time. James Bond checks his watch at 12:20 a.m.; Meryl Streep turns off an alarm clock at 6:30 a.m.; a pocket watch ticks at 11:53 a.m. as the Titanic departs. With each clip synchronized to the local time, The Clock collapses the fictional time presented on screen with the actual time of each passing minute. The work is both a cinematic tour-de-force and a functioning timepiece.

Building on his background as a musician in Boston and New York’s underground scenes of the late 1970s and 1980s, Marclay has for five decades combined visual and sonic fragments to explore the complex relationships between image and sound. His resulting works have taken form across a wide range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photography, print, performance, and video. With the help of assistants searching for footage, Marclay spent three years meticulously editing The Clock—the culmination of his innovative approach to looking at the world anew through found material.

The Clock speaks to cinema’s rich history as both a mirror of and escape from reality, a paradox that is ever more central to daily life in today’s era of instant broadcast, streaming services, and artificial intelligence. Marclay’s assemblage of carefully selected clips takes us on a journey through the past in order to heighten our awareness of an ever-elusive and unfolding present. By editing together fragments from cinema’s vast archive to tell the current time, Marclay reframes our collective memory of movies as an uncanny confrontation with ourselves.

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There were 5 shootings resulting in 3 deaths over a period of 9 days (20-29 June). CHAZ/CHOP existed for a period of 23 days (8 June - 1 July). There were 33 homicides in the entire city of Seattle in 2019. No matter how you slice it, there was definitely an increase in the murder rate around the protests, potentially much higher.

And a piece with the increase in homicides, Mayor Durkan reported that SPD had received a 525% increase in reported crimes in the area when compared to the previous June. Obviously not all of the crime was committed by protestors, but the protestors were the ones that drove out the police presence and the city tolerated the situation created by the protestors for nearly a month. Regardless of whether the situation is best described as domestic terrorism or not, it's clear that public officials were willing to tolerate violence enabled by left wing protestors "letting off steam" too.
You were writing as if people were staring at the sky all night long out of boredom. You said "There was really nothing else to do."

That's completely untrue. It's a total misunderstanding of what life was like.

I'm not helping your narrative, I'm saying it's a false narrative. We have so many misunderstandings about how people used to live, it's important not to perpetuate them.
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I feel that this sort of autonomous agent co-optimization may happen more often over time as humans step farther away from the loop, and lead to some pretty weird outcomes with nobody around to go "wait what the f---- are we doing?"
I get this feeling a lot. For example the UK typically has unlimited paid sick days for salaried jobs, while I have heard of US employees pooling together and "donating" sick days to someone. The UK has a ton of benefits for the sick, unemployed, single mothers, carers etc. in the US I am sure those exist but I get the sense that charity is supposed to play more of a role.
Of course students (or other individuals) already can design their own CPU cores and chips, for not all that much money. They're just not as high MHz as the big boys.

It's easy to run your own RISC-V core at 50 or 100 MIPS in a cheap FPGA.

You can make a custom chip for $150 at TinyTapeout. A pretty small chip, but you can fit a simple RISC-V cpu in if you use multiple tiles.

https://tinytapeout.com/runs/tt05/tt_um_kianV_rv32ima_uLinux...

It boots (noMMU) Linux:

https://x.com/splinedrive/status/1874225296335134867/photo/1
Also, having that level of skill makes you valuable. You could probably earn a decent wage and therefore have more to lose and be less likely to use or want to pass on those skills for free. If you have the skill, you’re probably not desperate enough to use it. If you’re desperate enough to use those skills, you probably can’t afford to learn them.
What do you mean, "Civil War"? Yemen is occupied by UAE and likely Israel, has been at war with the US and Saudi Arabia for a decade or so, and before that on and off been managed by puppet regimes since they kicked out the british.
I hate the journalists pretending that ML is regurgitating facts instead of just random tokens. The ML model doesn't know who programmed it and can't know because that wasn't in the training data.
Wait, "ROM-based systems"? Were there such x86 micros and is this saying you could run Linux from ROM?

That's super interesting.
I think you're looking for simonw's llm python tool [1]. It allows you to do things like `cat script.py | llm -c 'describe what this python script does'`.

You're able to run LLM APIs, local models, multimodals, etc. It is great!

[1] https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/
How retro-futuristic! Actually that is pretty cool.
The author mentions the screen being corrupted when a DOS prompt is opened in windowed mode. This can happen because the DOS prompt runs in a separate VM (in V86 mode), and makes calls into the VGA ROM BIOS via INT 10h. The VGA ROM BIOS on this machine is probably a wrapper over VBE; that is, it probably contains IN and OUT instructions that talk to the VBE I/O ports, 0x1CE and 0x1CF. These reads and writes from the DOS VM will, by default, be allowed to reach the physical hardware if they are not virtualized by the VMM.

This is a common problem that authors of Windows 3.x/9x display drivers had to handle, although the specific I/O port numbers to be virtualized vary by graphics adapter. There are samples in the Win95 DDK that show how to use the VMM services Install_IO_Handler and Enable/Disable_Global_Trapping to set up I/O port traps, and VDD_Get_VM_Info from within the trap handler to determine the VM that currently owns the CRTC. This allows the trap handler to reach a decision about whether to allow an I/O to reach the hardware, or to virtualize the access in some way. A good virtualization policy to start with is probably just to drop any writes from non-CRTC-owner VMs. Any additional needed complexity can be added from there.
Approaching 50 years old, have lost count of how many times we have been through this, starting with Nintendo's Virtual Boy.
Based on the repository description:

> Attempt to create an Open Source Privacy Focused Rewind.ai Alternative for data capture

I'd assume this was something local or at least for your local network. But this exclusively sends the data over to S3. And based on the lack of encryption keys or even passwords, I'm assuming this is even unecrypted?
A lot of non-tech people seem to be ok with Ads (e.g: Spotify/Google). More than 1 Unskippable YT ad is where they draw the line
> they’ve all been captured by the private prison industry

This is a straw man argument, which is also discouraged on HN. Literally no one -- besides you and the sibling comments below -- has suggested that everyone has been captured by private prisons.

Instead there are businesses all along the spectrum of those that incidentally do businesses with prisons to those that exclusively do business with prisons to those that are (private) prisons. And that doesn't even include police and sheriffs departments or politicians who benefit from prisons.

I sincerely suggest that you engage with the discourse at hand rather than dismissing it with straw manning and other logical fallacies.
Thanks!

Not yet, but there will be. I'm going through a migration of the schema to allow for this
We're going straight to whatever puts the most money in Elan's pocket

Allowing Musk to influence policy that he will directly benefit from is an inherent and obvious conflict of interest.

Trump can't/won't drain the swamp --- he and his moneyed supporters are stereotypicaL swamp dwellers. The only thing they intend to drain is federal funds right into their pockets.