skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any websites or communities focused on metaphysics?
It seems like many people have recently been using AI to develop metaphysics-related products and have achieved good commercial success.
>Silence can’t be used against you

It sure can, but in more hypocritical and roundabout ways:

The cops take suspision on your silence, and push extra hard to get you, instead of letting you go after a routine questioning.

Or the prosecution is offended by your silence and throws the book at you.

Technically both get to swear that your silence was never an issue, while both being motivated to fuck you over because of it.
DoomPdf
Why and where European founders should move to the U.S.
How can this support more languages than the model itself?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

It's still used because it works. That's why Donald promised to make groceries cheaper (bread), because that's one thing that will make _everyone_ angry.

The 24 hour news cycle and social media handle the circus part, keeping people invested in stupid culture wars about "the gays", BLM, DEI and now Trans people.
I also don’t see the problem, if I were asked to rank the sentences by similarity to the question, I wouldn’t rank a possible answer first. In what way is an answer to a question similar to the question?
To people who are experts in AI TTS:

Why elevenlabs has such a lead in this space? It sounds better than OpenAI and Google models
In ML results are often a score (accuracy or whatever) which makes it more gamefied

It's common to have competitions where the one with the highest score in the benchmark "wins". Even if there is no formal competition, it's very important being the SOTA model.

Results are more applicable to the real world, and more "cool" subjectively (I don't think there's a 2 minutes paper equivalent for math?), which increases ego.

And often authors are trying to convince others to use their findings. So it's partly a marketing brochure.
> they’ll be willing to let China have the islands now too

The islands are Chinese. The US back Taiwan as an anti-communist and anti-China (divide and conquer) tactic, including because its location. If the communists had lost the civil war, the mainland and Taiwan would all have remained under ROC control and it would have been interesting to see what the US would have come up with, instead (academic and thought experiment but interesting to imagine nonetheless).

In Ukraine the US don't want to be dragged in a war against Russia and things have played well for them so far (really the US are the only winners so far).
I'm having a really hard time verifying that it was a Wright Brothers innovation.

I can find claims that it was so, but nothing substantial. For example, this 1959 kids book - https://archive.org/details/wilburorvillewri0000augu/page/17... .

On the other hand, I can find cranks which had reversed threads, pre-dating 1900, like US643349A filed 1895 where "The screw-threads on the parts b b' of the shaft are oppositely directed, or, in other words, are right and left hand threads".

It's described as protecting the ball-bearings, not to prevent coming loose.

https://www.wright-brothers.org/Information_Desk/Just_the_Fa... says:

> In 1900, the Wrights announced a "bicycle pedal that can't come unscrewed." Pedals were mounted to the crank by threaded spindles. On early bicycles, both crank arms had standard right-hand threads. As the cyclist pedaled, the action tended to tighten one pedal and loosen the other, with the result that one pedal kept dropping off the bike. British inventor William Kemp Starley had solved a similar problem years before when the right-hand cups that housed the crank or "bottom" bearing on early bicycles kept coming loose. He simply reversed the thread direction on the right cup so the pedaling action kept it tight. It wasn't long before bicycle makers realized the same solution could keep the pedals in place. Wilbur and Orville were in the vanguard of those manufacturers that offered right-hand threads on one crank arm and left-hand threads on the other.

That is, the Wright Brothers were early promoters of the design, but not the innovators.
While I don't disagree with the general statement, I do want to add the nuance that this isn't true for small amounts of cash money. Recently, the government even recommended people to keep more cash on hand in case of emergency / large scale disruptions to the financial system.

Even with large amounts of money, it's not like they're knocking on doors, looking under yer bed.
Can anyone recommend an open source option that would allow training on a custom voice (my own, so I'd be able to record as many snippets as it needed to train on) to allow me to use it for TTS generation without sharing it off my machine?

Edit: I'll wait to see if any recommendations get made here, if not I might give this one a go: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
Many commenters on HN have this weird idea that if Taiwan is slightly ahead of competition, US would defend Taiwan against a country with nukes. Or that TSMC superiority is Taiwan's national security issue.
It might be helpful and interesting to expand on the history. Was this an active effort to reclaim the word? That makes all the difference. People might not choose the word you would prefer when they form their own identities.
Companies don't magically not have any humans in them as soon as they are on a stock market.
hogwash because hogwash or because ai?
According to text-embedding-3-large, "french press" and "espresso" have a cosine similarity of 0.506. More than half, so we are fine, right? Right?
I grew up in the US, we're about the same age, and I went to a public school where I had a similar experience. More than anything else, I remember the crushing boredom and the feeling that time had slowed to a crawl. I wasn't beaten or abused, but I felt trapped in amber, and the school really was prison-like, just as you describe it. I've never hated anything so much in my life as I hated school.

So I escaped the prison. I dropped out at age 14 and went to work in a book warehouse at the age of 16. Everybody was screaming about how much I'd regret it, but to this day I consider it among the best decisions I've ever made.

Now I have young children of my own, and I'm not sure how I'm going to handle their education, but home schooling -- /w private professional tutoring and organized athletic activities -- looks like the best option. There's no way I'd subject them to public school.
Great website. I discovered a lot of incredible artists and since they have generous creative commons licences, I was able to use them in some games I made. Finding music that ties the experience together is really satisfying.
It seams to have a maximum length. If you try it on this page, it won't capture the whole page.
This time it was thehill getting the title wrong, instead of HN autocorrect.

thehill title:

OpenAI’s Sam Altman urges Trump to ease power plant, data center construction

thehill paragraph:

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested that President-elect Trump should ease restrictions on data center and power plant construction [...]
A Deep Dive into Memorization in Deep Learning
Ask HN: What's the best no-code platform product you've ever used?
Bolt.new, Lovable, WebSim, etc. – has everyone tried them? Which product do you think is the best? Has anyone actually used these no-code platforms to develop software and successfully launch it?
Not much to see here, a company cuts cost to maximize profits because that's why it exists.
I don’t think this is about lisp syntax.

The systemd variant uses one of the universal DSLs for key-value pairs (key=value) and the universal DSL for calling programs (program name, space separated list of arguments).

The latter is even the same syntax that lisp uses for functions calls – thus I would argue the systemd config file looks more like a lisp program than the Guix version does.

As a person that has seen a reasonable amount of sexpression, this is what I would not bat an eye at:

(start /path/to/ntpd -n -c /etc/ntpd.conf -u ntpd -g)
Forty Years of Programming
Also, it might hook other people who watch similar videos to you. So the algorithm, thinks it might work on you based on the profile it has on you, based off the videos you watch.
I wouldn't necessarily say intensification is the issue, but more misrepresenting the truth or flat out lying.

Shouting "SO AND SO MAYBE MIGHT HAVE POSSIBLY DID THIS BAD THING BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE!" from the rooftops won't provoke much action as shouting the same but reinforcing that it is definitely true, for sure, of course it is.

Then with human behaviour/intelligence there's the spectrum of people who care about fact-finding or not and will react according to new information depending on this. Some of it is general laziness, they can't be bothered fact finding, and some of it is tribal, they accept x must be true because it's about y tribe where they're a member of z tribe.

That's why it's so easy for politics, big tech, etc to manipulate people; because we're all still monkeys!
Gotta leave this here for those that haven’t seen it :)

https://youtu.be/9kaIXkImCAM
Heatmap of Developer Salaries in Europe
We don't ever actually know if any model is accurate -- that is, whether it actually models the underlying physical process. We just have a lot of models that have made predictions about the future that turned out to be more or less correct, much more often that you'd expect by chance, and so we develop trust in that correspondence with reality over time.

It's possible that our current climate models are wrong, by a little or a lot. It's also possible that General Relativity is wrong -- gravity might stop at this time tomorrow.

If you're interested, this issue is called the Problem of Induction in philosophy. (Confusingly, "induction" has a different meaning here than in mathematical induction.)
I thought it's related to the simplex method in linear programming
"was trained on <100 hours of audio"

How the hell was it trained on that little data ?
Gandalf the Red: Adaptive Security for LLMs
I think it's very area specific - how prosperous the area is. Reading that post was like he was at my school, word for word. I was on the "not bullied end" of that arrangement and life was still hell as you had to constantly watch over your shoulder, align with factions for fear of real violence if you weren't in the right place at the right time. A lot fo the older kids were linked to serious crime in the local area at the ages of 15 and 16 only. All in all I would say the goths got the most amount of abuse on a day to day basis.
For sight and hearing, yes, but is "language use" a sense?
I'm guessing Taiwan would only have so many anti-ship missiles so if you have more ships than that you wouldn't be able to get them all.
Right the energy is exponentially, but I’d claim that fatalities are saturating.
Like for all inert gases, the psychoactive effects of xenon begin only above a certain pressure threshold (i.e. concentration threshold).

The heavier an inert gas is, the lower the pressure threshold. So for nitrogen the pressure threshold is well above atmospheric pressure and it affects only the divers who must breathe air at a pressure equal to their ambient pressure. Lighter inert gases, like helium, can be used up to higher pressures, corresponding to greater depths.

For xenon, the heaviest non-radioactive inert gas, the pressure threshold is much lower, so it can work as a general anesthetic at atmospheric pressure.

However, at the low pressures corresponding to the high altitudes around Everest, perhaps xenon does not have any psychoactive effects, which is actually claimed by the company providing the climbers with it.
> Lots of bad decisions but the world also takes for granted the open seas, etc. that come at a great cost to Americans in reduced social services like health insurance and higher education.

Thanks for the laugh
You write something at T, under normal background conditions of increasing entropy. Entropy at some T+n fluctuates to a minimum, and at T+n+1 begins to rise from that minimum. None of this appears to necessarily reverse what you've written at T?
Deaths in US expected to exceed births in 2033: CBO
Very good README.md, teasing and explaining very well the the provided value. Well done!
Can it also translate? I have family who would like audiobooks in German but most are in English only.
It's not a "point", I didn't make an argument.

I dislike german and russian style dubs as well, I'd rather learn a bit of the original language.
> Can you give an example?

In C, I use FOO() for a macro, foo() for a function like macro and foo () for a function.

Also:

statement1;
statement2;

statement3;
statement4;

is different from:

statement1;

statement2;
statement3;

statement4;

Can you still see those changes in a structured diff?

> You can see order changes in a structured diff as well if you want but you don't need to hundreds of line of removal and addition like text diff. You would see only the relevant thing which is reordering.

That is nice then, I thought diffing an AST would lose that ability.
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These were around in the US back in the day, but known by the name "hobby horse." Relatively few of them survived, but I've seen them in a few collections in my travels, chiefly the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, OH...which I highly recommend visiting if you happen to be passing by. Pretty neat bit of history and I'd love to try and make one with wooden wheels one day.
Is it needed to link to previous submissions without any comments?
There was a time about ten years ago I worked with a few people who had climbed Everest (one multiple times) and a handful more that were due to in the next couple of years. We worked in a climbing shop, and the regulars were all experienced climbers, working only to save enough for the next expedition.

The topic of oxygen had come up and almost everyone was all in favour of it until one guy explained he wouldn't be alive had he decided to use oxygen. He got cut off between two camps in bad weather, and were he relying on oxygen he would have likely run out; and subsequently passed out and died in the cold. As he was instead properly acclimated, he could ride out the storm as long as he stayed warm, which was relatively easy because he didn't need to worry about oxygen consumption.

Whether his story was true or not, it highlighted that it might be better to "be more" than "have more". The idea has stuck with me since, and whenever I'm faced with the choice between a shortcut past problem using some external resource or taking the longer, slower route of learning it/training properly I always go for the latter. It's not sexy, but has served me pretty well.

It's been an interesting thought-experiment these past few months as the talk around AI has become deafening. I know I'll be on the wrong side of history eventually, but I still prefer to "earn my turns" to borrow a metaphor from backcountry skiing.
This is the first comment in the page, the first I read, and I can also say, I learned nothing (if anything lies, bad science and nonsense) in school. Coming from a very different country, lived in many others I know is not better in those places. I do not have time to really teach my kids, but I will be all the way by their side, as they go through the brain washing machine of school.

I will send them to the school just because I want them to interact with other people of same age, and also learn how much stupid people is around, and show them it won't get any better later in life. But I do not expect, at all, that they will learn something useful.
I have to give him some credit, after he said something that seemed totally hypocritical I instantly thought "What is he some Marxist now that a black woman's family might have some valuable property?" but read on and he made exactly the same point I would about getting rich finding oil.

Would respect him more if he'd realised that made the whole thing not worth writing about, but I guess he just couldn't let it go.
Are transistors per square mm a better metric ?
OpenAI's AI reasoning model 'thinks' in Chinese sometimes, no one knows why
I'm interested in specifics if you remember them. What Xerox system, are we talking an Operating system? A mainframe? A computer + OS package? An office program?

And what were the metaphors specifically, folders or cutting and pasting?

Thanks.
Does it? The podcasts created by Notebook LLM are completely convincing, at least in terms of voice generation.
Valid concern, thanks. Though I'm interested how such automatic formatting works with spaces.
Classrooms need to cater to lowest common denominator by necessity so can kinda see a desire to do this.

But not convinced it’s possible to emulate the social interaction part diy
> the guy who went viral on youtube for explaining why you should never talk to the police and later tried very hard to delete all uploads of this video

Do you have a source for that?
I don't think dominant suppliers like Audible should exist so that matters little to me.
TSMC being 2-4 years ahead of Samsung/Intel has nothing to do whether US would be willing to go on a nuclear war and move the entire world decades if not millenias back. No one can go on a direct war with a country with nukes unless they are ready for mutually assured destruction.
I wholeheartedly agree. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Briggs got me hooked on Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I loved "Going Postal".
Very enterprising on his part, and a nice reminder of the culture of the early-ish web.
I'm only pointing out that those SaaS starter kits existed over ten years ago, and I've got the invoice to prove it! :D
A few years ago, me and a coworker redid our company's website in straight-up HTML, JS, and CSS without a framework. It was quite refreshing but it certainly took longer to complete it all. It had 3D models and some scroll-based masking on videos and such.

It has sadly been replaced by a website made in Framer due to time constraints, but the old version is on the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211008131609/https://tonari.no...

Unfortunately it kinda turned into a flickery mess, not sure if that's an old bug of ours or something failing to load properly from the archive. Oh well!
Handbrake may be a better option for you. I find that for some tasks it’s not only simpler but straight up works better than FFmpeg.

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/cli/cli-options.html
Don’t Miss the Post for the Trees – Here’s Why Most People Do

You see it all the time. A post comes through your feed. It's insightful. It’s bold. It’s… mostly ignored.

Why?
Because people don’t actually engage with the core idea — they react to what they think it says.

The same thing happens in business:
- Founders get stuck in the weeds of their product without seeing the bigger market opportunity.
- Teams hyper-focus on the tech, missing the customer pain point.
- Investors hear the pitch, but miss the deeper vision driving it.

People miss the post for the trees.

Here’s the thing: breakthroughs happen when you push past surface-level reactions.
The best founders? They’re not just building products — they’re connecting dots others miss.
The best marketers? They’re not just optimizing campaigns — they’re shifting narratives.
The best investors? They’re not chasing trends — they’re seeing past the noise.

If you want to stand out in a noisy world, here’s the question to ask yourself:
Am I reacting to the surface? Or am I leaning in to understand what’s really being said?

The magic is always in the nuance. The signal is often buried in the noise. The big ideas?
They’re the ones that most people scroll past.

So… don’t.

(I'm sorry I had to)
Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT
I went to a rural public school, underfunded as they come, and my HS math teacher is still in the top 3 of all teachers / instructors I've had throughout my life. If my parents were to teach me math, I simply wouldn't be working in a STEM-field today.

The majority of my teachers were good. The dynamic was completely different compared to being around my parents.

Leave the teaching to the professionals.
So you should be able to keep money acquired with illegal acts? If you become a millionaire by selling drugs and get caught, you go to prison but after you get out, the money is yours?

Or what does „wrap it up in their probate“ mean?
Jamendo.com used to be a great place to find free music.

There's still music,but the site design has sucked too much for me to use it for about 10 years now.
It's not going to be long before we need to move to a whitelist model, rather than a blacklist model.

It ironically makes me think of the Yahoo Web Directory in the 90s.

Time is a flat circle.
What is small and what is large is a matter of opinion.

If they are out to get you and can't find anything incriminating, cash will do. The press will happily report on this too : 'There was a police raid so and so, nothing was found but they found a (large) amount of cash'.

Furthermore, our government is planning legislation to make cash transactions > € 3000 illegal.
Technically speaking, cross encoders are LLMs - they use the last layer to predict similarity (a single number) rather than the probability of the next token.
They are faster than generative models only if they are simpler - otherwise, there is no performance gain (the last layer is negligible).
In any case, even the simplest cross-encoders are more computationally intensive than those using a dot product from pre-computed vectors.

That said, for many applications, we may be perfectly fine with some version of a fine-tuned BERT-like model rather than using the newest AGI-like SoTA just to compare if two products are vaguely similar, and it is worth putting the other one in suggestions.
Nothing dumb about it, unless you are not a parent. No reason for kids to be scrolling in school.
I'm early 50s and went to school in the Republic of Ireland - late 70s, 80s. I really feel the same as the OP here. It felt like a daily prison, combined with huge amounts of memorisation for exams. (promptly forgotten)

Maybe a child could put up with the incarceration if it wasn't for the bullying on top of that too. No escape.

Aside: In the 70s the Headmaster had a cane that was used occasionally but at least that died out later.

But on a more optimistic note, I think there's some 'alternative schools' becoming more popular in Ireland now, like 'Forest School Ireland' etc... sounds more healthy anyway!
The US would probably defend Taiwan if the CCP invaded it. I don't think we would ever use nukes.