skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should've thought of that before they started punishing scientists who dissented from gender ideology.

What are you talking about? No one got "punished for dissenting".

> Something had to be done to stop it stomping further on the rights of women, children, and gay people.

Again: what are you talking about?!
A lot of plastics are incinerated. I think it has to be at a high temperature. Of course this does emit carbon dioxide.
There's a similar phenomena with how Russians view Ukraine.

"Who allowed them to live so well?".
I have a better solution: Just ignore it. Society doesn't have to listen to everyone. Democracy doesn't mean "treat every opinion as equally valid no matter how idiotic". You don't have to press the "destroy the world" button when 51% of people vote to do so, because some charismatic personalities said it was a cool idea.
> To challenge [the legality of an action by] an executive that has friends in congress is a dangerous proposition for a federal judge.
> It could end badly.

This implies that the courts cannot be an effective check and balance on the other branches. Aren't they meant to be?
I'm a little surprised that encrypted voice fits through PSTN. like, logically voice can fit, and encryption shouldn't change message size, but plaintext (plainspeech?) voice over PSTN is/was analog, while the ciphertext is digital. I wonder if the quality suffered.
This is using the original actor. They re-recorded it. The AI just modifies the lips.

From TFA:

> Notably, the original actors recorded their own dialogues in English in a sound booth — Flawless AI's technology merely altered the movements of their lips in the movie.
I'm talking about secularism. True separation of church and state at any level of government.

This enables us to talk freely about religious belief and to educate our kids on how they have been exploited by many factions over the years.

It doesn't limit your own spirituality. It also doesn't hand the keys to the country to one specific group of people.
Anthropic wins early round in music publishers' AI copyright case
I had no idea a song like GBI even existed, let alone that it came with its own font!
I get wildly inconsistent SMB speeds at home even on a 1Gbps wired connection. Sometimes it’s 100MB/s, sometimes it’s only ~30MB/s. On WiFi it’s worse. No idea why.

I always get consistent speeds over SSH/SFTP, so that’s what I use when transferring large files.
Because the underlying meta-system is the one that produces the people. Complete with their understanding of what "good" is.

The important thing is for that energy to be expended in the pursuit of certain outcomes; the goals themselves are already self-contradictory.

The meta-system uses that to reproduce itself. Our lives are secondary to that goal.
macos sonoma is a very high requirement...
I really don’t understand how my comment can be interpreted like this in good faith.

I asked if parent doesn’t think that there might be urls that should be blocked, for example sites serving child porn.
Honestly, I kinda miss when pop culture wasn't afraid to get this weird
Note that for this movie, the actors are recording the translated lines manually. The AI is just there to change the lips.
It should be said that there are experts that still argue strongly that we shouldn’t casually take large doses of Vitamin D. It’s not actually a vitamin. It’s a steroid hormone.

You can easily be misled about how much vitamin D you need because the skin makes a huge amount of it when exposed to sunlight.. but it does that as part of the process of protecting itself from sunlight, not because the body necessarily needs that much vitamin D.

Before you take large doses you should read and understand these articles.

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-1-back-to-basi...

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-3-the-evidence
This is gross. Are you going to ask on Reddit how to spam Hacker News?
There's been pushback against this, 8 states have passed “Reasonable Childhood Independence” laws since 2018, Georgia in the last few days, and more will.
Ask HN: How would you report a home ISP that you think may be committing fraud?
If the ISP at your home kept sending you faulty modems (and this was verified by the technicians they sent out to replace them) and their support insisted that — somehow —renting an Eero router from them would solve the faulty modem issue, what would you do?
TFA:

> Notably, the original actors recorded their own dialogues in English in a sound booth — Flawless AI's technology merely altered the movements of their lips in the movie.
The numbers involved here make the chances that we are unique vanishingly small IMO; the numbers are the justification.

Those numbers mean that even if the odds of life are vanishingly small, there was and will be other life out there. We’re not talking about one world like Earth but likely billions at least. As far as we can tell our star is in no way unique or special, and if those same processes happened say 100000000000000000000000 times elsewhere, it seems very unlikely to me that they wouldn’t produce self-replicating life as well somewhere, sometime.
Is this the link you intended to post? All I see is a forum post with a request for troubleshooting assistance and some basic diagnostic questions from folks providing assistance. Am I missing something here?
How does naming the ethnicity of a group of criminals help in solving or preventing the crimes the commit?

If there's a clear, proven answer to that, one that works obviously better than other methods to solve or prevent it, then by all means: name this parameter.

In all other cases, it helps nothing. If anything, its counterproductive.

Let me give an example: a significant portion of Dutch heavy criminals, in the niche of harddrug trafficking were raised in poverty (relatively, its still the netherlands), in tough neighborhoods, by parents/families that often fall partly outside of the established social constructs.

If you look carefully, non of these parameters are "of certain ethnicity", but the enthnic group underlies many of these parameters. A populist politician, or racist, would say "they are all Marroccan". Which, except for the absolutists "all" is true, even. But it doesn't help one bit in preventing this crime, catching the criminals or preventing new kids to become the next generation.

What helps is finding the traits that do lead to them turning criminal; many of these traits may stem from their ethnic background. Mind you: these traits are by no means excuses, merely traits that allow a clearer and more effective treatment of the societal illness that these criminals are.

(Source: my ex treated a.o. criminals at a TBS. Where phyches "dissect" these people in order to treat them so that some might some day return to society)
Always cool when something from HN sparks nostalgia or uncovers a gem
Because "this technology" only changes the lips visually, and does not do any translation or dubbing.

> Notably, the original actors recorded their own dialogues in English in a sound booth — Flawless AI's technology merely altered the movements of their lips in the movie.
Call me crazy, but they have lots to gain. They got to see whether a journalist would dare stand up against them knowing very well they risk being found with 50 terabytes of illegal porn on their computer then dying of a suicide with 2 shots in the back of the head. Turns out journalists aren't yet afraid of them.

They also got a loyalty test with their own people. Everyone is saying "not my problem" and accepting no responsibility. They've passed that test.

Then the final loyalty test is of their voters. When this first broke, the script was "Oof. This is bad. Heads will roll because of this." When it became apparent that, no, heads will not roll, the script amongst them changed. "This doesn't matter. Why would it matter? Everyone uses insecure things and makes mistakes. Why did the journalist embarrass our country?" It's very obvious that the breaking point with their base is very far away, assuming there is one.

And the final result is seeing whether there will be consequences. A small time guy can get pinched for this and the president and everyone else will remain completely void of responsibility no matter what. But it's pretty obvious that even a small time guy won't be facing consequences.

So they've gained something very valuable from this: the realization that there really are no consequences. They're going to keep pushing things like this and they'll get bigger and bigger each time. And each time it sets a new standard for a tolerable level of bad. And any time someone supportive of them starts to think "maybe this isn't good", they'll be quick to rush in and say "it's a nothingburger, just like the last thing they were whining about." And they'll fall back in line.
That's a distinction without a difference.

If you're in that intelligence community, you know exactly what is classified and what is not. I could imagine some information being so secretive it's not written down -- but instead passed verbally in person.

If a CIA agent has intelligence on an Israeli operation, it's classified, regardless of whether it was written down or not.
This is really what's happening. The outrage comes from white folks finally seeing into the reality of how america has treated minority people since forever.
> Zoneminder in particular is (or was, anyway) an absolute nightmare to deploy and run.

Install it, configure it, make sure to give it enough storage so you have the desired retention duration - here about 2 days - and restart it regularly to keep memory leaks in check. Once you've got it set up don't mess with it anymore. I've run it this way for close to 5 years now without too many problems. I did a thorough survey of the available free and cloud-free software before I settled on ZM and regularly check whether something 'better' has shown up but have not seen anything which matches the functionality yet. There's lots of other surveillance camera software but most developers seem to consider a Javascript-heavy glitzy UI the prime directive while the backend is more of an afterthought. I hardly ever use the UI, most interaction goes through apps (ZMNinja etc.) or other systems (OpenHAB etc.). ZM, once configured, does very well this way as long as you keep the memory leaks in the zmc processes in check.

In short ZM is a flawed but functional piece of software with the best balance between functionality and flaws for our application - stable and farm monitoring services. It may not be what your want if you want to have a web interface to that camera on the front porch.
That's 100% false, dogs and pigeons can obviously think, and it is childish to suppose that their thoughts are a sequence of woofs or coos. Trying to make an AI that thinks like a human without being able to think like a chimpanzee gives you reasoning LLMs that can spit out proofs in algebraic topology, yet still struggle with out-of-distribution counting problems which frogs and fish can solve.
I've been drowning in:

1,400+ browser bookmarks

300+ unorganized Notion pages

Countless PDFs named "important_read.pdf"

The breaking point came when I spent 45 minutes searching for a research paper I knew I'd saved, only to find it later in a downloads folder mixed with memes.

Current solutions fail because:

Folders/tags require perfect discipline

Search only works if you remember exact keywords

No connections between related content (like that YouTube video that perfectly explains a concept in your PDF)

I eventually built a simple system for myself that:

Lets me dump anything without organizing

Finds things through natural questions ("What were the key points about X?")

Shows connections between notes/videos/articles

It's been working surprisingly well for my personal use. If this pain sounds familiar, I'm happy to share the technical approach (it's just a local Python script).
Ok, let’s hope you are right on the anti-imperialism front and that the US citizens will not tolerate all that saber rattling against Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal…

or maybe you are just misunderstanding and rationalizing what’s going on to tell yourself that everything is going fine on the US politics side of things while the rest of the world is waking up to the fact that you voted a narcissistic authoritarian into office.

Let’s hope you are right!
Read these articles, maybe it gives some insight. The idea that you need high doses of vitamin D might not be as scientifically sound as you’d think

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-1-back-to-basi...

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-3-the-evidence
It can answer my favourite riddle for LLMs:

"Anna, Becca and Clare go to the play park. There is nobody else there. Anna is playing on the see-saw, Becca is playing on the swings. What is Clare doing?" (Sometimes I ask similar questions with the same structure and assumptions but different activities)

About a year ago none of them could answer it. All the latest models can pass it if I tell them to think hard, but previously Gemini could rarely answer it without that extra hint. Gemini 2.5 caveats its answer a bit, but does get it correct. Interestingly GPT-4o initially suggests it will give a wrong answer without thinking, but recognises it's a riddle, so decides to think harder and gets it right.
That was because of Altivec, the best SIMD ISA (and implementation) for some time. Miles better than MMX or original SSE.
That’s not my view, but if seeded I’d expect to find it in many more places, why would our creators only seed one planet?
I only had 1 slight jump on Android/Firefox.

When I scroll past the title it jumps to the main paragraph. This seems to be the only jumps for me.

If you continuously scroll up/down around that point it is really annoying.

Page positioning is an important feature but more often used for flash rather than function.
The examples they show have little captions that say "best of #", like "best of 8" or "best of 4". Hopefully that truly represents the odds of generating the level of quality shown.
I think they were referring to the discrete/ non-integrated GPUs.
> An improvement of 2-3x software delivery speed will be common at ‘classic’ SaaS startups.

I like the idea that delivery speed alone is a worthy metric. Explosive diarrhea is delivered 2-3x the speed of a normal bowel movement yet few aspire to make it their norm
Weird. I get consistent disk-saturating (or link-saturating, depending on which of my disks the data is coming from) transfer speeds.

FWIW, I'm running a custom-built Linux computer that does multiple duty as file server, router, and buildbox. I've been running Samba for ages and am currently running whatever's stable in the Gentoo Linux package tree.
And I also notice that when I ask here on HN a critical question about the Democrats, I get flagged and downvoted. And if I ask a critical question about the Republicans, I get answers like "obviously".

When I ask the same questions in a more Republican focussed community, it's interestingly not the opposite. The Republicans don't seem to censor people that are critical about them, but they rather respond to it in a mature and factual way. I find that interesting.
no, not really, this is a separate issue.

yes, American exceptionalism relies on a comparing itself to the worst countries in the world and ignoring that developed nations exist and work out decently.

but there really is a skepticism about some Europe nations, can they - and the bloc - sustain its 21st century advances and social safety nets while adequately paying for its own defense? inquiring minds would like to know, and now we don't have to debate it anymore. Is the budget really balanced if all commitments were funded as agreed? Can European nations really tolerate each other with the rearmaments?

stay tuned
You are lucky they went with cat5. In my house there are phone lines everywhere, too, but real phone lines. Like in ISDN. That’s 8 strands plus some extra strands (the European ISDN bus needs 4 strands, so for a faked star topology you need 4 to every room and 4 back). It is neither shielded nor twisted of course. Just plain dumb copper wires. On some connections a stable 10 Mbit link is possible. From what I gather the cables were installed around 2000…
The old macOS settings wasn't perfect, but it was much better. On iOS, I don't know, I think it's just a very hard problem. iOS has a ton of settings, but honestly the only way to fix the settings app on iOS is perhaps to start removing features.
Perhaps it’s not. Perhaps the people in my building are just particularly pro-social. But that seems self-aggrandizing.

While I was able to find nice things to do and my neighbors have done nice things for me in the Excelsior, the Mission, Glen Park, and the Sunset none of those places had the frequency and scale of this civil interaction.

And certainly my life in the TL was characterized by gladness for lack of negative interaction than by constant positive interactions.

My experience in SF is that some neighborhoods experience greater pro-social behavior than others.
Is this what makes it to the HN main page nowadays? This article is extremely shallow and contains close to no useful information.
I was asking myself the same question, looking for something noteworthy.

No there's nothing here to find. The way to go is in the linked discourse, god it's ugly, use iperf.
That's funny. HN hates funny. Enjoy your shadowban.
The jurors are the fact finders (if it's a jury trial). They don't need to know the law, it will be explained to them by the judge.

In a bench trial, the judge is both the fact finder and the law interpreter. The argument in favor of non-lawyer judges is that for misdemeanor cases the facts dominate the law, ie whom do you believe, not what's larceny or drug dealing.
Not to mention fleet vehicles, like rental cars or work trucks. CarPlay and Android Auto make that experience infinitely better, even with the most budget cars. I would never want a GM rental car now. This concept even extends to a family car with multiple drivers.

There is also an issue of privacy. GM could argue that you can login to the car and get most of your content, especially if you are in the Google ecosystem. But what is GM going to do with that data once they have it? The fewer places that have my data the better. It’s already on my phone, and my phone can already do what GM is trying to do. Why replicate it.
They shouldn't. Microsofts most valuable users are on desktop.
when can we expect something to play with? looks great and would be really nice to get rid of the vendor lock
I think it is not the AI but you who is wrong here. A full glass of wine is filled only up to the point of max radius so that the surface to air is maxed an the wine can breathe. This is what we taught the AI to consider „a full glass of wine“ and it perfectly gets it right.
I thought Intel shut down Realsense years ago. It turns out they didn't exactly, and the D421 module is actually a new product. Apparently they're going to spin it out.

https://www.therobotreport.com/intel-spins-out-realsense-as-...

$80 is a bargain for that module. I hope they sell them in fewer than 10s though...
In this analogy the unknown is the number of sides on the dice (probability of life), we know there are an astonishingly large number of stars and planets that life could evolve on, so a very large number of throws, we just don’t know how hard it is for life to emerge.

I agree with you the odds are strongly in favour of us not being first or unique. I didn’t say we must be first but find it very unlikely given the numbers.
I'm going to be making distro packages and binaries public. I will have to figure out white label monetization I guess.
Trump won't fire any of them, because nothing they've done displeases him, and displeasing Trump (rather than violating a law, for instance) is the only way to get fired by him.
ReSH or McFly does the job.
> Unemployment hasn't really picked up, and is unlikely to do so

That's an important assessment. I don't know if you're right. If the models are going to continue to get more capable I'm expecting unemployment to rise , I don't see how it won't (sure we are promised A.I to create tons of new jobs no one has imagined yet, I haven't seen a reliable clue for such jobs yet).
It very much looks like a side effect of this new architecture. In my experience, text looks much better in recent DALL-E images (so what ChatGPT was using before), but it is still noticeably mangled when printing more than a few letters. This model update seems to improve text rendering by a lot, at least as long as the content is clearly specified.

However, when giving a prompt that requires the model to come up with the text itself, it still seems to struggle a bit, as can be seen in this hilarious example from the post: https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/21nVyfD2KFeriJXUNL...
> We discuss it for 10-15m afterwards

Yeah, that sounds awful. That's the great part though, everyone can participate on their own terms. Do the stoop coffee, do the watch parties, whatever they feel energizes them and brings joy.

It's such a great initiative.
I'm not doubting it's an improvement, because it looks like it is.

I guess here's an example of a prompt I would like to see:

A flying spaghetti monster with a metal colander on its head flying above New York City saving the world from and very very evil Pope.

I'm not anti/pro spaghetti monster or catholicism. But I can visualize it clearly in my head what that prompt might look like.
Why don't we see appropriate questions? Like how was the number added accidentally? It would have had to be in the contacts already? Was it? That seems highly unlikely. It's the ATLANTIC! Why would they have the Atlantic in their contacts.

And Signal is not an approved app afaik.

The whole thing just seems like it is highly likely it is fake/engineered.
Beatles or Google researchers.
Imo the real situation is that US distributors suck at dubbing and/or rely too much on celebrity voices rather than good voice actors that can dub properly.

I have seen some US dubs that would have been improved by a polish-style voiceover dialog
My images say "Created with DALLE" below them, and a little info icon tells me they are rolling out the new one soon.
I used y = ax + b all the time in school. This is the first time I encounter mx + c.
Except at some point the low hanging fruit is gone and it becomes +1%, +3% in some benchmarked use case and -1% in the general case, etc. and then come the benchmarking lies that we are seeing right now, where everyone picks a benchmark that makes them look good and its correlation to real world performance is questionable.
Is it possible to take 180° 3d videos with it?
What are some of your favorite history books?
Based on my May 2023 survey of front-page results, those rank at 954 and 3,028 (of all sites) respectively:

954 18 63.008 lcamtuf.blogspot.com :::: blog
3028 6 77.327 lcamtuf.substack.com :::: blog

Among blogs I'd identified (similar methodology though all but certainly different URL set from TFA), #295 and #521 of 5,506 blogs identified.

My set includes 52,642 sites all told, with 16,185 classified as, e.g., "programming", "blog", "social media", "academic/science", "corporate comm.", "general news", "government", "software", "tech news", etc. I'd come up with 61 total classifications, covering all sites with at least 18 front-page appearances within the HN archive.
You find it implausible that someone highly placed in the government would have the editor of a major news publication in their contacts?