skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to use an AI generator, it has to be fed with music that is in the style you like so that a model is created and trained. The question of copyright and plagiarism in such a case is not really clearly defined. The patterns it will generate will not be same as existing ones, but can sound or seem similar. As if the "AI composer" was influenced by the original song composers.

Has anyone any comments regarding such issues?
Whisper networks just mean powerful people who talk among each other and do their research. That will always be the case. In politics isn’t that just the standard form of discourse?
> How long before Android runs properly on RISC-V?

It's mostly up to OpenJDK and V8 porting. When it comes to porting V8, I've found out the hard way that there's more to it than a generic understanding of compilers. Somebody still has to step up to the plate for a real JVM.

> And will they be able to persuade app-makers to rebuild all apps for the platform - x86 Android shows how hard that can be.

Real x86 Android devices had libhoudini (DBT), which was pretty decent. If RISC-V starts with low-end devices, or with a high-visibility model that developers are pretty sure will sell well, then the native compilation target will become more popular over time.

If China's bizarre local app market is involved, chances are they'll start supporting the target as soon as it's available.
Better article than the title would suggest.
And in the end competition is good for normal people, so great job?
Powerpoint. I feel like I've only scratched the surface of Excel and it's definitely the most interesting part of Office software. You can do pretty much anything, and it's amazing. I've seen PDFs imitated for stuff like D&D Character Sheets, where all the cells are formatted and colored to provide whitespace around the actual fields.
Not "AI" generated, but generated nonetheless, this HN thread from a few months back should be pretty helpful :

"Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19397817

Be careful: this thread is great, I spent a full evening digging into the various links people posted. You've been warned.
Typing stuff into Google Trends isn't research.
Presumably someone is using the high four bits for some other purpose. It wouldn't surprise me if parts of an A350's avionics software is old enough that those sorts of space optimizations made sense.
You are interviewing far less well than you think you are
> usually bigger companies have

And again you make sweeping generalizations...

I worked at what was a startup whose name you likely know, during the dot com boom, you could go from not-long-out-of-university to "very important head honcho of XYZ department" going (or flying) to very important meetings with really important executives of major companies in no time. Try that at some major company. It's actually rather unhealthy - for everybody, although the drug feels good to you at that time.
I 've heard thag Facebook uses microphones in smartpones to correlate users with TV or billboard ads. They use ultra or infrasound to broadcast information to nearby phone microphones so Facebook (or others) now that you watched the add
Link seems terribly dead =/
We deliver a demo first. Clients can then request any changes before we lock it in as final. Clients can also send links to music they like and we try to achieve a similar sound.

It's a good point though - we work on a small scale now. We haven't thought through all the details once we start taking new clients. One free revision seems like our most likely approach.
I was thinking more of the concept than this particular implementation.

This is basically a minimum viable product for others to play around with.

If that playing leads to bot trading competitions, fine. If it leads to someone building a 40k line monster and thinking it might be a good idea to entrust it with a meaningful proportion of anyone's savings.... No.
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> Ultimately, the only way to get any support from Twitter is to make big scene on social media, and I really don't want to do this.

Then I'd suggest you look for something new to do, because nothing except that will raise their attention to a level where they might investigate.
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Fair point! Thank you. Decided to leave it in there. :)
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I haven't thought about it much, but first reaction - I get that it might be a good candidate to get volumes up but isn't it kind of self-defeating? Why would you want to run android, of all things, on an open CPU?
Sounds like a reboot is a better option then.
you're expecting software without bugs? there's no such thing.
AI-powered chatbot connects homeless people with help
Median full-time salary is between 40k for females and 51k for males. You're being underpaid for 13 years experience, especially if you're working in tech.

No one assumes everyone makes 100-200k, but since most people here work in tech of some sort, 34k is unheard of.
On a south facing slope
Is there a limit to how many bones in the body could be replaced with titanium?
One potentially nice thing about formats like Cap'n Proto is that they don't eagerly parse the message. You can just lazily grab the values you care about, which can be a big performance win if you typically only care about a few fields out of a larger message.

That's impossible with text-based formats like XML and JSON, because everything is fractally variable-length.
Would you do it this way again?
This list is missing quite a lot of writers/scholars/intellects of color. Who decided this list and what are their biases?

Downvote me to oblivion, HN.
Not what you want in aviation, per se.
Vim Sessions [StackOverflow]
I'm no expert, but I think removing the postal code is the obvious way to anonymize.

If you can't restrict to a specific geographic area, then who knows who you are.

Pragmatically speaking, I noticed that in their "test toggling variables" widget at the end, removing postal code instantly dropped my probability of detection to 0, no matter what other fields were active.

So perhaps your geographic location is the information you should be most paranoid about sharing.
Perhaps we should start thinking about separation of powers such as modern democracy(eg separation of church and state).

While not directly comparable, it's imo a good place to start. Advertising companies perhaps shouldn't also be selling products (what's to stop them pushing their own product vs someone else's), social media vs banking (a SM can push their Bank, or similar service though we'll, that would be advertising wouldn't it).

This isn't a terribly well fleshed out thought, but hopefully a conversation starter.
RISC-V is an open ISA, but a particular RISC-V chip is not necessarily open hardware. In fact, most probably aren't.
That amount of friction is...strangely reassuring. Is there criteria that defines what kind of software update triggers this process? Or is it required with any update, no matter how small? Though if it's the latter, I'm guessing that incentivizes manufacturers to never send out small or trivial updates.
30 is a lot to keep top of mind, and there's more?!? It seems to me - and I have to give this some more thought myself - some of these can be grouped (read: chunked).

For example:

6. Comparative advantage

7. Diversification

8. Economies of scale

In short, if you go for 7 you compromise 8, or vice versa. Also, 6 and 8 seem to couple.

Another example,

2. Backward chaining

14. Inversion principle

Both seem pretty similar.

Moi? I'd prefer a list of 10 that I can commit to memory and be able to recall without too much trouble, than a list of 30+ that I'm going to read, smile, think "that's nice" and then forget.

Does anyone have a more focused list they can recommend?
2. Backward chaining
It is an issue if they have to reboot it twice.
Here's my favourite well-organised cheat sheet: https://medium.com/better-humans/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-...
> I was able to ask my PhD college, and several other institutions, to see all emails in which my name appeared in either the subject line or the body of the email

Hmm, I don't think I like this, and I don't understand how the GDPR allows you to do this.

While I understand that stored emails that mention you are technically "data about you", I wouldn't consider them "your data".

Emails are a form of personal communication, and are only really accessible by the author and recipients. Furthermore, those emails would contain PI about other individuals - what of their rights, or indeed the rights of the email authors (regardless of the message content)?

I support the GDPR, but I don't think using it like this falls within it's intent.
Mithril uses Semantic Versioning (https://semver.org/) if I recall correctly. All the 2.0 signifies is that there are major breaking changes. If you're curious about those changes, take a look at the changelog: https://mithril.js.org/change-log.html#v200

Otherwise, the "big picture" hasn't changed since the v1 release. Mithril is a lightweight alternative to those frameworks that provides routing, auto-redraw, closure components, XHR utilities, reactive streams, and a testing framework out of the box. The v2 release has less to do with gaining market share or generating hype than it does refining an already great tool.
Why not just use SOAP?

I think recent experience should tell us that the easiest thing plainly wins out. JSON can be terrible, Javascript can be terrible, but limitations on large integers isn't the worst hurdle to take.
Most tips actually go straight to the employee after the first few dollars tipped every hour where DoorDash took 100% of tips below $10 on every order.

For example: In my state of NC for example minimum wage is $7.25/h and tipped minimum wage is $2.13/h so any money tipped after the first $5.12/h is all going to the employee. $5 worth of tips isn't that much to get per hour even averaging across a whole shift that includes both a mealtime rush and some off hours.
It's extensible, so they could in theory introduce something to the ISA which would give them a competitive advantage, maybe even a publicly available extension that their competitors have simply left out, e.g. one of the crypto extensions.

There's also the benefit of being more flexible with teams who work on your SoC. With RISC-V, everyone has an ISA license, so they can contract, team-up, collaborate, or do basically anything they want, in order to work on their chips.

This also means that acquisitions are a much richer market than they are with other ISAs; in part because you don't have to justify the cost in time, money, and uncertainty of licensing or planning to license ARM.
To convince Churchill of Pykrete's qualities, Mountbatten put a block of Pykrete into Churchill's bath (while he was in it, according to the Wikipedia article):

What happened next was explained several years after the war by Lord Mountbatten in a widely-quoted after-dinner speech. "I was sent to Chequers to see the Prime Minister and was told he was in his bath. I said, 'Good, that's exactly where I want him to be.' I nipped up the stairs and called out to him, 'I have a block of a new material which I would like to put in your bath.' After that, he suggested that I should take it to the Quebec Conference." The demonstration in Churchill's steaming bath had been most dramatic. After the outer film of ice on the small pykrete cube had melted, the freshly exposed wood pulp kept the remainder of the block from thawing.

— Pyke, the Unknown Genius, [8] Lampe, David
How are mathematical questions unscientific?
This is heartbreaking. Thank you for bringing the awareness. Hold that child tight.
They probably won't be in a hurry to support the security extensions.
yes, need to stop trying to write after midnight
While I don't have knowledge of Italy or Kiwi, here in my US state of Georgia this year our watermelon has been extremely good. Very sweet and big melons. Much better than any year in recent memory.

I was listening to some journalism on the subject and the farmers association promoting this produce claimed it was due to a very good growing season with no freezes or bad weather and that conditions remained ideal for basically the entire season, which almost never happens.

Perhaps the quality of flavor of the kiwi is just affected by the climate and soil.

Another example more relevant to Italy might be the D.O.P. canned marzano tomatoes, which have unique flavors due to the soil and climate they are grown in in Italy.
Check out Amper:

https://www.ampermusic.com/

My good friend created the tech. They use a lot of custom acoustic instrument samples and some sound synthesis driven by Haskell and SuperCollider. No neural nets or machine learning involved (which is what most people seem to mean by "AI" these days), it's mostly rules based, with a large and byzantine rule set which has been cultivated, so some may call it Algorithmic or Generative music.
You can generally do the same thing in the US for emails to/from public university addresses with a FOIA request.

This seems kind of wild to me, but apparently it works.
New GPS-like system for single-cell analysis
Who said fat?
(I'm just well-built, that's all.)
Robert Mueller, yesterday:
"our investigation found that the Russian government interfered in our election in sweeping and systematic fashion"

So... That did happen.
The sun irradiates the planet with about 1,000 W / Square meter, the area irradiated is always about half of the planet, with the amount of light reflected for any given spot corresponding to the co-sine of the angle at which the light hits.

In a given hour - taking into account the albedo of the earth, 0.31 - the earth soaks up more sun than the world as a whole consumes in a year.

So yes, we are generating a lot of heat, but compared to what the sun does it is not a factor.
Again it happens but very rarely. There will always be prosecutoral misconduct unfortunately. And yes absolutely you can sue anyone for anything. If you believe you were detained for too long you can sue the government. People do that all the time - sue for governmental neglect. You just have to have strong enough case. If you were held day too long thats nothing. A year thats a plain abuse.
GDPR covers fines for logging sensitive things like passwords. There is additional separate certification needed if you're handling any payment details (i.e. Card numbers) yourself
> Todo’s are probably the only place where signing and dating the code are not horrible.

Not just todos. Also notes bringing in external context to why some code looks the way it is, because that external context can invalidate over time, and a date is then useful to evaluate whether the code needs changes.

> If the author is older then the VCS, they are no longer relevant.

You'd be surprised. Loss of VCS history happens for various reasons. In my career, I've seen one because the company switched to a different VCS. I've seen another because someone forked the project by copying out some parts of older project and committing them in a first commit of a new repo. I also worked with a codebase that's older than I am, predating Git, SVN and CVS, that someone at some point open-sourced on Github.
Because the root cause of the problem is very well known and because of that the workaround is considered safe.
> I mean, we're all old enough to have met people that despite competence are hard to work (or be) with and would rather not have to deal with.

I agree. It's not a black-and-white thing. Some people _might_ add value under some easy metric like "published works", but be impossible to work with under other metrics that are hard to measure but still important like agreeableness[1].

When someone is failing without a clear line on a workplace environment, more often than not it's because of that one specific trait (or lack thereof). I've certainly seen people that look great "on paper" and that never cross a line, but that still make me want to quit work just so I don't need to be around them.

1: https://www.psychologistworld.com/personality/agreeableness-...
Millions of people killed with machetes?

Never happened.
Sounds better than silicon valley's "move fast and break things", which would be more like "...and kill people" here.
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At first glance looks useful. But data quality is really hard to judge without a deep dive.
Is his motor function affected?
To my knowledge all upgradeable software is treated exactly like a new part. Upgrade must be certified, and is visible in part databases with part number. There must be a chain of trust. If it's a field upgradeable part, it's delivered in flash drives. If it's something more fundamental, they take the aviation computer out and update the EEPROM.

Certifying a upgrade is the hard part.
In my opinion the point of insurance is protect your assets you can't afford to lose. Most people cant afford to risk losing their house so they have insurance. However, if you are wealthy enough and can afford losing it then it's statistically cheaper to not insure it since you are not giving a cut to the insurer.
>which would have probably died off silently

Given Western digital will be producing millions of risc-v chips, the "it'll die off silently" ship has long since sailed.

https://www.westerndigital.com/company/innovations/risc-v
Android is the leading OS for mobile phones and tablets. It is also quite popular in embedded for devices that have a screen, mostly as a side-effect of its dominance in mobile. It can often be easier to get graphics and touch drivers/support for Android compared to Linux. It is also easier to find developers who can write a custom Android app for the UI than any of the typical embedded/Linux UI frameworks, and the tooling is better.
Well, what's the point of the article in the first place anyways ? Yeah stuff like that happen, have and will, and sometime verbally so good luck fighting that. Self-improvement seems the most efficient way of fighting that for oneself.

I just wanted to remind that the other side of the story was way more probable. Because outcasting her for her accent, despite all the good it brings a team to sprout successful academics (we're talking a field full of educated people, so able to forecast consequences of their decisions, although pride and ego sometimes makes them do bad stuff), is really not the most plausible outcome. But now I feel like such explanations are becoming default ones.
Click farm of 8k mobile phones in Shandong province China
Wow what a dream! You make it sound like you (or almost) spent it all, is that true?
Why us humans have heart attacks
Exams are the formal yardstick here, and a serious institution should not subject itself to such a powerful and informal system that is completely unchallengeable and opaque as "your supervisor's secret opinion of you".

If "stupid people" are passing these exams, maybe these are not good exams either.

Finally, thinking in terms of "stupid people" also incorrectly frames intelligence as a scalar, is unhelpful and lacks descriptive power of how one's mental capacity falls short: Are they socially clueless? Are they forgetful? Are they not able to put in the mental work when it comes to answering questions?
I saw from your most recent email that this book will be longer than Moby Dick.

I've been following your progress since the beginning and I really appreciate the work you've done. Crafting Interpreters was really helpful for me when I began building my own language.
As mentioned else-thread, the plane requires a certain level of inspection after the software update, which merely takes a few weeks and lots of human effort.
The article is not very clear, Passanisi is the "new guy", that started planting avocados in 2001, whilst Continella is his "mentor" (he is - unless there is an homonymy - an actual Professor at the University of Catania, seemingly specialized in cultivation of tropical or sub-tropical plants):

http://www.di3a.unict.it/docenti/alberto.continella

and this latter's father started the avocado business in the '60s.

Again, unless it is a case of homonymy, a relative (possibly the father) of the professor is (was) also a Professor at the University:

https://www.freshplaza.it/article/100112/Prospettive-per-i-f...

They are all from the same small area (Giarre, near Catania) which actually has a very warm micro-climate (long before any possible measurable effects of climate change) though I believe it is border-line in winter due to the effect of snow on the Etna, it seems like Mr. Passanisi, besides the actual cultivation, is dedicated to the "brand" siciliaavocado.
that sounds like its own problem to address, not a reason to avoid investing your money.
I think there needs to be an act of publication for defamation law to be engaged though. It might be rather hard to argue that private emails reach that bar.
There's a case to be made that flattening a list is not a common enough operation to justify a built-in keyword or even a method on the standard library list class. The Pythonic way seems to be that if you can write something with a simple and clear one-liner then it's better and clearer to have people use that one-liner than another built-in method that people would have to go look up the implementation of.
Would this work in the way the article described? Any email between other people containing your name in it?
I love it so far and can't wait to buy it, even as I've gone through what you've posted so far. I was curious about your rate of progress in this phase (and over the past years). Have you found the rate of progress (the demands of job and real life aside) on the book to be relatively constant? Are the final chapters significantly harder to draft and write based on complexity? (as a relative layperson, I'm assuming describing the design and implementation of garbage collection is more involved than for common data structures)
I ignore these putative advantages because they are of minor importance, compared to the major downside of cost. If fusion is too expensive, all those other things do not matter.
Everyone else not doing updates is the symptom of the larger issue, everyone else is a slow moving hardware company that outsources their software. Tesla is a software company first. And software beats hardware whenever you're doing something complex.

Plus lack of legacy self competition, no one else wants to cannibalise their other sales, and no one else has really invested in batteries. Most other car companies can't make enough EV cars to fulfill demand. They're all out of stock until next year because they make so few of them.
I think the point is, you have to conflate them more and more the farther back in time your inflation calculation tries to go.

Some things are pretty much the same today as they were 200 years ago, like land or a person's time. Relative wealth--relative to your surrounding society--allows you to buy those. That was true 200 years ago, and it's true today, although it might cost you a bigger pile of nominal currency (e.g. more British pounds) today than back then.

But no amount of wealth in the early 1800s could have bought you a 6-hour journey from London to New York, NY. Whereas, today it is something that many people can afford, at least occasionally. No amount of money in the 1800s could have bought you high-fidelity recordings of all Beethoven's works that you can carry with you anywhere on your wrist.

So which category better represents inflation since the early 1800s? In terms of things you could buy back then, like land or people's time, you can do a pretty straight calculation. But when you get to brand new categories of things to spend money on, like penicillin or an electric scooter trip, you're essentially "dividing by zero" because these things did not exist at all back then.

You have to invent some sort of way to value a thing in past dollars that could not have actually existed at that point in the past. The farther back you go, the more it just becomes guesswork.