skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well,

"Generalized self-driving is a hard problem, as it requires solving a large part of real-world AI. Didn’t expect it to be so hard, but the difficulty is obvious in retrospect. Nothing has more degrees of freedom than reality."

is a direct quote from him, and is quite explicit. So there's that...
Unlike patents, for cooyright, independently created work is not infringing. So, if you build a model that really does actually model music, this could be argued to be independent creation.

But there is also caselaw (involving George Harrison IIRC) on "unconscious copying", where having heard a piece is suggestive that it was not an independent creation, despite not being deliberately copied. So, training on a corpus that includes a specific piece is arguably a case of that.

There"s an interesting question of whether a model is just a sophisticated statistical
compression of a corpus, or whether it is a thing in itself. I would say, if it finds patterns that are disproportionately simpler than the corpus, it has found "something".

But another view is of creation as involving a side-channel or one-time pad, in that music is created by a human and heard by a human, who have common information that has never been present in music before (e.g. specific aspects of common neurophysiology, auditory anatomy, exact heartbeat waveform, new sounds/rhythms in the world, new speech patterns, associations between existing melodic fragments and words/emotions/visuals/status etc).
In this sense, truly new music is discovery of the Human Music Processing System, which ultimately involves the whole human and their social and physical experience.
On installation Ubuntu asks you to OPT-IN to auto updating. You choose if you want Ubuntu to auto-update or not.

Very different
thanks for starting that thread, context is a major hurdle for beginners.

I myself am quite happy with the basics, but have an alias on k=kubectl and set-context that without argument displays the current-context. Before doing anything I rename or edit contexts in .kube/config to have a minimal amount of characters to type for the target ("proj-prod"). Using -l name= is another help in filtering, jsonpath and jq too.. as years ago with using the cli prompts with database products, building up muscle memory also gave me opportunity to grok the concepts at the same time.

After some attempts with different tooling, I came to like kubernetes for what it can do.
Store update information in place that is unencrypted and unauthenticated most of the time? What could go wrong?
> Is it producing code (by which I mean creating/inventing new code by itself), or is it just combining existing code?

How do you differentiate between these two things?

If I take `for i in range(10):` from one place and `print(x * 2) from another place, and combine them to get

for i in range(10):
print(i ** 2)

have I "produced" something or "combined" existing things?

As an aside, your understanding of how the model works here is completely wrong. Like, just absolutely fundamentally completely wrong.
While buying new property, I looked at the potential flood map w.r.t increase in sea levels. And now I think even that would not predict the true scale of destruction. sad but true.
If and when ET goes whipping by earth, these things might detect it. Setting all the science and engineering breakthroughs aside, every scientist wants a warp drive detector network.

Get them working well enough and we might be able to see the cosmic gravity wave background. That might let us see how/if the big bang actually happened, pre-inflation.
People do complain about Firefox crash reporting, updates and telemetry.

However, those have been in Firefox for years. What's happening here is change which always makes people extra-angry.
Czechia is probably the most interesting case among European countries; not only they allow military-style semi-autos and handguns, but they also have concealed carry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Czech_Republic
In the last 90 days they had 11 contributors that changed c,cpp, and c header files with at least 10 lines of code churn:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=comm...

The user crsib appears to be the main contributor to audacity, so I would have to imagine others would have to pick up the slack for a fork to be viable.

cookiengineer also changed 71 files

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=comm...

so he/she will have to constantly monitor these files moving forward, for the fork to be stable/similar to audacity/audacity, which I am not sure if he/she/others are interested in doing this for the long term, but I guess time will tell.

Full disclosure: I'm the creator of the tool that I linked to
I like this train of thought.
This is a actually a pretty good idea. Later on the maybe can impregnate the balloon with helpful molecules… I’m struggling to think right now what would be most appropriate. Pro-thrombotic molecules might work but might also have negatives (eg clot adhesion).

One comment said charging is a big downside; I don’t really agree. It could just as easily be corded or hand-powered. We use hand powered balloons all the time (eg in angioplasty), admittedly not as large but also likely at far higher pressures than would be required for simple hemostasis.

The (potentially very big) problem is that wounds are not always circular or even ovoid like a balloon might be. With gauze you can pack down into whatever shape you are presented with and fill the space, causing hemostasis. With a ballon, you probably cannot. That difference could actually be very important. Think of it as the space-filling resolution of the technique. It also doesn’t take that long to pack a wound, so I don’t think that is a huge advantage with this device.
is still the way to go

According to the writeup, that is less effective for some wound locations. I'm no expert to be able evaluate that claim though.

Otherwise the main advantage here seems time-to-deploy, as it may be faster than wound packing, and it may be more user-friendly for police first on the scene before paramedics show up.

That said, this is far from a finished product. It's only a partial prototype, and it looks like there will need to be a lot of testing on a different wound shapes & depths & locations to calibrate the appropriate pressure in each case.
They collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)." That's pretty suspect. There's also this part "However, we are occasionally required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia." See for yourself https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
For example:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/americas/cuba/report-cu...
They literally say they're collecting information to share with law enforcement and sell to analytics firms.
By definition, a government has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within its jurisdiction. And, as any other monopolist, they'll do whatever it takes to maintain that position.
You can find 50K idiots in every country.
Proxima: Vector Retrieval Engine Independently Developed by Alibaba DAMO Academy
Some type of integrated antiseptic agent would also be useful.
Came to this conclusion after reading all I can about the origins of race and Carl Linnaeus.
By having the advisor make a financial commitment to the company in addition to the advisor role helps align their incentives to be engaged with the company and give you valuable time.
Totally. We use hand pumps for angioplasty, similar idea (but much smaller and higher pressure balloon).
Egypt will release the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March,

What an attachment ambiguity --- before reading further, I thought they would let it leave only after another 8 months!
Yes but they call it a Tic Tac which implies an oblong shape. So it's picking up more than a pixel on some sensor, shouldn't that be enough to give us a ballpark?

I'm wondering if they're the size of a rowboat or a 747
You might want to also look at Raymond Smullyan's "Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic", and "Beginner's Further Guide". I got hung up at the first order logic section, and the Axiomatic Logic is tough, but he includes a lot of topics and how they interrelate.
I wish we could add telemetry to the rr debugger without risking this sort of blowback. We have no idea how many people are using rr, and how much, so when we talk to hardware vendors and other groups we depend on, we have no leverage. This is a real problem.

It would be a big boost to free software if some org like Freedesktop had a standard telemetry library, data collection policy, data collection and publication service, and a distro-wide master switch to opt into data collection, and it was socially acceptable to use that framework.
This is probably the reason why the official term now is "phenomenon", which is way better than object.
Well, yes. And apples aren't oranges, but they share a lot of similar traits.

"Given a prompt, provide a completion" is what a Markov chain does. GPT-3 is exactly the same, in the sense that apples and oranges both satisfy your hunger.
This is pretty limited right now, judging from their own documentation:

- No branching logic

- No looping

- No explicit lifetime annotation

The academic paper also suggests they haven't (yet) gone as far as to actually assess whether this helps in the only role it could have at this early stage - assist newbies.

With the above limitations a confused but otherwise competent Rust programmer likely will not find this useful, their problem almost certainly involves a loop or branch before they got into trouble and didn't understand the lifetimes.

So until this can cope with looping and branching the key question is whether it can help a Day One Rust programmer to grok lifetimes stuff early, and avoid the case that seems to happen to some people where they're "fighting the borrow checker" because they don't understand what their code means so they're only ever following suggestions in the diagnostics from the compiler.

However even if they struggle to automate this, developing a schema and a library of standard examples, might help lifetime diagrams become "a thing" the way some places teach children to graph sentence grammar. That would also help other languages with lifetime problems - where the language will not tell you that your code is nonsense, it will just break unexpectedly because not only did you have no idea what the lifetime of this Object is when you wrote the program, neither does your compiler or interpreter.
You may want to read the article. This is different than carbon permits[1]. This is about carbon pricing[2], which appears to be much more effective.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_emission_trading

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_price
Are the points related in any way? Is there a conclusion drawn from the synthesis of the two?

If close kinship means immediate and extended family, then I would agree.
That's the name of the game with Apple development, unfortunately. Every year, I get excited for all these cool new SwiftUI features at WWDC and wait 2+ years to actually use them.
Hey great, you can use this version of Audacity. You don't ever need to think about it again. Lucky you.
(Signal boosting this. I, too, found it incredibly difficult to set up Ray for my purposes because of all the cloud provider assumptions.)
It’s a Catch 22. New algorithms stink because conventional hardware stinks at running them and vice versa.

Before AlexNet and GPU-optimized kernels, deep learning took too long to train large models, so large models were not used, and other ML methods seemed more promising.

I agree a killer product is what you want, but I think the incentives are wrong for a startup to get both algorithms/hardware right before funding runs out. Just getting a working compiler is out of reach of many of these startups.
+1

The web and mobile world is plagued with prompts stating that "X needs to access your data Y" or "X needs permission Z" to "do the job".

Worst part of it? Developers and architects are often the first ones to believe this nonsense.

When you're surrounded by developers, users and managers who believe in werewolves, best thing to do is just to nod :)
If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the years — it’s always aliens.
Before the US recognized the PRC in 1979, we did just that.
There are two pilots because the transit takes 11-12 hours.
Thanks for sharing.

Well, first of all, I would echo some of the advice of others here. A sabbatical can salve burn-out, though you rightly sense that as soon as you go back to work, the feelings will foam up again --- unless you address the source.

It's probably good that you do _something_ besides sit around at home. Preferably it would be something to get you out of the house and around other people. It could be volunteering, something very unlike your day job, maybe something to get your blood flowing. For example, it might be counterproductive to choose on a hobby programming project to do in your room. Hammering houses together for the homeless, and then going to lunch with the other volunteers, sounds better. But it could be anything. Maybe your spouse could help you brainstorm a hundred things before you try some.

But that won't cure you either. You say you are a perfectionist. I find that admirable and can sympathize with it, but there are few surer roads to disappointment than looking for perfection in others, or even yourself! It's possible your feelings are partly genetic. It could also come from your dad. Even if what caused his depression did not reach you directly, moods and attitudes can be contagious. Furthermore, a great part of your feelings may be arising from your own thoughts. I have found that practically all of my feelings can be traced to some thought. It was tricky at first, because often there is a delayed reaction, or the thoughts are so fast that they fly under the radar.

You might try reading a book by Chris Thurman called The Lies We Believe. I went to seem him in Austin, and I think he is a top-notch psychologist. His writing is very easy to read and down to earth --- not the typical academic gobbledygook. It belongs to the class of counseling called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy --- which is just a fancy name for what I just said, that feelings follow thoughts. Later you might seek out a trusted psychologist to meet with face to face. I found that it isn't so much that a counselor waves a magic wand or knows some esoteric theory that solves all my problems. Most of all it was him listening, in a nonjudgmental way. And most of the advice was simple. Mental problems can often be like the tangle of cords behind your TV or computer. Our first impulse, when we're in pain, is to thrash and pull on them. But that just makes the knots tighter. We need someone who can gently help us slowly untangle them, one loop at a time. It takes time.
Title should mention "in C". And that this is about kernel code.
The kernel has limited stack space and isn't good at growing it.

QNX got this right. No strings in the kernel. Everything is either fixed-length or in user space. A privileged program in user space deals with filenames and such.
Totally, that’s an even better idea probably.
Does the USPTO’s Roadmap to Improved Patent Quality Lead to Lake Wobegon?
This is an interesting topic, for me I have found the best music is the most chaotic and fast paced. Something about the pure raw aggressiveness works for me.

Genres like Black/Death Metal, Breakcore, although I also like Darksynth, Witchhouse etc...

https://youtu.be/QwNjtXyO7xI?t=246

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy-JdQmzVTs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8fc2HxjJJk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O3cZ3M4hAo
The Florida Platform is composed of carbonate rocks up to a depth of like 6km.
It would be useful to know what the significance of this is - the inventor himself calls it a game changer, but the only expert quoted acknowledges there are plenty of interesting ideas out there that need to go through trials.

The lack of context for why this particular idea is a headline story (beyond "knife crime") is frustrating.
Taxes can work if they are also combined with a dividends [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
Board members should be investors or otherwise people with skin in the game. Shouldn't they?

What have I missed?
Performance of ORDER BY over text columns in MariaDB and MySQL
The value is that open source works better in the open.

Maybe your writing an app that deals with some obscure data feed and feeds it into some home automation. Maybe the data comes in a format your language doesn't have a good library for right now. If its easy enough (as github and all try to make it) maybe you publish it as an experimental library for your language.

Someone else looking for that functionality for a work project sees your contribution and either contributes or forks and develops a better tested / maintained version.

If your submitting code for vanity, I can see less use, but a lot of it is public because traditionally Github would charge for private repos... people got used to just making anything that wasn't commercially sensitive open.
Airbus averaging the controls out between both pilots resulted in the Air France crash 10 or so years ago
The cost of cyber insurance increased 32% last year
He did great things — terrible, yes, but great.
> having the advisor make a financial commitment to the company

Right... by giving them equity. You don't need them to invest.
How much does genes play a role in exercise ability
Whoever I try a high intensity endurance activity i hit the wall and find it hard to continue. I am sure this is genetic. Some peopel no matter how hard they practice just cannot run or hike uphill without fatiguing easily or any cardio. I think this is related to lactic threshold. I recall in high school for example some kids in high chool pe class could not run a mile without stopping and walking, and these kids were not obese or overweight. They just couldn't do it.
I've never seen compressed air on an ambulance in the US (not to say it isn't a thing, I just haven't seen it). Ambulances are generally plumbed for oxygen and a vacuum system for suction.
A carbon price only works if it is high enough to fund equal carbon offset projects AND the money is actually spend on carbon offset projects.

Personally, I advocate for a "carbon market" type system, where any company, is required to buy carbon credits equal to the amount of carbon they produce. You can't grandfather companies into a given amount of carbon credits, every carbon credit must be created by another entity capturing and storing carbon.

This carbon market should find the correct price for carbon, and create growth in the carbon offset industry. Some industries might decide the correct solution is reducing their emissions to zero, others might decide it's cheaper to just buy carbon credits.

The government also gets a useful knob to force market into carbon negative territory, by forcing companies to buy 1.1 carbon credits for every unit of carbon they emit.
Just look at the beauty that is EZ-USB FX2LP for one example.
It indicates bias in reporting too. There are a few people I know using Audacity and they have not heard of this whole issue (yet?) - and I really don't expect they will care if they do. So I expect we'll have some hardline pro-privacy users keeping this fork while a majority keeps doing their work using the original upstream.

Here we'll only hear the strong pro-privacy views because that's the news.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27740366
> people with skin in the game

Giving them equity gives them skin in the game.
Man the 60s were really a time of laissez-faire nuclear projects huh. I mean I'll be the first to say the pendulum has swung too far the other way but boy were they ever enthusiastic.
Even a standard laser and some clouds will work in some cases, such as the Tucson incident.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609973
You can check downloads.

No, we do not need a "standard telemetry library". A standard crash reporter might be OK. It should ask the user if you want to submit a crash report, and give you a ticket number which allows you to visit a web site and see what's been done about it.
In a past life I used to do mindless work that allowed me to listen to podcasts all day, but once I switched to being a programmer I quickly realized that I couldn’t work and listen to anything that demands your attention.

At first I tried rain noises and other forms of white noise but that gets old fast. Then I moved on to ambient music. I can’t listen to anything with pianos or guitars in it. There are guys I work with that listen to EDM all day, I don’t know how they consintrate with that blasting in their ears.

These days I’ve moved on to something new: Gregorian chant, because I don’t understand Latin I can tune it out and focus.
>Anyway, that's my pet theory. We are way out in the middle of nowhere Milky Way Galaxy and the ETs have sent a few guys out to check on us, learn about us, etc. They don't get out of the Jeep because they know they'll get their arms ripped off if they startle any of us, the gorillas, so they just watch us from a distance and speed off if there's any danger.

But that doesn't answer the biggest problem with "ufos are aliens" theory: why do you think the unexplained phenomena must be explained by aliens?
I assume you meant https://raku.org ?
The funny thing is that this is effectively a keylogger that does not run any code on the CPU while it is running

It in fact runs code on two "CPU"s, the EC and the WiFi card; both of which could reasonably be considered computers of their own.
So you keep track of critical CVEs for the entire stack of all software you use, and make quick and informed decisions about which components really do need to be updated immediately?
I would like to remind everyone that nearly every single industrial process, used to manufacture common, everyday items necessary for civilization, at one point or another, handles materials, fluids, or gases at very high pressure.

If 'gases under pressure' is a deal breaker for you, I hope you don't use gasoline, or buy any products that are shipped by gas-powered, or diesel-powered vehicles.
Sharing canal revenues with Gaza Strip residents might solve their poverty and unemployment problems.
> This issue has been deleted.

Is Sneedacity somehow a dogger whistle?
Any idea why the naming poll has attracted so many trolls? How did 4chan types even find out about it? I know that people on 4chan like to disrupt any public vote they can, but this doesn't seem like a relevant target at all.
The two scenarios are not comparable, US has 11 carriers, China only has 1-2 right now. The US could also use its forward bases in Japan and South Korea. China doesn't have any equivalent of those.
Crash reporting is telemetry. Not in the "omg spying" sense people seem to treat that word sometimes. It's collecting remote data - it's telemetry.
I quit Twitter on March 20th and it was the best thing I’ve done in a long, long time.

The funny thing was that it starts sending you random notifications from people you don’t even follow or have the bell on for as a dark pattern to get you to come back.

What I realized is — like how I quit reading the news many years ago — everything on Twitter is pointless and ephemeral.

From one outrage cycle to the next, never relenting. Everyone always mad about some meaningless minutiae. If it was actually important it would surface by some other means so I never missed anything.

Then I’d go outside and everyone’s living their lives like Twitter doesn’t exist.

It’s easier to do than you think. Lock your account, turn off notifications for the whole app, and do literally anything else.
Lead emissions was hyper specific and a replacement was immediately available. There's unavoidable emissions in logging, concrete, steel so we'll always need a way to offset emissions even after switching all power generation and transport