skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I think you're missing something important. Yes, you're absolutely right that the sound of a particular musician is shaped by their musical and social collaborations and history. Nobody could seriously question this.

However, when someone wants to hire Gavin right now, it's almost always because they want "the Gavin sound" (whatever they conceive that to be). Although a musician's sound is to some extent always evolving, after 10-20 years of playing, it's fairly well formed, and evolving much more slowly and more subtly. Their musical and social history is "baked in", so to speak.

So, you train up your overcooked cross-correlation analysis system on the drum performances of Gavin Harrison, and just like GPT-3 "responding" to text prompts, I think there's a pretty good chance it will "respond" to your musical prompts in a style very similar to Mr. Harrison. However, it will sound nothing like Mr. Collins (except to whatever extent Mr. Harrison already did, which is ... not so much).

> So the idea that ML will give you 20% this and 50% that is a non-starter.

That was specifically what I said. Even so, I think there's some possible artistic intrigue that might come from some sort of "cross-breeding" between two systems trained on two different drum performance sets.

Good to come across someone else who at least knows that Phil Collins was an amazing drummer and not just the only other person besides McCartney & Jackson to sell a million records inside and outside a band. Still, Chester Thompson, seriously :)
Tcl Cffi Package v1.0b5
> Why?

Because the official spec says so, and as described above USBx was originally a strictly host-device protocol, the A plug is at the host, and the B plug is at the device.

An A-A cable is a host-host link, which from the USB standpoint doesn't make sense (pre type-C). In particular, the host is in charge of sending power, the device is supposed to be able to handle it. In particular if one of the hosts gets powered off, its 5V now gets powered (possibly without limitation) by the other, drawing way more than the 500mA specified by the spec, and damaging the cable if you're lucky (until that catches on fire and burns down your house) or the electronics (and killing your mobo).

Think of it as creating a plug-plug extension cord and connecting two of your house's outlets together (don't do that).

> In practice it would be equivalent to a device with two say micro-usb-ports.

micro-USB has both A and B variants (likewise mini).

What you're probably thinking of is a micro-B plug. And having a B-B cable is also not compliant though nobody does it because it's completely useless (because the device side is "passive", so nothing can happen).

> Unusual for sure, but necessarily non-compliant?

Yes necessarily non-compliant.

[0] "Smart" devices like smartphones and tablets can be both device and host which created an issue, this was acknowledged and support was added with "On The Go" (OTG) and mixed-compatibility receptacles (so USB mini and micro have AB receptacles, aka female, which can thus accept either an A plug — acting as host — or a B plug — acting as device). OTG cables are still asymmetric, with an A side and a B side, and A-A cables are still illegal OTG. Type C replaces this with a fully symmetrical cable.
I believe the RFC for just that has landed:

https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/main/accepted/0042-isolated...

Yarn has a PNPM mode now too:

https://dev.to/arcanis/yarn-31-corepack-esm-pnpm-optional-pa...
> You break skin at about 50VDC.

What does breaking skin mean in this context? My understanding was that humans largely act like a resistor with some parasitic capacitance and inductance. Wouldn't more voltage equal more current in a mostly linear relation?
I've been both a shareholder (since 2013) and customer of Tesla, and probably won't buy one of their products again. I feel deceived about spending over $5k on that "full self-driving" package that three years later still does nothing of the sort.

The fact that I made a little money on Elon's coattails doesn't make it OK for him to constantly lie to customers.
An employee exodus from Twitter would only be a good thing in my eyes. They're all too ideological from my experience.
Working from home I find it nearly impossible. Even using a standing desk, using the bathroom on the other floor instead of the one near me, trying not to ignore my watch when it says to get up and walk, etc... I'll often end up with less than 2k steps.
I was curious if everyone was doing the lottery like Ontario - it seemed like an absolute mess and the quality was embarrassing.
Yep. I can install software and manage my laptop and desktop computers. I can grant superuser/admin permission when needed. And yet somehow I'm able to pay my mortgage, transfer funds between checking and savings accounts, buy and sell stocks, and stream movies without the whole thing crashing and burning.

The idea that it's just unthinkable to have the ability to grant superuser rights on my stupid pocket computer is ridiculous. I can't help but think it's because it's another chance for said services to avoid the "mistake" that was (relatively) open computing and the choice it offers.
Social Media big tech in collusion with party propagandists is poison in the internet freedom dream. Ideologues owning big tech is a dream come true for authoritarians. How are we going to fix this I have no idea.
I guess that means we should absolve ourselves of any responsibility for it?

How do we apply that idea to our involvement in building future tools? Should we go ahead and build "sentient" autonomous weapons because "any tool can be turned into a weapon" anyway?
I was not misquoting. I simply quoted what was relevant within context, which is common practice. But yeah, I guess your insinuation is easier to formulate than to justify how sitting on the couch gets your errands done or why exactly it would keep you from doing a walk, which was the original statement.
What Is China Learning from the Ukraine War?
Do you realize how short sighted this sounds?

"I don't care what Elon does as long as it makes me money."
I think most people use the reddit website.

If you have to download an app to use what is fundamentally a website, that website has failed miserably.
Elgato Thunderbolt Dock does it perfectly and doesn’t limit your display options to just a handful of very expensive thunderbolt displays
Pnpm doesn't auto install peer dependencies, which is annoying and forces you to unnecessary add them to package.json. Npm@7 (and newer) with auto install of peer deps is much easier to use in this regard.
I like "small" phones, Galaxy S10e is the second best android I ever had. First was Sony xperia X Compact, sadly a fall destroyed the screen and the repair was really too expensive and risky. So I bought a xz2 compact, a used one to save something, not the first second hand phone I bought, never had a problem. A bit bigger, but faster, and a total failure: screen suffered of ghost touches until it became unusable, after the purchase I discovered it was a known issue, of course seller blamed me. Last time I bought a used phone.
BTW, S10e was the only smartphone not too big and it will be my last android, no more "small" android phones are made.
Considering I'm also sick of Google (I'm already gradually switching to other services), when my S10e will stop to work I will switch to an iPhone SE.
Tiniest of nits to pick but:

> and I wish rustc would have a stand-alone assembly files support

Rustc now supports inline assembly and global assembly in Rust 1.59 (the very latest release). So this is now possible:

/// Lib.rs file
global_asm!(include_str!("asmfile.s"), options(raw));

Which will cause asmfile.s to be assembled and included in the rust library.
Elon Musk is kind of obnoxious. He lies (or "exaggerates"). But what Tesla has done is insane. It's happened so quickly, and that's leaving aside the rockets. The hard evidence that we can build new things, that we can progress and build a future that's better than the present is so important. If it takes a flawed man to show us that, I'll take it.

If you hate Elon Musk, consider probing your mind deeply to figure out why. It may just be that you're an Ayn Rand villain.
So many mega corps being Japanese is a product of anxiety about Japan at that time—maybe not even Gibson's anxiety, exactly, but if you were around then and projected which mega corps were gonna be prominent in your nearish-future setting, you'd really be swimming against the current if you didn't make a lot of them Japanese.

Much of the rest of it, though, isn't about Japanese culture, corporate or otherwise, but seems to me like taking AnCaps like Friedman seriously. Many elements are straight out of that kind of, ah, thought.
Cyberpunk aesthetics are mostly hidden IMHO. I saw a few Youtube videos of chip factories that make flash drives, SSDs and integrated circuits, etc and was amazed at the efficiency & precision of the robots that make them. If you want to be reminded we're living in the future, visit some of these factories, they're mind blowing.
How does Elon run his companies any differently than the vast majority of tech companies out there?
A Twitter app that favors text-heavy tweets and punishes marketing or engagement
The issue with Xorg is that it runs as root by default (there seems to be ways to run it as non-root according to Gentoo Wiki, but I'm pretty sure most popular distros runs it as root).

One of the selling points of wayland is that it does not.

EDIT: See child replies. I am outdated info.
Twitter is simultaneously useless and also the life-blood of western politics. The people in power care more about what Twitter thinks than what voters think.
Because it is, and even subtle differences count here a lot.

If I'm not wrong, People with Russian ethnicity and Ukranian (or Latvian, or Moldavan) citizenship are still allowed to use Airbnb, therefore your former claim is false. Most of the older people living there had born in the USSR in fact and many of them are still allowed to use the platform.

This is not a problem of race or of "Airbnb wants to cancel my culture". This is a consequence of sanctions, that are in turn a consequence of invading a country to start a genocide and destroy and loot as many as possible.

Companies are free to not operate in every country of the planet, and can close their office in North Korea or Russia, or stop doing business with anybody, at any time, by any reason. I can understand that in some countries the boundaries between companies and government are blurred, but is not the case of AirBnb.
I like to use eclectica, it's not very popular, but it works for me

https://github.com/markelog/eclectica
Yeah, r/place generated so many miniature dramas it was wild.

The US flag drama was also an interesting lesson in coordination. Obviously it drew a lot of attack / defense, beefs, etc, but a lot of the early support was uncoordinated and also hindered bringing the artwork to the next level. The hivemind was good at local fixes but bad at global fixes -- our equivalent of the merple leaf was that the flag would always tend towards 100 stars in a grid instead of 50 stars in staggered rows. Attempts to add artwork or remove & fix stars were rejected by the hivemind trying to defend the flag. I'm embarrassed to admit that I may have put 2 or 3 reverts against what, in hindsight, was an attempt to add Iwo Jima to the lower left.

In the end, what rallied the troops was a retreat. https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/tvhtgv/american_flag...

After seeing the US flag disappear, supporters flocked to the subreddit and the discord. This tipped the balance away from self-sabotaging hivemind and towards coordination. There was a dynamic of "minimum viable change," where the hivemind would stop fighting artwork only once it could recognize it, so the key was to organize enough people on discord to push out an identifiable chunk (say, the space shuttle) in a single wave. I'm sure this dynamic played out in hundreds of communities, but in the end good art and organization won:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmericanFlaginPlace/comments/twg11p...

I'd love to hear the French story. They rotated through a few designs and look heavily contested on the heatmap: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/twryzd/frequency_of_...
CP2077 appears shallow on the surface. Compared to Deus Ex the gameplay feels shallow. Story wise though... I'm not sure playing as a terrorist who detonated a nuke in a city and rose from the dead to finish the job is well within the "playing it safe" area of current storytelling.
Ah, the evergreen prediction of Twitter’s impending demise.

The best part is that one say it will be true, and all of the folks who’ve been saying this for decades will get proven right.

It’s the safest prediction in the world, to say something will end.
I would say the Pixel 4a is a good alternative, though it was recently discontinued.
> one of the core ideas of Zero Trust (that we verify that the client is in a trustworthy state on every access)

A server verifying that a client device is "trustworthy" sounds horribly DRM-esque.
You can get it in a t-shirt probably. ;-)
And when it started to rise up again just a little bit with Occupy Wall Street, we got identity politics to ensure workers would never have that opportunity ever again.
> At least Elon Musk is a very rich person who believes in free speech.

Yes thats exactly why he was willing to shell out 50,000$ to a kid to remove his flight tracking bot.

Stop licking his boot.
This is insightful for the long term, good thinking! Thanks for your feedback here.
Its a modern incarnation of a billionaire buying a newspaper. Has that ever worked out well? Has it ever been altruistic?
Looks really interesting! It'd be awesome if I could import data via CSV or connection to other sites. I know it's a bit of an edge case but as an example, I'm a vinyl nerd and have my collection catalogued on Discogs. It'd be great to be able to pull that data in here to keep everything centralized so it's easy to access in the event of an insurance claim or the like.
Does it matter? Was there any consequence of filling out a form then doing something different?

I have heard it several times already today, but so what a form was filled out wrong, is there any consequence to that that anybody would care about? (I doubt anybody complaining about it actually knows anything about how important it is, it’s just being latched on to because it’s a way to match events with preexisting opinions)
As I always say... if your threat model contains the NSA, GRU, CCP or any other sophisticated state actor you're better off not using any technology because the moment you do you've lost.
My take, which is less a paradox and more of a "bitter lesson", is that increases in ability to communicate always lead to increases in centralisation, for the types of reasons you indicate.

The early internet's utopianism took place in the window when the new ability to communicate had not yet been used to effect the new centralisation.
Blade Runner was a much more obvious influence.
I wonder how this comment will affect your Social Credit Score. With centralised digitised currencies coming, I hope you'll still be allowed to buy groceries.
What makes you think this is the guy? I could not find any reference to geohot in his tweets.
Not bad, but I personally think its superpower is always being just the tiniest bit better than everything else...
Apple neglects to patch two zero-day, wild vulnerabilities for Big Sur, Catalina
I've got no dog in this fight, but when I was getting paid for photos long ago I used something called Breeze Browser to do just about everything. Nothing did batch processing nearly as well.
> I’d rather have back the lost decades of career and status chasing than any of the money I gained.

You're not the first person I read writing something like this on HN. I have always thought of this situation as something that only happens in movies. As someone who is going through a mid life crisis, reading what your comment breaks my heart. I miss the fun I had in my twenties and I had a lot of it. I just was not fully aware of the chance I had.
This is a great visual and concrete example of how easily a narrative can be controlled.

This is but one example of a larger systemic issue with media in the 21st century, and an issue with how people consume that media.

Virtually every platform is like this, not just TikTok. It's not like TikTok tries to present itself as a neutral, unbiased source. Their whole premise is delivering "highly curated" content to you as fast as possible. The problem is that people have accepted that as normal and it's doing horrible things to the world. There's a reason everyone feels like we're the most divided we've ever been...and it starts with things like this.

As far as the war in Ukraine is concerned, this is just like classic WW2 propaganda but turned up to 11 due to the nature of how fast and easy it is to spread [mis]information these days.
How does GitHub fix GitHub using GitHub when GitHub is down?
Yes there is, but may not be granular enough to the patch level, they usually end at the major or minor level. But then again, I've never ran into or heard of anyone that needs a very specific semver of a language runtime for a project. It could happen, and when it does, you switch to pyenv, rbenv or nvm. There's still not a reason to use asdf, as a poster pointed out, asdf version resolution is slow and you need to reshim, which is yet another manual intervention you'll need to do.
...hence "at least for another decade" :-)
>I got a Pentium 90 running Slackware running some less demanding scientific code faster than a pretty loaded Indigo2 in that era.

Well, FVWM and URxvt were lighter than MWM and Irix' setup for Winterm.
Are there any alternatives that don't do stuff like that?

For example, the only realistic mainstream alternatives, Edge and Chrome, have you literally logged into the browser with your MS/Google accounts, and can associate everything you do on the browser with your MS/Google account.
If it's Rust, you can use https://github.com/oxalica/rust-overlay to get any version you want very easily without pinning an instance of nixpkgs just for it.

asdf does not allow you to keep three different versions of the same language, so I'm not sure how that compares? It's not super-trivial to do in Nix, but at least you can do it.

asdf is also no different than Nix when it comes to minor/major versions. You're at the mercy of what the plugin does, other than that you have to create your own plugin from scratch or make a fork. Nix has the option to patch things up more easily at least.
>Agreed, and it's important to note that the message "evil corporations are greedy and use tech in soulless and alienating ways" used to be a radical message but it's not anymore.

I have to express a hard disagree here. I think the message can be made at higher or lower resolutions, in vague or deep ways, and can comment not just on broad vague themes but in deep ways about specific mechanisms.

The merit and pertinence of the message as radical criticism is going to have everything to do with ground level execution of details, depth of world building, clarity of vision, etc., which will turn out different depending on any particular media.

I do think it's fair to say that most things downwind from Neuromancer can be fairly assessed as tropey, but I think that's a sturgeon's law thing rather than something unique about the genre as distinct from other genres.
I feel like this is exactly the reason companies want people in the office.

It is a lot harder to leave when you are in the office all the time, you are surrounded mostly by co-workers inside and outside the office. Plus, when you spend 10 hours a day in the office looking for work is difficult. It is super easy to schedule interviews when you are remote with flexible schedule.

Plus, when you are remote and you switch companies the change is not as scary and drastic.
Re-/model: TypeScript you can use at runtime
Why do you think a model of intelligence needs to have tastes, values, likes/dislikes, etc for it to be something more than statistics or pattern matching? Why are you associating these consciousness qualities with AGI?
Having done both, I’d say that the primary difference is motivation. Humans learn things to do things. People who learn on their own often have some ultimate goal they are trying to achieve- even if it is I’ll defined.

Learning higher maths and physics is not intrinsically more difficult, but it is hard for most to maintain focus on a topic with only vague applications to anything and leads for most to financial ruin.

Software skills are more common merely by virtue of how applicable they are.
Tinyusb – An open source cross-platform USB stack for embedded system
Does HN crowd REALLY believe he is going to remove censorship and preserve the voice of the underclass ? Thats the most naive thing to believe.
Calling what the Pixels run "Stock Android" is a misnomer. Even being lenient, I'd argue Google's phones haven't really run anything close to stock Android since the Nexus 4. The Nexus 5 was when they dropped the AOSP launcher for one that integrated with Google Now to the left of your homescreens, replaced the default messaging app with Hangouts, and that was when the Google apps replacing stock apps really took off. Modern Pixels are certainly not running stock Android.
Could computer models be the key to better Covid vaccines?
This is false. There is no fee when making a purchase in at least the US or Canada [0]. The exception is when there is a currency conversion involved (about a 4% fee).

There are fees when receiving money as a result of selling a product or service, which is where PayPal makes (likely most) of its money.

[0] https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees
Curious -- Why not Erlang?
I don't think most distributions run X as root anymore. But it does generally have a lot of access as it can open apps and log keys.

XWayland definitely doesn't run as root, but still has a lot of access to any X applications that you are running.
I've always wondered about the politics of flash. It's interesting that a big company like Apple once decided they would kill it and they just did it. And flash was a good tech, even stupid people could program on it, I guess that's why Apple didn't like it.
I may be seen as a villain to Ayn Rand disciples, mainly because I may point out I have seen people do amazing things without becoming billionaires at consumers expense.
Isn't that exactly how it's supposed to be? If you're installing a package that has peer dependencies, you should already depend on them. Otherwise they are not "peer dependencies" anymore, just a normal dependency with a version range.

The whole peer dependencies story is another clusterfuck. Everyone simply ignored the invalid peer dependency warnings, and now npm itself will just install all of them in 'whatever works' version. To get real peer dependency resolution you need a --strict-peer-deps flag. Not exactly a "feature" in my book.
The article mentions that they were taken out for photography in late 2000 and later noticed to be missing in 2001. That doesn’t make your idea impossible, but does mean we kind of know when they went missing.
Take your work meetings on a pair of headphones while dialing in, instead of video conferencing in.

Take a fifteen walk once a day while sorting out your daily schedule, working on a hard problem, etc.

Personally, that cooped up feeling from being stuck inside all day is one of the reasons why I moved out of the city and onto some property. 30m of daily outside chores (work breaks, lunch breaks, replacement for a "commute") and I easily get 10k steps a day.