skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can do better

What do you mean by "better", and for whom? I've used a _very_ large
amount of generative musical software and written a fair bit myself,
and these are two different use cases.

MMA is a rather decent text markup that can allow a composer to sketch
out an idea in terms of style, rhythms, structure, instrumentation,
mood, chord inversions, decorations and passing - and then tweak that
in a domain that is more or less one-to-one in effect, but still way
above the level of editing individual MIDI notes.

Contrast that with tools that more or less wipe your arse for you, by
churning out very interesting and intelligent "compositions", either
via Markov, NN, clustering and reinforcement, genetic and evolutionary
processes, tuned stochastic processes, generate and filter methods and
so on... BTW, composition is one of the oldest application areas for
"AI" around - I was building "Boltzmann and Perceptron Machines" in
the 80s to do this on a 286 PC. What I'm saying is the application
area is _well_ mapped over the past 50 years [1]

The latter methods great for getting inspiration and variations to
select from - "play me something more like this in a rock style", but
then so is listening to some music and chaning a keyword in an MMA
file. For a moderately competent composer an intermediate-high level
score, plus a good knowledge of the style libraries, is a far more
desirable.

There is a market for "band-in-a-box" type products, where people want
fast, fun backings to write lyrics to, or some kind of "in the style
of" Karaoke machine for playing live at La Vista Del Sol Bar bar, but
I can say from experience of working with a lot of _writing_ musicians
that it's not what they're after, and it isn't clear if ML/AI can help
much with that.

[1] see something like Curtis Roads CMT for a historical overview of
paradigms.
Better than unions would just be increasing labor scarcity at the low end of skills. Protectionism in the form of a carbon tax with border adjustment would help quite a bit, I think.
> If they thought the laptop was school property, then comparisons to wilful intrusion into someone’s house is hyperbolic

So if you're renting an apartment from me, I am right to spy on your children with my ceiling bug?

> It would be more like if the cops had a valid warrant to track a suspects car, but installed the tracker in the wrong car by mistake.

The school is not a police force; nothing warrants their privacy intrusive surveillance of my children without my consent in the first place.
What are they going to do? Refuse and lose their ridiculous salary? If only there were a way for workers to make a stand on this together, some kind of way to demands as a group.
This is at approximately Q=0.00000 stage, it also skips the lasers and simply fires a projectile.
It’s not compelling and it’s not true. In fact most people are inherently good, and enjoy being generous and helpful. Let’s consider this within the context of tech workers specifically. The existence of an enormous open source software community and huge crowd-built resources like Stackoverflow are two examples that demonstrate the willingness of tech workers to contribute, free of charge, to each other and to the world at large.

Or consider your own personal experience with people you have worked with. You may have had colleagues who were incompetent, unintelligent or annoying, but how many of them would you describe as evil? Over twenty years of working in the industry I have only ever encountered one person who I would genuinely describe, not as “evil” per se, but as lacking in certain moral qualities that we tend to take for granted among the people we know (and we take them for granted because most people are good). And he wasn’t a developer!

I believe it is much more likely that people work for Amazon because they either genuinely believe it is a good company (after all, it is lauded by many) and/or because they are ignorant of the nature of what people in socioeconomic classes far below their own are experiencing in Amazon facilities. Just how aware are each of us of the reality on the ground at companies we support? Do you know what it is like to be a worker at every company whose stock you own? What about the companies who make the clothing you wear or the device you’re using to read this?

If not, does that you make evil? Or are you a participant in a system that hides this reality from you?

I’m not saying that owning stock or wearing apparel is the same thing as joining a company, by the way. People should be very discerning about who they work for. But I think there are more plausible and positive reasons for human behaviour than Machiavelli proposed.

Let’s not view each other as evil and thus write off each other and in doing so, our future. Let’s work to change the system instead.
No Ethernet? I would stick to the TS3 plus. I love mine.
> What I would like to see is a "array scheme."

Me too! I even started on this a few years ago but then got distracted!
Indeed the fact that prime only advertises other shows on prime is really the only reason I tolerate their ads.
So, PARA or no, the thing that has worked really well for me (14 months so far) is Thiago’s idea for weekly/monthly/annual reviews. This has really been the important gem for me, and while PARA helps define a framework for that, it would work with any organization method.

Basically, weekly reviews are tactical, where you can mostly mechanically prioritize the upcoming week and clear out your inboxes. Monthly are more strategic, where you take a wider look at the status of all projects, consider modifying, canceling, or reprioritizing them. And annual reviews are the same thing but addressed at the highest level of your life; you might think of it as a formalization of New Years Resolutions.

Since adopting a schedule of these reviews I have felt much more in control of my projects and work, and the time investment is about 1 hour a month to do.
Fun game.

Some comments (sorry for bad formatting and if the comments don’t make sense):

- refreshing the page resets all progress

- the size of the game doesn’t utilize screen size very well.

—— On the phone:

———- I couldn’t fully read the information popup, neither in portrait nor landscape orientation.

———- In vertical orientation the game size covers only top ~40%-50% of the screen.

———- Sometimes when switching between orientation the game window got drawn partially was outside of the screen, and it was hard/impossible to reposition the game window to fit the screen.

—— On a computer:

———- I could read the information popup, but the game window covers only top half of the screen.

- The ability to zoom in/out wouls be handy (as mentioned by others)
> I don't believe many (any?) people think they're doing Evil with the goal of harming others as the ends. It seems most likely that people think they're doing something for a greater good, but that requires sacrifices (e.g. "Yes, we have to murder/imprison all the Jews/Asians/Gays/Whatever, but that's because they're ruining our country").

Contemporary example: Whites are not born white, they are born human but abused by their parents into whiteness. (professor of education recommending reading, btw)

Another pleasant lass opined that white people are born into not being human and are demons. People paid to watch.

Is it even evil if you're disenfranchising not-people?
Sounds like a job for burp Intruder or something. Get the API call and get a list of student ID numbers and send them all without using the gui
Ask HN: Does cloud vendor lock-in matter?
My caldigit came with the flimsiest TB3 cable I’ve ever used. No issues at all. Even my much stiffer Apple TB cable works fine.
You can already do this without building a huge storage system or needing any sort of permission from the Internet Archive. Anyone can upload material to IA, and anything on IA can be embedded into other webpages. You can dream up the ideal user interface and build it without needing any permission or cooperation from IA.
I worked with Frostbite for five years. The engine is very capable. It's also developed in a vacuum with very little exposure to actual game development.

It's used to create fancy new features and show them off in tiny toy projects. Then it's handed off to developers to make actual games and the issues begin.

The biggest issue with Frostbite was always that its developers treated it like an ever revolving set of cool new projects. There was always some fancy new system meant to replace the old one in just a few years and never any fixes for the shipped and still broken systems.
I'm the OP.

Glad you liked the article

Thanks for sharing your approach, very interesting! You went way farther with the movie/TV/music/game/bookmarks management, that's super cool.

At some point I went batshit crazy with automation and actually automated scraping, downloading of episodes, tracking of what I saw and did not. But over time I just let it all go because I didn't have the buffer to maintain all that anymore.

I omitted various things because I got tired; the article was way too long already
Is this blog entry out of date? Or is this still a WIP?

> Note that hybrid-generational-memory is not implemented yet, it's still just a design.

From https://verdagon.dev/blog/hybrid-generational-memory
The main PIM challenge for me, besides naming things, is discoverability. If I have a system where I put stuff in, how do I find it again? After a few years I certainly have forgotten that I had a link to this one article a friend showed me about obscureTopicX in there?
Chopping up sequences of film, and stiching them together, based on their prior similarity isn't making a movie -- and that's all you have here. People wrote poetry -- *for the first time* -- to say something about their own environment, that they are present in. All you have here is a system which has remembered a compressed representation of these poems and stiches them together to fool you.

It really is a kind of proto-psychosis to think this machine has written a poem. It has generated the text of a poem.

> quantifiable predictions of behaviour that you want to see

This is trivial. I ask the machine a large number of ordinary questions, eg., "what do you think about what i'm wearing?", "what would it take to change your mind on whether murder is justified?", "do you think you'd like new york?", "could you pass me the salt?", etc. -- a trivial infinity of questions lifted from the daily life of language users.

The machine cannot answer any of those questions. All it will do is generate some text on the occasion that the machine sees that text. This isn't an answer. That isnt the question. The question isnt "summarise a million documents and report an on-average plausible answer to these questions".

When I ask a person any of those questions, if they did that, they wouldnt be answering them. This is trivial to observe.

These systems are just taking modes() of subsets of historical data. That's just what they are. The appearence of their using language is an illusion

To use language is to have something to say, to wish to talk about something. When i say, "I liked the movie!" I am not summarising a million reviews and finding an average sentence. I am thinking about my experience of the movie, and generating a public sharable "text" that aims to communicate what i actually think.

*THAT* is language. Language is your intention to speak *ABOUT* something, and the capacity to generate a public shared set of words which communicate what you are talking about. Any process which begins *without anything to say* cannot ever reach langauge as a capacity.

Langauge, as a capacity, begins by being in the world. No summary of the public statmenets of past speakers has anything to do with being in the world; and having things to say. Chopping that up and stiching it together is a trick.

And this is trivial to show empirically. It is only by having absolutely no study of langauge use can anyone claim that text documents have anything ot do with it. IT's mumbohjumbo.
There's also Terraria, which is the 15th best-selling game of all time. Written in C# (XNA).
DS9 is only available in SD. It was never remastered into HD like TOS and TNG were (if I recall correctly TNG ended up losing money and that had far less VFX that needed re-rendering than DS9 does). Netflix almost certainly wouldn't be serving any video in MPEG1 (not even SD content) because it's poorly optimized for internet connections. If the original sources are MPEG1 then they'll have re-encoded them into into another format.

Also the issue with some shows not being available in some regions is a licensing problem. You need to take that complaint with the studios rather than Netflix. They would much prefer to do away with the problem of localized licensing deals.
> What I was saying is that the US is where the internet got deployed

The "Internet" as we know it was deployed as a research network in 1987, it was already connected to Europe research centers in 1988.

That's why WWW was born at CERN that was one of the largest nodes of the times.

The "user facing" Internet was deployed years later, globally in the west.
Claims it's 1000x cheaper, so I suppose that's the breakthrough. Fusion has been achieved, you're right; next step is creating more energy than is consumed to do so; then commercialising it.

This makes it cheaper/easier to commercialise, but no closer (maybe further away, nothing claimed in the article) to the second step of getting more out than in.
Well, GPT is not the sort of thing that can have a "you." But it has seen dialogues that have a "you" in it, and it knows how a "you" tends to answer. For instance, depending on context, it may be operating under a different model for the "you" agent - the sort of person who likes a red dress, or the sort of person who likes suspenders. If we assume a multimodal GPT, it's going to draw on its pattern recognition from movies and its context window for what it's previously said as "you" or what you've prompted it as in order to guess what the agent it's pattern completing for "you" would think of your dress.

In effect, I'm saying that just because GPT is not a word-user, that doesn't mean that its model of "you" - the layered system of patterns that generates its prediction for words that come after "I think your dress looks" - isn't a word-user. The "you" model, effectively, takes in sensory input, processes it, and produces output. Because the language model has learnt to complete sentences using agents as predictive patterns - because agents compress language - the you pattern acts agentic, despite the fact that the language model itself is not "committed" to this agent and will, if you reset its context window, readily switch to pattern predicting another agent.

GPT is not an agent, but GPT can predict an agent, and this is equivalent to containing it.
So "it feels right" is your argument here then.. To hell with definitions!
Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
Sorry for the delay. My "screenshot" bot just runs a headless firefox with --screenshot (or whatever the command is) - so it loads the website as firefox and tries to take a full page screenshot. This is limited by timeouts, so if a site is getting slashdotted/whatever, it may fail. However, i am able to take a partial screenshot after the page is loaded on a regular firefox[0], which shows the exact same missing text as i mentioned a week ago, even this morning.

I'm nearly positive it doesn't have anything to do with your site, even though the page weighs in at at least 19000KB as a .png. I'm weird, i think .png (or even .gif/.jpg) full page renders are functionally equivalent to a "print to pdf" except more useful.

Sorry i sort of derided your efforts. My parents bought me a Sega master system rather than a nintendo, and the past year has me worn out on the "6502-era" systems.

[0]http://projectftm.com/#-b3CluYULJcy0JiPUjjUCg this is my personal pastebin, the screenshot linked here is 10% of my total storage on the pastebin, so this may not be available by the time you see this reply. you can @genewitch me on twitter or gmail if you want to see what i mean, and this link is "dead". Many spring tidings!
Maybe auditing. When I was a wee lad on American Online in the 90s, our biggest desire was to steal the most 31337 screen names. One way of doing this was learning of people who worked at the call centers you’d call for account problems. Once you were friendly enough, you could sometimes convince them to pull an account’s information for you. Then you’d call the call center from a pay phone and, using the stolen information, reset the password. This allowed you to get on the account for a while to brag. In some cases, you could permanently steal the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version of the screen name unbeknownst to the original account owner.

Anyway, AOL recognized this insider threat and audited and reviewed any access to their internal account systems (called CRIS or Merlin IIRC), which pretty much killed the method of using insiders since they were caught and fired pretty quickly.
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I like specks of dust and torture.
The counter to that theory is the sheer amount of Nazi members in Germany - or really rank & file members in any fascist-like regime. That amount of people don't just go insanely evil on a whim, in most cases they are simply dragged there by mechanisms like Arendt describes.
> We have this idealized version of ethics and rationality that maps poorly onto reality. Yet everybody (especially on social media) talks as if this idealized version is the obvious natural state of all humans.

So i'm not sure how much of it is "natural" or "cultural", but as others have pointed out the vast majority of people are happy to cooperate and help one another... it's not an abstract ideal.

On the other hand, since we were kids starting at school, and across the media spectrum, we've been taught to crush others to move forward. That part is definitely not natural but cultural. If that's the "reality" you're talking about, we can do a great deal about it!
That's not a misspelling (though it is a less-common variant).

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/147965/cipher-vs...
After you reset the device but before you sign in with a school Google account, can you use a separate profile to install chrx or some other dual-boot Linux option? Or at least make sure the device has more than one Google Profile it can sign into?

At least then you'd be able to know the spyware profile wasn't running all the time. You son could use it only for the specific homework that requires it.

It's obviously still not OK that they can monitor everything he does while he's doing his homework, but it's an improvement on being able to monitor everything he does all the time, and (as much as I hate this) it might be an important lesson about what to expect when he's dealing company-provided devices in the future (though obviously a company controlling its own property is more justifiable than a school controlling your property).
state-owned - i.e. not beholden to corporate owners.
Even though the browser would guess MIME types based on filename, HTTP didn't have MIME types until HTTP 1.0; HTTP/0.9 as of 01992 still didn't have them: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Response.html

I didn't use the NeXT WorldWideWeb browser, so I don't have firsthand knowledge, but in http://web.archive.org/web/20110131164401/http://diveintomar... you can read TimBL commenting in 01993 about possible alternative ways of adding inline image support in ways that make it clear that he hadn't yet implemented any kind of inline image support. So I guess either the Wikipedia page is wrong or the page you posted is wrong about what NeXtStEp could support in 01990.
Well, it all starts somewhere. I am old enough to remember when private TV started in Germany in the 80s/90s - a 90 minute movie had exactly one ad break of 2-3 minutes. From there it "evolved" into 3-4 ad breaks, overlay ads mid-show, plus HbbTV overlay.

Same holds true for the Internet. In the 90s, there were 1-2 banners (animated GIFs), tops. It also evolved into intrusive tracking ads with flashy videos, sound etc.

My thesis is: Because you always get used to the ads and start to sub-concisely ignore them, they get more and more obtrusive to counter that effect. Its a race to the bottom, and my observations that I described above back this thesis.
I cant read the article because its blocked by my workplaces proxy.
> ... It's a criminal outfit ...

Refusing to police does not mean "they go out of their way to protect blackhats", it means they sell domains and know their place.
Just like the linked post, learn to better predict how you'll feel so you can go from 50/50 to 100% in either direction as soon as you can. Then you can all move on instead of having another spinning plate in your life.
How is this different from China's social point system. Which is criticized a lot here. Strange world to live in.
Dang, I've been trying to find the street on Google street maps to see just how slopped it was, but it was too long ago now and I can't remember which street it was. The facts that it was near a pot cafe and a wooden shoe store really don't help.
That is assuming you restrict yourself to a radical simplified model of each neuron. The actual biochemical processes going on in a single synaptic density go way beyond something that could be represented by a scalar weight that assemble into a linear transformation. Instead we are talking about 10^15 dynamical systems. This then still neglects most of the time /spatial extended nature of neurons, the fact that calcium stores in the endoplasmatic reticulum play a role etc. Some of this might be only relevant to learning, but non-linear dendritic processing is believed to be relevant for example for inference aswell.