skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are multiple ways to interpret such results, but I lean to something like convergent and parallel cultural evolution.

So far as I'm aware, that's a very fringe idea in linguistics, and pretty firmly rejected, despite many investigations.

Rather, what you're seeing is propogation from older language influences. Things like Proto-Indo-European have very, very widespread influence - but are still very much not universal.
20k euro monthly is a wondrous salary in the US, also. A few companies are outliers, but the average programmer makes quite a bit less than that figure.
Tail call optimization in scheme are automatic. This LISP 1.5 compiler simply recognizes certain patterns and rewrites them. Not quite the same thing but I was surprised as well when I first looked into the code.
Why is that tracking even a thing?
Physically modeling a Rhodes somewhat accurately is beyond the computing capabilities of your typical laptop computer, so such models are always highly reductionist, deliberately so.

Source: I work with 2D meshes to models and even a single physical object can get almost infinitely deep and complex if you want to make it so.

A Rhodes has a set of metal tines that get plonked like a ruler on a table edge, rather like the tines on music boxes, and there’s a set of two tines, each with its own pickup for EACH NOTE on the keyboard!

https://www.fenderrhodes.com/service/tine-settings.html

https://www.vintagevibe.com/blogs/news/history-of-rhodes-pic...

Of course, you can use a sampled Rhodes and it’s only noticeable to either the player or if it’s not buried in a mix of a zillion other tracks, there is a notable lack of depth to it.
Like most things on computers: “good enough” wins the day.

I switched to purely virtual synthesis in 1999, and have spent the last 5 years revisiting physical musical instruments as I lament the electronification of music I was such a fan of for 20-30 years
I think most people grossly overestimate the ability of government to act on fraud, scams and crime, even when there is information available. I see this with other scams & ponzi schemes. A common sentiment from both victims and con-artists is "if this is a scam, why haven't the police/government/etc... closed it down". All our governments are dysfunctional & ineffective to some degree and there just aren't enough resources to cope with everything and the burden of proof for action is high. Normally some political will is needed to prioritise an investigation into a particular company. Regulators are underfunded and outgunned by those whose massive profits rely on outsmarting them.
Make video streamable (start playing when usable bits are available). Recently needed this for an auto-playing video background [1]:

"ffmpeg.exe" -i "in.mp4" -c copy -movflags faststart "out.mp4"

[1]https://beta.gsc.edu.ph
Also, it oxidizes very fast.
all antisemitic caricatures are goblinesque, not all goblins are antisemitic caricatures

(granted, having the goblins run the banks is... not great)
Indeed! I have been playing OpenRA with friends semi-regularly and it is excellent, very stable and an overall great playing experience.
In Haskell you use the same operator for multiplying two Ints as you use for multiplying two Floats (you can't multiply an Int by a Float without converting one to the other).
> The boredom is a surprise killer. I left Meta for similar reasons and left behind much more income. Don't regret it all.

Can you elaborate?

Personally speaking, after COVID I think I just learned what mattered most in life was how I spent my time rather than what I could do in order exchange my labour for material things that justified being bored, upset, unenthusiastic etc...

I was rather active during COVID (I volunteered where I could just to get out of the house) and then traveled quite extensively from late 2020 onward, and to be honest I'm glad I did because I had grown tired of most things but 'the money' was making me do it. That has all gone away, now I feel I want to be challenged in my next role to keep me engaged but I don't want to be dependent on my employer for purpose in some existential validation cycle like I have at other times in my career, either.

I'm taking my time studying a BSc in AI/ML and it's given me a chance to study at my own pace while looking and interacting with the projects that appeal to me most to see if it can meet the aforementioned criteria.
Yes, I can confirm that's how I read the "just curve fitting" bit.

Regarding the gibberish word to image issue - CLIP uses a text transformer trained by contrastive matching to images. That means it's different from GPT, where it trains to predict the probability of the next word. GPT would easily tell apart gibberish words from real words, or incorrect syntax because they would be low probability sequences. CLIP text transformer doesn't do that because of the task formulation, not because of an intrinsic limitation. It's not so mysterious after realising they could have used a different approach to have both the text embedding and filter out gibberish if they wanted.

A good analogy would be a Rorschach test - show an OOD image to a human asking him to caption it. They will still say something about the image, just like DALL-E will draw a fake word. It's because the human is expected to generate a phrase no matter if the image makes sense or not, and DALL-E has a similar demand. The task formulation explains the result.

The mapping from nonsense word to image is explained by the continuous embedding space of the prompt and the ability to generate images from noise of the diffusion model. Any point in the embedding space, even random ones, fall closer to some concepts and further from other concepts. The lucky concept most similar to the random embedding would trigger the image generation.
While I support lotteries in many different applications - I wonder if this may lead to people simply wasting years on trying to get in. Or alternatively, those qualified will keep applying until they get in.
I think it describes well what "people" tends to mean. It sounds like vast populations, but from personal experience is often taken from a few, maybe a dozen individuals. The writers perspective may well be sincere, just around a different set of a dozen encounters

Think about it, how big is your anyone in "I've never heard"?
Sonic Robo Blast 2 - https://www.srb2.org/
... and especially ...
SRB2Kart - https://wiki.srb2.org/wiki/SRB2Kart (!)
Or still having Czechoslovakia...
> How those situations are possible? Why investors are not making any kind of due diligence and background check on the founders and on the technology?

Not only some people within the company questioned the magician's credentials but were fired for doing so and these people were subsequently harassed by the company itself to make them keep their mouth shut, in order to protect the "reputation" of the scammer.

To me it seems like some higher ups were complicit...

> Enochian’s former CFO is currently embroiled in an undisclosed lawsuit with Enochian’s leadership, claiming he was fired for asking “critical questions” about “serious financial improprieties” and large payments to Gumrukcu, and for questioning the company’s close association with an individual accused of numerous felonies.

So many redflags...
Kubernetes CPU Limits and Throttling
This question should be asked to the Swiss themselves, not to any outsider like me. I'm sure they can agree on a name, and I guess they did already because the official Swiss country code is 'CH' which doesn't correspond to any of their four internal country names.

To let outsiders decide what a country should be called, despite the country itself objecting, is beyond weird to me. How would you like it when your colleagues decided to call you by another name, just because they liked it better?
I'm in the same boat and will pay for Kagi, though I have a different interaction with a search engine and thought you might like the counterpoint. Notably, I don't use Google for most of what you described:

Translation: I use DeepL instead (google is doing poorly on Asian languages)

Conversion: not having much need for imperial but I use this for all unit conversion (though usually directly in my terminal): https://insect.sh/

Wikipedia: if I type Wikipedia+something my browser automatically use the wiki engine (chrome can do that too)

Word definition: on OSX I long press on the trackpad and the definition pops up (across languages, translation too for single words)

Lyrics: Spotify show them now! (admittedly that's a recent feature)
Sorry, I'm not sure how this is related to my comment. All I wanted to say was that the examples the person I replied to listed (xonotic etc.) are good games, just not popular.
I’m not sure your 2nd point is that controversial. Many clear examples of companies manufacturing scarcity in order to create profits - light bulbs being an easy example.
I was texting a developer friend just a few days ago about the idea of boosting specific sites in search results, so yay!

Basically, if wikipedia has an article that is even remotely related to what I queried, I want that link at (or very near) the top.

Unfortunately my first test didn't work: I pinned wikipedia (the most prominent option) and searched "spline socket" -- no wikipedia link at all. "wikipedia spline socket" on google gives:

* Spline - Wikipedia
* Spline (mechanical) - Wikipedia
* List of screw drives - Wikipedia
* Socket wrench - Wikipedia -- this is the one with the info I was looking for.

That said, this is super promising. But apparently even at $10/month they'd be losing money on me, significantly. I average 20-30 searches per day on my laptop alone. I shudder to think what my phone usage is.
Yeah, there are reports of Gmail setting the Return-Path to the primary domain going back a decade ago. That makes the alternative domain pretty useless if you want to get SPF passing. Fastmail does the right thing FWIW, they switch the Return-Path to the alternative domain when you send from there.
Turkish here. Let politicians use whatever name they want. "Türkiye" is hard to pronounce in English and "Turkey" worked just fine for a hundred years. I'm not gonna report you :)
Do people even want those items? I have a car with adaptive cruise control and line assist and I am not switching it on anymore, because: 1) I don't trust it. 2) I need to have hands on steering wheel, so what's the point.

Also the car is able to park itself using ultrasound sensors and it is just hard pass from me, because it is taking forever and I will rather use ultrasound sensors to navigate myself around than get to parking ECU to park and after it is "done" be forced to fix it anyway.
Demonstration of Decentralized, Physics-Driven Learning
Apoploe vesrreaitais was already explained. Turns out - lot of birds fell into Apodidae and Ploceidae categories of birds - https://twitter.com/BarneyFlames/status/1531736708903051265

IMO these words were part of some training images (e.g. taken from nature atlases) and DALL-E learned to associate them with birds, although in gibberish form.
People who are often misunderstood by the masses have some of the deepest outlooks and reflections upon human life and emotions, as well as things outside the bubble of humanity.
You could go there. But just decimal floating point would be better in most cases.
Why are ransomware attacks on the rise?
> my friends will guilt me into turning it back on if I turn it off.

like many things in life, the solution here is simply to be assertive.

Easier said than done, I know, but if you can convince yourself to just say, "sorry, can't do" you'll be happier in the end.
Even for me as a non-native English speaker and a non-AI bot (allegedly), I parsed the 'sound' in the former sentence wrong at first.
I have found FOSS to really illustrate the problems of async work. It’s extremely difficult to break in as a new contributor. There is no help like in a corporate job, you can post on GitHub and hope someone gets back to you at some point, but no one is going to get on a call with you and walk through a problem or the context.

Which shows in the contributor stats where 1-3 people do all the real work and everyone else submits trivial patches.
Sounds like the beginning of a pulp fantasy scifi novel. You could submit that sentence to the Little Lytton contest: http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
Did Google really use the “DevOps model”? Observing from the outside it looked like SRE was their alternative
It's a very specific university that focus on STEM. So it lacks certain renown unless you worked intensively with their researchers.
Strong typing is not a mistake or a curse. Use a more advanced language that supports stuff like generics, or model your problem with the appropriate type. If you need real numbers you need real numbers, not some weird mix. I don't think it is good to just let it arbitrarily switch between int and float, that can hide bugs or mistakes.

Computers are much stricter about what is what. In mathematics people are on the surface less strict, a lot of maths is done up to some sort of isomorphisms/forgetful functor, but we are smart enough to fix up potential type errors. Doing maths, as a mathematician is using a much more expressive language that takes care of some details for you.

For 2 \pi, \pi ( ) is a program, an infinite list, a monad, and we implement it as a lazy calculation sometimes we can extract numbers up to a certain accuracy. 2 \pi is 2 \pi or if you know more, you can write it as another sequence, or pull the 2.

As for integer * float, well what is this supposed to actually mean to a computer?

Integers are not subsets of the reals. Integers are not sets, the reals are not sets. There is a representation of the integers in the reals represented as a set however. There is however a way to act Z on R. It even seems like a very natural operation. However we are doing maths, using our powerful reasoning abilities. Now it is your job to explain all these differences to a computer. Pretty tricky, so how about we just make things more restrictive. If you need real(integer) * real how about you just use that.
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Mac users are the preppies of CS. They all think they're cool but come across as snobs living in a walled garden.
I once read about a theory of mechanical interactions being at least equally (or more) important than electric in human brains.
As much as his synths are great and have had a huge impact, the impact of MIDI is hard to overstate. It changed the way music was written, recorded and performed by giving a common electronic format for playing notes, changing timbres, synchronizing rhythms, etc.

MIDI isn't just a transport protocol, it's the whole stack including an encoding scheme and a physical layer. It's like inventing ASCII, TCP-IP and Ethernet cables all at the same time. [0]

While there have been a number of significant extensions to the basic protocol since 1983 (e.g. General MIDI, machine control, sample dump standard, etc), and alternate hardware layers have been added (e.g. MIDI over USB), amazingly very little of the core standard changed until recently. Many devices still have 5-pin DIN jacks on them, and the instruments from the first public demo in 1983 could be connected to a brand new device and talk to each other today. The MIDI 2.0 spec was only adopted in 2020.

Dave Smith and Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi received a technical Grammy award in 2013 for their work on MIDI.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI
Are the search results outsourced?
Doing my part here and sharing my experience, as I have done before in this forum.

I was a PhD student there until my little daughter (4yo at the time) was kidnapped by academic staff and I had to negotiate our safe return to our home country. I still can't believe the kind of abuse we went through and it baffles me how the people that orchestrated this are still there, no consequences at all, after committing a very serious crime against me and my family.

I am writing everything down and plan to publish it on a website someday, because I want others to be aware of this, particularly young students like I was at the time.

To set things straight, I don't put the blame on this on the Saudi government or the Saudi people. From my experience, they are well-intended on this and wish to do good to themselves and others; some people I met there are my friends to this day. I honestly believe that not even Saudi authorities know in detail what is actually going on.

Anyway, with regards to this particular university, it is a place thriving with sociopaths, who are not from Saudi, and who run the place as if it was their own personal kingdom.

Due to the special circumstances of the university, the Saudi government has little involvement with it and it behaves like its own self-contained jurisdiction (even though is not). This created a situation where there is a remote, isolated place with almost unlimited money, run by people who have severe psychological issues and have free, unsupervised reign over what happens there and with an artificial hierarchy of directors/VPs/professors/students/workers that dictates your whole life (because that is basically your whole life while you are there). And then, what happened is that they inadvertently created a Stanford prison experiment of an unprecedented scale, and it is really as bad as you can imagine.
Stanford researchers find method to regrow cartilage in joints (2020)
Oh the Czechs, also know as the factory game makers from now on.

Just kidding. Great game. Congratulations for successful release! It is tough sometimes quitting a well paid job and making what you love. Been there. Wish you success!
> Welcome to the 19th century! Which is when mail redirection to a new address was introduced in the UK.

That’s not the same thing. Everyone still has your old address and you need to update it with them. Not terribly painful if you move once every 5 years. Pretty annoying and error prone if you move every 6 months.
A joke I heard is that Big Endowment Universities are basically hedge fund masquerading as educational institutions for tax purposes.
You can with the !bang syntax like in ddg, example !g for google (then keep the rest of your query)
Largest airship built in United States since 1930s to take shape soon
I just want them to be done programming FPS games, employ all artist graduates, and have them design textures and models for an open source FPS game.
It's not correct name, it's Turkish name which should be used in Turkish and internationally everyone use English name for respective countries.
This is largely a pointless semantic debate, but to risk wasting my time: transformers specifically in LLMs are doing more than curve fitting as there can never be enough training data to naively interpolate between training examples to construct the space of semantically valid text strings. To find meaningful sentences between training examples, the intrinsic regularity of the underlying distribution must be modeled. This is different from merely curve fitting. To drive this point home, some examinations of transformer behavior in LLMs show emergent structures that capture arbitrary patterns in the input and utilize them in constructing the output. This is not merely curve fitting.
For people looking for a service to do this for you, there's one at https://www.bulc.club/

Disclaimer: I am the founder's brother-in-law.
Something doesn't jive here.

If a million projectiles in one orbit isnt something to worry about then why are we worried about Kessler Syndrome with the thousands of satellites and junk that is already up there?
I‘m teaching college students programming and remote sensing with python mainly. It’s giving them the tooling for the rest of their career in my eyes. I try to make methods clear instead of telling them what to copy and paste so they know what to do in case there is no instructor. It’s hard sometimes because programming seems to be scary at first but it’s rewarding if you see them succeed in tasks for example.
Because the system is tuned to look for quick profits. Are they losing from time to time to cone men? Yes they do, but that's business risk.
Oh yeah, I keep telling myself I'm going to work through the raylib tutorials at some point. Still hasn't happened. Probably doesn't help I play games in that downtime instead of thinking about making them.
An Open source alternative to (opensourcealternative.to):
https://github.com/SimoMay/find-oss/
My solution to this problem is, while continuing to use unique email addresses for each service, to just put a short random string of letters before the @ instead of the service's name (e.g. jcnclp@example.com instead of hilton@example.com). They're all just stored in my password manager, so I don't need to remember what address I used for what service.
Yes? Duh?
> I honestly never understood why so many people want eternal dynasties at the expense of millions of other people.

Many people hold onto the dream of self-sufficiency: work, save money, buy your castle, hoard the remainder of your cash, and live out the rest your days carefree. But that dream is premised on everything else in the world remaining static.

Monetary inflation conflicts with that worldview at a very basic level. Many other forms of endemic change also cause conflict, like immigration, cultural mores, technology, etc. But inflation directly challenges the notion that you can protect yourself from change through wealth accumulation.

I think everybody clings to this fantasy--imperviousness to change, ability to secure security--to some degree, but some more than others.
1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)
Sony's own presentation on 'Imaging & Sensing Solutions Segment'

https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/irday/pdf...
The dose an ordinary person (not a regular abuser) would take.

Coke is not equal (I mean it is arguably zero harm if taken rarely, but pretty addictive and serious harm if taken regularly), MDMA and meth are extremely similar substances chemically (MA=meth) and have similar mechanisms of action. Same harm prevention techniques work great with both. The most important difference is MDMA being harder to abuse than meth is, because a number of reasons. Most of MDMA users take it occasionally for good, most of meth users take it regularly for harm. AFAIK. Obviously there are many exceptions.