skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in bands that have played hundreds of gigs together, and I've traveled a bit to make music. Fortunately, I have never -had- to do that. It's not fun, it doesn't pay well (compared to my software work), and the big payoffs all seem to be about the short term validation of larger audiences and better production.

To be fair, that has a lot of appeal.

I've also gotten a lot out of bands that are just like, "guys night out for bowling". Way more than the long term commercially functioning bands, actually.

We just meet up and play every week (when we can), usually in the early evening or after my buddys' kiddos have gone to bed.

Once I leaned into the idea that these friendships were important both for me (as an old, single almost-pro musician) and my buddies (who have careers and wives and youngsters), the idea that simply playing (and practicing to support my friends) became really rewarding as an end in itself.

That appreciation really changes the dynamics, because I select more for how I get along with the people than I do for chops or genera.

The dream of taking that kind of band out isn't stupid or immature, nor is the dream of just having to play music for a living.

I have found that it's just so much easier and just as much fun to do "bowling night" at someone's house, and so much easier to make my money doing software.

I don't think there is anything sad in that situation.
This is really cool but the links on the page are hard to tap on mobile.
I just switched to Apple because I thought maybe they didn’t play these stupid games.
Anti-WMD proliferation comes to mind, but perhaps that's a special case.
Not to mention dynamic linking is brutally slow. I don't think people even realize how many cycles are wasted. The notion that dynamic linking never had any real problems and still doesn't is totally false.
I mean it in the sense that using digital technologies to produce art is not always going to be interesting. I don't mean that I will never find any digital art interesting though. Distilled to one point: DALL-E does not wholesale capture any rational definition of art reflecting actual art history.

I think DALL-E is a win-win by pushing digital art to some further extreme and forcing people who are open to art beyond the digital to try new things. Digital art had reached a point of maximum inertia before this imo.
Yes, this sounds like a close match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0r6w3pNpGc
Icon tools are Taiwanese
I made a MIDI-controller out of cheap sonars and an Arduino, that lets you control anything with movement "in the air". You can use it to control filters, or volume, or anything really.

Here's me playing it with a silly wig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgH-WU-9CZA

The artist "Mezerg" uses a MIDI-enabled Theremin to do something similar, but it's costly.

The BOM for my thing is around $30 when building just one at at time (excluding time spent of course); if mass produced the unit cost could probably be quite low. But the market is probably extremely small... maybe 200 devices? So I didn't pursue mass production.
> Note that 2x the weight = 4x the road wear.

I thought it was 2x the weight = 16x the road wear.
I Like Making Music
TBH, I'm less worried about demand than about supply. It will be very difficult to build that machine profitably.
Also the maintenance TCO at scale. A large fleet operator has a staff of experienced diesel mechanics. Is Tesla planning on making a profit on servicing battery packs for these things?
I’m reminded of the so-called Zeta fiasco.

https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/2905
"An unusual feature of the mission is that it only had a one-second launch window due to the precise orbit required by the experiment."
Hmmm. And am I correct assuming the reason he'd want to store the data in a QR-like format is so that it can be directly used by a program like Excel? That's the only advantage I can see for using a format over one that can be read by humans directly.
Thank you for your feedback, I’ll fix them soon :)
A long time ago (before containers and systemd) I wrote an initscript to run Minecraft on a CentOS 6 server. I posted it in one or two forums but it was mostly for my own use, running a server for a group of friends.

Someone who ran a Minecraft hosting business contacted me asking permission to use it in their product, which was very surprising to me.

(it was GPL so I couldn't and wouldn't say no, but I also politely explained that I wasn't their free tech support and that patches would be welcome)
Sorry for the confusing wording. I meant that oasis has more similarities to a BSD than a typical Linux distribution.

I've updated the README to be a bit clearer.
And it has access to my camera and mic for some reason?

That's not unexpected given that it has voice and video chat functionality.

if you aren’t thinking beyond the “next release”.

I think that lack of long-term thinking is endemic to the JS community in general, unfortunately.
Maybe this is a dumb question: I thought all nuclear bombs were fission, not fusion. How could fusion be at the center of a fission bomb?

I didn’t even know fusion had a weapons research program
Like I suppose many of us, I had a conversation with an artist friend about this very topic. They are concerned about it. Some of the generated results are impressive and surely can sufficiently replace some subset of the current human output.

But! Seeing DALL-E artwork from a bird’s eye view, I am more and more convinced that it’s just another tool, not a replacement: It is amazing good at producing unexpected results, and just like GPT3, it does so by regurgitating what is already out there, remixing it in somewhat interesting ways. This is an especially useful tool to quickly produce mood boards, or communicate an artistic intent. However it is not a replacement for the kind of thinking required to produce good artwork.
Well, a Tesla Model X towed a 100-ton aircraft, albeit a short distance.

Imagine what a 4 or 5 motor-equipped semi would haul.
>ML eliminates serendipity.

This is a statement that is pretty quickly disproven if you actually pay attention to the generated art. Lately I've been seeing TikTok videos where people are using DALL-E to create "new aesthetics" - "vampwave", "neon apocalypse", etc.
a16z in particular are on the leading edge of the get-equity-in-tokens-with-no-lockup and then immediately pump & dump scam.

Step 1: Find literally any crypto project. Doesn't matter.

Step 2: "Invest in it", and immediately receive tokens with no lockup.

Step 3: Have Chris Dixon write a breathless tweet about it, call your friends and get press coverage. Get a16z-adjacent influencers involved.

Step 4: Price goes up because a16z is leading; immediately dump.

Step 5: Project rugs.

Yay, crypto. It's the best.

It's interesting because most of these projects are absolute dogshit and will go to zero, but since they've already exited, they'll show nice returns to their LPs. But to the average person following it, all they'll see is a16z backing a string of rugs and embarrassing failures; I guess the PR hit is worth it, until Marc starts talking NIMBY shit again.
> In fact because less is spent on labor, a better quality product can be had for the same price.

In theory yes, but in practice it doesn't seem to ever pan out that way. When was the last time a company that moved its manufacturing from the US to China to increase profits didn't also cheap out on materials, quality control, and customer service?
GPS position sharing is a little frightening isn’t it? I mean, if some of these apps are cartel or organized crime related, this could become a real physical threat.
Not a js/frontend dev, but what I see is "47.12 percent of respondents reported to be using Node. js, while 42.62 percent were using React."

Don't know if that qualifies as having the "crown".
Yep, suddenly they will change the type of plastic used, changed the ratios of plastics, use less copper (wires, pcbs), replace the brand name electronics with cheaper knockoffs and qa rejects from other factories, replace the type of glue, etc. Basically you need a QA team there to monitor every step of the production, or they'll try to screw you everywhere they can.
> Linux

Hello GPL violation.
Agree with most of what you're saying, but a bit perplexed by this

>interns and juniors may get hit with a widening canyon of blindly using these tools without understanding why the "base" styles/logos look good. the act of creation is a learning experience that this removes

Surely with digital art more than most professions the understanding of why the end product works is pretty orthogonal to the actual technical implementation details anyway? You don't understand composition or style or taste or brand identity or proportions by creating textures and shapes from scratch or knowing your way around a tool. To that extent, spending their days filtering mediocre compositions not created by them and fixing their flaws might give them a much keener sense of what isn't quite working than trying to judge mediocre compositions they've put a lot of effort into themselves objectively.
I can see bigger issues with the thought that might be comparatively dull work for a lot of people.
Would you mind sharing a link to those projects. Both sound really cool.
Clearly the clock that Apple put on iOS6 was copyrighted by the Swiss Railway but Apple didn't bother to check, their artist plantenly copied it. Only after later outrage they were forced to pay to license it [1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/time-is-money-apple-...
Lisp was once in the forefront of high level numerical computing systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma

Similar to the way Python today is a high level language used for numerical computing today. Lisp is certainly more than capable of this role, but the fallout from the AI winter killed Lisp's reputation and popularity, leading to other languages filling those niches.
This is delusional and besides the point.

You can't loan for consumption in your 20-30s, planning to pay it back in your 40s and 50s. Klarna does not even offer loans beyond 36 months, and month 1 to 36 you have 20% interest rate! If you skip a payment there are steep fees.

Klarna is for short term loans. Like, half a month.

Klarna is definitely not offering their service to poor people in developing nations. Even if they did, how would a 20% interest loan for an Iphone help anyone escape poverty?
Appropriate:

I predict that this HN thread will lead hundreds of folks to tell stories of confirmation bias.

-themodelplumber (2018) https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=620
You're right of course! I don't know what I was thinking. Dall-e is MS. I will edit.
Good point. A roof might not be a human right. But a piece of earth might be.
Is that why it's not working?
This is frankly what humans have always done, learning and taking inspiration from other artists. Now we have made a machine that can do the same thing.

In the case of exact reproductions, we have copyright and IP laws.
Milwaukee (TTI) is vertically integrated, i.e. they own their factories in China.
> House styles represent standard design choices implemented across an emoji set, such as the Google blob shape or a uniform non-yellow color for face emojis. A house style could provide the basis of compilation copyrights in emoji sets, and applying the style to individual emojis might help make those emojis copyrightable (or qualify as a derivative work, if they are a variation of the Unicode standard). House styles also could be part of a platform’s trade dress.

https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2018/03/article_0006.h...
To compare currencies, it's probably better to look at market capitalization and number of owners. The market cap is currently at $0.5T and there are about 100 million Bitcoin owners, which makes it a small currency (comparable to Swedish krona in terms of market cap), but it has certainly "took off".
This was just on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32456998
This feels like it had fallen out of time, maybe a couple years too late. No proper build chain with tree shaking? Installation by downloading a CSS file and dropping it somewhere in my CSS folder? Non-namespaced classes, mixing colors and layout, custom helpers for paddings and margins all over again?

Besides, the framework needs some serious overhaul work to actually look (and feel!) like Apple UI - there are some clear deviations, starting from the breadcrumbs (the active item is misaligned, and has a gray background with a slightly more gray border - one of the seven deadly sins of web design), continuing with the main navigation items (the gray border is out of place, and the radius is off), all to the buttons (which simply don’t mimic the real thing properly).
There are also lots of bugs and subtle behaviour differences with modals and actions, and that’s just what a cursory inspection found.

Can’t we build stuff like that on Tailwind and stop making the same mistakes all over again?
> you want high power voltage to load your semi, this costs more than normal power

Does it cost more when you're buying huge amounts? If there's a difference I'd expect that to be cheaper since the power company doesn't have to transform it down.
Bell Labs introduced shared objects into UNIX, maybe they should have learned better from other platforms.
In a sense there kinda is.

Pre-linking is a way to statically specify the lookup for a given shared library in an ELF executable. It's still kinda dynamic linking because the file is loaded at runtime but there's no library lookup, it's just "load this file at this path into address space while we load the rest of the main executable". Before PIC there would have been a bit more of a distinction but nowadays static and dynamic libraries are really only distinguished by where the symbols are (unless you want to be able to dynamically load and unload after startup).
> I would go for an alternative (albeit slower) library

Well now in 2022… in 2018 there was nothing else. It was (and still is) the only option on python 3.5 AFAIK.

Thanks for the advice, I guess I can put something about that.
i apprenticed on armstrong and milwaukee tools and can confirm about 15 years ago they spun off a cheap Chinese line that was complete garbage compared to the USA line. good enough for tightening the occasional bolt but fell apart under daily use.
Ahh ok. Makes sense. Seems this was to include it in the kernel though. I wonder if I fully user space solution would have been doable? (Unlikely I guess)
That is not very special. There have been humans that have towed planes too. Albeit for a short distance.
> I mean sure, but I wasn't exaggerating when I said it is probably not usable on other peoples computers.

That's totally okay! I love when people share their "works on my machine programs". Just say upfront that it's your personal tool so others won't expect production-grade software.

The code might inspire others, let others fork it (if a license says it's okay), teach code readers about some technique or tool, or just be fun to poke around.

I, for one, learned about pyxhook while reading your code. Thank you!
I know that one just happened. I meant when was the last time before that one, to see if there's any backing to the claims that this happens "so many" times and "frequently".
A periscope? Now that’s an interesting idea
It seems evident to me that they were right to worry so, the TV appears to have been a net negative.
This is an amazing tool. Thank you.
Sorry I didn't explore this way, just testing simple things like this: http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=dodecaphony
In fact lambdatalk is nothing but a dwarf on the shoulders of web browsers, you can use javascript in deep, and create interfaces with existing libraries doing audio.
The one on the left gets caught on raising network interfaces. I don't think your beefy machine will speed that operation up much. It wouldn't be that surprising if somebody can beat that boot time by tweaking that step (depends on the configuration -- in the extreme you don't even need a network interface or can delay it until the desktop environment is started and the user starts thinking about web browsers).
I switched from Apple because I knew they played games they shouldn't all along.
The per mile costs of an EV are always going to be much lower than a fuel burning ICE.

It's the TCO that really matters, offsetting the initial purchase price.

That also seems to work according to most TCO calculations I've seen.

What works in the favor of bus fleets, truck fleets is that they often have set routes. You can buy an electric vehicle that has exactly as much battery as you need for your most heavily used route. Then use as it as much as possible to get the maximum cost (and CO2) benefit.

In the EU, almost half (47%) of road freight distances are trips of less than 300 km.

> Statistics from the market analysis group IHS Markit show that during 2021 a total of 346 electric trucks (≥16 tonnes) were registered in Europe – an increase of 193% from 2020. Volvo Trucks has the largest market share at 42%. The countries in Europe with the most electric trucks registered (≥16 tonnes) are Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and The Netherlands.*
Feature request - one click copy of the quote, attribution and link?

E.g.:

I predict blah
-- foobar in 2022

(https://news.ycombinator.com/... via https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=xxx)
Country-of-Origin (CoO) metadata can influence some buying decisions.

https://www.madeinamerica.gov/

> When the U.S. government spends your tax dollars on American goods, we ensure our future is made in America. “Made in America” policies are designed to increase reliance on domestic supply chains and ultimately reduce the need to spend taxpayer dollars on foreign-made goods ... Various laws and regulations establish requirements for U.S. government procurement and assistance to support American manufacturing.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/complying-ma...

> The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is charged with preventing deception and unfairness in the marketplace. The FTC Act gives the Commission the power to bring law enforcement actions against false or misleading claims that a product is of U.S. origin.

April 2022, https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/04/ftc-charg...

> FTC charges battery maker in first case under Made in USA Labeling Rule ... the order prohibits them from making unqualified U.S.-origin claims unless they have proof that the product’s final assembly or processing – and all significant processing – takes place in the US and that all or virtually all ingredients or components are made and sourced here ... The order further requires that any qualified Made in USA claims include clear disclosures about the extent to which the product contains foreign parts, ingredients, or components, or involved foreign processing.

Some ecommerce tool sites have reliable CoO metadata and search filters.

https://www.harryepstein.com/

https://madeinusatools.com/
> they own their factories in China

This isn’t as protective as one would imagine. Unscrupulous floor managers will still swap materials, run the crap and sell the good stuff.
I'm curious what you think the hydrogen in a hydrogen bomb would split into.
They realized that they had goofed like 25-30 years ago and have been battling their own monster ever since: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/versioned-....

I take the authors of a disaster more seriously when they say it's a disaster, not less.
We actually got to fusion bombs pretty quickly, in the 1950s. Presumably almost all practical nuclear weapons since then are fission bombs
Craftsman tools were always just rebranded tools from other manufacturers. You can still buy many similar tools from the same US manufacturer with other names stamped into them.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/craftsman-hand-t...
goto is better than exceptions because goto is scoped.
Thanks! I'll try to remember this for any future blog entries.
I predict the US will switch to the metric system and the entire world will switch to a 13 month calendar, in 100 years.
The solution is more axels. Haven’t you seen cement trucks with the deployable 3rd axel?

And the weight limit is 160,000. You forgot the 2nd trailer
>t does not seem that they have any safeguards in place to protect artists

From what? Until strong AI comes about, good human artists will always be able to compete on originality and relatability, and even afterwards, human art could be valued for its "authentic flavor", or something like that. Until then, among humans, only the hacks need fear these systems.
All nuclear bombs involve fission. Some (termed "thermonuclear") involve fusion. A fission first stage is detonated to ignite a (much higher yielding) fusion second stage. Most bombs deployed today are thermonuclear simply because it's the most sensible way to scale up the yield of a weapon.
Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body
> It is since meat consumption largely affects the life of other people, some by death

Sheesh. Why is it that every damned belief system that demands some level of moral absolutism always ends the same way—advocating some form of totalitarianism to manage their intolerance.
Math major here, but it's not my area. so I have to guess

Note that it's not a "per review paper", it's just a PFD shared somewhere, a "preprint" if you like a formal word.

It looks short (4 pages) and looks quite readable, so I guess that if you wait a week or two it will be a major new IF true.

My guess is it's false. It looks like the author made a similar claim two years ago and it's now fixing some details. With a loooooooooooooooooooong proof that is possible because only the author can understood it good enough to fix it, but with a proof that is so short a minor error would have been fixed soon.
The new factory is in Milwaukee but they put a lot of money and effort into a new engineering center in downtown Chicago. I've been contacted by more than a handful of recruiters trying to fill positions there.
I’m assuming we are talking supercharging stations
I'm not the person you've been replying to, but I note that your replies in this chain are getting more and more acrimonious. If you're going to repeatedly accuse the other commenter of bad faith, it's probably best to stop replying.

I'm not a civil engineer, nor any kind of expert in grid-scale energy storage, so I can only note that in my amateur readings I've seen many different people (alleged experts) say the same things that Manuel_D is saying. That doesn't mean it's true, that's not my point. My point is that if you know something that all these other commentators don't, I and others would greatly appreciate it if you would explain that. But you'd need to actually explain it, not just accuse others of bad faith.
> The "owner" is not the one removing the features.. TESLA IS..

My point was that when they disabled FSD in those cases, Tesla was the owner.

> FOr your turbocharger - Yes, if it was listed on the car's features, then removed after you bought it, it would be wrong to remove it. In fact this could be considered fraud.

Let's use a simpler example then: imagine my spare tire wore out and I didn't bother replacing it. Is it fraud if I sell my car without doing so?

> You seriously wrote "there is nothign wrong wiht removing features.." .. OMG.

You elided a critical part of what I said. Here's what my whole sentence was: "There's nothing wrong with removing features from a vehicle while you're the owner of it."
That may be more likely a priori (after all, much "military" funding is in fact a convenient way for the government to fund R&D without huge budget fights in Congress).

But, ICF is simply not a viable way to produce fusion power, it is far far far too expensive to operate such a device. So, we can only conclude that they are either deluding themselves, or they are in fact doing fusion weapons research (or, at best, simply fundamental theoretical research into how fusion works) - since the same kinds of conditions or forces are what happens inside a fusion bomb.