skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say we should abandon memory - that would be indeed absurd to even consider. But the conditions for it should change and are changing. Written text is part of this movement, aswell as, more recently, photography - there's a reason a massive (maybe more than 99,9%?) amount of photos are just abandoned after they are produced. A lot of times "memory" is the denial of time.

I'm not trying to be cryptic here - it's just a very complex subject unsuitable for this medium because of size, and also I'm not native and lack the proper terms for this kind of conversation.

A small anecdote: my father is approaching the age of 80, and recently approached me sharing he has noticed he was "losing his memory" and didn't like it. I surveyed him and we understood the only memories that were sometimes slipping were only stupid stuff like day-to-day low-priority routine tasks - things that he could really go without: the fact he was forgetting them was more impactful to him at that time than not having performed them, because "he always had such a good memory". Long story short: I instructed him on how to use alarms and calendar on iPhone (he's already a frequent and somewhat comfortable smartphone user). He used them for a while and enjoyed the ease of not having to "remember" the tasks. Shortly afterwards he felt annoyed by so many alarms, and drastically reduced usage. Now he's happy and "feels lighter" knowing he is healthy and not at all forgetting stuff he deems important, and can count on easy tech to help when needed. He also now benefits from scheduling long-term important stuff on google calendar, and having multiple notifications to remember him 1 month prior, 2 weeks, 1 week, 3 days. What he's realizing is there's better usage for his brain and energy than storing easy "memories".
I would say so (that and the smartphone as ppl points out) - they announced subscription service around 2009-2011 from what I can see online and we can see the interest falling drastically since:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=tomtom

.. that's also when I stopped using them I think, and what's interesting is that once you get into the habit of using a new map+navigation service it seems quite hard to switch or is that just me? (I want to try Apple because I like them more than Google but I'm just so used to Google Maps)
> But Google Maps is free.

We need a new alternative word for "free" when it comes to advertising companies. Something short to say "the cost is too abstract and indirect to understand fully or describe, but does impact society at large". Maybe "free-ish"?
Jesus, “sandwich artist” is borderline insulting one’s intelligence.

In France, the official term for a janitor was “surface technician”, which I previously considered to be the most condescending name for a job, but it has been violently dethroned by “sandwich artist”.
No. Many people cannot just find a new high-paying job quickly/easily.

Outside of development specifically I have heard first hand examples that were essentially the equivalent of “any programming job.”
It reminds me of several Dilbert strips.
Transformers seem great. IMO the big challenge is still to better understand how they perform in operation.
> For instance, pressing the pedal on a digital won't give you any feedback from the felt rubbing on the strings. Most classically trained teachers would recommend an acoustic over this fact alone.

I wonder if there would be a market for that level of emulation.

For example in the car sim scene the higher end braking pedals measure not just the movement but also with how much force it is pressed (force needed for brake pedal is nonlinear with pedal movement), so you have more control over it (easier to control force of pressing compared to absolute movement of the pedal)

> An acoustic grand also has more opportunities to change and shape the color of the tone. A technician can make the piano warmer or brighter for example.

Yeah nah. Digital pianos often have more than one sound to choose from, let alone more advanced synths. If we're talking sheer variety of sound digital has no limits, even if your particular device does there is always option of connecting it to PC (althought no doubt archaic MIDI gonna lose some of the detail there)
google maps work quite well with offline data in airplane mode.
> As if Elon needs 20 dollars.

When you pay 40 billion for something you expect a return on investment
For some applications it is quite hard to overstate how much easier Erlang (or in my case Elixir) does make things. For a web backend, the concurrency approach means that you can handle each request as synchronous, "blocking" code (the easiest to reason about). In practice the GenServer system means that you're probably doing a lot of sending messages to a lot of other processes[1] and waiting for responses, but it all looks and feels like function calls and returns.

Similarly I use Nerves for a hardware control application. I have an operation that's doing a multi-step bit of communication where the actual comms is handled via an IC on an SPI bus. You build your layers of driver, abstraction and then eventually application code over the top, and I end up with a really clear top level function that basically looks like:

configure_radio()
send_request(flags, data)
wait_for_done_flag()
read_response()

All of this works perfectly, doing SPI transactions, waiting for responses and all operates perfectly on the same VM that's also monitoring some registers, as well as running a live web interface for introspection, handling graphql requests etc.

And then if there's an error case that I haven't handled the code that communicates with the IC will all restart and reconfigure the IC, so that transaction will fail, but the next one will likely work fine.

[1] Processes here using the BEAM terminology - a lightweight userspace scheduled thread of execution. Similar to green-threads, fibres or goroutines.
Commits into CentOS Stream go through testing and become RHEL.

Those commits are mostly from Red Hat developers, because all RHEL devel now happens in Stream first, but iiuc technically anyone could submit a PR, and maybe CentOS Stream community members do that from time to time.

Fedora is entirely separate packages from CentOS/EL. Fedora is much closer to upstream projects. Fedora has shorter lifecycle, no API/ABI guarantee across releases, moves fasts and breaks more things, etc.
Pakistan is one of the dangerous and dirty places on the planet. I highly doubt they can even reliably count births and deaths. Someone on a podcast I watched recently said he saw doctors reusing syringes after stabbing them into an Irish Spring soap bar. I seriously doubt they even have Covid tests.
They don't get a room, they get a bunk.

Are you really comparing living on a ship 24/7 to an apartment ?!
Web is broken because search should be considered an infrastructure layer feature.

P.D.: Let's see how much time takes Google to offer a non-free search option using the economic recession excuse.
C++ is the next C++
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I already think twitter is the worst platform for conversation, the UI is only designed for shouting into the void

Every time I see a post it's just followed up by 100 meme gifs, not discussion.
I have experienced precisely zero of the things listed in this article.
In fairness, the benefits are much better though; McDonald's isn't going to pay for your entire college education based on three years time in service.
It was misinformation the vaccine prevents spread, misinformation spread by the governments. You still get sick during each wave, you still spread the virus. The only thing it does is reduce the amount of symptoms.
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I could have CentOS of 2015 era.
If there ever was such a disease you’d actually have the opposite problem of convincing people to go out and keep society running.
Did you get a contract for work done?
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I’m guessing whoever downvoted you hasn’t had to live off MREs for extended periods of time.

We didn’t care about having to do the grunt work for the cooks when the alternative was not having hot chow. Plus they didn’t really care too much about our pilfering as long as we kept it somewhat reasonable.
It did reduce spread, but not perfectly so and that fell as more evasive variants evolved.
Does your product need dark mode?
So when they will they won't have to hire
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I used to work with TomTom when I worked on navigation solutions at a former employer. The maps are top notch quality and very up to date, but shit expensive. I think we had a minimum amount of licenses we had to commit to pay (something like a couple of hundred thousand euros per year) and we were a small shop.

We had split the map data sources to not drive customers away and we split our licensing between our app and the map subscription. It was an interesting problem, we had one employee that only did OpenStreetMap - keeping maps up to date, manually solving problems etc - this was actually much cheaper than buying TomTom, but still we couldn’t match the quality of TomTom. So, we would recommend: do you need high accuracy maps, buy TomTom, otherwise use the cheaper variant.

We were also implementing Here Maps (the old Nokia Maps), when I left, and it looked really promising, but I think the same licensing scheme, only “cheaper”, we could make do with only about 100k in pre-bought licenses
I don't understand the 'everything was better when it wasn't google' mentality that is so often found in these threads. My dad used to work at TomTom right here in the Netherlands. They used to be a fun and innovative company to work for. When it became apparent they entered a multibillion dollar business it was all about the money.

As someone who used TomTom before other options became available I can honestly say that it was an absolute nightmare. The small handheld devices took ages before loading up, had bad GPS reception and could only live on battery for 1.5 hours or so. Maps needed to be updated quarterly and would often not fit on the SD CARD. TomTom charged something in the order of 75 euro per map update.

When Google Maps became a viable alternative TomTom continued with the same business model, same paid map updates, same shitty bloatware necessary for map updates etc.. I don't understand the HN sentiment. Things were no better 15 years ago. Google Maps works. It works always. It accurate and uptodate. Dont like Google? There are plenty of OSM apps in store.
how does a salt help?

a salt for a password is when we know the username and the salt so can combine the salt and provided password to compare against the generated hash value.

in this case all we know is the phone number, how does a salt help us look up a given phone number in a set of salted / hashes if we dont know what salt to combine it with?
The flip side, as I understand it, is that arbitration firms are clients of the company.
RHEL is all open source. What makes you think it's comparable to a "fully commercial Unix"?
The fundamental architectures of transformers haven't changed in years. I wonder what kind of design changes will be made in the future and how that impacts these results.
So, you don't use email at all now? Is it possible?
I don’t want to ask here (don’t want to mix up my identities), where should I actually ask? In what forum
@dril seems to come close (I didn't know him, probably because he only has 1.7M followers).

On twitter he's only at place 5,391 (https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/dril).

MrBeast and PewDiePie are both millionaires ($40M-$100M) thanks to YouTube, and each have 111M followers, that's around 65x @dril.

Can you state exactly what you mean with @dril == 100 * Mister Beast?
Yes. It is either Hang up, Mute, or Worst, suddenly on speaker phone so the sound would blow up my ear.

There are many other aspect of "calling" that has gotten worst, including call quality, codec and signal etc. My thinking is that no one calls anymore and no one gives a damn about phone calling.

I still remember I used to buy Motorola Phone just because of their Crystal talk.
I mean, in a sense yes the training set is gospel. But these systems are also (generally) tested against held out data.

When you have to model 100TB of images with 4gb of weights there is no way this is possible without learning some kind of patterns and regularity that generalise outside the training set. Most generated items will be novel, and most training items will not be reproducible.

It doesn’t seem radical to suggest that the copying issue will continue to recede as we get better models.

And there are areas of research specifically concerned with _provably_ showing that you cannot identify what items a model was trained was.

Lots of reasons to be optimistic in my view.
The personal savings rate and unemployment rate disagrees with your assertion.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PMSAVE

The actual reality is that the vast majority of people kept working but didn’t have enough ways to spend their money. Then the Congress started mailing massive checks to people regardless of need and the Fed cut rates.

Surprise surprise… people spent every last dollar they had saved and borrowed 7x their income. On houses. On new and used cars. On electronics. On home improvement. On anything and everything they could find.

And that all caused inflation. Unemployment was transitory and mostly recovered by the end of 2020.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

And now we shall pay the price.
Fwiw, I worked in the UK for several years and noncompetes were absolutely standard. Moreover, they appear to be enforceable.
I would love to work on something like that, I have a couple ideas regarding ways to implement it.

However I don't know if I have the time to do it, as there are so many concepts I'm trying to channel through code. Hopefully as I build more computational tools I will increase my bandwidth.

Providing visual tools for phonetic assistance is definitely something I've had in mind for a while and solving the dataset building problem should solve that along the way.

As of now, you can:
1) set the amount_sphere_tube slider to 1
2) decrease the playback_rate to 0.1(in the GUI on the right)
3) on the media controller, go to options(the naming might vary depending on the browser) and set the playback rate to normal or x1.
This should give you maximal temporal resolution.

One way features can be further highlighted by generating embeddings from magenta ddsp[0]. Speech sounds are fairly complex though so I don't know how models built on music data would generalize to them.
I think tech to do is is there, but for the time being it seems to be scattered around fairly siloed fields.
I also tried to use live voice recordings but there are latency issues with the subset of the Web Audio API I'm currently using. However there definitely is value in having a live, spatial feedback of pronunciation.

[0]https://github.com/magenta/magenta-js/tree/master/music#ddsp
I have literally never experienced this on my Galaxy S10, or any Android before it. Is this new?
> UK’s NHS alcohol calculator says 2 pints of 5.2% beer is 6 units.

It's actually quite easy to calculate fwiw, a 'unit' is 10ml ethanol:

2pints * 0.052 / 10
= 2(568ml) * 0.052 / 10
= 5.9072 units

... I'm not sure if that made my 'easy' point well enough, obviously pints mess it up a bit (and you have to know a pint is 568ml - I've remembered ever since I went to study at Imperial, where the student bars include the well-named 'Metric' & '568') but 10ml is nice and round so it's fairly easy to get a rough idea or with rounder numbers - e.g. a whole 75cl bottle of wine at 12% is 3/4 * 12 = 9 units.
This is the way. If your kids take to piano, by all means roll up your sleeves and get an acoustic instrument (that will more than likely become a piece of furniture in 10-20 years). But a good DP will be better than the equivalent acoustic all the way up to $20K, which is way over my budget for “things my kids may or may not stick with.”
Just to clarify something important, though... and I hope you agree with me on that: the VCs that matter will be issued by whoever is the authority that takes care of the subject matter... as it's always been the case in the real world.

For example:

- date of birth: issued by your government and equivalent to your birth certificate.

- Occuppational credentials: issued by the relevant, government-authorized organization, like Engineers Australia or whatever.

- Driver's License: issued by the traffic authority in your country/state.

- Proof of Vaccination: this is interesting, as COVID showed... in my country, it was private organizations issuing that, but they had to be approve by the Government.

The only credentials the big social media companies can issue for you just prove you have a certain handle with them, I guess... which could be used for a more secure "Sign in with Google/Apple/GitHub" for example. But nearly all interesting credentials would be issued by real-world authorities, IMHO.
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A couple of reasons. First, the strict measures were popular and people demanded them. It's been a while since I've spoken with people in China so I'm not sure how much this is still the case, but it was definitely true up to last year.

Second, the measures allowed most people to move relatively freely and go to discos when we still had blanket lockdowns in the west. The idea was to crackdown hard and quickly create green zones were life was possible almost as before. While that means millions of people on lockdown at a given time, it was likely a small fraction of the total population. (I'd like to see actual numbers here but find them hard to come by TBH).

Third, COVID is special as it is one of the few airborne / aerosol-transmitted diseases that you have a good chanche of supressing. The reason is that it shows overdispersion: most people are only slightly contagious, but few people are extremely contagious. (Caveat: I think that was the case with SARS, and with the early SARS-COV-2 variants, but I haven't seen data for Omicron.) This means that contact tracing is extremely effective. Most people will have had contact with the same few spreaders, and if you take them out, you can suppress the virus such that it will die out in a population. Western countries borked that up completely. When the incident numbers were really low, we dropped most measures, but that would have been the opportunity to eradicate it with just 1-2 more weeks of social distancing. Asian countries were much more successful with suppression.

Finally, China is a huge country. Most people move around inside, but rarely leave (its a bit like the US in that regard but much more so). To leave as a Chinese citizen you actually need an exit visa. So the majority of people are not bothered very much by travel restrictions. The comparatively little cross border traffic you can control by just giving everybody mandatory PCR tests. I could imagine the Borders to north Korea, as well as to Laos/Vietnam might be problematic to control, but AFAIK they are pretty closed up now.

So it makes totally sense to them to continue their strict course. I imagine as soon as a good vaccine becomes available there too (maybe a nasal vaccine that can prevent infection and not just severe cases), they will reevaluate.
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Photoshop is subscription too now right? So they’re just wanting a cut. It’s almost a funny way to indirectly protest the move to subscription everything.
Take it as a reminder to disable the privacy leak (for Firefox set network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy to 1 or 2 [0]) and demand that browser vendors fix their defaults.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer
No thanks, I'd rather shoot myself in the eye than have to use Safari.
This is very cool, it's good to see people working to build bridges that make it easy to interface with blockchain data. Do you guys have an openAPI spec for the API?
That has nothing to do with conservatism, though. If a conservative is arrested while spraying "Stop the Steal" on your car, that doesn't mean that the police is suppressing conservatism. Twitter chooses to prevent certain behaviours and certain actions, and also doesn't wish to disseminate misinformation about a pandemic (progressives fell victim to those beliefs, too). Like every enforcement action, it's certainly possible that specific instances are misguided, and it's also possible that there is some bias, although whether there is or isn't is far from certain (it's also possible that conservatives are biased toward rule-infringing behaviour on Twitter just as they are biased toward political violence; more conservatives are also arrested for politically-motivated violence than progressives, while property vandalism might be biased the other way).

The fact remains that every conservative idea, including extreme ones, is widely disseminated on Twitter. Even fringe right wing ideas have far more reach today -- thanks, in part, to Twitter -- than ever before in history. The idea that they're being suppressed is downright ridiculous.
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The tcl threads are shared nothing with message passing...each thread is a separate interpreter. So it's not obviously better or different than any other language running multiple processes with message passing via mmap or similar.
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the first point I buy as an issue, the second I don't. people with large accounts are creating value of some sort out of their account. If they are a reporter or the like, their employer should pay for it. if you're somone with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers, why should twitter be effectively free to you?
You're right, the majority of Petistas approve of the Lava-Jato operation. Only the rare one will condemn it as a farce. Again, whatever...
Elvish:

$E:HOME'/.local'
My own experience as an amateur writer is that my writing is now far better because I can add relevant images much more easily.
Hi, I would just like to point out that a PC/storage server that you build yourself, running TrueNAS or something is definitely an option and might be cheaper and better.
Very rough estimates say there are ~6 million Americans with Chron's or Ulcerative Colitis, none of whom have ANY business drinking ANY amount of alcohol.

That's just one group. There are other groups, I'm sure, but that's the one I'm painfully familiar with.
I have an S10, literally never had an issue with this
PSA: This unscrambles homebrew on Ventura as it wrongly assumed the Xcode release would be simultaneous with the os as has always been the case so far.

Everything seems to work fine now if you want to take the plunge.
I've noticed there's a lot of newly created luddite accounts.

Reddit luddite brigade?
Realistically, though, we are way bigger danger to ourselves than nature is
So long as he’s not making changes and distributing them the choice of open source license is mostly irrelevant.