skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang, that hits a little close.

I play enough music that I suspect there is some kind of underlying pathology.

Like, I am usually in 3-4 bands, have performed on 10+ instruments on stage this year. I spent 3 hours today playing clarinet waiting for google billing support, and another hour or so on trumpet this morning. And in a bit, I will be getting on the pedal steel for an evening scale pickin session.

I just started the clarinet again and it has been really weird. It was my instrument all through high school. My parents were super proud that they had been able to score a super inexpensive Bundy, which was 30 years old when I got it, and which had never really been maintained. In retrospect, I realize low B key didn't seat well, so it always squeaked going over the break. I've repadded a clarinet, and that very much feels like an easy fix to me-- I have no explanations about why it remained a problem for my middle and high-school years.

There are reasons why that purchase of a cheap horn for your child might be a nice thing, if you lacked money or experience. But my parents were professional school administrators who met in music school. My dad was a high school band director for a while and my mother studied flute in the university.

Having had my own children, that action has curious what analogous damage I've done to them via similar mechanisms.

That's not a big harm (certainly not abuse, as was the case in the OP's story), but until about a month ago when I bought myself a clarinet I hadn't realized how much resentment I was carrying from that time.

Playing that horn was deeply frustrating, and with all the things I know about music at this point I cannot imagine trying to get children to learn on badly functioning instruments-- there are just so many other impediments to their learning that it takes a difficult task and might make it impossible.

However, it's been quite soothing to realize that I am an adult who can take care of myself, and to simply fill needs as they come up. So I bought myself a reasonable student horn (a Buffet e12, and I did get a good deal on it, I think) and I've been playing tunes from the real books.

The amount of catharsis I've gotten from simply filling something that was once an unrecognized long-term need driven by frustration has been a bit worrisome, but it's probably healthy in some sense.
Napster, the centralized service, was stopped.

Napster, P2P sharing of music, was not.

Piracy is held at bay only by the ease & affordability of legally obtaining media and difficulty accessing the technical means to pirate.

... and well-packaged piracy solutions and modern broadband bandwidth likely sink the maximum price (the only remaining term) below the cost of production.

It took me 20 minutes to go from nothing to an entire season saved locally and streaming to a Roku. That's finding the software, installing, configuring, finding torrents, downloading, and then playing. And that's not having pirated in a decade or so.
2 months left until google kills ubo
If you start from behind and are trying to execute from first principals you'll usually lag behind too just because you have to relearn all the things countries like the US did on your own.
It seems at least one layer above public/private key encryption.
> on their own terms without any middlemen.

Twitter is the middle-man.
In many ways it's like a government job. If you're a good bureaucrat then it's a a really easy job with really great benefits and job security (as long as you play the politics well).

Hello from another ex-Wikimedia developer, by the way. We never worked together, I think you left right around the time that I started. Anyway you earned the respect of a lot of folks I worked with so cheers! Hope you're doing well.
Stephen King just reached me for the first time in decades.
> but keeping talent away from work is suboptimal for society

I think this is basically a non-issue in practice. People with such iron-clad non-competes typically either a) take a non competing job, or b) work on something anyway. The latter effectively means the original company funds some research.

If you do this with say, sales people, or traders, or whatever, it shuts down their work. If you do it with engineers they'll just make something at home.
As said somewhere else on here, "i've never seen 'hate speech' that isn't actual hate speech"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk3wb/facebook-engineers-ad...
Actually, it was boring :) Yeah, our family bought one. It was novel, and we kept and played it for a while, but it really wasn't that interesting.
Very much the first.

(1) Ubiquitous new technology

(2) New domains the technology opens

It's even more fundamental than stagecoach --> automobile. It is more like cipher --> RSA -- fundamental change based on basic math and ubiquitous, readily available technology.

The toothpaste is out of the tube!
IMO the closest equivalent to an IPFS CID is a BitTorrent magnet URL. They both can be used to obtain an intermediate metadata value, which can in turn be used to fetch file content.

> CIDs are still unique when referring to _metadata_, and can be used to
> "unambiguously fetch content from its peers".

A CID, mathematically, cannot uniquely identify a single file. Consider the CID bafybcfbaqydfnrof5stdvkzhwx6kglb7p6owxja:

[desktop]$ ipfs get bafybcfbaqydfnrof5stdvkzhwx6kglb7p6owxja -o temp.pdf
[desktop]$ shasum -a 256 temp.pdf
2bb787a73e37352f92383abe7e2902936d1059ad9f1ba6daaa9c1e58ee6970d0 temp.pdf

[laptop]$ ipfs get bafybcfbaqydfnrof5stdvkzhwx6kglb7p6owxja -o temp.pdf
[laptop]$ shasum -a 256 temp.pdf
d4488775d29bdef7993367d541064dbdda50d383f89f0aa13a6ff2e0894ba5ff temp.pdf

If you were to try fetching that CID from the peer network, which file you'd get would depend on which peer you're fetching it from.
The Quest Pro is a bad value prop compared to buying a 2 or 3 1440p monitors. The Quest 2 on the other hand... maybe? At $400 it's at least competitive and gives you something otherwise unattainable at that price range.

I had the original Quest, and the biggest problem I ran into was eyestrain. Modern headsets are good at mitigating motion sickness, but having a pair of bifocal lens in your face causes headaches after an hour or two. The only thing I continued using it for was watching movies in a theater-like setting, which looked great on the OLED display. If you're interested in a casual use-case like that, you probably won't be super disappointed. It's not going to replace your external display anytime soon though.
One can easily devise a hash function that a GPU can only compute once per second. Or per year, even, although that would be impractical.
Agreed, alternative funding methods and more decentralized organization structures are an area worth exploring further.
It will be a hellscape if copyright law is extended to include artistic style. Copyright is already overreaching and broad. To extend it further would be disastrous for the public and for the small to mid tier artist.

I could imagine that if copyright law were to be extended in this way, artists would either be small enough to fall under the radar or select for popular enough artists that they could sub-license the 'copyrighted style' in question. Regardless, only large corporations and a select few 'superstar' artists would benefit at the expense of the vast majority of artists and the public.

If this were to pass (and I very much doubt there's a good chance of it happening), all is not lost because there is a wealth of public domain imagery that we can still train on. This could then snowball into providing richer datasets to train on.

I don't like the framing of a lot of these arguments. I'm paying taxes to provide a state apparatus that provides copyright legal protection for artists. I'm happy to do this, up to a point, as it's essentially a contract that provides incentives to innovation by rewarding artists, with the understanding that, eventually, the artists works get to be used by the public (that is, given to the public domain/commons).

Copyright law, at least in the US, specifically forbids ideas and "styles" to focus on specific realizations. I understand we're in a shifting landscape where technology is changing this narrative and that copyright law was created with different technology in mind but copyright law exists, presumably, as a compromise to incentivize artistic creation while serving the public good. Copyright law is not meant to be corporate welfare nor is it meant to protect the artist at the expense of the public, in perpetuity.

It would be nice to have a more reasoned argument instead of this knee-jerk reaction of theft.
Armory's (YC W17) Introducing Sandbox Clusters
All of the emissions reductions in the US aren’t going to do anything if China keeps emitting at pace. We should not be doing anything unilaterally.
DRM never went away. It just became so seamless we never notice it anymore.
At this point, vite is pretty damned good and doesn't warrant a replacement.

From the article, the 10x improvement was more 6x and required 30k modules... Turbopack's 15ms was rounded down to 0.01s while Vite's 87ms was rounded up to 0.09s. isn't Android build level slow.
Good job of advertising that you haven’t read any of the reporting about how the bug arose.

But please, keep opining.
>Ironically, what could help is NFT type tech. Signed with a private artist key, your copy is "original". Even if knockoff generative copies are produced, the digitally signed produced-bys are still authentic.

That solves a completely different problem, though. I don't think anyone is saying that the problem is one of false attribution, where people are claiming generated images are the work of a particular person. What's being discussed is artists having less work because people generate art computationally rather than commission artists to do it.
It would probably go bankrupt paying the storage costs. Hosted data is expensive to store, transfer, and even costly to delete.
Except in order memory access is what modern CPUs aim for (and... basically every computation device be it CPU or GPU for the last 30+ years)

Strided access has always been slow, on CPUs, on GPUs, on everything, for the last 30 years. Its a known issue. "Fixing" strided memory means breaking other things (such as in-order memory access). And that's just not worth it.

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This access pattern (strided memory access) leads to channel conflicts, bank conflicts, and other uneven memory accesses in GPU space.

This entire behavior around associative caches (CPUs) or channel/bank conflicts (GPUs) is the convention, and has been for decades. I don't see any good reason to change.

If it really is a problem for your code, then you can layout the memory differently in your code. (Ex: GPU programmers layout their structures to be non-power of 2, with innocuous padding in their structures to help mitigate this channel conflict problem)

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At this point, you're gonna end up breaking all the optimized code for the last 30 years to fix slow code (that always has been slow, and therefore probably doesn't need to be optimized). That's just a bad move.
In theory sure, but it seems to me that if the cost and effort to create become lower so will the content. There will always be better and worse, and just like CGI, the content would be good or bad depending on what humans are behind it and the amount of effort they put on.

Im thinking generative AI will indeed make animations ubiquitos to the point we’d ingest so much content to the point of becoming ‘alergic’ to it or seek something other kind of entertainment.
> fiber to the home

This one is becoming real for me this year.
There are lots of 88-key digital pianos. They're pretty nice, actually. But yeah, an acoustic grand is quite unlikely to appreciate in value -- just the opposite. And the weight and size will seriously inconvenience you whenever your flooring needs work.
The blue checkmark started as a way to verify high profile accounts to make it more difficult to impersonate them. Twitter made a huge mistake opening this up way too broadly and failed to course correct. Now Elon wants to turn this into a free-for-all and scamming on Twitter will be easier than ever, with the low low price of $8.

When asked about this potential problem, Elon actually replied "That already happens very frequently".

He has no plans to solve this problem. He accepts it as the cost of doing business. He sees no problem with this. There's nothing to solve.

I think I saw somewhere where he commented that Twitter wouldn't be able to survive on advertisers alone. Well that's because advertisers are likely to flee.

Forget about the idea of it becoming a "free speech" hellscape. It's going to become a scammer's paradise.

His lackadaisical attitude shows he really doesn't care about making Twitter better. It's now an expensive toy that he owns. And that's how it always was going to be.
This is so clearly a copyright violation that I am hoping for a big lawsuit soon so the courts can confirm it.
Not true; at least the CISO and head of trust and safety still remain.
Digitally verifiable statements are usually of the form "z attests that x is a y", not "whoever presents this statement is x".

For digital ID, such a statement could be "only person Foo Bar knows the private key that corresponds to this public key, and they use that one for verifying their age, but not for voting or opening new bank accounts".

I do see the UX concern, though: The European digital Covid certificate works in exactly this way ("Foo Bar is fully vaccinated against Covid as of April 1st"), making no claim of the form "the person showing you this QR code is Foo Bar" or "the person presenting this code is vaccinated" – yet this is how it was and is unfortunately still often used.
I am saying that they do NOT have non-competes.
I'm left to wonder if this is hindsight bias. I feel the same way about video games I bought 6 months ago, though I thoroughly enjoyed them at the time.
I'm sorry but there is no way people will go to vine now that Tiktok is a thing.
It's ok to ask questions about claims that posts make
I find these frequently brought-up comparisons of robots to humans pretty funny, personally. I think we can and absolutely should delineate between a human drawing inspiration from their peers and an AI taking a trillion images (far more than any human could possibly ever draw inspiration from) at once, shuffling them all together and spitting out the resulting amalgamation. I see no reason why we should be treating this as if the AI should be treated the same way we treat humans - we definitely shouldn't.

As an example of someone with negative artistic talent of any kind, even if I were to take any one of their works and tried to trace them, it'd come out looking a mess, especially once I came to the portion that required any actual artistic skill like coloring and shading.

With an AI, I save a few of their works, stick it in some blackbox A"I" that gives me 8 trillion different derived images that are in truth just kind of spitting out whatever makes statistical sense to stick together and boom, I've just managed to take a dozen artists' works and gain something out of it.
Breaking news: software written in a language with error prone memory management has another security incident related to memory management.

Stay tuned for the next buffer overflow, use after free, and another easily preventable problem. We will run out of CVE numbers soon thanks to OpenSSL.

If there only were well-known solutions to this problem. Like programming languages that restrict what you can do in terms of memory management... Like Rust.

But hey, don't get distracted by automated memory management solutions, we are too busy fixing memory management problems manually.
Everyone just pretends working after lunch. Then productivity goes up, but it’s end of workday. Not to mention all the random interruptions when someone is in the productivity zone.

Office work is utterly broken for brain intensive work.
Um wow.

How do you do anything vision related with decision trees? Or anything beyond n-grams with text?

But here's some citations as requested:

https://casetext.com/blog/game-changing-ai-litigators/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512995/

https://possibility.teledyneimaging.com/advances-in-ai-for-i...

https://www.skinvision.com/

https://www.lifewhisperer.com/

etc

(I'm pointing at these particular fields because I personally have worked on NNs in applications in these fields, but there are plenty more)
> they don’t want to scare people away

If that price tag is big enough to "scare away" a customer, then that'll be true with or without the extra contact info collection and sales call(s) and email spam. Like I said: might as well not have the vendor and customer mutually waste each others' time with a bunch of sales ceremony that has no hope of actually producing a sale.
Yeah he let his optimism blind him on that part. There's always been a "Bohemian" set, his Class X was no revolution.
You underestimate people’s willingness to sacrifice other people’s work for the benefit of a few corporations and their cult like leadership. Already some argue passionately that ai stealing data is just like humans learning from other humans. Let alone that once a new trend starts ai will have to catchup - meaning that for a while it will lag so sufficient data is available for it to steal again. Also if we completely push artists out due to ever lower costs there will be little progress in original content.
> They're not saying that using area-* cannot be correct, just that it's so often incorrect as to be a smell.

But do to accessibility correctly you almost ALWAYS need to use aria-*

So it this is just like saying "writing code is a code smell because you'll have bugs" and it turns "code smell" into a useless tautology.
The workflow of Darktable gets me confused compared to Lightroom/Photoshop's Adobe Camera Raw tool; there are so many options and features that it can be overwhelming. Capture ONE from my experience delivers superior RAW decoding vs. Adobe Camera Raw, but I still use ACR.
The Rise of Artificial Decentralized Intelligence
Only rated for 10 years operation. Given how expensive those space stations are, it seems very short.
"License prohibits sharing its code so I won't - setting a good example for our artifically intelligent friends :)"

What if the person sharing it is not a licensee. License terms would only bind licensees, assuming the purported licensee has properly assented to the license terms.
The comparison between a ML model and a human is often used but it is not very useful.

The problem is in most of these cases is that a powerful entity is profiting off of other people's work without their consent and gives nothing to the exploited members in return. Sure, an individual human learns from copyrighted works and reincorporates to make something slightly new all the time. And then they may also profit from it and not give anything in return to those that came before.

The problem here is the scale and the power that enables that scale. This is industrial level mining of non-consenting humans, exploiting their life's work in many cases.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tougher-rules-on-methane-leaks-...

Its a paywalled article, but you are correct that carbon credits and net-zero have excluded methane because of its wonderful smell :)

"Long-awaited" means exactly zero has been implemented. Perhaps "the new net-zero", similar to soda marketing is in order.
I see that he does not want to be a permanent resident of Delaware.
> Once it's illegal, only the criminals will use it. No first-world company will break the law to save money on artists. You think anyone who matters will secretly use a neural net trained in violation of copyright? Think again.

Disney is a first world company and it does exactly that: https://www.yahoo.com/now/column-disney-allegedly-cheated-hu...

Getty images is another: https://petapixel.com/2016/08/04/getty-images-sued-accused-m...

In the US, the approach is to see what you can get away with, and you can get away with a lot with a pile of money and an army of lawyers.
Although you’re technically correct, I think there’s a qualitative difference here. Traditional advertising is priced on number of impressions. As a result, publishers are incentivized to juice engagement numbers. Practically speaking, that means outrage-generating content and similar garbage.

This sort of “advertising” is a class system, with one class of users getting some sort of visibility bump over a second class of users. The incentives are aligned with making sure the verified content is perceived to be high quality, so that being verified is a status symbol.

You could argue that a system with literal second-class citizens is worse than the current one, and you might be right, but I’m interested to see how it turns out. Nothing is perfect—everything has tradeoffs—and the current engagement-driven approach is a dumpster fire.
Maybe it is time to consider that the promise of 'social media'--that there could be large monolithic services that would function as some kind of pseudo-public space, was just false. Spaces like HN function better because they are more limited in scope, and more community-driven. The needs of community do not easily serve the imperatives of global capitalism. Twitter is not a community space. Facebook is not a community space, no matter how much it might pretend to be. They only exist to bleed you. Looking for a better 'alternative' to Twitter is a false hope. You can't make a community 'scale'.
Looks nice! Do all of these shell history replacements completely override native history functionality or just add on to it? (and if I delete something using `hishtory redact` does it delete it from my native shell history too?)

Also just a heads up, I find the demo gif to be unintelligibly fast.
>IP that was 100% developed by Arm and is used in billions of smartphones and other devices around the world.

You mean the ISA? Qualcomm has a license to the ISA that allows them to make and sell custom microarchitectures. They had it before they acquired Nuvia.

>You may not think that it has value but Qualcomm clearly does.

Qualcomm will likely push RISC-V hard, thus not use ARM ISA at all, from now on.

Refer to this recent announcement by SiFive[0] for some Qualcomm quotes that hint at that.

0. https://www.sifive.com/press/sifives-new-high-performance-pr...
I’d prob pay $8/month for hacker news
https://blockheadtechnologies.com/zero-knowledge-proofs-a-po...
There's always room for performance. I want to use the full capacity of the hardware I bought, why would I intentionally use a slower tool, however slight the difference (all else being equal)?

Aside, this kind of "good enough" attitude is what brought us the JS bundle behemoths, and abstractions on top of abstractions. Even if the difference is small, it adds up if everyone thinks that the performance of their one little library is just "good enough."
A data point on "decent uprights":

I bought my Weinbach (a full sized upright made by Petrof) for $6,000 in about 1993. I finally sold it for $1,200 in 2020 or so. It took a long time to sell.

A lot of houses, especially outside the US, don't have room for a grand piano, but they still want a good instrument. So you don't necessarily have to give it away.
>Maintaining tree on text editors requires careful editing and strict practices, which human brains aren't good at. The "tree" will get broken at some point, but, in this school of thought, the recovery strategy is unclear and inconsistent at best.

We've had editors that automatically do that since the 70s. Here's a live demo hot from 1986: https://youtu.be/-J_xL4IGhJA?t=2416

>The real tree, at the end of the day, is formed by line breaks and indents, not parenthesis.

It isn't. You're not the type of person who lisp is for, which is fine. There are lots of languages suited for people like you.

But I'd be curious to know what language you think uses nothing but line breaks and indents to describe its AST.