skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hard for me to imagine how AI would be able to create something as unique and human as D'Angelo's Voodoo (esp. before he existed)

There’s always that immortal randomly typing monkey with a typewriter thing [1]. And, in our case, it seems to be better than random.

So, yes, perhaps.
But perhaps we could instead build and create things that are yet unimaginable upon it. We’ll see.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
I don't really buy that "vote with your wallet" argument. It's not like you really have a choice. People can't decide to buy their favorite game with our without an open infrastructure. For example of you want to play StarCraft 2 on LAN with your friends or even only a similar game you just can't. It does not exist. If there is only one candidate then it's not really a vote, is it?
My journey went through mypy, then typescript for frontend, the typescript on node. The story here was the type system is so much better that it allowed better prototyping, larger codebases and confidence.

I’ve done a lot of C# and Java now over the last few years, and I don’t love their type system, esp compared to typescript, but they scale much better against large codebases - especially with tooling like bazel.

I’ve been looking at Haskell and Rust a lot to fill this intermediary: code that’s performant, with a very expressive type system.

I maintain(ed) a number of popular python packages, and that journey lasted for nearly a decade.
I'm afraid all of them use H264 or H265 as baseline, AV1 only when advertised. AV1 is only available hardware-accelerated on the newest devices (AMD >= RNDA2, Intel >= Xe, Nvidia >= Ampere) from 2020. Googles Pixel 6 is one of the first phones with AV1.
Software support requires the CPU to do the work and drains the battery.
I don't know. Fangamer and a few other small inventory sites work remarkably well for me, as well.
What's your take on these newer "economic development" 501c3's? Example: https://archgrants.org/

I've talked with the founder of Arch Grants, and I don't doubt their intentions are pure (there's others I'm more skeptical of), but either way it's difficult for me to wrap my head around the concept of a non profit that is by most metrics operating as a startup accelerator giving seed funding to for-profit businesses.

*Edit:grammur
did you watch Chappelle's segment on how trump walks out of the house, says what hes doing, then walks right back in?
You drive your car around in public with identifying information on it, anyone can derive a record of its public movements if they were inclined. For example by just following you around on public roads and streaming it, like how paparazzi operate legally.
From the question it's not clear to me that the problem is that you are doing the homework too early or too late. I mean, sometimes you get a homework assignment on Tuesday that is due on Thor's day. Other times you have a 2 month project and try to get that done in the last 2 days and that's a problem.
> There are 8 billion people in the world already. Every single one of them does not have to make a baby for humanity to survive. Some people already pick up the slack as it is.
Not only that but sampling. I'd say there's at least one sample from something in most modern music. This can essentially create "sounds" that you're looking for as an artist. I need a sort of high pitched drone here... Rather than dig through sample libraries you just generate a few dozen results from a diffusion model with some varying inputs and you'd have a small sample set on the exact thing you're looking for. There's already so much processing of samples after the fact, the actual quality or resolution of the sample is inconsequential. In a lot of music, you're just going after the texture and tonality and timbre of something... This can be seen in some Hans Zimmer videos of how he slows down certain sounds massively to arrive at new sounds... or in granular synthesis... This is going to open up a lot of cool new doors.
As someone that knows Python since version 1.6, that is what kind of always has irritated me.

Sure the language isn't Lisp, but it comes close enough, only to be let down by lack of performance focus, and PyPy never got the spotlight it deserves.

So I kept using Python only for sysadmin stuff when targeting UNIX like workflows.

Finally, it is looking like I can eventually some day reach out for Python in tasks where performace matters.
This is a tax move to stash the cash so it does not got hit by big tax bill immediatelly. That money can be then invested in twitter (thru charity), buy twitter bonds, or whatever. Or give payouts in smaller amounts to friends and family which will work for the charity. My bet is that they will buy twitter bonds thru the charity.

There is nothing wrong here and it is not illegal.
hmm, so it is. I still have the one i installed from pypi though.
Yeah, this is something of a problem; it makes the capital cost quite high, which in turn makes it less useful for intermittency and less cost-effective as a means of energy storage.
It's interesting that a Sanskrit breakthrough happens not in India, but in England, a Western nation, by a PhD candidate researching under a European scholar.

Can someone explain to me why the breakthrough didn't happen in India?

What I think is that as the language is closely related to the religion, Indian people tend to worship it and hence cannot produce critical and innovative research nowadays. Am I right in thinking this? Or am I making an epistemological oversimplification?

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> Mr Rajpopat said he had "a eureka moment in Cambridge" after spending nine months "getting nowhere".

>

> "I closed the books for a month and just enjoyed the summer - swimming, cycling, cooking, praying and meditating," he said.

>

> "Then, begrudgingly I went back to work, and, within minutes, as I turned the pages, these patterns starting emerging, and it all started to make sense."

Diffuse thinking at play.

Happened with me many times.
Whether the "peer review" experiment has succeeded or failed is debatable... but anecdotally, everyone I know in academia feels the current publish-or-perish peer-reviewed system is BROKEN: It incentivizes everyone to pursue low-risk, incremental, mostly inconsequential, easy-to-explain research with high certainty of short-term success, instead of high-risk, exploratory, consequential, hard-to-explain research with high uncertainty of long-term payoff.

This is true:

> From antiquity to modernity, scientists wrote letters and circulated monographs, and the main barriers stopping them from communicating their findings were the cost of paper, postage, or a printing press, or on rare occasions, the cost of a visit from the Catholic Church. Scientific journals appeared in the 1600s, but they operated more like magazines or newsletters, and their processes of picking articles ranged from “we print whatever we get” to “the editor asks his friend what he thinks” to “the whole society votes.” Sometimes journals couldn’t get enough papers to publish, so editors had to go around begging their friends to submit manuscripts, or fill the space themselves. Scientific publishing remained a hodgepodge for centuries.

This is true as well:

> That all changed after World War II. Governments poured funding into research, and they convened “peer reviewers” to ensure they weren’t wasting their money on foolish proposals. That funding turned into a deluge of papers, and journals that previously struggled to fill their pages now struggled to pick which articles to print. Reviewing papers before publication, which was “quite rare” until the 1960s, became much more common. Then it became universal.

Finally, this is also true:

> Now pretty much every journal uses outside experts to vet papers, and papers that don’t please reviewers get rejected. You can still write to your friends about your findings, but hiring committees and grant agencies act as if the only science that exists is the stuff published in peer-reviewed journals. This is the grand experiment we’ve been running for six decades.
I believe that's already a compressed size (not minified) that means 200kB+ minified (zero app code).
Curious what the sutra was and was there no varttika or mahabhashya on it?
The worst case is actually that the IRS takes away the charity’s tax-exempt status, thereby negating the whole strategy.
Sounds a bit "clowny" to me, for lack of a better word.
Grandfathered Pricing: Why ‘Grandfathered in’ Pricing Is Bad for Business
'Maniacs who enjoy killing': Russian defector's unit accused of Bucha war crimes
Probably a better example than mine for this example!
NASA Joint AR Request for Information
In the corporate university, the usual game is to get the patent approved first, and hold off on the publication until that happens. At least that's the case in applied technical science - the social science world seems more like a club where the involved players just rubber-stamp each other's non-reproducible work in order to up their publication count and pack their CV. The actual work has no value, so why would anyone bother stealing it?
Dell concept laptop has pop-out components, disassembles screwdriver-free
Love to see more WebRTC! Shame to see FTL go, I contributed a few PRs to Lightspeed[1] which relied on FTL to achieve sub-second latencies.

On a slightly off-topic note, I’ve been working on a simple WebRTC radio project[2] for a social listening experience. In my limited testing with a few friends, I was able to get < 100ms of lag (audio de-sync) between different players on different networks. It has been an absolute joy to use. The social experience of listening to music together somehow really appeals to me.

It was pleasantly simple to get it up and running with socket.io + Mediasoup as the SFU. I plan to flesh it out a lot more shortly but I’m a bit of a novice. Would love to have some more experienced eyes on the project :D

[1]: https://github.com/GRVYDEV/Lightspeed-ingest

[2]: https://github.com/obviyus/radio
When you say fine tuned do you mean fine tuned on an existing stable diffusion checkpoint? If so which?

It would be very interesting to see what the stable diffusion community that is using automatic1111 version would do with this if it were made into an extension.
Yeah, they claimed live service and I believed them, but forge was released a month ago and I can't muster up anyone who wants to play anymore. lol. I can't even get my bro to play through coop. Bums me out because halo was my jam almost my entire life but they can't be arsed.

It's sad because forge mode looks amazing.
Can I port to my Timex Sinclair?
I think it's the compositor doing that. In XFCE, you can control that from the "Window Manager Tweaks" app, in the "compositor" tab.
I've already seem tools like this for other languages, but never seen someone effectively using them. Does anyone here has good or bad experiences with these architecture rule systems?
Fascinating stuff.

One of the samples had vocals. Could the approach be used to create solely vocals?

Could it be used for speech? If so, could the speech be directed or would it be random?
What bugs? I've used XFCE for 15+ years on desktop, laptop, Intel and AMD. Never seen this issue.
Complexity Comes Alone
So a [wealthy person] can live/work out of a Hawaiian compound bought for the purpose of a charity using a charities money?

Or are we talking about the charity workers themselves living it up... like we've seen in those famous recent fancy houses purchases in Canada and UK.
Oh but most people think how it works is you give away all your money and if you don't do that you aren't very charitable.

However the smart way to donate is keep principal alive and any money that money makes it goes to the charity therefore ensuring money in perpetuity. You bring up the challenge in the current environment.
ChatGPT can already do that. You can ask questions about the code, make suggestions and it will take this into account and write improved code. You can tell it the code it wrote produces an error, and it will then find the error, explain what it did wrong and fix it.
I follow AV news very closely. I'm talking about Waymo. The small set of accidents they've been accidents in have been limited to fault of other drivers with the vast majority being rear endings
That is really unfortunate.
Sticking an official looking IBM label complete with (r)s onto a new battery made from scratch seems like a bad idea and a way to get sued.
More information about the reasons for the changes here:

"Fixing load, and tightening up SvelteKit's design before 1.0 #5748"

https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/discussions/5748
That is not and never was the point -- sodium is in the same column as lithium on the periodic table, but it is significantly heavier than that, so mobile applications (cars, phones) are out of scope. Sodium is promising for stationary, community- or grid-level storage.
> I do understand where they're coming from, it's brand safety 101 - they don't want to risk the PR disaster from incompetent parents coming into their child's room and seeing n-bombs dropped into the Minecraft chat

Maybe, I’m misunderstanding the initial statement, but if this were case, why ban local servers and not public, internet accessible servers? I promise there’s a much higher chance of that hypothetical happening on those.
From the FAQ:

What is the relationship between Overture and OpenStreetMap?

Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets. Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses. Overture members are encouraged to contribute to OSM directly.
This looks great and the idea is amazing. I tried with the prompt: "speed metal" and "speed metal with guitar riffs" and got some smooth rock-balad type music. I guess there was no heavy metal in the learning samples haha.

Great work!
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Ask HN: Accounting Software in Brazil?
QuickBooks Online is exiting Brazil, any recommendations for good alternatives, specifically friendly to doing business in BR?
Sure you can:

Here's a nice 6 million dollar house bought by a charity:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/black-lives-matter-6...

And a nicer 8 million dollar house bought by the same charity (all cash, must be nice)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairnes...

you see stories like this in the news fairly often, this is just two recent examples.
The UX practices used on McMaster are most suitable for B2B sites.

If you were trying to sell beauty products to consumers with a landing page like theirs it likely wouldn't perform that well. You could, however, draw inspiration from McMaster if your brand was selling the same beauty products wholesale to retailers.
Every planes in the sky can be tracked: https://flightaware.com/live/map

Every ships on the seas can be tracked: https://www.marinetraffic.com/
Why Wasn’t the Steam Engine Invented in China?
We already have a great example of a group that has fought technological development of a synthetic alternative to their product -- the diamond industry.

For years DeBeers and other diamond moguls have run extensive propaganda campaigns to try to convince people that lab-grown diamonds are physically, emotionally, and morally inferior. They had a lot of success at first. Based on lobbying, the US FTC banned referring to lab-grown diamonds as "real", "genuine", or even "stone". It required the word "diamond" be prefixed with "lab-grown" or "synthetic" in any marketing materials.

Technology kept improving, economies of scale applied, and consumer demand eventually changed the balance. The FTC reversed its rulings and in 2022 demand for lab-grown stones (at small fractions of equivalent natural prices) is at an all-time high.

Artists (and writers, and programmers) can fight against this all they like, and may win battles in the short term. In the end the economic benefits accruing to humankind as a result of these technologies is inexorably going to normalize them.
each of the IPCC, World Meteorological Association, US Global Change Study and the California Climate Reports, contain specifics on this .. a list most recent publications with citations next up?
P0: Effective Prioritization
It'll still be gibberish, but at least it's more likely it'll be grammatically correct.
The whole point of Wayland is that you don't need "precise enough eyes" to comfortably use modern pixel densities.

But for that you need a functional UI scaling system provided by the Waylands rework.
It sounds like it worked for you, at least better than all other options that you had.
Is TikTok a National Security Risk?
"We should place a tax on all copyright lawyers and use it to fund GPU manufacturing and AI development. At your next stump speech, mention how the entertainment industry is stealing jobs from construction workers. Your corruption charges won't matter because voters only care about corruption when it's not in their favor."
> It works just as well for consumers.

That is not what it means to be B2B or B2C.

B2C: optimize profit from consumers.

B2B: optimize profit from businesses.

A B2C store has flashy 'modern' design, sparse text, ads, a blog, logos, customer reviews, pay-later options, a wish list, discount codes, a newsletter sign-up, up-sells during checkout, etc.

Business consumers find that revolting, so it won't work for them.
Consumers on the other hand are easily tempted with 'discounts' and 'up-sells'.
Does it offer a "I will know it when I see it" function? Sometimes I have in mind a specific tool or accessory, but not its specs necessarily.
Atomic habits with discipline.... you wanted or not
You have just enough information about foundations to completely misunderstand them.

It's true that a major reason for the popularity of foundations is legal tax avoidance: you can donate to a foundation in a year when you have lots of income, get the tax benefit in that year, and not have to make a charitable donation in the same year. The foundations is allowed to sit on most of the money for a long time. However, crucially, when the money leaves the foundation it must go to an approved charity. There have been some high-profile abuses of foundations, but that's simply illegal, the same way it would be illegal to not make a donation in the first place and claim a tax exemption.
There's many things to love about the design, but the fact that they use actual anchor tags and override the default behavior with JS is extremely frustrating and makes opening in a new tab impossible. When I'm looking for parts I tend to want to open up several categories or parts across a few tabs and they make it impossible. Horizontal scrolling is also remapped to scroll vertically as well, which breaks the trackpad swipe behavior for going forwards and backwards on MacOS.
I've heard you can contact support to get a shipping quote before placing your order.
The PEP440 issue you linked to is a positive for Poetry, not a negative. You shouldn't be installing packages into your distro-managed Python environment, that's just asking for problems.
Catch 22 Rust in Review
>People also complain loudly about Hi-DPI support and tearing with X. I've not noticed either of them being an issue ever.

Why wouldn't they complain for something that affects them? If you don't have any issues, that's great for you, but that doesn't help those who do in any way, so why do you downplay their issues?
Tip: have a fun car that you buy rockauto parts for? Send them a photo by email for their magnet series! They do a new one every month and so they can often oblige you within a few months. They send you a stack of magnets with your car on them, and of course there's a chance they'll be included in everyone else's orders. A few of my cars have appeared on rockauto magnets and they bring me much joy.
Zuckerberg did not set up a charity, in part to preserve its freedom to spend however it wants. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is an LLC.
Related paper: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2022-4235
> When challenged with the CodeContest—the battle rap torment of competitive programming—the AI solved about 30 percent of the problems, while beating half the human competition.

This was essentially a competition in the speed of programming. But if we want to discuss practical application, as in laying off armies of coders, we need to realise that there is a tremendous gap in the productivity of, let's say a solo startup founder and the productivity of a team of coders working for a multinational behemoth barely producing anything of a value over the whole sprint.
Maybe? There's already open source LLMs like Facebook's OPT but they aren't as good. The cost of training and running ChatGPT is going to be higher than image generation nets. And it's not really clear why companies like Stability pay so much and give it away for free anyway, it seems hard to understand the business model there. We can't assume there will be high quality LLMs always available without extra filtering.
Also:

How will Overture data be licensed?

Data contributed to ODbL licensed datasets will be contributed under both the ODbL and CDLA permissive v2. Contributions to CDLA permissive v2 datasets will be contributed under the CDLA permissive v2.
How will Overture code be licensed?

Overture’s open source code will be subject to the MIT license.

ODbL: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
Right, I first learned about this when being forced to watch some of the "Housewives of ..." shows by my wife. I couldn't figure out why all these objectively terrible people all had their own personal charities (many of the episodes revolve around the social group of the show going to each other's charity events).

It turns out it's a common, but legal, "scam". Take in funds from fundraisers, give away a little, then pay yourself a ridiculous salary for running the organization with the rest of the money. You can also have the charity "buy" things for future fundraisers like trips on private jets, or fundraising events in the Bahamas, etc.

I have no idea how it has stayed even remotely legal other than it seems a great many people above a certain wealth level all seem to be involved in it.
Don't get me wrong: Trawling the floodhose of AI publications, taking them together, and synthesizing them into a coherent and useful tool is serious, difficult, and creative work. This is R&D, and the people at Tesla working on autopilot are smart. The rift between "publication ready" work and "commercial ready" work is a vast one.

R&D for commercialization is a very difficult and very profitable task! But one would not expect this to advance the field of autonomous vehicles, nor would it require participating in the research.

(Also, I thought Waymo had partnerships, but I'm not close to Google. I don't know a lot about Waymo as a business, only as a research entity.)
Does that mean Super Mario Bros. was free software until it was released on VC?
Thanks for calling out some gaps in my explanation! Appreciate your perspective :)
Personally, if I can track the problem down to a specific chunk of code and know the input and expected outputs, I'm 99% of the way to the solution.