skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the company just delivers features when they are estimated to be done, instead of it taking 5 times longer than expected
Some say he's the biggest sore loser in American history.
If a hack based on an image generator already has promising results for music generation, then imagine what will happen if something dedicated to music is built from the ground up.
We need sensors for carbon presence over distance and time in the ocean. At huge scale, to test the viability of various carbon sequestration schemes. That's pretty expensive, with a large non-software component.

I know this from a peripheral involvement in one the XPRIZE projects.
So this is slightly bending my mind again. Somehow image generators were more comprehensible compared to getting coherent music out. This is incredible.
Nope, I'm running Ungoogled Chromium on Linux. Should just be the same Blink engine available on MacOS.
“The ITS system is not the result of a human wave or crash effort. The system has been incrementally developed almost continuously since its inception. As the system has matured there have always been new features to add to those under consideration as others were implemented or discarded.”

— Donald E. Eastlake, ITS Status Report, AI Memo 238, 1972: https://its.victor.se/wiki/aim-238
> The vast majority of software engineering hours that are actually paid are for maintenance, and this is where AI is likely to come in like a tornado. Once AI hits upgrade and migration tools it's going to eliminate entire teams permanently.

There's been huge improvements in automating maintenance, and yet I've never once heard someone blame a layoff on e.g. clang-rename (which has probably made me 100x more productive at refactoring compared to doing it manually.)

I'd even say your conclusion is exactly backwards. The implicit assumption is that there's a fixed amount of engineering work to do, so any automation means fewer engineers. In reality there is no such constraint. Firms hire when the marginal benefit of an engineer is larger than the cost. Automation increases productivity, causing firms to hire more, not less.
Yep. This is a strike 1 for the CEO and everyone knows it.

Unless there is someone else who can do better job, it doesn't make sense for him to step down. However, I do wonder if it would appeasing to take voluntary pay cut as a more visible form of taking responsibility. Just a thought.
Most people don't. They ignore the issue maintain cognitive dissonance, because the choice is too difficult for them.

I don't think it was completely unintended that burying your head in the sand and going back to ignorant bliss is represented by eating a steak in The Matrix.
Please don't criticize him, he try's since years to create a hard real time os in elixir, with his favorite editor emacs...programmed in lisp ;-)

No success in the foreseeable future i think.
That's not yet a choice.
Laschamp event (a short geomagnetic reversal 42,200 years ago)
You have to explicitly call something like UserId(...), just like with any other type. (You can actually do this technique in C by using a 1-element struct, although it's a lot more cumbersome than Scala since the type system is so much more limited).
As soon as the economy recovers, doing these kinds of layoffs will be terrible for the companies reputation. Right now, it’s more like “who can blame them, everyone is doing it”.
You're a crypto person, right? What's the bug bounty? :)
A likely scenario, but that would be a very big tent city. Perhaps AI could select the ideal order for them each to take their turn.
lol, they actually put it as a zinger at the end of the announcement:

> Thanks, as always, for being a part of this journey.

I have to say, the tone and execution of this announcement has killed all interest I had in dbt. I don't want to have to explain company behavior like this to my boss when proposing the use of a new tool.
Can we either ban or at the very least flag ChatGPT written posts? I understand, it's an exciting and new technology, but I can see it flooding sites in the same way that Stable Diffusion is flooding art pages, and the value of these articles is questionable to me.
I'm swingin' blindly here, but I'd say that first, it's on the other side of the new world, and depending on how early in the 17th century, may represent one of the earliest points of contact between the Spanish and the PNW. Their first official voyage was in the 18th century, I believe. So aside from the possibility of Francis Drake making it that far North earlier (which is another fascinating rabbit hole), this seems to be solid proof of a theory/rumor/legend that now has some supporting evidence.
IMO a decent editor is a must for statically typed languages - it's such a productivity boost to navigate by type information, type safe refactoring, etc.

Main benefit of static typing is enabling tooling to reason about your code - not using IDEs is throwing a huge chunk of it away. Historically it was easy to get projects that would be too large for real-time tooling - but these days the IDEs got better and you can get 32 or even 64 GB ram into a workstation trivially - I haven't seen a scenario like that in years.

I've also noticed GitHub supports type navigation in some languages, but yeah for nontrivial reviews I'll usually do a checkout anyway.
Health risks, animal suffering, damage to the environment. The evidence is endless.
Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin have all the melodies on a hard drive. (More info in this Adam Neely video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfXn_ecH5Rw and the TED talk linked in a nearby comment.) So depending on a court's kinda arbitrary definition of creativity on any given day, all of them may or may not be copyrighted already.

An infringement being accidental also doesn't seem to stop copyright holders from successfully suing people. I think this means you could technically be successfully sued for dropping some bricks on a piano, since no matter where they land, the action constitutes a public performance of a copyrighted work. Fun stuff.
Help choose the syntax for CSS Nesting
Thank you, I appreciate the advice.

I hope you don't mind my asking... but you're a lawyer, and a computer programmer with experience working in a government institution with a rigorous chain of command.

Do you have any pragmatic advice for a developer if they are asked to make a database of a minority group for a government institution?
Vaccines don’t make a major difference against Long Covid. 14-25% reduction in risk I read.

At this efficiency level they’re not an adequate preventive measure.
You just need nuclear and existing hydropower, which boils down to you just need nuclear. It's not politically probable or realistic though, but we really just need nuclear technically speaking.

Nuclear can also follow loads, but there's no economical need to build them to do that (in almost any market).
Because coding interviews are only a proxy for what someone needs to do on the job. Presumably, it will become a worse proxy if assisted by AI but other tasks they'll do on the job aren't.

For example, debugging a subtle bug in a large codebase. Maybe one day AI can do that too, but that doesn't seem to be the focus here.
The rate at which your house warms while the heat is on is an indirect measure of the effect of both the temperature of the outside of your walls and the amount of solar radiation coming through your windows.

As others have indirectly pointed out, for the range of circumstances a given house is going to encounter, the linearizing assumptions in a standard PID controller are probably sufficient. If tuned properly, the "differential" portion of the PID controller will shut down the heater earlier when it's warmer out and/or there's more solar energy coming through your windows.
He does, they banned ADSBExchange and others for just having an account.
the best highest form of psychopathy has become kind of apparent: those who convince themselves they and they alone stand between salvation of this planet & oblivion/ruin.

no matter what people say or think, you can wrap the warm blanket of self-delusion around yourself & be convinced your ultimate cause is all that matters. this is near-kin to the wonderful Disco Elysium character attribute, Inland Empire. no external sources are required, you have a diverse & flourishing internal world you can always turn to supply yourself.
I was reading it open-mindedly but the use of "jab" is pretty suspicious. Anyone found using this term can be pretty much dismissed outright, right?
Robin Thicke wasn't exactly a sympathy-inspiring celebrity, but the Blurred Lines case was another egregious example.

As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I also really wish we'd gotten the explosion of almost completely sample-based music we were starting to see with bands like the Beastie Boys, the KLF, and Pop Will Eat Itself. The Biz Markie sampling case basically shitcanned an entire nascent subgenre.
Embedded braces, no question!
So I employ quite a few artists, and I don't see the problem. This whole thing basically seems more like a filter on photoshop then something that will take a persons job.

If artists I employ want to incorporate this stuff into their workflow, that sounds great. They can get more done. There won't be less artists on payroll, just more and better art will be produced. I don't even think it is at the point of incorporating it into a workflow yet though, so this really seems like a nothing burger to me.

At least github copilot is useful. This stuff is really not useful in a professional context, and the idea that it is going to take artists jobs really doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, if there aren't any artists then who exactly do I have that is using these AI tools to make new designs? If you think the answer to that is just some intern, then you really don't know what you're talking about.
On recheck the 2020 page did contain the pics in question, for some reason they didn't load.

Still this isn't a case of they posted links to materials. Anyone that wants to find them needs to invest some effort to actually find them.
Idk what maladaptive from an evolutionary basis means, dude. We’re not beholden to survival of the fittest anymore. We got glasses, bro. We do shit like microdosing, keto, and cryo therapy.

If someone wants to take estrogen and call themselves Jessica, why should I give a shit any more than when some gym rat (therefore on artificial testosterone) wants me to call him Jake instead of Jacob?

I don’t think there’s any religion in this, just good ol fashioned icky feelings about things that aren’t really a problem, they’re just icky feeling.
What is with the sledging of Home Schooling.

Ok, in some cases it's because the parents are religious or over controlling nutcases, but in many cases home schooling is the final choice of parents whose kid is not able to learn in the traditional school environment for many reasons.

I'd suggest that in most of these cases the parents would far prefer that their child attend traditional schooling so they can get on with their lives, but the payoff of calmer home life and a kid who is actually getting an education.

Ok, case study of one, but in our experience we've gone from a family subject to daily arguments about getting to school and seeing absolutely no value achieved when actually getting the kid through the school gate, to a happy well adjusted (call it normal) kid who is achieving decent educational outcomes and having a rich social life.

home school does not always equal nutcase parents. Thanks you, rant off.
Show HN: Preparing to Move Away from Twitter
Also, they usually had a tiny magnet at the tip of the bimetallic strip to make their decisions path-dependent (more "sticky"/less flip-flopping).
Yup. In the summer people around here pay 300$ per month mostly just to water their lawn. And that’s at a mere half cent per gallon. It’s just that the typical lawn uses such a vast amount of water.
Fine. I imagine someone posting that they just published their first ever crate. Maybe it’s the first and only Rust binding to some useful library. But cool your horses, this poster says (by implication), because 80% of everything is crap. Of course no one says that out loud. But that is the inevitable conclusion.

Maybe the main point of four average Rust users publishing a crate each is so that burntsushi can publish one great one.
The goal of the business isn't to maximize employment. It's to maximize profits. Getting rid of employees doesn't mean the CEO did a bad job of maximizing profits.
Make music with AI using Riffusion, without a GPU
While I think it is certainly fair to talk about the policies of other countries, I don't think just because another country has a different policy necessarily dictates that policy is better or worse.

Additionally, I think it's very easy to see something like "Denmark doesn't recommend the vaccines to anybody under 50" and conflate that it means that Denmark doesn't think vaccines were ever beneficial to people under the age of 50 (which is the leap in logic you often see on anti-vax sites). But that isn't the case. What was good health policy in 2021 is different from good health policy now, because we have way more information about the virus, better and more effective drug to treat it, new variants, etc.

Two things can be true at the same time: The vaccines are
(on net) incredibly beneficial to people and the population as a whole, and yet at the present time there are certain specific populations of people whose optimal number of doses might be fewer than others.
Zuckerberg did much the same thing.
Why, then, is one artist even able to bring a case against another artist for composing a song with a similar riff as one they published? It seems it's not so simple. Perhaps I should have been more specific to say that copyright law as it exists in society today is rather broken so as not to disparage the original intent of copyright as a concept. But, I feel like we're just talking semantics, really. The point remains that the implementation is broken, copyright as we know it.
They are already banned.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747
So basically, a revival of Evernote?
Based on the original strain. Not that I would want to argue. There are several nations that do not recommend vaccination for younger people. They could be wrong of course, but to be so certain about science of a rapidly changing virus and wave away methodological difficulties, like measuring myocarditis without an autopsy, strikes me as scientifically naive, perhaps bordering on religiosity.
We use GraphQL a lot for static content. Most content on modern webs should be static, or at least deterministic. What I am saying is that GraphQL should not be used at runtime to do these dynamic magic queries, which is the key feature in Apollo.
Do we know for a fact that a sufficiently stateful and complex ML model won't experience subjective consciousness?
Facebook does tie posts to real people. It doesn’t work. People are just as toxic.
wild times
Is appsec dead/dying? Am I wasting time learning software exploitation? What's the point if everything soon will be rust and go written by ML?
The juice: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2022

Some interesting stuff in there, just from browsing the overview .XLSX file.
FWIW I can access the site, and I'm using Cloudflare WARP.
What was the problem you solved with Z-Wave?
Usage of an image generator to produce passable music fragments, even if they sound a bit distorted, is very surprising. That type of novelty is why we come here.
Multiple folks have asked here and in other forums but I'm going to reiterate, what data set of paired music-captions was this trained on? It seems strange to put up a splashy demo and repo with model checkpoints but not explain where the model came from... is there something fishy going on?
https://web.archive.org/web/20211017192956/https://groups.go...
Their HN may have been ignored, but both of the last two companies I've worked with have both used Apollo.
Warren, Marshall introduce cryptocurrency AML bill
There’s plenty of actual people that can cook much better than you can right now
There are lots of things involved in the regen ag sector they should be looking at.
Far from evil, it's amazingly useful, and is why things like `let x: Vec<_> = foo.collect();` work (the return type of the `collect` method is generic). Rust stops type inference at function boundaries, so the precise type of something is never far away if you need it.
Ask HN: AI Tool to Depixelate an Image?
I'm trying to find a tool for depixelating an image that I found online [0]. I know there have been several AI related tools in the past few years that claim to do this well. Does anyone know the best tool or the job? It is an old advertisement with some pixelated text towards the bottom. I can also chop off the smallest text, but even then a lot of the larger text is too pixelated to blow up big.

[0] First image: https://www.rewindandcapture.com/why-is-toblerone-called-toblerone/
I see a lot of AI naysayers neglecting the comparative advantage part.

If AI completely eliminates low skill art labour from the job pool, it's not like those affected by it are gonna disintegrate, riot, and restructure society. They have the choice of filling an art niche an AI can't or they can spend that time learning other, more in-demand skills. This also ignores that fact that some companies would rather reallocate you to more profitable projects even if your art skills don't change.

Selling a product with relative value like a painting or a sculpture will always be an uphill battle. Now that there's more competition from AI, it just gives artists/businesses incentive to find what people want that an AI can't deliver. Worst case scenario, employment rates in this sector are rough while the market recalibrates. Interested to see how these technologies develop.
Nintendo has required you to compromise your network security for online play since the DS and Wii. They often required you to set up "DMZ" and port forwarding and still wouldn't work, and the original DS could only do WEP wifi security.
It kind of floored me when I first heard it. Tripling the cost of jet fuel would be bad, but not that bad. And that number is likely to fall.
We have one! This is it. Put your name and a public key in your profile. It’s great here. Stay awhile.
I understand where you're coming from and I'm very much aware of how unhelpful my perspective is. After much work I can mostly convince myself ahead of time but then it all turns sour once the call starts, and I can feel my body vibrating. It's visceral.

I've certainly improved over the years, but as I apply to more senior positions my issues are way more prominent/holding me back.
Looks like we have to wait until 2023 now to get the good stuff, or most likely they will just push the date again.
Still waiting for a solution like what you have done with YouTube videos but for podcasts on the literal run. Easy way to tag a moment in a podcast from an Apple Watch for later review as a transcript I can cite. Best of luck building Readwise Reader, and I loved your post at https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01gewk3j3kt56v6w87qd1qqez1... and have been sharing it with lots of people I know.
> multiplied by the risk of getting covid

Wouldn't you actually multiply by (the risk of getting covid without the vaccine, minus the risk of getting covid with the vaccine)?
Instead of having a oversimplified up/down voting of content, there should be multiple dimensions on which to rank/rate things. Anytime you force things into a hierarchy, you lose generality. Recently I've wished that many of my social media networks offered simple non-verbal ways to express factuality, humor, relevance, snark, sarcasm, interesting, worth-watching, but-what-about, etc. in a way that could be collectively used.

Corrections should link to previous versions of a post. The posts themselves could be stored in a content addressable storage model as used in GIT.
Did you intend to post your API key with this?
Related:

The Wendy Carlos Total Eclipse Page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096161 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

Wendy Carlos on Bob Moog (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26553486 - March 2021 (57 comments)

Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25061260 - Nov 2020 (2 comments)

Where is Wendy Carlos? (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394457 - June 2020 (2 comments)

Wendy Carlos – Electronic Music Pioneer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18662642 - Dec 2018 (1 comment)

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"Look! @tweetsauce imitated my #Mandelmap poster! I am more flattered than annoyed but seriously folks - accept no substitute for the real thing and get your poster at http://mandelmap.com"

On top of which, the Vsauce version has a typo in giant letters: "Main Cardiod"
For the history buffs: am enjoying Beverly Gage's J Edgar Hoover biography "G-Men". '71 burglary by Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI deserves its own movie treatment surely ;)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/books/review/g-man-j-edga...
Yes I think you're right. The technology was tamed and brought to
heel. It starts out looking "disruptive". What will that look like
when Big Media figure out how to take legal control of generative AI
and become effective arbiters of all that can be cheaply, mechanically
created?
You're right regarding convenience of course.

I see Kodak still sells Super 8 film at about $40 for 50 ft. A vintage Super 8 camera can be had on eBay for a good deal (I picked up a Canon 310XL a few years back — the same model I had as a teen — looks like those though are about $300 in good condition).
"copyright infringement is not theft" is not an especially common view among artists or musicians, since copyright infringement threatens their livelihood. I don't think there's anything inconsistent about this. Yes, techies tend to hold the opposite view.

Personally, I think "copyright infringement is not theft" but I also think that using artists' work without their permission for profit is never OK, and that's what's happening here.
AI art will become most valuable posthumously.
> Also: don't use Mailchimp.

Noted.

Alternatives that you rate?
> The idea is to escape that and make exploiting people not an option.

I am in, but just wanted to let you know many had this idea before. People thought in the past we would barely work these days anymore. What they got wrong is that productivity gains didn't reach the common man. It was partly lost through mass consumption, fueled by advertising, and wealth concentration. Instead, people at the bottom of the pyramid have to work harder.

> I like my ideal world a lot better.

Me too, without being consumption oriented though. Nonetheless, people that take a blind eye to the weaknesses of humankind often runs into unpleasant surprises.
It requires work, lots of work.
These are horrible musics, but of course there is nothing to feel shame about it.
>This is what I fear about AI making our jobs superfluous

It's more likely that non-technical people will be pushed out of jobs near software in favor of (former) engineers. Someone non-technical writing prompts for code can't actually read/debug/fix/deploy/integrate the result. Someone who is technical can probably write better AI prompts that yield something usable than someone who is non-technical. Plus they'll know how to handle the result.

The predictions about non-technical roles firing all of the engineers and thinking AI will write all of the code don't really hold water for me. We might see an overall workforce reduction, but engineers will probably be the last ones to leave.
I don't understand why this is relevant to the ongoing discussion. What are the implications of this statement, what is your point?