skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is displeased with the sort of discussions present on networks built on a couple different technologies. Unclear how the third technology magically makes them “happy.”
Aren't these public domain images? E.g. Getty has no ability to copyright "slavish" photos of public domain paintings so it's more of laziness on Square's part not tracking down non watermarked versions.
I'm looking for examples where the far right redefines/rephrases/characterizes/pretends violence is speech. That's all I asked for.
An adventure with optimization, Rust and Z3
/r/accounting has a thread about this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Accounting/comments/zlunm5/tax_ques...

It is nothingburger... unless the charity is shady.
The shell command included in the linked tweet is:

defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode XcodeCloudUpsellPromptEnabled -bool false
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned information density yet. I find the modern practice of adding so much spacing and making the font size gigantic extremely annoying. Sometimes you need detail- and it’s harder to put together a well designed information dense way of displaying that detail. Instead it seems everyone decides to just ignore that detail and make you click everywhere and scroll all day to find what you need.
> I am questioning the premise of the hypothetical as unrealistic.

You… think it’s unrealistic that two people with no other distinguishing characteristics than letters A & B might make threats and incite others on a social media platform with no limits to their doing so, against another person with no distinguishing characteristic other than the letter C? How can that possibly be good faith?

> Now if you want to solely debate your hypothetical, then how about you simply don't reply to my branch of inquiry?

I’m not even trying to debate anything, I noticed that you moved the goalposts and pointed it out in hopes you’d appreciate the clarification, not that you’d triple down and insist that even a very simple proposition of two people abusing an unmoderated platform should be turned around to scrutinize their targeted victim without any shred of reason to think their target had anything to scrutinize other than your apparent determination to find it.

Don’t you realize that you’re demonstrating exactly the kind of bias I earned about?
Wrote my full comment at the top level.

I'm a FAANG interviewer and I've run my coding questions through ChatGPT.

The TL;DR is that code would easily pass a junior-level interview, and maybe a mid-level one. I'm definitely convinced these technologies will disrupt leetcode-style coding interviews.

So either we embrace it, or ditch this approach altogether.
> No, but it is very likely that it reduces to demand for coders and artists

Eventually, I agree yes. But there could be a boom of huge new investments into A.I products, more devs needed and in fact teams getting way more requirements since they are more productive. Imagine the stuff we will be able to build in things like search, personal assistants, biomed, in fact what industry won't this affect? Its unbelievable to me that people are now saying Google search might become obsolete, that's absolutely crazy. Not many people saw that one coming.
But at least initially I don't think GPT models will be able to do everything themselves.
So its very hard to determine that say in the coming 5 years devs will find it more difficult to get a job.
10-20 years from now sure, I don't see how anyone gets a cognitive job anymore let alone devs.
In fact our entire school/university system is probably obsolete, kids are probably learning skills they won't be able to apply in any job market. We need to start think about stuff like teaching kids emotional intelligence, spirituality and meditation...not cramming for a math test.
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Why not post the blog post from the AlphoCode authors

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...

which walks through an example
Welp, back to school for EE I go.
Dumping Game Boy Cartridges via the Link Cable Port
I think there has to be a better way to make long songs...

For example, you could take half the previous spectrogram, shift it to the left, and then use the inpainting algorithm to make the next bit... Do that repeatedly, while smoothly adjusting the prompt, and I think you'd get pretty good results.

And you could improve on this even more by having a non-linear time scale in the spectrograms. Have 75% of the image be linear, but the remaining 25% represent an exponentially downsampled version of history. That way, the model has access to what was happening seconds, minutes, and hours ago (although less detail for longer time periods ago).
Yeah it's basically impossible to max out 401k contributions unless you're rich or at least nibbling at the bottom edge of rich. For one thing, you probably need to own the company that pays you in order to make it happen. Like, sure, I expect some very successful general contractors and such manage to do that, it's not just the stereotypical richie-rich sorts who can, but even a fairly high-paid W2 worker drone cannot, even if they have the money to, because of how the rules work. The bare minimum level of success to play that game is to have a business income—not W2 income from a company someone else owns—that's, oh, IDK, let's say about 3x household median in the US, and you'll likely need more than that unless you're also quite frugal. Which means not many can do it.
> A society where laws tried to cover every edge case would be one that’s extremely difficult to navigate.

Agreed. At the same time though, I think worker protection is an area where US could benefit a lot from extra laws – obviously there's a point where too much would be suffocating, but it's not at that point yet.
Hopefully this will kill the algorithmic coding interviews and will focus them on actually understanding the job to be done.
I think your comment is off-topic to the post you are replyng to. That wasn't asking about the general aesthetic quality - more about a specific audio artifact.

> For every stunning example that gets passed around the internet, thousands of others sucked.

From personal experience this is simply untrue. I don't want to debate it because you seem to have strong feelings about the topic.
Honestly the rooster is the only thing there that would actually bother me, and in my city they aren't allowed.
It does have a rate limit, it's just very very high. I've hit it sometime when trying to download every single item since day 0. But it's very lenient, you have to run multiple threads downloading as fast as they can in order to hit it.

The API is not hosted by HN/Ycombinator themselves. If I recall correctly, it was initially hosted by Firebase which is/was a company seed-funded by Ycombinator. It (Firebase) is now a part of Google, so I guess you could say Google is hosting the HN API now.

With that, comes everything they are doing to prevent malicious ddos attacks.
Sound is a lot higher fidelity, it's harder to make the information available to a computer without serious downsampling or simplification.

Consider sounds over 12khz. On a spectrogram during a chorus or drop that area is lit up, with so many things changing from millisecond to millisecond. A lot of AI samples really struggle at high frequencies, or even forgo them entirely.

Midi based approaches have been really great though, and an approach like in the OP is fascinating (and impressive).
>Erdogan wasn’t aware of it in its infancy, and decided to allow it to go through

It's not impossible, but when you go through the details (e.g. how much everything, including Erdogan's early morning nationally broadcast FaceTime(!)[0], hinged on Türksat remaining operational) it's clear how huge of a gamble that would be on his part.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/7/16/erdogan-resorts-to-...
FTA: The following titles will have all online services disabled on January 24, after which players can continue playing single or local multiplayer modes offline:

- 1000 Tiny Claws

- Dance Central 1-3 (Note: Dance Central VR online multiplayer will remain available)

- Green Day: Rock Band

- Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess

- Rock Band 1-3 (Note: Rock Band 4 online multiplayer will remain available)

- The Beatles: Rock Band

- Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars

- Unreal Gold

- Unreal II: The Awakening

- Unreal Tournament 2003

- Unreal Tournament 2004

- Unreal Tournament 3 (Note: We have plans to bring back online features via Epic Online Services in the future.)

- Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Perfect defense against a crypto timing attack on modern CPUs while targetting a generic ISA is so hard that I would simply never trust anything that doesn't run on its own dedicated hardware unit if millions $ depended on it. Fortunately I'm not that rich.
Cant wait to see this in karaoke, you just sing lyrics and it jams along with music.
Open Robotics (ROS) team is joining Intrinsic (Alphabet co)
Is there any particular reason? Seems pretty naive to make any assumptions about the properties based on its elemental composition. Lithium is incredibly reactive and toxic in its pure form but you surely carry that around. Do you ever consume table salt, a compound of reactive sodium and toxic chlorine?
> completely independent charities and charitable causes he and his brother pick

The money can go to any 501c3 they pick. So if there's a 501c3 that's pushing for regulation that will benefit Tesla or SpaceX or some "raising awareness" campaign that's a glorified marketing campaign or some org that influences research, etc... those are all easy pickings
Interesting. I experimented a bit with the approach of using diffusion on whole audio files, but I ultimately discarded it in favor of generating various elements of music separately. I'm happy with the results of my project of composing melodies (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFPG0-RIAR8...) and I still think this is the way to go and but that was before Stable Diffusion came out. These are interesting results though, maybe it can lead to something more.
You can ask Uline to have a note added to all your orders not to pack a catalogue.
Sounds like a last resort for popularity. The market for IoT RF standards is consolidating and Z-Wave doesn't seem to be among the winners.
Probably don't want that hideous mandated banner.
This is similar to what happens to adults after completing standardized education - memorized knowledge is often discarded or greatly reduced but much of their reasoning capabilities remain. A similar thing happens to children with their phenomenological sensitivity being reduced and their emotional model remaining. Emotions shape intuition when we lack resources for reasoning, while reasoning shapes intelligence when we lack knowledge resources.

This suggests that there is some underlying structure related to our EQ and IQ that we learn through our bodies and the knowledge we gather from the world. The relationship between memory distillation, emotions, and reasoning could lead to some insights as to what this structure is. I would speculate that the refined structure is universal for all conscious beings, and that it can be formulated as a theory involving geometric invariance, similar to the standard model.

The LLM as simulators description is apt [0]. ChatGPT can be understood as an interface for navigating a knowledge space that offloads most reasoning to its users, much like a search engine. Generative models like GPT create a latent space but their ability to navigate it relies on flowing along the natural latent topology, meaning it uses probabilistic reasoning and needs carefully constructed prompts to find good starting points that don't descend into local extrema. Alternatively, the latent space could be given guard rails through RLHF or have base knowledge distilled and curated to smooth out the resulting topology.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators
You’re getting downvoted, and I can see why, professionals would’ve been a better noun.

That said, I don’t think you’re wrong:

> Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

- Chuck Close
I have a gripe about McMaster.

If I'm looking to buy some 316 stainless bolts, I'd like to see links to the applicable nuts for that size/material/threads/etc. For certain sizes, the nut selection can be limited and might not meet my needs. Then, I have to start over with 304 or something else. In my most recent case, I had to order some of the components from a different store.
It is great, but one annoyance is it's pretty easy to buy a small threaded coupler with one side blank instead of threaded like the other side--uncommonly needed parts like this will show up in my searches higher than the more common variant, and it takes careful reading of the specs to differentiate.

I like how rockauto puts heart symbols next to the commonly purchased parts.
That's how I view this too. Increasing the 'demand' for OSM's data will be a net good since it guarantees a future where companies are using it and reliant on it. Not burdening them with all of this extra info that they don't want and can't reasonably steward makes a lot of sense. It's hard to see how this is anything but a big plus for the OSM community.
Not fully taxed, you have the next level of legal tax avoidance in the gap between company and person.

The key to getting low single digit % tax burdens is adding in steps that allow you to add lots of % reductions and obfuscations because more overt methods tend to not be sustainable and in some jurisdictions (as in the UK) csn lead to the method being retrospectively classed as tax evasion and you end up paying the outstanding balance with interest.
What is it that doesn’t work?

I started at the home page and could middle click on both images and blue text, down to individual items. (Using Chrome from Linux.)
That's the ONE! My all tme favorite!
Home/End on macOS have also been C-a/C-e for a very long time thanks to pervasive emacs key bindings throughout most text fields (goes back to NeXT, IIRC)
What do you mean by "HP made none"? There were absolutely great HP PA-RISC workstations. I have a C8000 here which with dual PA-8900s was a beast by then-contemporary standards, but there were all kinds of HP PA desktops.

While HPaq didn't make Alpha workstations themselves, others did (there's a 164LX here, running Tru64).
Not sure exactly what the OP was getting at, but it might be a dig at Windows and the random junk it keeps popping up now and again (news updates and whatnot).
Wow, I am blown away. Some of these clips are really good! I love the Arabic Gospel one. John and George would have loved this so much. And the fact that you can make things that sound good by going through visual space feels to me like the discovery of a Deep Truth, one that goes beyond even the Fourier transform because it somehow connects the aesthetics of the two domains.
Not really. Was a bit surprised by:

"With ChatGPT replacing Google search, traditional SEO is dead: how can businesses ensure their information appears in ChatGPT's single answer? The solution is in-context learning on LLMs."

Sometimes I use ChatGPT to get a different perspective/format. But in its current state, it would be unwise to use ChatGPT as a search engine.
It may happen, but it’s not legal, it’s called inurement and the IRS can hammer you or strip the organization of its tax exempt status if it finds out. This applies not only to ridiculous salaries but also use of the charity’s assets for private benefit.

https://www.501c3.org/dangers-of-nonprofit-inurement-and-pri...

For instance:
https://apnews.com/article/campaigns-donald-trump-us-news-ap...
double facepalm
Physics deals in explanation, observation, prediction.

With observation comes evidence supporting explanations... that's it.

I'm referring to perturbation as taking first-order approximation of a phenomena's best known explanation, similar to my assertion that regression yields explanation.
It’s honestly difficult to imagine a bigger waste of governmental resources and time than legislating that computer game developers must legally provide server software for their multi-player games.
My* experience: Motivation doesn't come. Waiting for motivation is allowing yourself to be controller by your feelings.

At one point you just decide to do it. Ignore the feeling that you lack motivation. Grind through even one laughably small bit. Then repeat that, every day. Nothing changes, you just do it.

Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't.

*) adhd, medicated_depression, passed_one_therapy
Wasn't this Fraunhofer's big insight that led to the development of MP3? Human perception actually is pretty forgiving of perturbations in the Fourier domain.
I read the headline and I thought something doesn't add up.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN). 896.78B

Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL). 1.18T

Walmart Inc. (WMT) 388.285B

Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) 498.83B

Apple Inc. (AAPL) 2.197T

Might be worth including Microsoft here

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 1.856T
I wrote this about three years ago, intrigued by optimization and solvers in general. The technology is interesting, but every time I try it out I end up with the impression that you need to deeply understand it in order to use it effectively. And since time is limited, I moved on... I'm looking forward to the discussion, though. I'd love to be proven wrong and hear this technology is more accessible than it seems at a first glance!
There's so much wacky nonsense in there that I almost don't believe it's real.

It's like ChatGPT has turn the tables and is trying to provoke us into saying something not nice...
Excellent essay, anyone familiar with 'technology tree' progression concept in Civilisation games series will immediately see the framework for the argument being made here. Particularly interesting was the competitive pressures of warfare, that medieval China had different enemies to fight - lightly armed, mobile horse archers - meant less pressure to better develop powerful anti-armour weapons such as guns, when a repeating crossbow would do just as well. Lots of food for thought
Nigerian military ran secret mass abortion programme in war against Boko Haram
This sounds like a different scam than tax avoidance. They aren’t avoiding taxes so much as outright scamming people into donating to a fake charity.
I do have some experience in building ML systems, and know enough to know that I don't everything. But I do know the value of real world data in a noisy environment like driving conditions.
Or use Keccak (which is the permutation that was chosen for SHA3), which lets you pick the length that you need.
It is possible to donate appreciated stocks. And the tax rate can be higher than 37%, if it's short-term gains in California since there's state tax as well.

To run the numbers on the 37%:

Charity: 5.7B deduction * 0.37 rate = 2.109B value of the tax deduction

Selling: 5.7B deduction * (1-0.37) = 3.5B value of the stock sale

In addition, the shares were at an inflated value - if he dumps 5.7B onto the market, it's going to drop the value of the remaining 100B of shares. Whereas by donating to the charity, you get the 5.7B deduction, and the fund you donated to does not even have to sell the stock. Even if the stock drops shortly after, such as in this case, he still gets to keep the large deduction. See https://dlj.law.duke.edu/article/insider-giving-avci-vol71-i..., illegal but unenforced.

Also, he can use the charity money anyway to pay for various things he feels like spending money on - other billionaires have used personal charities to settle lawsuits, employ their children / cousins, invest in businesses of friends, etc.
Francisrstokes / tega / src/ROM-dumper/
The amateur sleuths who helped bring down Sam Bankman-Fried
I can't ethically purchase anything from U Line any more. Does anyone know of an alternative supplier?

The U Line family has historically come out against things ranging from flouridation to Martin Luther King and currently supports election deniers / anti Semites. They are the number one donor to the Republican party:

https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-de...

Their working conditions are unbelievably sexist / restrictive (similar articles are available from journalists, if you don't trust glass door):

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Uline-RVW7...

E.g.:

> Uline is privately owned and therefore does not have any stockholders to answer to. The dress code is business professional, which means guys have to wear ties. That in and of itself is not unheard of, what is unheard of is that women have to wear knee length skirts and panty hoes during the winter months and only around Memorial day can they stop wearing panty hoes. Hey Uline this is 2015 not 1950! This dress code is a directive from Liz the owner. Yes, women can wear pant suits but of course they have to match. I'm trying to drive home that this place is run like a cult and it will destroy you if you stay there long enough.
Because tons of people want to make art, and a lot of art currently requires years of training to make anything close to "good". Making art more accessible to create is a boon to everyone who's dreamed of being able to make their own paintings and music, but doesn't have the skills required.
Read the PR description. The Rust-based library builds a lot faster than the C++ alternative by Google. The difference is on the order of less than a minute vs. half an hour.
This is what helps me the most. I like to break down any large/daunting tasks into a bunch of small milestones. It makes it much easier to know where to start. You also feel like you have completed something and you have a defined place where you can take a break or pick up later.

I also find the actual task of breaking something large down into small pieces gets me thinking about the actual task rather than the abstract "big task" and gets me more motivated. Think of it like brain storming.
Ahhhh, the days when you could get a certain weapon or loadout banned on the server for blowing away an admin one time too many. I kinda miss em.
1.5 billions hogs are killed a year to feed the human race according to the Google, a huge percentage of which I’m sure ends up as waste (uneaten and unsold). This seems like a noble pursuit by comparison.

Society at large is comfortable with the wholesale slaughter of animals for our benefit.
Money is just something you trade for something you need or want. For most of us, we exchange money for stuff (food, clothing, shelter, transportation, toys, etc).

At some point, if you earn enough, you exchange money for time. You no longer need a job, and can spend your days as you wish because the stuff that you need is covered.

And then beyond that, when you are free and have no risk, what do you spend money on? There comes a point where ultra wealthy people spend it on power, control, and influence. If the money is taxed, it is no longer available to you to spend. But, if there were a way to shift it to a place where you could direct it in ways that you want for causes, power, or influence, then it remains effectively in your control. He didn't lose the money. He may lost his ability to use it to buy himself stuff, but he doesn't want stuff at this point.
AI peer review might be a solution. This would hopefully tend to limit rejections to technical issues like a poor choice of statistical analysis, and eliminate ideological conflicts.

Where peer review gets a bit more shady and political is in the federal funding system, where the outcome is not a publication, but delivery of thousands to millions of dollars in federal funding. That's where politics really comes into play, although nobody in any field wants to talk much about it publicly.