skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things similar to the “interpolation” part (not the generative part) are already used extensively especially for game and movie sound design. Kyma [1] is the absolute leader (it requires expensive hardware though). IMO later iterations on this approach may lead to similar or better results.

FYI, other apps that use more classic but still complex Spectral/Granular algos :

https://www.thecargocult.nz/products/envy

https://transformizer.com/products/

https://www.zynaptiq.com/morph/

[1] https://kyma.symbolicsound.com/
Most of the time, I use dmenu_run (bound to super-R) for launching usual applications, and the menu for seldom-used ones.
I’m curious about the limitations of using spectrograms and transient-heavy sounds like drums.

It seems like you’d need very high resolution spectrograms to get a consistently snappy drum sound.
How on earth is this a tax avoidance scheme? Complete nonsense. Sure, he doesn't pay tax on that money, he also loses that money. This is not a net gain for Musk personally. He can't directly send money from the charity to himself, to him personally the money is more or less gone. This is less greedy then simply paying tax on the money and spending it.
Ah of course, “the game”. Which part of the game do you play and succeed at? Do you also get to make the rules? If not, don’t simp for billionaires.
Why Java? There are tons of Fortune 500 running .NET and IIS powered websites out there.

I know for sure some european airlines are running their ticket systems in such stacks.

If you know how to debug ASP.NET applications you will eventually discover them.
You are mistaken, it is very possible and legal to extract money from a 501(c)(3).

“If the organization engages in an excess benefit transaction with a person having substantial influence over the organization, an excise tax may be imposed on the person and any organization managers agreeing to the transaction.” https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

One example would be putting staff members up at a hotel you own.
If you were to do any of those things it would make the most sense to do them through your own charitable foundation... I'm not saying that's what he's going to do with the money, just that reading this story and then responding how you did makes no sense. Half the people in this thread seem to have absolutely zero understanding of what's going on here.
Why would you need to manage the circles? Individuals are entitled to the content their circle deems acceptable (when legal). If the content being shared is incongruent with group beliefs, they can kick the user from their circle.

In my mind, it's a self-managing paradigm. Sure, it would be possible to mass message but only to those who are willful receivers. However, the inability to circulate mass messages with ease would fundamentally stifle virality.

It's my belief that reach is bad.
I found some things wrong. Occasionally these were minor things that the authors corrected. Sometimes they were major problems, and I recommended that the paper be rejected because they were unfixable. In that case I'd usually see the same paper get published in a different journal later on.
> On the other hand, is there a service that charges per read?

There are services like this, https://launch.blendle.com/ for example. I have an account from a long time ago and it seems to still be working, but it hasn't really changed in 5 years and it looks like they never got out of beta, so I'm not sure if there's any ongoing effort there.
Watching his video, I would not agree that it heralds the dawn of a new world.
It is not likely that this particular method of fusing atoms will lead to usable fusion energy. Like he talks about in the video there are several key problems:

1.) This relies on using Tritium, which is one of the most expensive and rare materials on the planet.

2.) The measured energy output relative to the input given was a technicality, the real efficiency of the system was < 1%, they would need to improve the efficiency of lasers to bridge that gap somehow.

3.) This method of fusion has not been reproducible at any other labs in the world.

Not saying it isn't possible, I'm actually an optimist when it comes to things like this. However, looking at the physics, I think it's safe to say that it doesn't seem likely that this will be the type of fusion that becomes the reactor of the future. His conclusion, with which I agree, is that fusion is still at least 10 years away.
Snowflake Is the New Salesforce
Nobody asked but we've all noted, you have trouble with reading comprehension. I read the parent comment easily and found the commas helpful.
He is an obscene abomination.
I think it's helpful to emphasize that "Visibility Filtering" and "Shadow Banning" since they are functionally the same thing, but seem to have very different connotations depending on whether the speaker considers the action to be merited. As many on this forum know, one of the oldest and best ways to limit spam or other unwanted user behavior is to hide the content without informing the user, in order to slow down the arms race between bad actors and moderators.
I suggest getting comfortable with pry and pry_rails, and use them to get to the code behind the magic. For example try `ls <object>`, `cd <object>`, `show-source <object>`. These tend to be obscure features, but add a whole lot of visibility to Ruby code.
There were actually Twitter accounts that monitored the jets of both of those too.
No, but it is very likely that it reduces to demand for coders and artists.

Sure, there will always be demand for a Linus Torvalds or a Damien Hirst. But will there be demand for Coder #365968 at Infosys or a graphic designer pumping out $50 ad banners?

We’re looking at the possibility of some white collar jobs having the same income disparity as creative jobs. Just as there are some musicians who make hundreds of millions while the vast majority barely make ends meet, we may have a future where the star programmers make millions while the average players are automated out of the competition.
I'm not sure if that's not verging on being too political here, but I was quite surprised to see how many otherwise democratic countries still have blasphemy laws.

Especially the map on this article is interesting – insulting religion can lead you to prison in Germany, Poland and Slovakia.
No. But it isn't nearly cool enough even with fans on max, so I'd rather have a cooler but more noisy one tbh.
https://archive.ph/CjNPO
Processing power is probably the main factor here, but I feel like another significant factor is that there is more information available to more people with a greater number of ideas all able to work together/share these ideas with greater speed. As more eyes landed on the topic, it started becoming less of a scifi/cyberpunk hypothetical and more something that legitimate educational orgs developed masters' degrees for.

It's snowballing.
I thought of it as well, with the same result: this one looks like it could actually work for a change...?
SHA-1 is still perfectly fine for some applications like detecting duplicate files on a storage medium (and it's less likely to produce a false positive than MD5) but it's been a bad idea for anything security related for a decade.

The biggest issue is that git still uses it, which presents a problem if you want to protect a repo from active integrity attacks.
> i have a document with everything that i hate about it

I can save you the effort by reminding everyone that the GTK3 file picker is a significant setback from the Windows 98 filepicker, and it the amount of times I encounter it on Linux is beginning to feel like flagellation.
Fine. I just don't call that "internet service". That's some kind of walled-garden internet-lite, conceptually the same as the old AOL.
I think battlefield 4 (pc) has the best of both worlds: official servers and community hosted ones. It had its drawbacks, however: community servers often spoofed player count and you would end up joining almost empty lobbies when you thought it was a full server.

Also, when the playerbase was declining, it felt harder to find servers that you enjoyed to play on.

Overall I felt it was a great experience. I hope more games take this approach in the future.
Yes. Exactly. If you want to live in a manicured cul-de-sac that's your business. If you live somewhere that isn't already a manicured cul-de-sac then you shouldn't be trying to make it into one.
> Exanple one - charity can make political donations

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate....

> Incorporated charitable organizations—like other corporations—are prohibited from making contributions in connection with federal elections. Unlike most other corporations, charities face additional restrictions on political activity under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

> Example three - it can buy voting shares in companies you want to contro

https://www.infinitegiving.com/blog/nonprofit-investing

> to avoid violating U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations, your investments should not benefit your nonprofit’s employees or board members.
Psyops
I don't disagree with this, I disagree with the way you formulated it initially. There's a difference between sharing recovery codes with 2-3 trusted people vs. posting them literally everywhere which your original post seemed to imply.
Yes, nothing actionable about government and a private corporation colluding to influence an election, silence dissenters, and suppress information that is harmful to their campaign. Nothing can be done. Everyone gets off scott-free. Then again, this is politico we're talking about. Its practically state media.
> Our government has decided

Who exactly is this perfectly unbiased, disconnected, non-influencable group of people you call “our government”?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren uses FTX collapse to introduce cryptocurrency surveillance
I will try it but at least for the name it deserves praise.
Credits aren't pure profit. You have to build and deliver a car to get them, so the 1% number of the parent comment is much more relevant than your 8% number.
LLMs as Simulators
Uh, yeah they are. If I start a 60 hour (estimated) story the week before the sprint ends, I'm going to have some very pointed questions how thoroughly we want to test this new feature, and perhaps argue that it should be pushed into next sprint. Knowing how to formulate such issues to my management is a very typical part of my job.

If you work at a place where devs are just code monkeys who implement the orders from on high with no feedback whatsoever or avenue for pushback... get a better job.
> With all the 'power and influence', the 'elites' of Eastern Bloc did not live so much more in luxury compared to their own people. If an ordinary person got his house at the age of ~35, a party official got it a few years earlier. If an ordinary person drived an X years old car, the official drove a 4-5 year newer car.

You’ve contradicted yourself in the same comment.

Besides what you wrote doesn’t fully reflect reality

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0390670050003867...

Power is much more centralized in socialist systems. Consequently, corruption spreads much faster compared to more decentralized systems like capitalism. The end results is everyone is equally poor except for high level government officials.
My suggestion is to read and re-read the Ruby guides and documentation. Trying to just "figure out" what Rails is doing and why is a frustrating experience. Taking the time to understand the higher level concepts and methodology is critical.
Warehouses are the new system of records!
I think by now we have plenty of experience with what happens when you don't build enough housing for a rising population.

Typically, from my understanding, cities collect way more taxes than are needed to maintain the infrastructure in urban areas, and way less than is needed to maintain the infrastructure in the suburbs. And nobody wants to pay more taxes.
Mapping the world's food production footprint on climate and environment
From the guy who tried to play off getting booed off stage at Chappelle’s (notoriously woke) show as a fight in the crowd?

No way

/s
To be fair, unless you're doing something absurd the length of variable names shouldn't significantly affect the number of lines. Also comments with typos aren't really a problem. I don't like hard-to-read code either, but the more years I work the more I think that the shortest (within reason) code is the best code.

That is to say, golfing is bad unless for fun, shorter code is usually better, the shitty hard to read code is probably a reflection of human laziness rather than misguided tersity.
Learn the ruby metaprogramming model inside and out, start reading the rails source starting with activesupport
Yes from https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5. Our checkpoint works with automatic1111, and if you'd like to make an extension to decode to audio, it should be pretty straightforward: https://github.com/hmartiro/riffusion-inference/blob/main/ri...
>of Clementine, the BIG claw that picked up the Russian Golf Class sub

while this is partially true, you're leaving out the part where Clementine ultimately broke the sub, dropped the sub, leaving the US with no sub.

Not trying to cast aspersions on your dad or your memories, but the way you worded it makes it sound like it was successful if you didn't already know the full story. It's crazy to me how close to being successful this operation was, but the one aspect that people were suggesting was the biggest point of failure is exactly where it failed. of course, we have the luxury of hindsight.
" There has to be some higher shared purpose, the more specific the better."

I have no idea if this is true but it's an interesting point that sounds right. I suppose the answer might come down to the individual purpose of group interaction.

I'll definitely give this some thought. Thanks for the input.
Oh McMaster... how I love thee. They pioneered same day delivery in 2001.

I worked at Idealab in Pasadena California. We ordered SO much from them that they would deliver to us (and others in the area) directly and daily. If you had your order in by 10am (11 if you were SUPER lucky and there were a lot of orders to process) the truck would show up at ~2ish. This was 2001... WAY before Amazon Prime 2 day deliver, let alone same day. It was EPIC to design something and have the parts show up hours later.

The other beauty of McMaster is the breadth of their inventory. You could order a safety vest, a billet of Al, a 4x8 sheet of plywood and some screws... all from the same place! One of the software engineers cooked up a web scraper tied to a randomization engine. It would randomly order $100 worth of things on our account each day. He was stopped before it was turned on... but it would have been really fun to see what random stuff showed up on a daily basis. We spent a few lunches laughing about the potential boxes that would have shown up.
"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."

That is what I keep hearing from my academic acquaintances as well - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. And this is what happened with publish or perish.

Let's not forget that Katalin Karikó, a giant in the mRNA field, was demoted by UPenn in 1997 because they considered her work unproductive. But mRNA was precisely the topic that required a multi-decade commitment.

Fortunately she was stubborn like hell. God know how many other people give up after being degraded like that.
OK, this isn't a fair assessment, but does match appearances. Some details are important -- I'm adjacent to major donor fundraising and see this kind of thing happen all the time.

He donated to his foundation, which in turn re-donates and reinvests the money based on merit and priorities set by Musk to other charities. Of course, Elon being Elon, he probably has a huge hand in where it ultimately ends up, but this money is now out of his hands and into a "clearing house" where it can be bid / won by any charitable / non-profit that cares to submit.

This is extremely common with donors of huge wealth -- they pseudo-delegate the decision of what program to fund to a board of intelligent people sitting on their foundation, each member of which cultivates relationships with major programs for the wealthy person so that the money can be ultimately effectively invested without taking all the wealthy person's time.

See Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, or Warren Buffet foundation, etc.
What I personally don't understand is why everyone is still trying to draw moral conclusions about how this man's words align with his actions. It's a complete waste of time.
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SpaceX presumably has more than a single Crew Dragon sitting around, wonder how quickly they could deliver those to ISS.
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You'll see a lot of giant yachts that are in "research" foundations. They get tax breaks for supporting "research" and have a few jaunts with scientist in popular vacation areas.
>so even C programmers better get used to it

Or else? It's not like they're not trying their best - or don't spend the level of effort that they and their companies are willing to take...
You're calling somebody naive but your statement is nothing but lies.

> Exanple one - charity can make political donations

Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violating this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise taxes.

> Example two - can hire lobbyists

In general, no organization may qualify for section 501(c)(3) status if a substantial part of its activities is attempting to influence legislation (commonly known as lobbying). A 501(c)(3) organization may engage in some lobbying, but too much lobbying activity risks loss of tax-exempt status.

> Example three - it can buy voting shares in companies you want to control

Which will lead to your tax-exempt status being revoked if it looks like you're doing business.

> Example four - it can hire your family members or friends and pay them salaries.

Which you can already do with your existing companies.
I don't think it's clear how this contradicts the comment you're replying to.
I do a similar thing. Here's the style-guide I learned from: https://phalt.github.io/django-api-domains/styleguide/

Basically, you have an api class for each Django app, and you use this class for all external interactions. The api class calls the service class, and the service class deals with the Django ORM. I added a view class, which is my DjangoRestFramework layer; so when a request comes in, it's caught by my view class, and passed onto the api class. I have DRF serializers for outgoing data, and pydantic schemas for incoming data. I also have a selector class for read-only views of my data.

It's a lot of typing, but I know exactly where everything is when something goes wrong, or I need to add a small adjustment somewhere, also it's easy for new devs to learn and use. One downside is that an api change require you to touch a dozen files.
Upvote for Wingspan precisely for the reason stated. A competitive game, but without conflict. It has become the family favorite and there are so many different strategies to experiment with.
It’s about time haha. Once they found real world conflicts it needed to be phased out for anything security related. At least it isn’t very hard to move from SHA-1 to SHA-256.
Yes and no. It is technically a separate installation, but is installed automatically.
Rails 7 isn't strong tied to any frontend. You can add --skip-javascript to the generate command and it will omit that. You can also add --skip-asset-pipeline to remove the default asset bundler as well.

:)
Exactly, unless they propose a radically new technology, subsonic will always be much much cheaper and efficient.
Matt Levine is on point as usual:

> Imagine being the lawyer hired to help steal one month’s salary from a laid-off kitchen staff member to give to the second-richest person in the world
So this might be naive, but... what interest would someone have in taking down HN?

Like, people with skills to run an attack are also more likely to actually enjoy participating here. It'd be like someone trying to take down Stack Overflow. Even if you can do that – especially if you're the kind of person who could do that – you'd probably be shooting yourself in the foot, right?
I hate how you can't command click on a link to open a page in a new tab. I do this all the time when comparing products on other sites since it makes it easy to switch back and forth between two similar products. This workflow is completely broken on McMaster's site.
Lessons not worth learning
Everyone has issues, and does bad things from time to time. But I respect that he's been able to build the companies he has while enduring almost constant hate from the beginning. He had some supporters but CNBC and the like were constantly talking about how Tesla would go bankrupt and how it was a total waste of money.

And I think Elon does some really dumb things but in general I want him to succeed on what he is doing.
I struggle with this also, I assume the answer is to not have them in the same package. You can also break the application into separate 'domain', 'infra', 'application' modules as documented in [0] with rules on what dependencies are allowed in each module (e.g. domain should not have db or serialization implementation). The problem is that this does create several adapter layers which adds to the mental complexity.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/micros...
What would a function like that look like?
> - Bureaucratization

Bureaucratization is the consequence of wanting to control that taxes are "properly" used.

> - Feminization of academia and science.

That's abolutely moronic viewpoint if you ever worked in science

> - Denial of Great Man Theory

All scientific works, even by genius, lie on the works of others, predecessors or colleagues.

> And yet you see nearly all major advances come from tech bros like Elon Musk et al who are trailblazers, ignore complaints of the bureacracy

lol what scientific progress Elon Musk did except giving material for the sociology of internet trolls ?

> - Could the university system have produced facebook, spacex, tesla, microsoft, apple?

You're so close to understand that university and industry are not the same and have not the same goals
This to me is where Perl ends up super short.

Basically try using it outside of the anglosphere in the world of Unicode and support falls apart. Sure is excellent if you need to do something like extract a bunch of 1980s database files encoded in LATIN-1 though!
If it's been forever, SRAM might be worth reconsidering. Shimano and Campagnolo are both hundred-year-old companies, SRAM is much newer. SRAM is twice as big now as it was 10 years ago, they've improved by leaps and bounds compared to what you likely remember.
Noria: Dynamic, partially-stateful Rust dataflow for high-performance web apps