skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How scientists wants cooperatives to be the future of how data is owned
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=135265

^ 2013 - things got worst —-
Intl is the ECMAScript Internationalization API (ECMA-402). Browsers are not the only JS implementations that include it. Node.js does, Deno does, probably others do too.
That's a pointless question, since I'll immediately argue that not preserving nature is a tradition that everyone should agree is harmful.
AI Planning for Starcraft
Yes. If felons commit felonies, irons commit...
the richest troll in the galaxy
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I don’t really know but I’d guess there’s a way to close down charitable foundations and take the money back. Though presumably with a tax bill.
Following your logic: if AI is like humans why don't we tax its work?
If you view Xfce as the hobby project for several undergrad and grad students, you will understand their priorities better.
I can drink coffee all day and still get nothing done.
I really hope not. I used it for a while, but the “wontfix” attitude (e.g. PEP440 related issues: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6013, or the issues with pytorch cpu packages) made me go back to regular pip and use “pip freeze” for locking package versions in place.
As someone who's willing to pay more taxes in order to make public transit in Boston free for everyone, I consider this a feature, not a bug. (FFS, make the buses free at least, 80% of bus rides connect to the T anyway, and getting rid of fares on buses makes their schedules more reliable since you no longer need to block on people rifling through their pockets and slowly feeding wrinkled dollars into the machine.)
Yes good point. I do admire that he has given some of it to charity. But the bulk of the money he claimed to pledge didn't go to charity - it went to a foundation he controls, purely for tax benefit.

Off topic but it's funny you called me a kid. I've been around long enough to see this game played for decades by the wealthy class.
One thing that no one's really mentioned yet: remove as many interesting things from your environment as possible. If your only choice is between boredom and doing what you're supposed to be doing, you're a lot more likely to be successful.
I'm an Army Veteran too. Afghanistan though as Bosnia was before my time. I'll shoot you an email, it would be nice to discuss technology with (presumably) another self-taught developer with similar life experiences.

I also think we're on the precipice of something previously unthinkable. I'm undecided whether that outcome is authoritarianism or the country's implosion.

On a less grim note, I do believe nuclear fusion has the potential to save us from ourselves. Indirectly, of course.
The question for me is whether "jpg > model" is derivative or transformative. It's not clear it would be derivative.
Does that tax bill include the amount of cost paid by federal/state subsidies or debt?
Hive Pocket is maybe the best "play it on an airplane tray table" game around.
And to more on this I highly recommend this research if anyone's interested: https://behaviordesign.stanford.edu/resources/fogg-behavior-...

The author has a book called Tiny Habits. It's short, but packs a bunch. Essentially: (B)ehavior = (M)otivation + (A)bility + (P)rompt.

Edit: Direct link to the paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19LYba4fuceGM3KhqxTXByV4msmb...
Nice, and congrats to the team that have worked on this!

I look forward to this rolling on through to debian in the coming weeks and months. HiDPI improvements are welcome, and the other tweaks and updates look good. Xfce has been my daily driver for over ten years now (I think...), and I hope that it's unopinionated, configurable attitude has a lot of life in it yet.
Is there something like this for react/jsx? I always wished I could constrain component dependencies across the atom > molecule > organism layers.
Can a Mac Pro be similarly configured?
You're right, counttheforks also edited their post upthread and I made a mistake in singling you out. My sincere apologies.
Blockchain would make it distinct, but would it provide unique value to users?

I certainly agree that we need some innovation in the space.
“Own your stuff” • Because the only constant is change, you shouldn’t depend on others to keep your content online.

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2022/11/own-your-stuff/
Thanks you nailed it
They seem pretty good at getting their taxes down to zero, while us mere mortals have to be happy with deductions.
In related news, Kraln to consider buying an iPhone for the first time. Kudos where it's due.
Couple thoughts that might help, might not:

* Try to recognize that you work in cycles and try to structure your life and your work according to those cycles. Try to really, viscerally understand that "not every day is gonna be a perfect day" means that some days will be amazing and some days will be terrible and that's part of living life.

* Try to recognize that arbitrary measures of productivity are a part of capitalism that we get taught to buy into at a very early age, at least in the US.

* Think about taking some online ADHD quizzes and if you score reasonably high, maybe think about bringing it up with your doctor. Doing that was a turning point for me personally, both because it's a very useful lens for framing my life and because, right now at this stage of my life, medication really does help me get through my days without the sudden realization at the end of the day that I just spun in circles for 12 hours.
Try breaking it up into small steps. I procrastinate about doing my tax return all year but I "tricked" myself into doing it earlier this year by telling myself "I'm not doing the tax return now, all I'm doing is finding my employment records."

Finding those records was easy, energized by that easy win I picked another easy task, "I'll get together my bank interest statements" and in a couple of hours I was done.

Maybe this could work for you.
> If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment.

If you want Windows 95 in 2022: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
I don’t know. Wayland support is very important (tm) to us Wayland-users, but I don’t know how the rest of the world feels about that.

It could be like that whole kerning-thing which is super-mega important to some people, while the rest of the world don’t even notice?
Like someone else said, you kinda just have to do it. Like just sit, and start. This was my attitude when I was teaching myself software development the past few years. I'd come home from work (I worked in a lab as a chemist) and just sit and work on whatever project I was doing at the time. While I enjoy coding a lot, it's far less enjoyable after work when you just want to relax. But that attitude got me to a really good dev job currently, so it paid off

Now though, it's hard to do the same thing when I spend all day looking at code, but I know once I get started again the momentum and enjoyment of my hobby turned career will drive me

Not sure if this was really helpful lol... but hopefully
Producing images of spectrograms is a genius idea. Great implementation!

A couple of ideas that come to mind:

- I wonder if you could separate the audio tracks of each instrument, generate separately, and then combine them. This could give more control over the generation. Alignment might be tough, though.

- If you could at least separate vocals and instrumentals, you could train a separate model for vocals (LLM for text, then text to speech, maybe). The current implementation doesn't seem to handle vocals as well as TTS models.
True that non-eurogames are pretty bad here; Vinci suffered from this problem so badly that its successor (Smallworld) made every player's points private.
These posts come up often here, seemingly more so since the pandemic. The most successful people I know all learned at some point in their lives to take large goals, dreams, work duties, etc, break them down into manageable sized tasks and go through each one. Some tasks will become second nature, others won’t. This is not rocket science. Just do it. There’s no secret, shortcut, magic pill. Eat right, get good sleep, exercise, laugh a lot.

There are 8 billion people on this planet, nobody else will look out for your well-being except you.
and Zuckerberg, and everyone else with a shitload of money
> This is a good thing, right? We all agree that Elon is taking a good action, right?

For Musk the father, if what he’s saying is true then that’s good for him.

For me the internet denizen, this is not good. Because if we are to take Musk’s premise that Twitter was run by the whims of partisans as true, it is now the case that Twitter is run by the whims of Musk. This is not what he promised when he bought Twitter.

It might turn out fine if Musk has learned a tough lesson about the balance of privacy and safety on social media. Maybe he learned that “free speech absolutism” is a fantasy and not a tenable philosophy. If this leads to fairer, more balanced, and well thought out content moderation policies, that would be great.

But if the end result here is that we get more capricious and arbitrary policies that form to the contours of only Musk’s personal experiences, then no, that’s not good for anyone.

It seems to me that the rule at Twitter now is that Musk will take swift action to curb billionaire problems like private jet tracking, but will do nothing to curb (and even encourages) other forms of harassment like homophobia and transphobia on the platform. This is why people are so mad.
If I have an Estonian company and I want to pay myself a salary, I lose around 55%. Pension is mandatory, public healthcare is mandatory, and they take huge chunks of the %. Now you might ask why don't I want to pay for the pension, or the public healthcare, well it's because the pension fund effectively loses money with its ~2% yearly interest rate, so it's like putting money in a fire, and the public healthcare is really bad in Estonia, especially for 30%. To put that into perspective, if you make, say, 5000 eur per month, then 1500 of that goes to public healthcare, every month. Private healthcare that offers much better service, and much more coverage, is around 150 eur per month. The difference is literally 10 fold in terms of cost, and the quality is mountains different.

Now however if I have a U.S company, or really any foreign company, I can then pay myself a salary without these mandatory payments to the government (except income tax, which is 20%) and I can use the 35% that I'm saving on getting myself a private healthcare and investing money with a much better return than 2%.

Re: dividends, they are not as flexible as management salary, which I can pay in any amount, at any time, and as many times as I want. Which is what I do now, with a foreign company.
In the case of MapleStory, in the past much of the game logic used to happen in the client side, that's why it was easier to reverse it (And create cheats for it).

In many other games that have private servers: If there was no codebase leak, basically guessing what you can't know. That's why many private servers doesn't work 1:1 when compared to the official servers, people just tried to make the calculations as close as possible after reversing it.
In any social media design you have to take well known power laws into account. You may consider HN currently to be a highly engaging site but you have to consider why that is: a huge amount of eye balls is watching a tiny set of content, a list of a few dozens links. Next, if as little as 1% joins in discussion, the result is threads with substance.

Great outcome, but you're probably ignoring that 99% didn't engage. And you'll be bitten by that dynamic when creating tiny circles or bubbles. Because 1% engagement within something small approaches...nothing.

Mastodon is a great way to see it in action on a small scale. I've been following an instance of some 2,000 members for a few weeks now. The power laws emerge perfectly.

A handful of people post daily. 90% of posts get zero engagement. No like, boost, reply...nothing at all. The posters are puzzled by it. Some have 500 followers yet have never received engagement from a single one of them.

Another interesting aspect is a word I only learned about this week: toxic positivity. A small unit of like-minded individuals has funny downsides. When coming from a war zone like Twitter, it feels rather boring. There's no drama and stirring the pot is frowned upon. So you'll end up reading about how somebody watered their favorite plant, leaving you wondering what the purpose of it all is.

"Not stirring the pot" on Mastodon can go quite far. I saw an instance demanding people put a content warning on photos of food, as it may trigger people with an eating disorder. Yesterday a post had a warning (EYE CONTACT). When clicking away the warning, indeed a photo of a person looking into the camera was revealed.

So you're already dealing with near-zero engagement in a tiny place, and then discourage a massive portion of common conversation. The result is perfect peace, because nobody posts anything.
I'd echo other comments suggesting examining closely what you really need to do (e.g. "how to be productive" is a very loaded question for me, modern society tends to way overemphasize the importance of "being productive" to the detriment of many.)

If you really are struggling doing things you absolutely have to do, my suggestion is using an exhaustive TODO list where each action item takes ~10 minutes, that can get you rolling relatively fast. Happened to write about it recently here[0] as I was experiencing something similar.

[0] https://andersource.dev/2022/11/25/the-exhaustive-todo-list....
Gates foundation actually does charitable work from what I can tell ?
I also don't hear anything, even when my prompt was selected...
Very good post! For an excellent introduction to the prime number theorem (and the Riemann Hypothesis), I recommend Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis, by Barry Mazur and William Stein. It is structured in small chapters, each illuminating one idea, and I find this fantastic.
I agree, but we should pay attention when we are asked for empathy. In this very thread we have an excellent demonstration of how easy it is for an appeal to feel empathy for people's position to change into an appeal to protect the same people's financial position.

I'll go so far as to say that in many cases, displaying empathy for the artists without also advocating for futile efforts to halt the progress of this technology will be regarded as a lack of empathy.
I agree.

It's hard to actually do it, and it's hard to be bored. Being bored is... well, boring. Your brain will have all sorts of impulses and drives to derive any kind of entertainment from anything.

But if you stick with it, it's one of the best strategies to make yourself do something.
This smacks of an argument over a PR.

subjective reasons are still reasons, and they can still be valid reasons.
> I think the site would also need a rock star moderator who diligently checks every comment and keeps the site clean.

My idea was to give people IP-like addresses like the early internet. And start off (until we find something better) with the ol’ Class A, B, and C networks of sizes roughly 16M, 64k, and 256 respectively.

The value I think is in having groups as small as 256 and each group has an admin/moderator. Why are we ‘automating’ people out of a job in the tech space when we could be ‘automating’ them into one.

Keep in mind, the existing IP networks stay. This is just a logical layer.

There are better ways to do it but I think this is an interesting start. There’s even a planned obsolescence built in as the world has more people than the 4 billion or so that a 32 bit address space gives.

Which to me is perfect. A chance to try some new things but a built in expiration date so nothing becomes too entrenched.
Minus the press release.
great stuff, while it comes with the usual smeary iFFT artifacts that AI-generated sound tends to have the results are surprisingly good.
i especially love the nonsense vocals it generates in the last example, which remind me of what singing along to foreign songs felt like in my childhood.
> But that's not what we're talking about in the case of mickey mouse imagery, is it? You're not asking for images of 'utterly original uncopyrighted untrademarked cartoon mouse with big ears' and then unknowingly publishing a mouse picture that the evil AI copied from Disney without your knowledge.

I think this is exactly the problem that many artists have with imagine generators. Yes, we could all easily identify if a generated artwork contained popular Disney characters - but that's because it's Disney, owners of some of the most well-known IP in the world. The same isn't true for small artists: There is a real risk that a model reproduces parts of a lesser known copyrighted work and the user doesn't realise it.

I think this is what artists are protesting: Their works have been used as training data and will now be parts of countless generated images, all with no permission and no compensation.
Long time ago I was working for UK company who was hiring for remote roles around Europe. This was pre-GDPR era and it worked well both for the company and for the contractors. We engaged on B2B basis.
When GDPR came in we adjusted operationally and continued, I left the company but as far as I know they are still afloat and still operate in the same way, so it's definitely doable.
GDP gets used a lot because it is a measure that can be computed more easily, reliably, and objectively than many other measures. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect, just more broadly useful than other options.
Oh, I know about that! :-) I wrote about that months ago, when it reached shipping status.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/openvms_92/

I was a VMS sysadmin in the early 1990s. This was very pleasing news.
It's not a pragmatic relationship, it's a long term oversight that literally strengthened dictatorships and long term hurt peace for everyone
Coffee and exercise. Even just running in place to a 5 minute song does wonders.
Thanks, that's a good point.
We thought that a small FastAPI project shows the general concept as well.
Do you have suggestions which other examples would be useful?
Google failing implies nothing about the tribal conceptualization of social networking.
impressive stuff. reminds me of when ppl started using image classifier networks on spectrograms in order to classify audio. i would not have thought to apply a similar concept for generative models, but it seems obvious in hindsight.
Billionaire's 501(c)(3)s aren't charities in the typical sense. They're tax-exempt piles of money that are controlled exclusively by billionaire and their families (in this case Musk and his brother). The Musk Foundation in particular has donated less than 1% of the "charities" assets (most donations less than $500K, most years less than $1M) and these "charities" can pay out to their owners from tax-exempt gains on the back-end.

It is a super common tax avoidance scheme. It is legal. Pretending it has anything to do with good-cause charity isn't based in reality however.

PS - And to confuse matters further there are billionaires who are donating a lot to charity, like the Gates Foundation.
It is called fine-tuning or transfer learning, and you usually train the last layer.

Here is an example for keras (a popular ML framework). https://keras.io/guides/transfer_learning/
My comment addressed exactly what GP said. He had specific anecdote, I has specific contra anecdote.
Let’s say I make $100 at an effective income tax rate of 35%. I pay $35 in taxes and keep $65.

Now say I make the same $100 but I give $20 to a qualifying nonprofit. I have $80 left, on which I pay 35% ($28), leaving me with $52.

I have $13 less than I would have without the contribution. But if I own the nonprofit, funds under my control go from $65 to $72.
Because you still need a human to take care of operational stuff.
>Why is this the case?

Seems very obvious. Fossil fuels are the best way to generate energy by far. In the end GDP and environmental pollution are the same thing or at the very least highly correlated.

>In light of this, why should we aim to reduce emissions at a significant detriment to human life? Is it because of unknown unknowns? Or solely to preserve endangered species?

It is because certain groups believe that climate change will induce an apocalyptic scenario ending most life on earth.

The "dirty secret" of the whole thing is that decarbonisation and deindustrialisation are the same thing. China is gambling that climate change is self correcting, which is the game theoretical optimum for any nation.
Ten Reasons English is Ridiculously Hard [video]
Exactly this. Do something small. Tell yourself I'm just going to do this one small thing and then I will allow myself a break. Rinse and Repeat.
No, you're right, it is probably much worse. But time will tell, let's be patient.
It strikes me as a type of publishing house literary participation trophy.
You either write textbooks, self publish or the author is a "New York Times best selling author".
I made the website super quickly. I plan to add a lot of functionality.
tbh it's even more of a non-story than that, because his "own charity" is a donor advised foundation that openly dispenses money to a wide range of completely independent charities and charitable causes he and his brother pick (many of them quite well known and well regarded), not some secretive organization with some obscure purpose that might just be an arm of one of his corporations or a place to hide wealth from the IRS and invest it in private jets. That's pretty common way for rich people to give money
I believe that the greatest sorrow actually is that there will no more be copilot support for ios devs (except if you use vscode side-by-side with xcode).
The interpolation from keyboard typing to jazz is incredible. This is what AI art should be.
The appeal of art is the artist. Unless computers gain sentience they cannot replace the humanity and ego of artists.

Ever wondered why artists have to show up at gallery parties to sell their stuff?
Motivation is for rookies. Discipline and competitiveness is for men.
Do as much as you can and stop worrying so much about procrastination. Nobody is working as hard as they claim not even (or especially) the self help gurus. You are not a robot and even a robot breaks sooner if you ask 100% of it.

If you have problems that you think cause procrastination, because you mentioned sleep, definitely address those for your health. Maybe you will be more productive, maybe not, that's not the important part.