skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the claim was that all ads are obnoxious, so singling out radio for ad-killing efforts is, IDK, morally wrong.

My point was that radio ads are uniquely obnoxious because of a combination of the way we process audio signals and radio stations’ apathy about intentionally irritating ads.

I’ll grant it’s not a moral failing on the part of sound waves. It’s 100% the broadcasters who see short term profit from “more effective” ads, who then have no right to complain when people are irritated enough to develop filters for the ads.
How's namaste JavaScript by akshya saini?
Is it worth it for learning javascript? Or any better ways to learn it? For asynchronous programming.
And you would be violating the law.
My hypothetical was one where everyone did agree.

I think preserving nature can be quite harmful: https://www.animal-ethics.org/wild-animal-suffering-matters/

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

(BTW, I think it's important to fight global warming -- but not because preserving the planetary status quo is important for its own sake)
What's this doing? Is it software-decoding-on-GPU using GPU compute or is it using the hw video codec functionality through the Vulkan API?
The entire history of Doctor Who in one tapestry (2013)
He doesn’t need to shiphon anything. All the “donated” money is still in his control. In order to be effective at tax deference you need to separate the concept of who ownes the money and who controls it. As long as you still control it, it doesn’t matter who ownes it. That’s why a donner advised funds and similar concepts are used to reduce taxes or defer them.

In addition it’s also great for asset protection. For example if he gave a personal guarantee on some of the Twitter debt, then moving money into the foundation (as long as his Twitter stint was not fraud) will remove that out of his name and make it untouchable to the banks.

He can now use those funds to support trips to Mars and other projects. For those projects the charity might pay his expenses - for example a flight to attend a meeting in Hawaii. He can even use the money to hire his kids. The kids would have a much lower (w2) tax rate so effectively he reduced tax but kept the money in the family.
For what is worth, people were trying the same thing with GANs (I also played with doing it with stylegan a bit) but the results weren't as good.

The amazing thing is that the current diffusion models are so good that the spectograms are actually reasonable enough despite the small room for error.
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Usually when I've needed more parallelization I've allowed more processes and for slow methods, there is threading available (this doesn't overcome the GIL but allows those methods to independently operate). It seems like the biggest reasons to focus on removing the GIL are single-process applications or machines where memory is constrained (so you don't want tons of processes consuming it all). Are you in one of those situations or is there another scenario that is impacted by the GIL?
You can also add another neural-network to "smooth" the spectrogram, increase the resolution and remove artefacts, just like they do for image generation.
Maybe they would focus on asking us about test strategy, devops culture, release deadline commitment, quality vs deadline cutoff, business understanding, team integration ability, all the sort of things we actually do 90% of the time.
I'll do one even better.

Let's say you give $50 to your charity from your $100. Then you "borrow" it back from the same charity to invest. You chose a high dividend investment strategy and make $10 in dividends alone. You pay $17.50 on your taxable income ($50) and $1.5 on taxable gains ($10). You can donate, borrow, and spend through that charity until the day you die. And you would still pay less in (19%) than your average working stiff.
I just right click the desktop and use the menu that pops up
If you're creating new works inspired by copyrighted works, no that's not (or should not be) copyright infringement. If you're creating exact reproductions of copyrighted works (e.g. The Gates of Argonath from Peter Jackson's adaptation of Lord of the Rings), just in a different format (3d instead of 2d) then yeah, that probably is.
Instead of giving directly to charities like St. Judes - he funds his foundation which gives to charities like St. Judes. When you give away $5B, wouldn't it be irresponsible to not give it to a foundation? And if you have your own foundation, wouldn't it be dumb to not give it to your own foundation? This seems like a nothing story; except that it's in vogue to hate Musk right now.
Disengagements in Tesla data are going to commonly be for much less serious things than potential accidents (merely inconveniencing others, or embarrassing the driver in some way, or even a safe move that just didn't /feel/ right to the driver). They've published actual accident statistics for Autopilot, and those show that it has a lower accident rate than manual driving even on the same fleet of Teslas (which in turn have a lower accident rate than the rest of the US even when manually driven).

Driving is inherently very dangerous. Traffic accidents are a leading cause of death in the US. You're not really chasing perfection to win this game. It's not all that hard to beat humans on average, because the average human is pretty terrible. It's a statistical certainty that some people will die at the hands of Autopilot even when it's in some final non-beta state, but it will probably be less people than would otherwise die to the same miles driven manually.

The hard thing for Autopilot-like systems is perceiving the world accurately. "The world" includes both the physical reality of roads+cars it senses, as well as things like traffic rules, corner cases (construction, debris, manual police control of an intersection with a dead traffic light), and gauging the intent of other/human drivers. Humans are inherently better at that stuff. The software has to get better than it is today, but it will probably never fully match the best humans at this part.

However, there are two key ways the software inherently outdoes humans:

(1) It can have more sensory data than humans. Even Tesla (currently sans Radar + Lidar, just cameras) can see in every direction at the same time, all the time, with an overlapping array of cameras. No blindspots, no temporary blindness in one direction while you crane your neck to check in another, etc.

(2) It never gets tired, distracted, or drunk. It's never checking a facebook feed, or nodding off after a sleepless night, or too engaged in a conversation with a passenger to remember to look for that cross-traffic, etc. This is a huge advantage when it comes to accident rates.
<super+R> (at least on my settings, don't remember if that is the default) opens "Application Launcher", which gives you a search prompt that finds (AFAICT) by executable name and definitions in .desktop and .service files.
Yeah, I now assume any minor renovation project is exactly the same as a "tear down to the studs" rebuild. When it turns out I don't have to, I feel great!
> WRT this update, the Thunar updates look fantastic

Nice! I'm a Thunar user (but not XFCE in general) and missed that updates to Thunar was included until I saw your comment. As someone who deals a lot with images, the preview is a very welcome change! Really happy with Thunar.
Interesting. In the QEMU community I've never been asked for this kind of perf-feedback (with one exception in the last decade, which was related to a promotion case), and I don't think my fellow-developers would appreciate it if I passed on the request-for-feedback stuff my own employer's annual-review process includes. But if you're all happy to fill in those forms then I guess it works for you...
Yup. Google tries to get me to make a left turn from a stop sign across 4 lanes of main street suburban traffic rather than waiting at the traffic light one block north - a light that that also backs traffic up past the stop sign when the main street traffic flow stops. I wrote them a couple of times a few years back, but I've learned to ignore the directions.
Ask HN: How to stop doing homework days before the deadline?
It goes like this:

I want to lower my tax liability by donating to charity > as long as I'm doing that I want to make sure I'm supporting something I agree with > I'll start my own charity to ensure that's the case.

Frankly I'm much more concerned about the billion dollar roth IRAs and 529 plans which seem to have a much lower chance of helping anyone else.
Doesn't fair use make a distinction in the use though? Fair use in terms of commentary on something for instance is not the same as a company presenting marketing images, for example, as theirs in the selling of a product. If someone has legally protected their artwork, you can't just apply a photoshop layer to it and claim it is yours as fair use though, right? The issue seems to become almost more about provenance.
Exercise. Nothing helps me clear my mind and renew my focus like going for a long run. Different exercise modalities will work better for different people. But honestly, except for the few times when I have suffered a training-related injury, I have never regretted taking some time out of my day to go work out.

YMMV (literally!)
I too took it as 2022 releases, not older games. Otherwise, I'd ask simply for "best boardgames". There were a ton of fun releases this year, well worth a post and a discussion.
I’m guessing the unit economics didn’t work. Different when a country like China decides its a strategic thing to do.
99% of companies don't care about that. I would say 90% of companies you'll create friction trying to have those conversations "just get it done!"
It seems we are running out of ways to reinvent ourselves as machines and automation replace us. At some point, perhaps approaching, the stated goal of improving quality of life and reduce human suffering ring false. What is human being if we have nothing to do? Where are the vast majority of people supposed to find meaning?
With all tech giants putting their weight behind a competing (open) standard, z-wave is probably feeling the pressure to adapt or become irrelevant.
Is calling the cops on your neighbor supposed to be a kinder gentler alternative solution? My HOA also provides services like landscaping that are just plain not the cops’ job.
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Kevin Wang, competitive coder: "I also try to minimize the amount of code I write: each line of code is just another chance for a typo."

Peter Norvig: This is why AlphaCode learned to write code with one-letter variable names, and with no comments or docstrings.

!!
It does have something to do with good-cause charity if you believe Forbe's reporting. Before this they estimated he gave $280 million to charities which about 20% came from this DAF.
So you're telling me it had requirements and expected results?

My job is safe I see.
They don't do much work. Must be nice.
You need to build habits to replace motivation.

Its important to recognise that its going to take time to change your day and its not reasonable to expect yourself to change how you spend half of your waking day (8hours) quickly. I don't know of any reliable science on the realistic adoption rate of new habits but it could be as low as 1% a month. Given that you need to make incremental changes that move you towards how you want your day to be gradually and adopt a habit or extension of a habit for at least 4 weeks to bed in.
They do this while looking the other way when "art" valued in the dozens of millions moves from one hand to another even though no opposite movement of money has happened.

This sort of rule, as usual, affects only small players and normal people. If you're rich and well connected, you're allowed to wash money.
And in the same way as Liefeld has a problem drawing hands! Maybe he was actually ahead of us all and had an AI art tool before the rest of us.
The English alphabet does not contain non-ASCII chars. Which makes it quite unusual.
> I wish they'd replace the Gnome filepicker too, that is the worst piece of garbage i ever seen, you can't even manually type a path!!

Don't have it in front of me right now, but can't you hit CTRL+L to bring up the "address bar" and manually write the path there?

CTRL+L works in a lot of places to enter paths, from web browsers to local disk browsers.
Elon Musk offloads another $3.6B of Tesla stock
Yes, I agree that discovery and creating a self-perpetuating critical mass is the hardest aspect of this. Heck, I'm sure some incarnation of this app already exists, but technical people don't need it (so it's not popular here), and non-technical people don't know that they need it. Meanwhile Medium seemingly advertises their own offering on each of their customers blogs.

How to overcome this? Maybe it would be enough to be in some mobile app stores with a distinctive memorable name (despite the horrible UX on mobile), and have a slowly accreting fanbase. Then every time these issues flare up someone would say 'Install LibreZooks to run your blog" in addition to all of those "just use DO and Docker" comments. People do seem to be moving to Mastodon slowly with the current happenings, but decentralized-first stuff can never match the advertising saturation of well funded surveillance companies.

There's also the difficulty that many people these days aren't publishing just to publish, but they're publishing as a side hustle or hoping to get rich. So middlemen like Medium that promise to extract as much as possible and then share a cut have another leg up over "default options" like running Google ads or whatever.
> There are a number of very legitimate cases where home schooling can help kids who are having a rough time at school.

In almost all cases where kids end up homeschooled due to having a "rough time", it's because of bullying and teachers and parents not putting a stop to that crap, the rest is stuff like autistic or disabled children who don't get the resources and assistance they need.

I'd rather like to improve the conditions at school, so that all children, no matter their background and (dis)abilities, are well taken care of, and abusive behavior (outside of self-defense, obviously, which is the big problem with modern "zero tolerance" crap) is not tolerated. That is how equitable societies get created.
Doesn't Bill Gates get all sorts of shit constantly for his foundation?
I'm no fan of Craptivision, but to their credit, Blizzard has maintained their old games for a VERY long time and continued to provide updates for years and years and years, much longer than most MMOs survive, all without a monthly fee. And once in a while they'll remake old titles with more modern engines.

I've never seen a company turn a game around like Blizzard did with Diablo 3 -- from the shitty real money auction house to probably the gaming world's single best loot system.

If we want to talk user-hostile, many EA games like Mass Effect don't even let you play different classes without spending hundreds of dollars in lootboxes. It's ridiculous.
> My empathy for artists is fighting with my concern for everyone else's future, and losing.

My empathy for artists is aligned with my concern for everyone else's future.

> I want to help them, but want to unblock ML progress more.

But progress towards what end? The ML future looks very bleak to me, the world of "The Machine Stops," with humans perhaps reduced to organic effectors for the few remaining tasks that the machine cannot perform economically on its own: carrying packages upstairs, fixing pipes, etc.

We used to imagine that machines would take up the burden our physical labor, freeing our minds for more creative and interesting pursuits: art, science, the study of history, the study of human society, etc. Now it seems the opposite will happen.
Besides that, the HOA enforcers aren’t walking around with guns. Really seems like overkill to use the cops for this.
An epidemic you say? We should do nothing about it then. I'm healthy, it won't hurt me.

There was a poll that showed that people worried about Elon syndrome epidemic are actually the most likely responders to be biased in their decision making. I'll post a link to it when I get out of the shower
I wish we had some kind of regulation that required companies to release something to keep old games up even if it's just technical details if someone wanted to create their own.
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Yeah, I made multiplayer games in those days. Very few people played relative today and you had so much lag. You really had to build your game to accept 0.5 sec lag. There is a lot to be said for today.
When did our tools become our religion?
Updating an Ancient French Beer for Modern Drinkers
I'm getting this back when I try to hear cats sing me a rock opera:

{"data":{"success":true,"worklet_output":{"error":"Model version 5qekv1q is not healthy"},"latency_ms":530}}
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Playing Jack is my favorite way to play; I love all the double think and laying down false trails. Sowing plausible deniability is a lot of fun!
Some of this is really cool! The 20 step interpolations are very special, because they're concepts that are distinct and novel.

It absolutely sucks at cymbals, though. Everything sounds like realaudio :) composition's lacking, too. It's loop-y.

Set this up to make AI dubtechno or trip-hop. It likes bass and indistinctness and hypnotic repetitiveness. Might also be good at weird atonal stuff, because it doesn't inherently have any notion of what a key or mode is?

As a human musician and producer I'm super interested in the kinds of clarity and sonority we used to get out of classic albums (which the industry has kinda drifted away from for decades) so the way for this to take over for ME would involve a hell of a lot more resolution of the FFT imagery, especially in the highs, plus some way to also do another AI-ification of what different parts of the song exist (like a further layer but it controls abrupt switches of prompt)

It could probably do bad modern production fairly well even now :) exaggeration, but not much, when stuff is really overproduced it starts to get way more indistinct, and this can do indistinct. It's realaudio grade, it needs to be more like 128kbps mp3 grade.
This is really cool but can someone tell me why we are automating art? Who asked for this? The future seems depressing when I look at all this AI generated art.
You know why artists don't usually accept payment for their work in "exposure", right? Because yes, it's not worthless, but it also doesn't pay the bills. I don't think the people in charge lack imagination - it's that the cost of legal + development work is a real thing that has to be balanced against other costs, while "PR Value" has to be specifically budgeted for.

Disclaimer: again, I'm not defending it - just pointing out that as a regular "grunt" developer I have very little impact on these things.
If he didn’t try to keep it a secret it would seem totally reasonable. Concealing it makes it seem shady.
Is it even a new evaluation? The article is really unclear.
Too many of them are in effect a long-winded quiz for a memorization task.

How would you swap two integers without using a temporary variable? Seen it before? Pass. Not seen it before? Fail.
Wait until the AI starts writing requirements and specifications docs.
If you're influenced no.

If you build your own replica of the bridge of the Enterprise, then yes.

This is pretty settled law.
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It has nothing to do with the day to day job. You are just memorizing vast problem sets.
So you're saying imposter syndrome is a real thing?
Can a Macbook Air be considered a "Unix workstation" ?
HOAs were created in the early 1900's as a way to maintain upscale communities. In addition to forcing community standards on residents, covenants were also used to restrict racial and religious minorities from participating in these communities. We in the USA seem to love freedom for some, but we have trouble with freedom for all. I suspect this is common world-wide.
> That wouldn't make us more free, it would just transfer control out of the neighborhood and up to the City/County/State, where your control over your own neighborhood is transferred to people who don't live in the neighborhood. Does that make us more democratic?

It can and we have decided this many times. As example - nationally it's why a neighborhood can't decide to be "whites only" anymore. "Just convince your neighbors" wasn't working out everywhere so people convinced enough it was better worth deciding once instead of by location.

Of course it leaves more nuance than "all powerful HOA or ban" when it comes to voting on how society should be allowed to work. E.g. people can want building codes to protect general health and safety, especially in context of needing to provide emergency services when things go wrong without wanting to specify how often you need to paint the garage door. An example more relevant to the useful portion of HOAs would be wanting to allow them for community pooling for better street cleaning/clearing or a community bus stop for the kids while not wanting to allow them for what color the fence is (coming back to the GP).
Apologies, I’m coming in a little hot this morning… :)

I’d put it this way… you and I have HN. What about the protesters in Iran? We’re closer to that scenario than you’re prob realizing.
>> The Musk Foundation in particular has donated less than 1% of the "charities" assets

That is how almost all endowments work -- they give away their interest income or other income, not the principal, this way they can theoretically last forever. In the past, this was easier since you could earn 5% or 7% interest on a 1-yr Certificate of Deposit. Now, rates have been 0% so charities have to either dig into principal and risk their longevity or give out very little.
Believe it or not this kind of neighbor tends to not respond well to requests if you can even get a hold of them. But that’s your prerogative and I’m not telling you to live in an HOA neighborhood if you don’t want.
All fun and games until Microsoft closes your repo on a false dmca claim.
> it's reasonable to ask if that plan is still in place

Do you think it is more likely that that user found the wiki page, performed the same analysis as you, then came back here to ask their question without mentioning any of the research they did; or they just turded out the first question they could think of and did zero research trying to answer it for themselves?
You can get the information in three search queries.

"How can I track someone's plane?

"What is Elon's plane registration number?"

"Website that tracks plane flights by registration numbers"
Musicians were made to get a day job long before you were born ;)
No, because it took years of study and producing a new portrait will take weeks. If you were able to study a master's entire portfolio in a matter of hours and then instantaneously generate 10,000 portraits in their distinct style, yes that would be unethical. I don't know enough about copyright to say if it would be illegal and I don't think that's a particularly interesting topic.