skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've played that, of course, since there aren't any conventionally difficult parts in it.

ouch.

> "Oh, yeah, that. Just something I tossed off."

What I wouldn't give for a couple of hours watching JS Bach at work improvising or composing. Just concentrated listening to all of Bach's works is a massive undertaking, it makes you wonder how he found the time to set it all down in between all of his other duties.
> mostly novelty value like Dall-E/SD

These are not just novelty value. They're great for mocking up ideas and I've also used them for generating backgrounds for advertising, for example:

"A black stage lit from above by two spotlights, very dramatic, stylish"

You can also add keywords like "modern/rustic/nature/futuristic" and it will get tuned to your desired style immediately.

Iterate on that for 5 minutes or so and there's my perfect background for a "coming soon" flyer. Way better than I could have made in Canva. Good enough that multiple people have told me the flyers look amazing, and nobody guessed it was AI until I told them.
My mind sees a very small green control panel with a Soviet knock-off iPhone beneath it.
We’ve become very comfortable with large swaths of society not abiding by any kind of social contract. We’re becoming a low trust society really quickly, and it sucks.
> Ironically Pro Tools is still not M1 native.

Public beta this month, though. https://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=422724
Take some hope. This case exposes the technology for the naked fascism
it really is. We always knew this is where it would lead, and that
there are few legitimate, ethical uses for face recognition tech.
That it was a lawyer taking her kid to a show is priceless and will
surely contribute to the blanket ban we all hope for.
I started this MSCS (online version), passed 2 courses (out of 10) but an opportunity came up and decided to leave it.

Overall, I'd say it opened some doors (getting noticed more on LinkedIn). I was able to switch careers (coming from Telecom Engineering), went to work for a big company, and then for a startup.

I had a MS (Telecom Engineering) before getting into Georgia Tech so I don't feel like I'm missing that badge. Companies still care for credentials though.
Fun fact. DHL owns an electric vehicle company, StreetScooter, that produces DHL last kilometer delivery vehicles.

https://www.dpdhl.com/en/media-relations/specials/electro-mo...
HUD data, for the US at least:[1]

- 582,484 total homeless

- 138,361 chronically homeless

- 122,888 total homeless reporting severe mental illness

- 48,373 total homeless victims of domestic violence

- 33,129 total homeless veterans

VA count of veteran homelessness was down 10% or more YoY in 2021 and 2022, and down 55% since 2010.[2] Veterans comprise about 10% of the total US population and 5.6% of the homeless population. Among veterans, PTSD was less of a risk factor than psychotic disorders, an equal factor to other mental health disorders, and mental illness in general was less of a risk factor than money mismanagement and could be mitigated by VA services, especially disability compensation.[3]

1: https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_...

2: https://www.va.gov/homeless/pit_count.asp

3: https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxu004
Steamboat Willie doesn't go public domain until 2024, so there's technically another year.

Disney is unlikely to attempt to push through another copyright term extension (see https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-i... for fuller details). The two main reasons are that there is a much more forceful caucus in politics against copyright extension than there was 25 years ago, and the arguments for doing so are weaker (the copyright extension 25 years ago was partially driven by raising copyright term in the US from "life + 50" to "life + 70", in line with European standards).

If one pays careful attention however, one would note that Disney has, over the past few years, started using a clip from Steamboat Willie more aggressively in its films, which has led many to wonder if they're planning on taking down anyone who distributes Steamboat Willie on the basis of trademark violations instead.
There's absolutely no logical connection between those two things. This is just another example of you being emotional. Please keep your replies to the other thread. You can comment on this, but do it in the other thread.
These days 'overlayfs' I think[1], though if you're running nginx on there to serve a site/app you might want logs?

1: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=253104&p...
Thanks. Exactly zero of my friends use mastodon.
I wish some of these ‘big names’ would make an effort to define all the terms. Which people are not into hyping but could be part of defining what AGI is, so we can put this ‘we have it in a couple of months’ to bed?

Carmack is doing an AGI startup; maybe he can offer a definition of what it is exactly his company will attempt to deliver and how we can recognise it when/if it does?
Yes. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Internet Archive already has torrents of public domain film.

There's also Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks for public domain books. Wikimedia Commons has a huge archive of public domain images and sound recordings.
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Hey. So, I was losing important reminders in a pile of BS mobile notifications. I figured since I engage with my SMS / iMessages more frequently and cleanly, I decided that's where I want to be reminded of important things. I built Egg in response. I have some of my close crew using it already with success, but I want to get feedback from a wider audience on what a roadmap should be. It's dead simple, but it can be even deader. Thank you, and I hope this is properly formatted.
I don't think you should consider this a problem. They are providing a service for OTHER people who want to invest. Effectively, they are selling picks and shovels to people who want to mine gold. Barring SEC regs, it's not up to the "people who put them together" to judge whether or not the investment is a good one. The people who want to invest do, and take their chances.
And in other countries, it's really unlikely you'll end up in prison or sued for using something that is both 75 years old and already public domain elsewhere in the world.
The Twitter files emphasized stupid things and ignored real issues, and that's why it's being treated as a nothingburger overall.

The real issues are (1) What government requests are reasonable and what should Twitter respond to outside of subpoenas, and (2) Should certain groups, such as celebrities and political campaigns, have their review requests prioritized.

However, the Twitter files are trying to convince you that Twitter threw the election to Biden, and that any moderation discussions are inappropriate. These are stupid and highly biased points of view. It's no wonder we cannot discuss it meaningfully. The Twitter files themselves poisoned the discussion.

It's very similar to the lab leak theory? Should we check whether the virus had origins in a lab? Of course! However, the real question being asked by its store supporters is "Can we blame the Covid crisis on the scientific community, and also maybe democrats?" Again, how do you even address the important question when it's drowned out by a ludicrous and biased political question?

That's the thing about the Twitter files. They almost purposefully sank their own message. It's so frustrating.
Sure, but it was framed as a rebuilding step 20 years ago and inflation adjusted its like $165,000/yr. Making that in the trough of a recession after a lay off seems great to me.
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Neither party is willing to solve homelessness by actually fucking housing people, and you're calling a homeless person a moron because their assessment of the two parties which, to avoid disturbing the existing economic order, mutually assent to that permanent state of crisis, doesn't include enough conciliatory language for you about how Orange Man Bad? Jesus Christ.
Scavengers are probably the second most likely to develop intelligence, and I was definitely thinking in terms of carnivore vs. herbivore. Intelligent scavengers such as corvids and raccoons come to mind. That said, it's quite possible to scavenge with limited intellect. Vultures, for example, are somewhat intelligent, but not the extent of a dolphin, wolf, or primate. Additionally, a sufficiently intelligent scavenger will probably eventually turn to hunting. If you've got tool use, and are hungry for something dead, it's not a terrible leap to kill the thing yourself.

On the whole, intelligence in nature is largely focused on predicting another animal's actions, and planning to take advantage of that foresight. The benefit of being better at that than your peers is immediately obvious in a hunter: predict, hunt, kill, eat. For things that aren't doing the hunting, more passive solutions can be optimal: evolving faster escapes, or natural defenses such as being very large take less energy, and can be developed much faster, when compared to the rather energy intensive process of maintaining a large brain and raising intelligent young.
Not really, for example the youtube channel Fast Lane truck did a simple towing test of the F150 Lightening and it cost them more per mile to charge at retail charging then it cost per mile to fill up with gas of a similar F150, and that was even with the inflated Gas Prices

Sure if you are only ever home charging, overnight, off peak then yea that will be cheaper than Gas

But if you have to use Fast Charging, from a retail station, chances are your cost to charge your EV will be pretty comparable to the cost of Gas.
Given the power imbalance here, I'm inclined to side with the individual refused entry. MSG can claim whatever they like. They refused access to an event open to the public to someone who was apparently unaware of their policy. It could easily have been that MSG communicated their intent poorly or not at all. It could also be that the law firm ignored them.

What MSG did was petty and doesn't make only them look bad. Given how iconic they are, to me, they make New York City look bad.

I'm not sure I'd ever want to visit MSG. I work for a well known subsidiary of a well know NYC-based company. Who knows, maybe I'll be on the list one day! I see something like this in the news and think I'm not missing much having never been to NYC. Clearly, MSG hasn't thought through the optics of this. Or, if they did, they think they're too big to need to care. I hope they have another think coming.
Digital screens, but they mimic the mimics shown here.
Many people _refuse_ housing for these reasons: (I've been directly told these, or have seen them reported)

* Housing is dangerous/scary (robbery, rape, physical violence, etc...)

* Housing is a conspiracy (to control people or other irrational ideas)

* The rules of housing are too restricting. (can't have a pet, visitors, noise rules, cleanliness rules, curfew rules, behavior rules, etc...)

There are others as well, but can't recall immediately.

A church can't fix these problems, no matter how rich.
I'd argue that Java/C# with Typescript is still a reasonable mix to maintain, they're not entirely foreign.
I use OneNote extensively and as I understand each page is like a white board where you can write anything anywhere. If I wanted a linear interface I would be using Word instead.
I'd be fine with either body, so long as it's functional, and that's because I don't identify with it. For example, the particilar shape of my hand - five fingers, etc. - doesn't make me feel it's "correct". That shape is common and functional, and that's all. If I had an extra dysfunctional finger sticking out from a wrong place, I'd fix it, but only because it's standing on my way. Having 6 functional fingers wouldnt bother me. I'd add that my attitude to my body is similar to my attitude to a rental car.
Sorry, never heard of this. What do you mean?
If you like Vimium, you should check out SurfingKeys. It is similar but seems to have even more going for it:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/surfingkeys/gfblio...
Gould played Bach the way it is written, perfect tempo, minimal ornamentation, that may come across as 'robotic' to you but it's actually the style that most people that are into baroque favor.

If you don't like Gould for Bach may I suggest Dinu Lipatti?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PNFDrcqmY

And if you had not heard about him maybe dive a bit deeper and see what else you like, he's an amazing pianist that unfortunately was born before really great quality recordings were made but what's there is well worth listening to. His '(unfortunately)Last Recital' is a masterpiece. Enjoy!
And on today’s episode of connecting two different things which have no connection…

No one wants to tax wildlife reserves.
Yes and yes (in fact, there are already plenty of websites you can find out there that do that—many of them seem to just be ads-filled scraper sites hotlinking / embedding from archive.org)
It's 70 in the US now. From the US Copyright Office: "As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. For works first published prior to 1978, the term will vary depending on several factors."
When you move the comments, why don't you also move the post's points?
That is a better example for sure. I still think there are issues since it could be somebody other than one of your parents knocking (including multiple people)

I think the better example would be when you know there is only one person. Person 1: "I went to the movies with a friend". Person 2: "Did they like the movie?"

This still has the issue about talking about somebody who is not present. Many people are advocating for using they/them when the person is right in front of you.
I followed the instructions at Quarto.org, integrated with VS Code. So they are text documents stored locally. I didn't realize observable-cli was open source.

I find it can't do nested logic the way observablehq.com can though. For instance, I like having inputs embedded in paragraphs of text, which requires having logic mixed in with a markdown cell. There are certain things that I can do on the web that don't work locally.

There's also https://observablehq.com/@asg017/introducing-dataflow, which I haven't tried yet.
You're ignoring the temporal aspect. A dyson swarm would be visible thousands of light years away, thousands of years after it happened. Humans current technological kick start has only been going on for a hundred or so years. Our entire known history, complete with dark ages, is a few thousand years. By the time something even sees it, who knows how much such a civilization will have changed. Would the dyson swarm even be there? Would the civilization? Is it even worth investigating?

Now reason the same way for a galaxy and millions of years. Modern humans haven't even existed for one million years. A civilization could be born, evolve and die with such a light in their sky, who's to day they'd even notice something off about such a galaxy in their sky. Its just a little redder, a little older, a little farther away. And then, supposing someone existed at just the right time and place and noticed, what would they do about it?
There are zero-sum portions of the economy (land, non-renewable resources), and expanding-sum portions. However, the laws of supply and demand dictate that as the marginal cost of producing a good approach zero, the cost goes down. This is why poetry is pretty much worthless in terms of money, despite providing value to many.

The issue here is that "growth" is ambiguous, and right now is mostly defined as "GDP" or some other measure of money. Unfortunately, the nature of money is that zero-sum portions of the economy can get more expensive, but expanding-sum portions have a fundamental price limit. Therefore, if you define growth as "money", you can't have endless growth.

Of course, you can have endless improvements to quality of life that don't involve constrained resources, it just won't increase GDP.
It seems a bit unfair to summarize it as removing pictures of Hunter Biden's penis. They willingly suspended news organizations at the behest of the FBI for something the FBI knew was legit, and as a result they (and other social media outlets) directly influenced US elections.

It's easy to ignore that point when you're happy with the outcome, but it should give you the heebie-jeebies to see that kind of political collusion between the government and big tech.
Makes sense. While he certainly seems to be smart given his accomplishments, I think it's really up to the general educated populace to keep those who are in power and have technical understanding of things in check. It seems clear that there's an ever growing of "influencers" who do have technical skills, but are saying largely quixotic and exaggerated statements to boost their own self image or products.
Flip the point of view for a moment - what's the absolute best way we could try to say "hey, we're here" to the universe in the hope of detection from far away civilizations?

I like the idea of Contact's Prime Number signal but how would you do this on a large scale? I was thinking Dyson Sphere a star as a huge Flag Semaphore to send the message, but then what rate do you flip bits to make it optimal for the receiving end far far away?

Now flip it back... would the current SETI pick up this signal if this were happening somewhere close in the Milky Way? If not, then yeah maybe SETI should be wound down :(
It does select a function.

The distribution over outputs conditioned on the input prompt is a different distribution, hence a different (random) function.

It's not important that there are no weight updates. The new function, the model conditioned on a few example input-output pairs, is good at producing new outputs for unseen inputs. That is what learning is.

There is a reason that everyone working on LLMs is comfortable with this definition. It really does exactly match the definition that has been used for decades.
>There is no such thing as a "probability" of any of those terms, in the way we normally understand probability, i.e. dice or card games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_probability
You can do both according to what makes the most sense.
A shout out to Orleans https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/
I was wonder what these were so had a look.

Found: in Australia we call them multigrips and I've got a few!
The fine was levied by the Consumer Fraud Protection Agency (CFPB).

Republican senators want to move CFPB under congressional annual funding and a five-member commission.

Which sounds a lot like Defund the Bank Police.

https://www.cucollaborate.com/blogs/republicans-urge-quick-p...
I've just been researching this the last few days. There's a couple of other similar tools that I'm also checking out:

Refine.dev

Wasp-lang.dev

I'm quite early into researching these so I don't have anything much to say about them yet.

Wasp is a DSL so it's a bit different.
My favourite EWD anecdote was a mention of his upbringing, which explains how he was far more articulate in my mother tongue than I am: he was taught never to start uttering a sentence before he knew how it would end.
You can actually ask ChatGPT to cite its sources. Anecdotally when I tried, it provided me with a valid url to a census.gov site that contained the answer to my question. That doesn't make it better than google, but it does mean that some verification is possible.
France's geography is actually also insane as a protection : ocean, seas, mountains or vast forest.
Rameau, who had a pretty different style from Bach (taking after Couperin and the French style) was 1683.
I'll have to see how much this affects or benefits my workflow, but I'm testing it against my Bachelors Capstone Project, and it seems really cool to be able to create an Overview that visually creates relations between my various notes relating to the project.

Very cool! I love Obsidian more every day.
Tableau Data Prep. It is a powerful tool that can save many hours of tedious data preparation work. It has a nice interface and comparatively fast.
I'm in full agreement with you about the tactility benefits with a physical camera versus a smartphone.

I'm in a phase of life where I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing or even what I'm very good at. But I do have a camera and I can write passable amounts of code, so I've been preparing a website to host my work while I strongarm friends and family into taking pictures with me. Most of them have a nice phone with a good camera and so we often end up talking about what the benefits are of a dedicated set of camera hardware versus using a phone's camera. I like those discussions because it makes me think critically about my camera and why I'm using it.

The physical inputs and muscle-memory laden experience is what I've kept relying on as justification and it's nice to hear I'm not the only one. For those of us who have used guns, it almost feels like holding a rifle. The entire process is subconscious and the more I use it the faster I become, as well as the more finely-tuned I can set up the camera during that subconscious movement. It equips me to image things that, if constrained by time or scene stability, I straight up would not be able to do with a phone camera.

There's also the social benefit that comes with it. I've found that when I'm using my camera and rapidly fiddling with controls and settings, people around me get the sense that I am a professional (I'm not) who knows what he is doing (I don't). "Everyone" has a phone so those "every" are common to see holding up a flat slab to a scene but dedicated camera users are increasingly rare. My tools and my physical control over them grants me this silly air of authority. And honestly that authority presents me with fresh opportunities for impromptu shots; just recently I was at a live music event and started wandering into places and standing on things to get the angles I wanted. Nobody said a word to me, nor did I think twice about doing it. We all kind of understood, "that guy has a camera and he's using it well. I suppose we should let him work". Kind of interesting.
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These are good tips. I'd add that unless the plumbing has been thoughtfully installed with future draining in mind (unusual in many places), after gravity draining it may be necessary to force remaining water out of the pipes using compressed air, especially if they are copper (PVC and especially PEX are more resilient to freezing).
> crypto, AI and VC

I’m pretty happy for all those sectors to tank, they don’t produce value that people would pay for, while we struggle finding competent people for product startups generating 500k per employee.
No extension in the next couple days, but there will be another 20+ year extension purchased within the next 11 years. Why? To make sure 1938 doesn't go PD.

I will leave it up to the reader as an exercise to determine what is special about 1938.
I haven't had any account frozen due to "suspicions" so far, but read about many such horrific cases. Hopefully, this fine will make financial institutions think twice before twiddling with people's accounts.
You can always get the federal state as a last term buyer if nobody wants the land.
> Is it facial recognition that's the problem here

Yes I think so. Some technologies are inherently no good, lacking
any obvious positive use cases, but enabling obvious abuse. It is a
mistake to shift the blame to "policy" or malevolent actors and claim
the technology is merely a neutral enabler. No. The technology itself
contains a gamut of evils.