skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use my home server also for serious stuff in terms of data protection and archiving rules. Storing tax things, that need to be archived at least 10 years, backup of databases from my dedicated server in the internet and backup of private data, like photos and so on.

For this I use an encrypted ZFS mirror running on Ubuntu.
The board is a power saving ASRock J4105M with soldered low power CPU.

For each HDD I use an dedicated SATA controller for controller redundancy.

The computer itself is secured with a real steel lock against (too easy) theft!

The database backups from the internet server are coming in incrementally with ZFS snapshots. I love this!
A lot of these 'labs' just ended up as tenants for WeWork's most expensive properties. The 'innovation' had to have the highest possible visibility I guess.
This is a pretty common complaint from people who have used C++ forever and don't want to give up their design patterns when learning a new language. "Not expressive" is self-serving way to say alternatively "I can't write my OO soup" or "I don't care about safety in my C++ code", which are both evidenced in the OP's comment.
> DuckDuckGo were good enough when I tried them

I'm curious as to where it lacked. DDG works more than well enough for me, but I'm wondering what other people search for where it is not.
It shouldn't matter how it's created. But some artists are pissed off that AI can generate art that people like, so they want to ban it.

I don't think the average person cares at all.
Copilot also isn't retaining the actual content of the source code repositories and then deriving works from that. If I wrote a giant table of token frequencies and associative keywords by analyzing a bunch of source, and sold that to people as a "github code analysis" book, I'm pretty sure that's perfectly fine because it's not a derivative work. I'm not sure that the fact that a program can then take that associative data and generate new code doesn't suddenly make it not ok.
Yeah this is it, right? People throw fries in airfyrers that just soaked up fat before put in their packaging thinking it's healthy, and it just takes 3x the amount of time to "deep fry" some french fries.

But that is really not it's strong point indeed! It's not an alternative to a deep fryer (but that is primarily the way I see it used), it a faster oven.
> Maybe not "none", but certainly it's only the very, very rare individual.

Maybe not none, but to my knowledge we have not found one single individual is the world who actually have these "golden ears".

At some point absense of evidence is actually evidence of absense.

> I used to rage at the people who insisted on 320bps MP3's

bps and compression is a separate issue. Lossy formats don't represent the audible spectrum (up to 22050Hz or 24kHz) literally 100% accurately, but non-lossy do.

Edit:

Oh, and keep in mind that now that you (as you say) are older, not only are you maybe less passionate about the issue, but also your ears aren't what they used to be.
You get down to 100 authors in countries like the US and China? No way. There are 1000+ significant scientists and acheivements easily
ChatGPT is not a threat to any of their business models. It is a threat to Google.

Can you imagine how much better Siri would be if ChatGPT were integrated into it?

Apple and Microsoft have both been able to remain relevant since 1980. They both know how to pivot when necessary.
My daughter attends a private school that stayed open through most of the pandemic. Lots of kids from public school transferred in. They aren’t leaving.

In addition to actually being open, the local public schools went all in with BLM.

That’s not bad by itself. But in practice it means the local school board is spending its time figuring out how to promote racial equity.

How to assist privileged students who lost two years of in class instruction is less important.

Private schools and rich suburban school districts are flooded.
If the goal of a community is to share work, critique each others efforts, and enjoy a hobby together, then someone coming along and pretending that they're doing it while they're not is obviously going to annoy people who are genuine.

I see AI-generated art as being similar to taking performance enhancing drugs in sport or using something that's against the rules in motorsports. Outsiders don't really care because they just see someone performing at the same level of the others by using clever tech, but if you're part of the group then you will care much more.
I don't know of any particular solution for the python ecosystem, I don't use it often enough to justify dealing with that can of worms.

But for npm, there is Verdaccio which does exactly what you want, and is what I'm using.
It's very dependant on your ears and the eartip size you use. I personally would not bike with them, because as good as the passthrough audio is, there could be small differences in localizing sound that could really cause trouble on a bike. The passthrough is great, but not life or death situation great.

Edit: this is for the Pros. The open non-pros seem like they would be safe for biking at lower volumes.
"A 27-year-old coder in Shanghai, who did not receive any of the Chinese vaccines, says he voluntarily exposed himself to the virus.

"Because I don't want to change my holiday plan," he explains, "and I could make sure I recovered and won't be infected again during the holiday if I intentionally control the time I get infected." He admits he did not expect the muscle aches that came with the infection, but says the symptoms have been largely as expected.

Another Shanghai resident, a 26-year-old woman, tells the BBC she visited her friend who had tested positive "so I could get Covid as well".

But she says her recovery has been hard: "I thought it would be like getting a cold but it was much more painful.""
Just wow. There is no benefit to getting sick and can give you long term health issues with the risk of death.
Those 16 bits are 65,536 linearly-spaced values, while sound and human hearing are logarithmic. The scaling is, ideally, such that only at the loudest instant will the data reach the maximum instantaneous value, like a cymbal crash. Drop down fifty decibels for a quiet section and there's really not much dynamic range left.
$20 IEM is crazy good. I'm lazy to find out if $100 IEM is already above 97th percentile of human ears capability. A lot of illusion of great quality above p90.
I consider it to be relatively harmless but how it is classified depends on the country. India is pretty cheap to call even absent simboxes but they still crack down on the practice for “national security reasons” because it makes tracking people more difficult. The UK (Ofcom) banned them outright for some reason a long time ago but that’s being appealed. In some African countries the laws are pretty vague and do not outright ban them, usually they charge people with “unregistered telecommunications business” or something like that.
Trained on 5 billion images to create a 6 GB model. Every image contributed no more than a few bits of information.
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Former YC founder (acquired by Square), learning fast is my superpower, looking for AI focused startup with a world changing mission.
A further observation here is that selling status symbols is what Apple does. They have transitioned from being a computer manufacturer for the DTP and creative industry to being a luxury brand. But that itself is not enough. In the pre-iPhone days, Vertu was the luxury cellphone brand. Similarly, there are plenty of car brands that are more exclusivist than Tesla. Yet they do not have the same outsized influence on the market.

Therefore the issue probably is a status symbol that scales to the mass market.
Well, the temporary ban at SO is entirely justified. They already saw the influx of massive amounts of new answers, generated by ChatGPT, that are essentially spam and make everybody worse off. Even if 90% of the answers are perfectly correct, that leaves the 10% that are wrong, sometimes in subtle ways. And because the submitter of those answers is only parroting what ChatGPT wrote, they probably won't be available for further discourse, or to amend the answer they submitted.

The biggest problem with ChatGPT is that when it's wrong, it's confidently wrong and cannot quantify its uncertainty in any way (maybe it's too human-like in that respect...) Furthermore, the whole idea of a reputation economy collapses if reputation becomes "too cheap to meter".
Assuming the numbers in [1] are correct, the answer to "How many lives have actually been saved by this" is, what, somewhere around 4-5000 (~300 a year for 15 years + some extra)?

More interesting is that it took a long time for it to drop after the legislation was introduced in 1998 - presumably people were still working off their stockpiles?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/471227/death-by-paraceta...
Well in this case, it's the artists who care. Ie the person at risk being "replaced". Yes, ML is not there yet to actually replace artists, but we all see the writing on the wall.

I'm a software dev attempting to learn art. I recently joined Mastodon related to this purpose and it's quite the hot topic there. Many, many artists pissed about how their work is being used to train corporate profits as well as potentially undermining their living/passion/etc. I've actually seen some cool art in protest of "AI"... usually involving malformed hands which the artist community have gravitated towards being the representation of current AI capabilities.

I think it matters how it is created, personally. Not because the author of an individual piece of art is important to me, but rather because once AI moves into a problem space and can effectively and accurately "solve" that problem space the displacement of humans will be surreal. How it affects people is the important thing to me. I'll be interested to see how we manage to recognize this reality as AI improves.
I call it the 'sock purge.' It was a game changer.
Sorry, there’s a little bit of background knowledge needed here – this is an old and very well-known article. The article itself is correct, but nevertheless, after it became popular, a tonne of people started using the terminology “level two REST” to justify calling APIs that were not REST “REST”. I’m more responding to that than the article itself.
Engineers Want to Build Conscious Robots. Others Say It’s a Bad Idea
And you got a great deal on them too at less than 200$!
I don’t know of any. Factorio and Satisfactory don’t involve programming (as far as I know—-I’ve only played Satisfactory), but involve planning and automation, and are fun for coop.

The only idea I have is a game where one person programs and the other uses the programs somehow. Maybe a real-time strategy game where one person builds bases and the other automates them. That probably wouldn’t end up being fun.

Curious to see other responses!
The limits depends on the jurisdiction.

And harder to claw back funds after you’re already dead and the estate has been settled. Or you’ve already spent it all.
January 6th Tour*

The only real threat on that day was that our Geriatric Lawmakers would get mixed up with the Q-Boomers and Police/ Provocateurs that opened the gates for them
Who killed the Covid vaccine waiver?
> Norman said the majority of the deal revolves around rule changes like a 72-hour rule to review bills, term limits, and open amendments. Norman said the deal did not address committee assignments.

These are actually good. The House and Senate leaders are too powerful relative to the membership. Democrats should have demanded such changes too.

Isn't everyone frustrated that party leaders make deals behind closed doors at the last possible minute and then force everyone to vote on bills without even reading them first, in a kind of forced emergency? It's ridiculous.

Term limits are long overdue. I'd personally limit terms to one.
Well, for languages that are now touting interop with C++, and the emergence of a mainstream memory safe language like Rust, Carbon seems like a retrograde step to me.

Val is probably the next language that fleeing C++ developers should get behind.

https://www.val-lang.dev/

There's even science behind it: https://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2022_02/article2.pdf
Even startups can hire manufacturing and industrial design consultants, then rent time at the same factories Apple uses.
Tangentially relevant, the Sony 808 walkman is a masterpiece of modern design IMO.

I suspect it played some part in the decision to have a polished steel back on the first iPods.

https://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/project/sony-wm-ex808hg/
Just give into their demands and... close the FBI?
https://archive.ph/hK78G
And a keyboard where your thumbs are able to use 2-3 keys each is better, still. :-)
Jeff Bezos loves you, because he makes money each way. It's the third party sellers who are footing the bills.

You make think that you're sticking it to the man, but you're actually screwing the little guys.
The impressionists wholeheartedly disagree with your comment.
I would strongly argue against the idea that the hermetic tradition has been productive. From everything ive gleaned through my occult studies, secret societies built on the hermetic, gnostic, or kabbalistic traditions have consistantly served to undermine the better nature of humans and society at large. All of these esoteric philosophies ultimately boil down to the worship of ones own will, and provide techniques and avenues for accruing influence in order to exert ones will on the world. The effect of this is almost universally always negative.

I'd love to hear if you have strong counterexamples.
The difference being that depending on the bitrate MP3 artifacts are hearable, whereas digital pure mathematically is not.
> all matching socks. No more time spent pairing.

I KIND OF do this; I have a couple different brands with slightly different styles, but they're all black ankle socks so I don't care if one has a gold toe and one doesn't. Drives my wife mad, but it doesn't bother me and I'm either at home or wearing shoes, so...
High-flow drilled-out showerhead for sure.
Isn’t there an ongoing investigation regarding an influx of tinnitus related to the ANC feature?
Ok, yeah, I can imagine if it's about competition, which it is when humans want to create the most beautiful thing purely with their bodies, that it's "unfair". There are (written and unwritten) rules in any competition after all. Imagine a formula 1 driver installing an AI :)
Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence
The analogy breaks down once you reach sonic flow in the pipe however.
That video shows various air defense systems trying and likely failing to intercept anything. Air bursts are not interceptions.
In America churches were historically the community center. Other counties have secularized in a way that replaced churches with something else: clubs, union halls, fraternal societies, etc.

In America we have replaced them with the Internet.
Too much effort for the article to mention r/art was the subreddit in question?
Fantastic! Glad I could help, hope the kids enjoy!
Even then, households that choose to homeschool or private school their children still contribute to public schools. So the article's claim of needing to close schools due to fewer pupils and lack of funding is left unanswered. There may be migration involved.
>insisted on 320bps MP3's

Why though? Was storage a concern?
I wonder if the simple solution is to prevent mod accounts from interacting on the subreddits they moderate.
It should also apply to other companies like McDonald's etc.
So if I make a script that automatically downloads every torrent in existence it's suddenly ok, since it is infeasible to check the copyright of them all?
Fermi-Dyson Thinking
interesting article about taking neither the top-down nor the bottom-up approach.
Simple, just have them do the work in class.
You make GPL code, a make an AI that learns from GPL code, shouldn't its output be GPL licensed as well?

I think, for the desired outcome to occur, you should instead ask:

You write close sourced code, then a make an AI that learns from that code, shouldn't its output be licensed as well?

Ask the above, and suddenly Microsoft will agree.
what is IEM?
The Carpio 2.0 by DeltaHub (https://us.deltahub.io/products/carpio-2). It's a wrist rest, but not like you probably think. I would get severe hand pain being at the PC all day, but this little contraption completely relieved that pain. It took a couple weeks to get used to, and now I use it while working and gaming. One of the best purchases I've made in a long time.
> Many members of the Wayland project are trying to prevent going down the same path X11 went down, sucking up more and more features and API surface and becoming a huge, unstable, buggy mess because of its sheer code size.

I would argue that if you sum the code of all the Wayland compositors existing today + all the dependencies required for making them work as a proper desktop - dbus, wlroots, ... you likely have much more code (and thus much more bugs overall) than you had for X11.

xorg git repo is 400kloc of C, I've seen projects which were on the order of magnitude of 40 million lines of code and still were able to be managed, so to me "sheer code size" sounds a bit weird. Hell, the main project I work on, https://ossia.io and on which I do the huge majority of the swdev work alone is nearing 500kloc and it does not feel like a burden.
> When I got called by someone with a question that was answerable by my team, I chewed them out.

Yikes. A trivial work issue is something someone might use an excuse to check on you and make sure your wife is okay and that you're alright.
I think many artist interviews or respective wiki pages mention how their early taste in music was influenced by wondering through their parents music collection - be it tapes, vinyl or CDs. With everyone on their own Spotify account that sounds way more complicated.
Information hoarding was my big problem as well. To fight it, a few years ago, I stopped using any bookmark services, and I started to keep a list of links in a markdown text file with a limited number of tags. I split the links by month and often add a short description and a tag to a saved link. All IT tags are textual, but I use emojis for other link categories, such as music or books. Example content:

### 2022/12

- {musical note emoji} [Mendelssohn - Complete Piano Works](https://www.amazon.pl/Complete-Piano-Works-Prosseda/dp/B084D...)

- [Checked C](https://github.com/microsoft/checkedc) - extensions to make C safer #cpp

- [SQLite Internals: How The World's Most Used Database Works](https://www.compileralchemy.com/books/sqlite-internals/)

- {book emoji} [Ask HN: Best books read in 2022?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267) - some interesting pieces here

### 2022/11

- [The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide](https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/), [repo](https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg) #linux

...

And so on. I know it's simplistic, but it helped me a lot to keep the number of links under a reasonable limit, and it is effortless to search through.
Which places in the USA don't need AC nor heating? How much would it cost to resettle everyone in Phoenix?
I don’t see any benchmark, btw. And some random post over the internet e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/r3cjim/kernel_updat... claims that ntfs-3g is actually faster.

Do we actually need to boot off ntfs? Otherwise, userspace is simpler to code and maintain. ntfs3 seems to support some additional ntfs features, but I wonder if it wouldn’t be better to leave it to userspace in this case.
But hang on, there would only be a DMCA violation if copyright infringement had in fact occurred, right? So fair use would be a perfectly legitimate defence, causing the DMCA not to apply.

Look, proving copyright infringement is downright trivial here, if copyright law applies. And that shows where GitHub’s defence will—must—lie.

(And for other readers unfamiliar with the parent comment’s phrasing: “end-run” is apparently an American sporting term which here makes “as an end-run around” mean “to circumvent” or “to work around”.)
In the Android app, switch from one player to another, from internal to the web player in the settings. It solves the 5.1 playback issue. (Of course, it introduces others, eg. manual screen brightness but it's not as a big issue as no sound.)
> Does it support snapshots?

We'll be adding an "export" feature soon to do snapshots. We'll also be adding support for streaming backups similar to what Litestream does (although it'll be cluster aware).

> From what I could work out, when you start a non primary instance it catches up from the primary? So if your replica is a fresh instance it replicates the entire db from the primary?

Yes, it'll grab a snapshot from the primary if it's a fresh instance or if it's been too long since it was connected to the primary (and the next transaction files are not available).

> I was wondering if it’s possible to snapshot somehow, so if I have a fresh server that comes online it grabs the last known snapshot from somewhere like s3 then the delta changeset from the primary is much smaller (less load?)

You could but I'm not sure there's a large benefit over simply copying from the primary. I suppose if you have a very large database and there's only a small number of changes then pulling from S3 first could be beneficial.

The transaction files are also compactable so we'll be able to reduce the total amount transferred once we integrate that into LiteFS.
The yellow is generally because of the deodorant you're using, not the sweat.
That's not necessarily true at all. There's even techniques designed to demonstrably avoid such knowledge-contamination.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Small hobby subreddits are the best subreddits, and among the only ones I visit. I don't usually have problems with those mods. Anything front-page, or remotely popular to a wide audience, are where the worst mods (and posts / commenters) are.
LOL. I like it. I paid for it. Well worth $20 / year for the fun of it.
They complement one another: using keyboard-driven programs, and having a good keyboard.

Especially if you're willing to put effort into your tools: vim's sophistication requires effort to learn, but has advantages. I think the same can be said for fancy small keyboards.
Ethics aside, By the time this case is resolved it won't likely matter anymore. I see models getting more granular and specific (and thus smaller) while typical personal computer resources are getting larger. At some point you'll just download the largest 'javascript inference model' that will run on your hardware and be done with it.

There are a huge number of motivated developers that want this to exist, the techniques themselves are not novel, and the code itself cannot be kept from whomever wants to train a model. It's a lost cause.
Which companies do actually own and moderate their own subreddits? I have always treated all of them as unofficial, even if there are employees of the company that post periodically.
True, that's the ideal scenario! We've tried room temperature milk in the past, but our baby refuses it :(
How do you manage the encryption keys?
Exactly that. 100% correct
And if they really want to control how their IP is used then they shouldn't host it on GitHub in the first place

No. It's called copyright, it is enforceable, and that's the control.

GPL source code is available everywhere, in all formats, in textbooks, on CDs, on websites, but it is still gpl.

And Microsoft doesn't get to scrub the license.
Signed up last night. Where / how do I find this community..?