skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no billionaire has ever said anything about "moving humanity" to Mars

> Musk wants there to be a colony on Mars in the near future.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/theyre-the-same-picture
The random numbers I understand, because I’ve used a similar principle to make tests deterministic. The trick is to make the same number of calls to the generator and use the same seed. The floats are really thorny though, differing subtly across CPUs. Did they just rely strategically on rounding? Make heavier use of integers?
Nothing beats Mac OS 9 icons. They were just in another league.
I own a few records but no turntable. I've just been renting digital music (and movies) for an unlimited term at zero cost (downloading them from p2p/torrents) since the late 90's, and now have any music I'd like as flac files tucked away on an archive NAS. Anything I couldn't find online, I'd obtain the CD one way or another and throw it out or return it to its owner after I'd ripped it since I had very little interest in maintaining a shelf full of plastic.

I also like reading physical books but don't like having to deal with shelves full of them, so that is easily outsourced to my County's public library system which I think is top notch.

All that is to say that I do still like having some physical manifestation of media around once in awhile, so a few vinyl records and the odd negative/slide/print are nice to have, but I only keep the greatest of the greatest hits so to speak - the bits that I find really significant.
Is there a word that can replace “said sarcastically”?
Except the small detail that CUDA is polyglot and quite a few runtimes target PTX.

Those Perl scripts won't do nothing for them.
Lunar nuclear power system – how can hydrogen generated on Moon be liquefied?
> "Keeping extra inventory is a waste of money."

But he is right! Extra inventory has a cost. Each cost increases the final price.

And the customers, they don't buy from you because you have extra inventory in case of a global pandemic (as well as they don't buy from you because you employ local staff or because you pay them well or because you make an actual effort to reduce your carbon footprint): no, customers buy cheap.

Whenever you are tempted to criticize a corporation about some decision they took, do consider those pesky, cheap customers first.
Same way we break any cycle. We vilify those who peddle it and shun those who support them.
Yes, that feels uncomfortable. The list of main contributors is also a weird list of anime girls, in combination with the README that makes it a bit creepy.

Edit: yeah, no, if you follow the image link it’s pretty clear. It is definitely sexualized and really creepy: https://xn--931a.moe/
Vinyl needs a different normalization and has its own pre-cut/pre-amp normalization curves [0]. So, you can't stone-wall normalize a vinyl for constant, at your face loudness.

As a result, most vinyls have better dynamic range than stone-wall mastered CDs and digital releases, and this is one of the reasons why vinyls sound the way they are.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
> I’d be curious to know the maximum height of a skyscraper that doesn’t have these issues with draining or elevators.

This might be predictable only for elevators (and even then, maybe cable designs/elevator designs can be changed to mitigate the effect of the height).

Everything else can have a design that allows ever larger height (larger vents for drainage, larger pumps for water supply, etc).
I mentioned the cost of processing the return. And I mentioned that I agree it’s a shitty move by the buyer.

I just disagree with the framing of “this one order was a third of our rent and it turned out fake”, like yeah of course they’re upset, but since it was fake to begin with, that wasn’t ever money they had, so they’d have to cover their rent somehow anyway. It’s a bit like counting piracy as a lost sale when the person was never going to buy to begin with. Of course the whole thing did work out in their favour in the end so cool.
There's on picture in the repo readme and one on the hub page. The repo picture is much more acceptable, so make sure you're both talking about the same picture
I like it, the posts were quite slow to load though, ~2 seconds
You learn something new every day! I have written JavaScript off and on for years and did not encounter that.
> However unlike in 1920 the majority were not economically active.

I really hope this is the most ghoulish thing I read all week, because I don't want to imagine the alternative.
I cannot wrap my head around that. I listened to the audio to check it wasn't a transcription error and don't think it is.

He is claiming GPT3 was trained on 57 billion billion words. The training dataset is something like 500B tokens and not all of that is used (common crawl is processed less than once), and I'm damn near certain that it wasn't trained for a hundred million epochs. Their original paper says the largest model was trained on 300B tokens [0]

Assuming a token is a word, as we're going for orders of magnitude, you're actually looking at about a few hundred times more text. The point kind of stands, it's more, but not billions of times.

I wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong here because they seem to be an expert but this didn't pass the sniff test and looking into it doesn't support what they're saying to me.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf appendix D
I'm assuming it's mostly because this ban was already reversed 10 years ago (an actual decade ago) because of the value these third-party clients brought to the platforms. Twitter may not have made money on targeted advertising to these users, but they consumed content, amplified, tweeted and probably drove(/became) traffic to "native" marketing by Twitter's advertisers. (Like: tweets by @Target or whatever)
One of the best CUDA decisions was to go polyglot, and in that context, first class support for Fortran.

The competition is still like "Fortran what??!" every time I happen to watch a Khronos or AMD talk on compute.
Same for me. In group situations I always have the pressure to talk so I am not overtalked by other people. This obviously depends on the group, but that's gow I usually feel.
I also have a quite high "response latency" and people just tend to answer and share the stories quicker and more eagerly, so I feel often left out in those situations.
Me too. And now I find it so invaluable.
I have the Pro-I and I get 3+ days on a charge. Right now it reports 21 hours since 100%, and 3 days left. It's been excellent.
From 1 to 1M (2014)
I collect music on all formats, usually targeting the rarity of tracks or the issue. I favor digital, due to the ease of archival. However, the cold/warm sounds of digital/analog is very obvious to me, and I don't see how anyone could claim it isn't there. I have a few albums on both formats, and the distinctions on certain notes are clear. Maybe its like the FPS thing you mentioned, but I'll definitely agree that vinyl is not a gimmick.
Sometimes when doing arithmetic with sed I use the unary representation, but usually it's better to use lookup tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620#Transferred_to_San_Jo...
Venting feels good, but is seldom persuasive on the receiving end.
This removes fragmentation, which is great.

Competition is only good if it brings something to the table.
Compclasses: Prefer Composition over Inheritance
I am thrilled to share that I just made Compclasses public, a (small) library built to simplify the usage of composition (over inheritance?!) in #python.

Any feedback is very welcomed!

Documentation: https://fbruzzesi.github.io/compclasses
Github: https://github.com/fbruzzesi/compclasses
The bad faiths attempts at "skepticism" are at least in large part to blame for that response.

It's as if I yell fire in a crowded theater, then when there is no fire and my speech rightly faces consequences I complain about "the-powers-that-be" limiting my future attempts at yelling "fire".

Scientific skepticism is good, but requires a certain level of being informed. Good, scientific skepticism does not occur on the internet in 99+% of instances. Usually what is actually occurring is politicking and spreading disinformation. Conflating that with the good kind of scientific skepticism is quite dishonest, intellectually speaking.
I love records. Own multiple record players.

Recently we started a music label called Music Of a People (https://musicofapeople.com). We want to help our artists sell physical records, not digital crapware.

We put fans first. Fans love the liveness and physicality of music. Digital is a poor substitute, but it's good marketing and can help make one's day more enjoyable. Fans do not want DRM. Never have. Never will. They want mp3 files. Original Napster had it right.

We are gonna take this fight all the way to an amendment to the U.S. Constitution when we abolish (c)opywrongs once and for all (https://breckyunits.com/the-intellectual-freedom-amendment.h...)

In the meantime, do you hear the people sing?
> In other words, a technology that is 70 years old—and in which labels have invested almost zero additional dollars—is priced as if it’s a hot new innovation requiring billions of dollars in startup capital.

Is there much legacy vinyl manufacturing capacity around? I'd have thought they'd need some capital to set up new factories. Although admittedly not billions of dollars.

Given the article says only 50% of vinyl buyers even have record players, this ain't exactly a business on stable foundations IMHO.
Yes, vinyl is sorta immune to the loudness war because you can't do it on vinyl -- the stylus would jump out of the groove.

It's a bit of an ironic use of a technical limitation of vinyl. Its dynamic range is lower, and it doesn't allow doing what digital can, so it's been spared of this particular sin.

Still, properly mastered digital will be even better.
It is indeed, but I am not running it. :-)

I am not inclined to remove a tool that's working pretty well and replace it with something entirely different just to get access to this one small function. I think that's reasonable, isn't it?

I mean, even if I did, I think Scale is likely to be less efficient on my servers, maxed out at 8GB RAM, and there still isn't a plug-in for PiHole for Scale, is there?
I don't think that's what's happening. People are buying them because they are art objects. The vinyl record is useless, but it's attached to a beautiful album cover and liner notes. It also becomes a conversation piece for identity in private spades - e.g. "oh, you're a Mount Eerie fan as well?"
It might be in there: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...
> I have some experience in these matters—in my alternative career I worked with CEOs chasing after fast growth product categories. I know how they handle these situations.

> (1) You add manufacturing capacity aggressively—to make sure you have enough product to fuel growth.

The fact that the author is suggesting the music industry add vinyl manufacturing capacity aggressively is enough to make me question his competence as a business adviser. If my CEO was listening to this person, I would show them a copy of this article and recommend they stop.
https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Programming_Guides/HIP-po...
I don't see a problem with anticipation i.e. detect the prevailing forces and apply an equal but opposite force.

I DO see a problem with making the strength on each corner of a building dynamic - if you aren't moving the building back and forth to counter the wind, how would you counter the wind?
Is the OpenAI collaboration what Microsoft needs to finally take on Google
> as long as it stays within the same age group

...because?

> japanese society doesn't have a problem with fetishing womans that act like little girls under age of content

No one condones sexualizing underage girls. Just school uniform alone and so the logo of this project have provably nothing to do with that
Agility Is Inefficient
Is this true? If it can add, it can probably subtract? If it can add and subtract it may be able to multiply (repeated addition) and divide? If it can multiply it can do exponents?

I don’t know, but cannot jump to your conclusion without much more domain knowledge.
Nobody uses Swift outside Apple.
Sketchy link to say the least
> The scientific evidence is clear: the only celestial body that can support us is the one we evolved with.

I must have missed the evidence. Exactly what were they?

Additionally, don't stand in the way of those who wish to boldly go where no-one has gone before.
It really depends on release - they do tend to have better dynamic range (mostly because vinyl listeners don't listen on AirPods), but it's really a very inconsistent crapshoot on what you're getting.

There are plenty of vinyl releases where they just dumped the Spotify mp3 on the plate.
the thing you're missing is that in developed countries very few people have parasites. as such people were promoting it as a miracle cure based on bad data and it would do absolutely nothing (other than have potentially dangerous side effects)
We are already doing that. Most of these very tall structures have mass dampers, huge weights which are manipulated to compensate the swing induced by wind or ground movements.
I've been interested in this since your presentation in May; any plans to release the source any time soon?

(Here's where I hope I'm asking a dumb question and you already have, but I haven't been able to find it.)
This is already accomplished passively with tuned mass dampers.
At the time they were venting the impact was significant. That they've managed to recover is irrelevant.

Perhaps they do need a better return policy to protect themselves from such self centered ignorance but it is a sad reality where they need to.
More commonly you'll see things like tuned mass dampers (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper) to try to reduce the amplitude of the swaying from wind, earthquakes, elevator vibrations, etc.
There is a huge list of stuff she did and didn't. Honestly, I'm not really concerned about our defense minister, as I'm already mad that we spend 100bn EUR on military equipment instead of education and more opportunities for poorer folks. If we'd help Ukraine with that money, it would be a different thing, but right now we are only spending and not planning to do anything with it. Most of the money will probably land in the pockets of McKinsey and executives anyway, like it happened with von der Leyen.

Anyway, maybe it's useful for some context:

- She requested a helicopter of the Luftwaffe as "holder of command and command authority" (IBUK booking) for a troop visit. This got her high on the priority list (higher than if she would've requested the helicopter as defense minister). But, unlike a booking as defense minister, an IBUK booking does not allow her to use the booking as a private escort. She took her son with her, which is against the rules.
While she was flying, she ordered her bodyguards to drive with two empty cars from Berlin to Ladelund, where the helicopter landed (so, she could've driven with the bodyguards, instead of taking this expensive flight).

Coincidentally, a day after the troop visit, she went by car and bodyguards to the nearby island of Sylt for a vacation with her son. [1]

- She ordered F-35 jets, but those do not fit into the existing hangars. She didn't know this beforehand, and now the parliament had to spend an additional 700M EUR for new hangars because of her mistake. [2]

- Shortly after taking office in December 2021, Lambrecht canceled a Christmas trip to a Bundeswehr mission in Mali, which had previously been a must for ministers. [3]

- When Russia invaded Ukraine she only delivered 5.000 Helmets. Klitschko was very disappointed. [4]

I think the following two points are not relevant, but they are raised pretty often, therefore for completeness:

- She did not know the name of the Air Force Chief of Staff Ingo Gerhartz when she announced that she'd buy F-35 jets. [5]

- She does not know the duty ranks across the Bundeswehr. [6]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.de/politik/deutschland/nach-nied...

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/bundeswehr-bohrende-fragen-zu...

[3] https://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/ticker/lambrecht-muss-reis...

[4] https://www.merkur.de/politik/ukraine-klitschko-konflikt-deu...

[5] Interestingly the video has been taken down everywhere (at least I cannot find it). There are some articles which still mention it, like https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/christine-lambrec...

[6] https://rp-online.de/politik/christine-lambrecht-ministerin-...

> Most
I used to do that until I moved to US. Now the stress of working long hours, constant anxiety of layoffs, working on next cutting edge tech, raising a kid without any family or community help, constant fear of losing healthcare insurance leaves me exhausted. I don’t have time to cook, exercise or sleep well. I guess that is the American dream.
Well, that's kinda why I think that the music industry, evil as they are, got the right idea. Vinyl's resurgence has nothing to do with its technical qualities, and as a result it's enough to dig up some ancient tech and pander to people a bit.
I think Python is pretty dominant in ML.

ML is a big space and depending on what you want to do it either requires an advanced degree and access to super computers or you are good to go on a normal laptop.

There are plenty of tutorial on applied ML with open data sets, code examples and so on. I think this is the best way to start. While you go, review fundamental concepts if you can. Sometimes it's also okay to accept that something just works because it is implemented inside a library. Note, that "learning ML" isn't really a thing in the real world. You can definitely become familiar with many concepts and implementations but "learning ML" imho suggests that there is nothing left to learn.

What is your goal? Why do you want to learn ML?
Is Helium mandatory for MSIX-packaged apps?
Go to a rural area ,with some good friends of yours, intract with local peoples.
New AI Anime Model – Anything V4 – Generate Without Login
An RTS we developed just recently (Iron Harvest) is still based on the same basic principle. But instead of peer to peer we use a "smart" proxy server that receives the commands of all clients and sends the entire sequence back to the client. That way if one client has a high ping the other players latency isn't affected.
> It‘s cliché but not very far from the truth that vinyl records are the hipster male equivalent of designer handbags.

I don't think so. I for one buy the vinyls of (new and old) albums I love to listen so much that I can put time aside to solely listen to that album and do nothing else.

Buying vinyls just for buying them is just plain consumerism, and not different than buying things you don't need, or buying just for impressing others.
They do put different mixes on vinyl due to its technical limitations.

One significant difference is that vinyl recordings are de-essed, because the medium has trouble dealing with high-slope sounds such as loud white noise.

Distortion from slope-limiting is actually more pleasant to the ear than say hard clipping, but sometimes you really don't want to have it at all.
Building sway trapping people in elevators, or putting them out of use?
This has no bearing on cheating. You can do this approach and still have an authoritative server which clients only send their inputs to.
I think it has to do with text being much more precise. Your stably diffused cartoon avatar having 6 finger is not nearly as noticeable as a language model's chat mispelling every second word. So you need less resources to get to a human acceptable result
As it turns out, obesity is one of the main risk factors for people dying of Covid. This is inconvenient, so no one ever talks about it.

That being said, the vaccines worked. The Covid culture war was dumb as fuck
> If you want to opt out of this - and you trust the IAB to handle your data safely - you can submit your email address and phone number to https://transparentadvertising.org/.

What does HN say, do we trust them for this?
The point of vinyl is the tech, not the music. It is for people who want to fidget with an alternative way of playing music, not necessarily better, just different. Similar to people who like gaming on retro consoles.
Don't do it. Easily detected as plagiarism.
The only reliable way of creating a huge fortune from scratch is to start a business. Many failures for me before it worked out.
The type of people who do that save money buy buying a 3 year old car. The people who buy new cars mostly wouldn't be seen in an older car.
Ask HN: Continuous Learning Communities?
Hello HNers! I am looking for some good learning communities. It could be a subreddit or online forum or IRC/Slack channel where the community focuses around learning technical skills.

I have been lately feeling that I want to devote more time to learning new technical skills or developing my existing technical skills more. Doing that requires putting effort on a small number of skills day after day, week after week. A community like this can provide motivation and reminder to spend time on my skill frequently enough. Any ideas or recommendations?

About what kind of technical skills? Anything is fine. Post your recommendations and links to communities and I will decide for myself what interests me. Other readers of this thread can decide for themselves if something interests them.
This is ancient history so I might be misremembering, but I think float16 first appeared in NVidia GPUs in the 00s when even GLSL was not yet mainstream and the thing to use were the {ARB,NV}_fragment_program* pseudo-assembly languages.
I haven’t played TP, though I’d like to. Also I love Zelda and I don’t think the IP is “ruined” like the OP said.

BoTW has some anime influences with a feminine but gender neutral Link, animal sexualization, and a few lolis. That being said, BoTW might be my favorite game of all time.
It is not all about the technology. Someone comes over to your home, they don't get to browser your CV flac collection, and talk about it. Log into Spotify and presented with a world of choice, it's harder to choose. Go to your collection, flick through the records discover favourites you haven't listened to in ages. putting a record on is a ritual, demanding attention, flicking through files is just for diverting attention. The best tech doesn't mean the best product.
> An "exchange only" policy should be in place. And only for unopened items.

Your idea needs to have a meeting with Mr Reality.

a) The business world is competitive, you are competing with the likes of Amazon who have a no-nonsense returns policy. If you become known as a business with a troublesome returns process, then customers will simply vote with their feet.

b) People returning stuff after short-use is, like it or not, a fact of life in today's world. Ask anyone who sells fashion goods ... girls buy stuff for the Friday night party and return it on Monday. It happens and it's basically a cost of doing business. If the stock is any good, it will get sold anyway, just as nearly-new instead of new.

c) In an increasing number of jurisdictions, the law falls on the side of the buyer. For example in the EU, your "exchange only" policy would be an absolute non-starter (with very few exceptions, e.g. food items, healthcare items etc).
This is cool. Loved it. But the quality is kind of abysmal.
Bummer, list comprehension is deprecated, you should instead use a "virtual list" maintained by some kid who will shortly be losing interest ...
I listened to radio stations for working
It is, yes. "Following" is the same "Latest Tweets" chronological feed. I just confirmed it on my device to be sure. (by scrolling a large distance several times and checking timestamps)
Ugh, worked with Keras/tf last week for the first time in a few years.
It's so hard going back to tf after working in PyTorch.

It just feels so clunky, and progress was so slow.
Do you have any references or diagrams for the system?