skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, actually. There are interests enough in having something like this that someone will even pay artists to make the art to feed the model, and as the models improve, they'll probably need increasingly less training data, too. A human artist does not need thousands of samples to copy Picasso's or Monet's style. They need extensive training and practice to get to the point they can copy anybody's style at all (I'm completely incapable of it for all practical purposes, for instance), but once they have the training they can do a passable job of copying a style off of just a single sample. Skilled artists who have studied history and go beyond the surface of the art can even do a more-than-passable job.

e.g., there's copying Dali's color tone, realism level, and general look, and then there's understanding the why of what he is doing and being able to translate that out with some skill. You may never 100% match Dali directly, but a human doesn't necessarily need a lot of data to reach this level. And of course there will be a valid market in copying his tone, realism level, and general look even without a deeper level of semantic copying. A lot of the AI art is already this, but the person crafting the prompt and then performing a conscious selection of the result can bring their own semantics to the art in the process, it is not strictly speaking necessary to have copied them from the original artist.

This is actually part of what is going through my mind when I expect this will be solved via legislation. Well... for a given value of "solved". I expect whenever Congress gets around to this, any law they will end up passing will have HN up in arms and I expect to be armed with a torch & pitchfork myself, such is my confidence in Congress on this front. But even given that Congress is going to royally mess it up, it may yet be less messed up than the inevitable hodgepodge of conflicting precedents that will precede Congress' efforts, because while in my opinion there is no coherent legal principle that will hold the decisions together, the lawsuits will arise, the decisions will be made, and the precedents will be set. The mere inability to retain logical coherence does not stop our legal system.
I don't have much to add except that I've also experienced brief but seismic shifts in my perspective and my view on social interactions. It's been surreal to say the least, and in both of these different states I had a hard time seeing how I ever could have been in the other one.
Yep, the plugin works with MPE, though I'm also planning to add support for MTS-ESP, and MIDI 2 when it has wider support.

I haven't used it, but Scale Breaker is definitely a cool plugin, I do plan on stealing some features from it. Pivotuner has a step up in that it supports microtonal modulation resulting naturally from pure intonation (which is a bit of a niche case), but Scale Breaker's ability to sync across tracks is super useful and something I am planning to add.

Thanks for sharing your track, it's always nice to hear things using pure intonation!
They are also expanding in EEA: Germany, France, Italy for sure. I don't know about other markets.
Hell just threaten it and make a few examples of folks to dissuade it. A business isn’t going to risk it if they’re worried they could be the unlucky ones. The ones hitting the top search results aren’t randoms making hundreds of sites, it’s often just C-tier blog sites that depend on dishing this stuff out regularly to get ad traffic.

I’m not saying I have all the answers here but I feel like this shouldn’t be too hard to at least make a dent in.
A.I. Versus the Law
You’re probably hyperventilating. Try breathing less laboriously, have a more relaxed breathing
When asked if parking lots should be covered with solar panels, XKCD says,"sure": https://xkcd.com/1924/

That said, I questioned the wisdom of building a solar panel and then expecting it to keep working even though things are driving all over it.
A few more Drumheller facts:

Drumheller was one of the filming locations for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

The Star Trek museum originally located in Vulcan, Alberta is now in Drumheller.
Wow, yes, I hadn’t noticed how high the top end went.
I didn't realize it's OK to record a film in a theater in the UK
> how is ChatGPT like a famous robot secretly operated by a human

For one thing it's being trained by a bunch of Kenyans behind the scenes:

https://www.pcgamer.com/chatgpt-outsourcing-report-time/
Most of it comes from a philosophical perspective, rather than a technical one. In many forms, viruses usually find their way in from software vulnerabilities, leaving deliberately (albeit unknowingly) installing in the minority. With the open source/free software development cycle, it should be possible to eliminate most avenues of vulnerability.

So in short, the questions we should be asking are:

1. How do viruses find their ways in?

2. And, what can be done (as a user or developer) to prevent that?

These are obvious, I know, and the software devs for Windows aren't deliberately writing insecure software, but these questions are ones better seen from a behavioural point of view.
"Rewritten for spelling, grammar and readability:"
> CTR-mode stream ciphers are just a PRF stream

Not exactly a pseudorandom function, but a pseudorandom permutation. This matters as soon as you start approaching the birthday bound:

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59738/what-are-th...
No, it is definitionally more expensive than a normal db. The entire security model of anything blockchain is “it’s too expensive to get to 50%”, and as such is littered in large losses in the small blockchains where 50% was not too expensive.

There is nothing that a block chain does that has any value over a database of you are assuming trusted participants.

The only thing block chains do is - questionably - resolve that problem. Now let’s go and look at a dmv example: do we believe that the dmv is going to allow anyone to write whatever they want in this nonsense?

Let’s look at other constraints: vehicles can and are seized - when that happens the car owner has no say in the ownership, and so this idiotic application of blockchain nonsense can’t do the other thing it’s ostensibly good “the owner of the real thing controls the blockchain representation of that thing”.

Similarly, mistakes are common in the real world, and a typo in the dmv can’t make a car permanently ownerless, so reversing changes has to be supported, so there goes “immutable” (which is always a nonsense goal).

Seriously, the sooner these blockchain grifters are gone the better.

The only thing blockchain has enabled consistently is crime: fraud, grifting, and ransomware. Certainly the latter is arguably the only example of something that is impossible without blockchain, so I guess blockchains did do at least one thing new.
I know this is a typo, but I'm imagining that substraction is a form of abstraction where you take things away to make them simpler to understand.
Google has 256 billion dollars in revenue. Can't they use some of that to pay the employee?
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It is incredibly important to avoid putting tag-firebreaks in the code base — anything that stops a new developer from being able to navigate from symbol to definition, or from definition to all uses of that function.

A couple of examples:

ACTIONS = {
“swim”: Swimmer,
“skate”: Skater,
}

# …pages of code…

def f(action, *args):
…
mod = ACTIONS[action]
mod(*args).do()

At face value, this pattern doesn’t do anything particularly wrong but anyone who arrives at f on their code safari won’t see any symbols for either Swimmer or Skater. It breaks their flow the same way switching languages might do. Sure, ACTIONS is only a hop away, but that’s a level of indirection that could have been avoided. Even worse, what if the class name was derived from a string?

The fact that the action implementations are chosen at runtime also makes life a bit awkward but the primary issue is not being able to immediately see the action classes and jump to their implementations.

Another one is calling shell scripts. We all have projects, I’m sure, where we have to shell out to some common legacy tool:

def f():
run(“legacy.sh”)

def g():
run(“legacy.sh”)

Wrapping the script in a native function does wonders for making it easier to find, especially for the poor, sacred soul who deprecates it from the codebase one day:

def f():
run_legacy()

def g():
run_legacy()

# …pages of code…

def run_legacy():
run(“legacy.sh”)

Any unfriendly pattern that breaks tag-hopping / IDE-integration is yet another small chafing of your colleagues‘ productivity. Think twice before you introduce that YAML file which defines behavior, instead of implementing it natively — your friends (and their jump-to-definition muscle memories) will thank you.
Thank you for clarifying, I support a universal, premium free, public insurance plan.
Perhaps the iwatch could do that?
Not even a christian but painting all churches as "evil organizations" is super inflammatory and unfair
Intel Q4 Financial Report [pdf]
> ChatGPT is merely a statistical aggregate of what people says.

That's the crazy part. This is pretty much how Google has worked for like 30 fucking years -- links to the relevant content that has the most links!

But people are all, "OMG ChatGPT is an amazing breakthrough that's going to argue in front of the Supreme Court!"
Great game! Thanks for posting!
Or Rust, which is very popular on HN.
I was pretty excited about this result until actually going through the quiz.

They give you so many hints, I don't think you can draw conclusions from this.

For example:

- In multiple videos an ape is eating, and another ape is trying to grab food out of their mouth. The options presented are like: "Give me that food" or "Move to a new position". Obviously the food is relevant.

- In multiple videos a larger ape presents its back to the other, while the smaller moves towards hopping on or grooming it. Clearly this is the "climb on my back" or "groom me" options.

In addition to providing a highlighted illustration, multiple choice, and slow-mo replays, it really just seems like this quiz was (intentional or not) designed to show an obvious positive result. Looking forward to better research on this.
> This is covered in the article.

Nothing explains why 12 specifically. And if 12 is a minimum, what's the optimum?

> The key point to take away here is that AR/VR aren’t one hard problem but a collection of hard problems which all need to be solved for most people to find the experience compelling — all with tight physical constraints.

And it's a pretty bad point because it only works if you constrain yourself to head-mounted (including battery) standalone devices. The article gives a nod to other ways of doing it, but otherwise ignores them for all its main arguments.

And you don't need optimal to be compelling.
> Why would I want to strap this phone to my face?

This is VR’s biggest problem. Normal people aren’t willing to put on a bucket on their face, even if it represents the future. Instead most people would rather form all kinds of weird and untrue speculation. Case in point:
“I don't need a VR library full of fake volumes of Encyclopedia Brittanica, because I already have Wikipedia”

No one has actually built a library in VR because the screen resolution is too poor for reading large amounts of text. All you’ve proved is that you still haven’t tried modern VR.
Right but notice utility is mentioned nowhere. Demand is totally irrational, because it's human. See toilet paper, fujifilm x100v, tesla stock, NFTs. Supply can be arbitrarily subject to the irrational whims of humanity as well - see oil, diamonds.

"Supply + demand" seems an oversimplification of a huge chain of irrational human links.
Could be we're seeing an early version.

Once the keyboard enables creation of diamonds--and some way to specify yes/no and traverse those boxes--we'll be well on our way to flowcharts.

If one were navigating sub-levels of logic in a flowchart with keyboard, I wonder if it's better to have a modal experience or a top-level consistent experience.

The modal one gives feedback to the UI that we're in a nested part of the flowchart. The top-level always navigates boxes regardless of the type (rectangle or diamond). Or maybe some combination in between.

Just as a reminder about flowcharts:

> For many people it has long been article of faith
that flowcharting should precede coding. There is
a kernel of important truth here: coding cannot be
the first stage in building a program; it must be
preceded by design. But flowcharting is not designing.
Design is about structure, and flowcharts, as their
name suggests, are about the flow of control. At the
time when the designer should be thinking about the
shape of his problem, the flowchart encourages him to
think about execution of the program inside the
computer. Of course, some programmers who draw
flowcharts do produce well structured programs; but
their success is in spite of the technique, not because
of it. Flowcharts tend to conceal structure...

Principles of Program Design. M.A. Jackson (1975)
Ask HN: Why can't Google easily compete in AI?
Articles and comments are saying Google is facing great threats from AI, which seems strange considering they have a lot more resources than OpenAI, and a long history of implementing AI into their products, and they have legendary AI researchers on their payroll, with massive compute facilities. It would seem to a naive observer that they are well positioned to develop novel iterations on GPT and augment existing search products with it relatively easily. They already have the reach with the world's most popular domain name, and with all their other resources, seems hardly like the "existential" threat to their business as you see publicized.
> 99% of correlations that suggest interventions fail to find an effect

I'm genuinely trying to square your thinking with the specific services I listed in an earlier comment:

> housing services

It seems obvious and intuitive to me that providing discounted housing services would clearly have an effect. Clearly if we can manage spiraling housing costs, more people can stay housed and fewer people will be destitute. And the case in Vienna supports this notion:
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_articl...

Have you found an RCT-like study that provided affordable housing of this quality and failed to find an effect?

> mental health services

I would be surprised if you found that providing quality mental health services does not have an effect.

> medical services

This is another one which seems obvious and intuitive to me. A fair number of people in the USA end up homeless or destitute due to medical debt or lack of appropriate medical care. Every other major country offers some form of free medical care and I cannot see how this would fail to have an effect.

> transportation infrastructure

If you follow the urbanists on youtube or websites like Strong Towns it seems clear that requiring everyone to have a car places a heavy burden on the poor, and it seems obvious to me that if you have good transportation infrastructure (high speed rail between cities and good metro rail in cities, appropriate zoning for walkable neighborhoods), then it becomes much easier for the poor. This is not something that you can easily study as an RCT.

> and related things like maternity and paternity leave, good labor rights, good pay and fair working conditions

Again these are obviously beneficial.

I feel like I provided a lot of good examples and I am surprised by the continued assertion of "very very very weak evidence". Really? For every one of these things?
Navigating the threaded replies in slack is quite tedius. I agree it makes sense to reply this way.
The "Metaverse" has way too much hype right now, IMO it's damaging to the current VR audience, which is gamers. I've tried the "Metaverse" and it's an absolutely awful half baked collection of vaugeley purposed games and sandboxes.

But it's just one app on a quest, I uninstalled it and carried on using it for what it's meant for (gaming), rather than Zuckerbergs failed attempt at forcefully making it into some new market.

> They're basically just an android phone built into a headset, and they're capable of significantly less than a PC.

You're missing the value in these things, it's also capable of significantly more, because it's not all about how fast your GPU and CPU is. A lot of work has gone into taking commodity mobile technology and tightly integrating all of the sensors in a way which is low latency enough to make VR a pleasant experience rather than a horrifically sickening one.
I'm far from a data scientist. I'm just someone that has an interest in building UIs and saw a potential to look at data in a way I hadn't seen before. I'm not actively working on this right now, but if you'd like to drop a line for whatever reason, I still check my Twitter for messages when they come up.

https://twitter.com/mmabetsharp
We switched to OpenTelemetry agent from DataDog agent. Out of all commercial providers, Datadog is the worst one to show traces properly. Although it captures mostly the same traces, all of them have io.opentelemetry.something on UI making it very hard to read. I’ve tried Honeycomb, NewRelic, Lightstep.
Interesting, a lot of new languages are dynamic languages with types.

You should try crystal lang if you love writing ruby code.

crystal lang has both interpreter and compiler, so that you can debug with interpreter during development and run compiled binary in production.
Came across this and found really interesting. Would love to read more about why you are comparing this with elastic. Doesn't seem like a alternative to elastic. Elasticsearch is a search engine (indexing engine), but in your docs you state that parseable uses indexing free approach.
You'd be surprised how many people say the same thing seriously ala https://xkcd.com/1227/
That's stupid. Everyone kmows the first entry is, universally, look small/weak/vulnerable in a bad area.

Then there's the overall likelihood of getting mugged in a given place. I'm not too worried about getting mugged in Japan. And I'm not interested in going to high crime places.
I think Chris Rock has the right idea. Smack a MASSIVE tax on ammunition. Make illegal ammunition a BIG crime.

I'm talking ammo should be $50/bullet.

"I've got that bullet on layaway, as soon as I pay it off, you're dead MF'er!"
> as in one person buying ten isn’t 10 more owners but one, if he’d didn’t previously own one

The culture of gun ownership has changed a lot in my lifetime. IMO the fact that it's now fairly normal to own a small armory is more significant than the total number of people who own more than zero guns.
> why would it be the same for an automated process?

It's perfectly acceptable for a human being to drive a a car, but driving one drunk is completely unacceptable. Conversely, there is no rule against creating or consuming art while intoxicated.

So to answer your question, because it is not a matter of life and death. Take your argument and apply it to mass produced goods that were once the realm of only skilled craftsman.

> Is a human sitting on a neighborhood bench in view of your house the same thing as a surveillance camera on a nearby telephone pole?

If a person never leaves and keeps notes, yes, it is exactly the same. I'd call the police for stalking. The issue here is privacy, which is tangential to AI reproducing the styles of known individuals.

> The AI software has only "learned" in the sense that it has operated on the input data such that it can now provide outputs that are of convincingly high quality to make it appear to "know" what it is doing.

Completely disagree with you about the nature of learning here. If a person produces art in the style of an individual, they have no idea the internal machinations of the original artist, they just "appear to 'know' what they are doing".
The great Niklaus Wirth wrote a book which you might want to check out: Digital Circuit Design for Computer Science Students: An Introductory Textbook.
Just so we're clear - I'm not arguing that the Kenyans should not be offered the jobs, I'm arguing that they should have been paid at least $15/hr - that's what equal-pay-for-equal-work means. That they were paid only $2/hr is the exploitation.

Yes, my arguments are very direct and uncomfortable to hear, but if I may remind you, the judging started with your accusing me of hypocrisy, and of taking away rats from starving people, and of wanting poor people to die, when I neither said nor implied any such thing. You, Sir, even used "high morals" as a pejorative dog whistle against me. And now you want to go back to the very narrow argument? Don't dish it out if you can't handle the blowback.
Yes. Is there a specification for what we need to implement? The native SVG generator is easily modified.
At the risk of sounding flippant (which I promise is not the intention), if I care about type safety I don’t use python.
That's the problem. There is no clear definition of autism. It seems you can be slightly socially averse or have any obsession(hobby.)
If you use pandas with SQLAlchemy, you should be aware that pandas might not be fully compatible with SQLAlchemy 2.0 yet.

Some github issues:

https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/40686

https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/40460

I'm not actively following how compatible pandas has become, but you should absolutely test your code if you want to upgrade to 2.0.
A Thoroughly Digital Artifact
> besides the company that did crash bandicoot on the PS1. And even that one I'm unsure of as I feel it's been mythologized with how often it's pointed to.

Well, good instincts, because it wasn't. Naughty Dog used Lisp to write a compiler for an s-expression based C-like language called GOAL (it was kind of a macro-assembler with a register allocator). The reason for using s-expressions was to get a syntactic macro system at compile time.

The game engine was written in this GOAL language. There was no list processing (car, cdr) or garbage collection happening on a PS2, only during compilation in macro-expansion.
Thanks but I already have my own containers and infrastructure for dev and prod Rails.

It's fine for people who are just starting out or want a repeatable environment.

Also, if you want stability and fewer headaches long-term:

- use a RHEL-derived kernel and customize the userland (container or host) quay.io has a good cent 9 stream. Ubuntu isn't used at significant scale for multiple reasons, and migrating over later is a pain.

- consider podman over docker

- use packaging (nix, habitat, or rpms) rather than make install (and use site-wide sccache)

- container management (k8s or nomad)

- configuration management (chef) because you don't always have the luxury of 12factor ephemeral instances based on dockerfiles and need to make changes immediately without throwing away a database cluster or zookeeper ensemble

- Shard configuration and app changes, with a rollback capability

- Have CI/CD for infrastructure that runs before landing

- Monitoring and alerting

- Don't commit directly to production except for emergencies. Require a code review signoff by another engineer. And be able to back out changes.

- Have good, tested backups that aren't replication

- Don't sweat the small stuff, but get the big stuff right that doesn't compound tech debt
We need to stop national reporting on this things. Treat them as local news.
I’m writing my second video game (old school arcade style side-shooter) and hope I can use this to generate background chip tune music!
I somehow suspect you and OP are on the same (equally unhinged imo) side of this and you're having trouble recognizing fairly obvious sarcasm...
This should replace the OP link