skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What I seem to be a slow learner at is reading notes fast (treble and bass clef), and remembering the theory and logic behind the tones.

I recommend taking it slow. Reading music is not different from reading text. You have to get used to it. Don't be afraid to read absurdly slow, and also play that slow. You'll learn double fast!

Also try discovering chords and intervals by yourself. Sit and have fun exploring than in different keys. After that when you get bored do a chord with the left and improvise with the right playing only the belonging to the chord, that's how I started improvising and it's great!

What I mean is that some time you have to experiment yourself with music to be able to relate and really grasp the theory. They /key/ is to have fun and be curious.

Music theory is great and academic pieces are very important but I recommend you to print music you really like that is below your level so you can play a lot of music to enjoy and give you time to have fun and discover your instrument beyond formal practice.
> Rather, the importance of finding value and meaning in one's work is a complementary means of achieving personal fulfillment and happiness.

I wholeheartedly agree! I do know a few people that love their jobs and I envy them to no end, they are inspiring, shining suns. But I remain firm on my opinion that this is far out of reach for most people.
This comment is a list of numbers represented as ASCII and is copyrightable.
If I'm drinking calories in the form of fermented grass juice -- or anything that isn't plain water -- it'd better be delivering some sort of effect having substance, be it caffeine or alcohol.
Ask HN: Went Back to School – Financing Fell Through
I was a Senior Software Engineer (iOS) at a Silicon Valley startup and returned to school to finish my bachelor's degree at an Ivy League school. I wasn't forced, and I gave my previous employer a year's notice that I was leaving for school. So right now, I'm having trouble getting approved for a student loan. I need to work, but I am having issues gaining traction in the job market. Any suggestions? I did freelance work while in school, so I have kept my skills up. I have seven years of experience with iOS, but that doesn't seem to be enough in the current climate. I missed out on the crazy salary inflation of 2021, so I'm not expecting more than I was earning. How do I put this across to hiring manager without seeming desperate to the point where I hurt my chances?
We’ve been very deliberate about making this not a traditional gaming laptop, but a laptop that can be configured with enough performance to play intense games. You can configure it without the Graphics Module and have a high-performance 16” notebook with reconfigurable input and easy repairability and upgradeabilty.
I was going to have you sign a release but I got high.

I was going to ask you to uncuff me so I could get consent but I was high.

Now you’re embarrassed AF for wasting time and money and I know why.

Because you’re high because you’re so high, because power makes you hi-igh. La do da da da dah!
It might be a devops person who leaked it
Trade secrets might still apply, so you might just end up seeing companies not sharing their models with academics.

Meta might've lost trade secret protection here, as they shared the weights with pretty much anyone with an .edu email address. A court might rule that they didn't take enough steps to keep the model weights secret.
The XDG user dirs are not part of the XDG basedir spec.
Shortened title to fit. Full title: Fireside Chat with Ilya Sutskever and Jensen Huang: AI Today and Vision of the Future. This is a GTC talk so it requires registration to view but is free otherwise.

Great talk between them. Ilya makes an interesting point about how the NN used in ChatGPT learns a representation of the process that produced the text and as such has some inherent world model, i.e., not just a stochastic parrot.
There was a solid discussion about this yesterday as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273398
Yeah, if you are talking about organizations then that's possibly the only one. Seems strange though.
On the other hand, this is a nice TOFU-style double check. The first time HN user "defanor" went to that page, these were the fingerprints; if later someone somehow invades the github documentation server (or somehow MITMs your HTTPS connection to it), and changes the fingerprints there, they will no longer match the ones saved in the comment above.
This is awesome, unfortunately my experience using it was comical because I'm waitlisted for both Bard and Bing (the pains of being Canadian I suppose)

Really looking forward to this when big tech decides my country is worth catering to! Thanks for making it!
But how else would you do it though? If the party list is chosen by the people, every voter has to elect hundreds of politicians; or else you need to stratify the country along location or some other dimension and have every stratum vote for one politician. AKA FPTP.
How compatible are parts from the previous framework laptop? Can the previous one be upgraded with parts from the new one? Seems like that's a big part of what makes a framework laptop no?
"so I was at this party and this British dude was so drunk he starts speaking, no shit, in Elvish. Like full-on Tolken, man!"
Some dev work is billed for 300$-400$/hour.
Stupid greed is taking so much as to starve your supply. Smart greed is sustainable greed. Smartest greed is one that feeds back into the supply, making it grow exponentially.
Sorry, you go into someone's home as a public official, you should have ZERO expectation of privacy. Warrent, raid, SWAT, whoever, however, whatever, whenever. You don't want your face shown, stay masked up.
Yes like tears of themis for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miHoYo.tot...

By the developers of Genshin Impact.
Or you could just buy HSMs that can do the number of private key operations per second that you require.

I've never seen the inside of GH's network, but I would be surprised to discover they're not distributing the load of SSH termination across a fleet of machines. Just put a HSM on each of the machines that terminates a SSH connection.
This sounds similar to "prompt tuning": https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/02/guiding-frozen-language-mo...
Small size, big impact: check your screen resolution under 1 second
I did specify why it's "absolute hell": The UI moves. UI elements that move around are bad for usability because of factors I already mentioned.

The best UIs are those that keep movements and other dynamic facets to the absolute minimum. A boring UI is a good UI.
I would imagine the terminology is much the same, actually. Most vocabulary related to music in English is borrowed from Italian, French and German.

Good luck!
I game on a framework laptop with an eGPU. I have a Razor Core Chroma with a Radeon 2060. There’s plenty of guides out there to get it up and running [^1]. I did try to get it working under Linux but wayland support for Nvidia is still a mess. For now, I’ve been dual-booting Windows to play my games on. It works really well.

1. https://egpu.io/best-external-graphics-card-builds/
If you're a web designer or developer, it's important to understand the difference between screen resolution, pixel ratio, and browser window size.

* Screen resolution refers to the number of pixels displayed on a screen.
* Pixel ratio (scale factor) is the ratio of the resolution in physical pixels.
* Browser window size is the actual size of the browser window.

Numbers can vary depending on the device being used, as well as the user's preferences for how they view the website (full screen or window).

Try the following screen resolution tool, which allows you to quickly check your browser and screen resolution, as well as your viewport size and device pixel ratio.

It's free and lightweight.
At only 36kB it loads quickly.

https://www.kodingkitty.com/work/screen-resolution/

Yours,
KodingKitty
I think you may be misunderstanding me - I was saying that the comment I replied to was describing the limits of the 1st amendment, not freedom of speech. Free speech is a principle, not a right granted by the constitution.
Spoken like a pirate, it's doubly funny, to be shure...

Meanwhile these stones are used being used to collateralize millions in loans,,, aarrr!
I think the poster is stating that their family has four gaming laptops, but zero Framework Laptops, since our first product only shipped in 2021.

On your trackpad, could you reach out to our support team? We definitely want to resolve that for you.
Most HSMs have modes that allow for load to be distributed amongst multiple HSMs.
I had to scan the readme to make sure this story wasn’t about applying machine learning to radio communication.
It definitely existed and it was definitely on steam as of last week. Not sure why it’s not there anymore. But it’s a real game.
An upgradeable GPU is a game changer for laptops. Have you settled on an existing standard like MXM, or a new one?
I grew up in the same era of N64 gaming and we're just old. I go back and play goldeneye now and it's fairly clunky. TH2 and M64 hold up pretty well though. All is not lost to the past though as newer Mario games are control strong that offer options not available in the past to a player, like Cappy. Gang Beasts is an interesting experiment in character control because it seems to be a game that is really difficult with regards to the controls. You can get around and have fun but if you want to be good there's a steep learning curve for the controls. Once you have a pretty good handle on how to manipulate your character and interact with others it's fairly satisfying.
While having hardware compatibility issues suck, I'm not sure what your problems have to do with AMD's mobile APUs, which have their USB2/3/4 controllers implemented on-die (block diagram: https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2021/12/AMD-Rembrandt-Diagram.j...) not using an external controller.

USB features depend ultimately on the laptop manufacturers' implementation (eg neither the HP or Lenovo models linked implement USB4 but they are in other models like the Lenovo Z13), but I haven't seen any that claim to have DP-alt support not be able to support it. As the Framework will have USB4 (and DP-alt and PCIe encapsulation are mandated by Microsoft for Windows 11 compatibility), I don't think that's a real worry for anyone.
Girls Who Code – Not being perfect is perfectly normal
>> If a GPT is trained on real-world sensory data, it will develop a spacio-temporal 'world model', almost by definition.

Or, most likely, it will develop a model of the data it was trained on, and not the world this data came from.

I'm also curious what you mean by "real-world sensory data". So far, deep neural net models have been trained mainly (say 80%) on things like text, images, time series... and that's about it really. What is "real-world sensory data" in that context?
I just wish they didn't needlessly introduce asymmetry with new names like .config. What's wrong with .local/etc?
Just a guess from the names, but these sound like debug plugins built in by the OpenAI developers, not real unreleased plugins.
I propose "woolies".
> If you've got one key, it has to be transferred to each HSM module, which means it's going to be in their deploy code

There's products out there that allow for keys to be securely shared amongst multiple HSMs, without the key ever existing in clear text outside the HSM.
Eh, doubtful. You'd need America's awful tax system for it to exist and I suspect that Japan is more like Europe where the tax authority does everything for you and you just log in and confirm that it looks right
Kailh makes a scissor switch module but I think it's still too thick. http://www.kailh.com/en/Products/Ks/NotebookS/
Also poor hygiene.
The Internet Loves Bad News. and That's Bad
Latin languages use IA
Better than losing your life, no?
Replace AI in your text with crypto and its like history repeating itself. Instead of hearing about ICO's we will be hearing about GPT bots/plugins. Will the hype train and gold rush noise suffocate any burgeoning tech from finding the light of day (again)?
That 4B # encompasses AI and Metaverse. Hard to tell where the $ is actually going (plus, metaverse requires AI advancement).

That’s one big reason the stock is up: $4B in the metaverse is nonsense. $4B in AI, though? Transformational
That's not all of what an HSM is. Or should be. The beefier ones come with rf shielding to prevent bad guys from trying to reduce the key search space by listening to EM energy coming out of the box. And active key zeroation if it thinks you're trying to drill through the epoxy surrounding the crypto boundary.
Do you consider that every neuron in the brain has unique DNA and ancestorship ?
There is a diference between the "root" key and the keys you can load into a TPM or HSM. The former is sort of built in, but you can provision several TPM/HSMs with loadable keys and then use those for your crypto implementations - otherwise, every time a TPM/HSM broke, you'd risk data loss.

If anyone is using a Windows machine with TPM-based bitlocker encryption, you have followed the instructions at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-your-bit... I hope?
Performance testing of the most efficient RAID for NVMe drives
Large asteroid to fly between Earth and the moon on Saturday
Anyone who’s looked critically at the studies of social media on teens, especially teenage girls, will observe how catastrophic its effects are on the mental health of the minors. It spikes anxiety, reduces confidence, and induces dopamine addiction, which hurts attention span and cognition. It’s a disaster, and I understand the intent of the bill on its face.

That said, I agree in principle that parents, for their children’s best interests, have a prerogative to control what their children are exposed to. Social media is absolutely within that domain. I’m inclined to believe anyone who disagrees with that principle is a potential predator who seeks to undermine that authority.

I do not think age verification with a government-issued ID is an effective way to do this. At least not as it is. There is undue risk exposing sensitive personal information. If the folks working in govt were more clever, they’d see that the verification would instead depend on some hash or digital signature and where the government would issue some certificate authority to mediate the legitimacy of the signatures. Zero-knowledge proofs are the answer here.

In all honesty though, I think the more appropriate solution is to simply have parents themselves (as opposed to governments) to moderate their children rather than control how content providers conduct their business. If their children cannot be trusted with a cellphone to keep away from tik-tok, then simply lock down their device or give their children a dumb phone. The margin of abuse and risk is far greater with a centralized power like the government. Governments turn corrupt all the time.
>Because Steam has always done right by PC gamers

It took a lawsuit to get refunds for Steam.

>absolutely despise any forms of dark patterns

Steam has been doing lootboxes and NFTs for more than 10 years
Related: Sim Central Bank - https://benoitessiambre.com/macro.html

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785199
Yes, it was free and global. The main things that Google Maps had over MapQuest were a nice AJAXy interface and (eventually) street view. But MapQuest was itself basically a generational improvement on AAA's "TripTiks."
Some degree of “human authorship” is a requirement for copyright. I don’t see how weights generated by training an AI would be protected.
Programs that cannot deal with removing ~/.cache at any point are simply faulty because at that point it is state and not cache which by definition can be recreated at the point of access.
I mean, Fire Emblem is pretty much a dating sim, as was Valkyrie Chronicles. And Persona, and many other JRPGs.

Matchmaking your soldiers together to find romance on the battlefield is a common trope and basically is a dating-sim with regards to "guess the character's likes/dislikes". (Giving gifts to various characters to earn romance points in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, for example)

There's just, also a whole battlefield / tactics game going on at the same time. But the dating-sim portion gives extreme benefits (support-class A or S gives huge bonuses that allows more attack/defense/dodge).
The School of Names∹⸻Correcting Names
> It has been on a hiring binge, adding more than 230,000 staff since August 2020.
Can you share the screen resolution? I own the 13 but the PPI on that screen makes fractional scaling necessary for me (which doesn't always behave well on Linux/Wayland). I'm wondering if I'll be able to comfortably use integer scaling with the 16. And if you can answer... are any screen replacements with different resolutions in play for the 13 chassis?
My experience with Accenture over the years, which may or may not be representative of the IT services branch, is that they hire for cheap at their centers in India, and bill 50x of what they pay the workers.

I have nothing against them. I understand that Accenture goes for the lowest pay possible. Quality is delivered accordingly.

Smart and experienced engineers in places like India have better things to do than working for Accenture.

It is still fascinating to see how big companies with supposedly smart people, keep overpaying for these IT mills. There is not a single one I have interacted with (Atos, Accenture, Tata), that hasn't provided a subpar service for a sky high fee.
A somewhat dated idiom to mean a thing is distinctively good.
I use a laptop stand at my desk, but a laptop chin helps to not bend the neck so much when the laptop is on a… lap.
Are you suggesting that Mayak was densely populated in 1957? Or that it even is today? Neither of us would have ever heard of the place, or any place within a thousand kilometers ten times its size, if not for the 1957 incident.
Anyone here can explain why is Peter Thiel so dedicated to conservatism and the culture war?

I don't get how bankrolling people who actively support policies that hurt minorities (like the LGBT community) can bring any upside to him. What is his endgame here?
I work in the legal cannabis industry and the only legit use of crypto I know of is for transactions for otherwise cash-only dispensaries.
At least one of the plugins is called Pandora IAM and it says "Pandora is the Identity and Access management platform that manages Netflix's Workforce and Partner...".

Sounds like it's both debug/test plugins and unreleased plugins, or at least, WIP plugins.
And those devs, who are usually offshore, get paid $30-40/hr, while Accenture gets the difference.
They could keep hashes of every sentence they output and then check an input text for the presence of those. Too many hits->contaminated.

Vendors could share those hashes with each other. That leaves the models run by parties outside of the big entities to deal with.
For those wondering why this is interesting: This technique is being used to reproduce[0] the Alpaca results from Stanford[1] with a few hours of training on consumer-grade hardware.

I believe there will soon be a cottage industry of providing application-specific fine-tuned models like this, that can run in e.g. AWS very inexpensively. The barrier today seems to be that the base model (here, Meta's LLaMA) is encumbered and can't be used commercially. Someone will soon, I'm confident, release e.g. an MIT-licensed equivalent and we'll all be off to the races.

[0] https://github.com/tloen/alpaca-lora

[1] https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html
They may not have been "hacking", but they definitely are a "hacker" so it's really a matter of semantics.
We see interesting use cases for the small modules on the left and right as well if you are not some who wants to slide the keyboard to the left and put a numpad on the right.

We’re showing a prototype of an LED Matrix that can be used for low res information display, but other things like a row of extra buttons, a narrow LCD, a capacitive slider, and others are possible too.

As a sibling comment noted, it is also possible for a module developer to create a full width keyboard with a different layout.
Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes
You're absolutely right but also it works - stock went up 4% immediately.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent etc etc.
Failing is how we humans learn! Through our failures, or the failures of others. It's normal, healthy, and OK. You like all of us have failed before, right? And you survived! It's what help make you who you are.

Some decisions are not right or wrong, some decisions have no serious lasting impact. What do you want for dinner? What do you want to watch on tv tonight? There's no choosing wrong, there's no perfect answer.

Concern that you're a poor husband sounds a lot like imposter syndrome. The thing is, having those concerns means you're far from being a poor husband. Bad husbands don't care if they are bad husbands, and usually convince themselves that they aren't the problem. Communication is the biggest most important thing in making a relationship work. Focus on that.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is a book by John Gottman that will help.

Every adult on the planet is an ineffective adult. It sounds like you have a lot of high expectations of yourself. No one is perfect. No one has all of their shit together. No one person can do everything on their own that they "should" be doing to be a "proper" adult.

You have to remember to show yourself some compassion. What advice would you give to someone that came to you with these concerns?

I recommend reading "The way of the peaceful warrior" by Dan Millman.

I too am naive and overly trusting. I would rather live my life with the occasional screw over and manipulation then living jaded and distrusting. I want to live a life of kindness and love. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but more often it does.

This too shall pass. Suicide only ensures that things can never get better.

The simplest "food for the soul" is to eat, shit, and sleep. Everything else can be addressed later.
> [...] the actual transport layer keys are ephemeral and aren't derived at all from the host key, right?

Great! Then I can communicate confidentially with whomever is MITM'ing me.

/s
He's immune to any sort of impacts of such policies.

I say this having been loosely associated with that circle of people for a short time several years back.
There is the HostKeyAgent configuration directive, which communicates over a unix domain socket to make signing requests.

https://framkant.org/2017/10/strong-authentication-openssh-h...
That has never been a standard as many programs have multiple dotfiles in ~. But even if it was, there are still good arguments for the XDG Basedir Spec: common way to change the location via environement variables as well as ability to split cache and non-cache.
"We performed a blind pairwise comparison between text-davinci-003 and Alpaca 7B, and we found that these two models have very similar performance: Alpaca wins 90 versus 89 comparisons against text-davinci-003."

https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html
So when there are tens of thousands of these plugins how are folks expected to easily find/install them? Seems like same discoverability issue as the app stores.
Not sure where one would actually get it these days, but here's a page about it: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MatchesAndM...

There was a fun thread where someone played through it on, er, SomethingAwful, possibly? Some old forum.

(Strictly speaking I think it was a bit of a Jane Austen mashup, but mostly Pride and Prejudice; if you screwed up you could end up marrying the awful vicar, for instance)