skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The joy of tooling. If there's one tool it's not a mature ecosystem, if there's two, there's no standard way to do things.

"Cargo is not a build system" reminded me of "Cabal is not a package manager"

https://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after...
One question I have after all these articles and internal company presentations is: how exactly does Bazel track dependencies? Module A importing module B importing module C is a language-level feature, not a build system-level feature.
Quite a few European countries seem to have much less issues with their police forces. But you can’t just copy-paste solutions. “Weapon discharged - automatic suspension until proven innocent” just wouldn’t fit the way the US is.
internationally, 2 using cypto for illegal or unofficial means to transfer money
is definitely more than 90%. The rest can share the remaining 10%.
I know this is going to be controversial, but I think it has to be said. Jack ruined Twitter first [1] (by over-hiring and then selling it to Elon) and now it's Block's turn. He still made billions, while thousands got laid off and are still suffering under Elon's questionable so called leadership. Are these the entrepreneurs we should be looking up to? The tech industry is already facing the brunt because of the mistakes CEOs have done by "miscalculating" or "misjudging" the macroeconomic conditions; the same CEOs are enjoying their billions.

[1] https://twitter.com/jack/status/1588913276980633600
> But unlike WM that do tiling only, hyprland does more: it supports my keystrokes and lets me configure how much of space each window get, while also letting me "float" the windows like a regular window manager

All dynamic tiling WMs do those things. Hyprland is not special in that way.
>>Ah, yes, because cars and bikes represent totally comparable risks to others.

The point is that "I don't see a point in doing X because X has never happened to me" is not a good argument.

Let's try a better comparison then - maybe I should cancel my cycling liability insurance, because I never hit anyone with my bike then?

>>I'll be over here looking at the 1.3 million people who die in car accidents around the world and not caring about e-bikes at all.

I don't see how that's relevant to what I said - you will be punished more harshly if you cycle where you shouldn't. The number of people who die in car accidents bears no relation.
The difference is that bodycam footage disappears or is never released - citizen journalist footage is on YoutTube the next day
I started laughing but arent as far from crying as i would ike to.
> That isn't just magic. The longer a memory stays in your head, and the more times it's called up, the more likely that recollection is to be changed by your own brain. A written account of events shortly after they occur is a good way to protect against future damage to the memory.

> It doesn't mean that what's written is accurate to start with, we know how little eye witnesses and even our own senses can be trusted, but it's probably going to be a lot better than what we think happened days/weeks/years later.

This is great if you assume everyone is always telling the truth to the best of their ability, but that's not such a great assumption in court. Giving greater weight to notes mostly means that someone who plans to screw you over benefits from automatic victories against people who didn't plan not to get screwed.
The first thing I would say is that music theory is a very broad topic. You're going to have much better results if you study aspects of theory that you then practically apply in your musical life. So if you tend to play a certain style of music, learn the theory that applies to that first.

Eg say you play rock/blues piano (or generally play pop music). You might want to start with learning pentatonic and blues scales, first in the keys of the pieces you play a lot, then in all keys.

Say you like a certain player, you may want to look at a song they wrote/played, try to figure it out, try to understand how it works. So you could for example take apart the chord progression. Try to understand it harmonically, say there's a bit of the song that you like. Try to find other songs with a similiar progression. Then look at the voicings they use. Try to put those voicings into practise in your playing. Look at places you can use similar voicings for different chords.

Since you go to a class make yourself an exercise between classes to find in your normal music examples of the things you did in class.

There are very specific times when things like flashcards are going to be useful. For example, I made myself a deck of flashcards with different one-crotchet rhythmic snippets on them and used to deal myself out random bars of rhythms and then tap them out to improve my rhythm recognition for sight reading.

For theory in the mainstream/classical tradition, I would highly recommend getting the ABRSM guide to music theory by Eric Taylor. It comes in two books, and you can get "workbooks" of examples to just go through. It's a pretty solid intro to the basics and by the time you have done both books you are at the standard of "grade 8" in music theory.

From there, the traditional way to progress is to work on analyzing Bach Chorales (ie get that book which is just all the chorales) and then analyzing other major works from subsequent periods. Studying the chorales is a really excellent intro to most of the harmony that you will encounter until you get to the romantic period, and what I personally did is just work on Jazz harmony after that given that covers Romantic style harmony as well as the things that later 20/21C music does (eg if you can understand Miles you can understand Hindemith pretty much). For Jazz there are two books I would recommend, which are the Jazz Piano book and the Jazz Theory book both by Mark Levine.
You don’t believe they’d actually ask their citizens, do you?
You aren’t going to change the problems with the way the US is with “solutions” that fit the way the US is.
> What is the job of US soldiers in Syria?

Supporting ISIS and the kurds in destabilizing the country. Siria has oil and Assad is not an US friend so they must bring "democracy" to him.
We don't exactly know what intelligence means and if we are always intelligent.

An example about ping pong players. The pace of their movements is too fast for conscious thinking, so it's all trained reflexes with some overall strategic planning trying to keep up with events. There is no time to think about anything. Is intelligence suspended there, at least the general one? Then the same person stops playing and gives an interview about the game and full general intelligence turns on again.
> I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done. Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first, so that the finished product can be the explanation. I think this will be a major labor saving improvement.

In the context of software if you want to build something you will need a team. A team requires funding. I'm excited for AI tools like GPT/Copilot/etc. to be that team. If the price is reasonable no one needs to have enough wealth to employ other knowledge workers.
I'm still having really really big trouble getting anything useful out of ChatGPT. Even GPT-4. And I don't feel like I've even given it anything very difficult. I described a very simple service and asked it to generate an SQL schema. No matter how I asked, it would always get something wrong. If I managed to do a prompt that fixed one thing, something else would break. I know some people prefer to iterate by giving additional instructions, but I find that it never remembers everything I've said. It'll improve the code for a while, and then suddenly it'll revert to some very early version.

Then I tried giving it the SQL schema and asked it to generate an implementation using Flask, Flask-Login and Flask-Security. Very basic, but it'll just give me a short snippet and instructions on how to expand it. Which is fine, but I already knew that. If I ask it to generate the full API, it says that it's too much for it to process at once. If I try a smaller bit, it always gets some aspect of it wrong.

I've literally spent hours and hours and hours, and it just always fails somehow.

I feel like everything I see on YouTube is just very rudimentary, and not really what is usually needed when building real-life apps in 2023.
I'm not sure AI has 'feelings' but it definitely seems they have 'intuitions'. Are feelings and intuitions kind of the same?
Yes, what we need is more hecklers vetos over more spending.

Democratic control makes no sense. That's the entire reason the US has a representative government - direct large scale democratic control doesn't get anything done for starters. Heck, even the representative form has scaled to the point it doesn't get anything done.

If the control that already existed produced anything other than total dysfunction, things. never would have gotten to a point where half the spend isn't covered - there would be no reason for it to occur.

Your answer is to force it to happen anyway. Im sure that will end well
I don't think anybody wants to create a god that only can be controlled by worshipping and begging to it like in the history, if anything people themselves want to become god or to give themselves god-like power with AI that they have full control over.
But in the process of trying to do so we could end up with the former case where we have no control over it. It's not what we wanted, but it could be what we get.
Fear of bloated webapps taking over the world is maybe paranoia, but well placed paranoia at that. It's not the fault of the tools though, it's the developers who have a terrible mindset. You can argue that the "system" encourages this, but I think it could just be growing pains and incompetence. We're in the teenager phase of the web, in my opinion.

I also have an argument against the "too many languages" point: What's happening in the modern web is that HTML, CSS, and JS are slowly combining. A lot of projects are moving towards TSX components (Typescript and React, Vue, Svelte, etc.) with Tailwind CSS. So: Typing, layout, scripting, and styling all in one cohesive package that can easily be abstracted into components or classes.

I think eventually there will be a singularity of sorts where we have a standard toolkit/language.

From my own experience building websites and native apps, I can move around in web tech like a god damn ninja but I hate electron. I hate the inefficiency of using a browser for the UI. Qt and Gtk feel clunky and limited compared to web, but are native. But now there's Tauri, and I think it's a large step in the right direction.
I find these takes to be so disingenuous. The dollar is used in this manner in spite of legal and regulatory efforts. Bitcoin is used in this manner bc it was designed explicitly to be immune to these efforts.

I respect people who believe money should be uncensorable. But at least own that view and the implications, instead of all of this fiat whataboutism.
Not necessarily, increasing offer can increase demand. Look at the cheap burger you're having.
That will also remove:

1. medical pages/docs using the medical terms anus, rectum, nipple, and semen (note that other medical terms are not on that list).

2. pages/docs using "sex" to refer to males and females.

3. pages/docs talking about rapeseed oil or the plant it comes from (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed_oil).

The big problem with these lists is that they exclude valid contexts, and only include a small set of possible terms, so the model would get a distorted view of the world (like it learning that people can have penises, vaginas, breasts, but not nipples or anuses, and breasts cannot be big [1]). It would be better to train the models on these, teach it the contexts, and teach it where various usages are archaic, out dated, old fashioned, etc.

[1] but this is excluding the cases where "as big as", etc. are used to join the noun from the adjective, so just excluding the term "big breasts" is ineffective.
No more custom domains in Microsoft Outlook?
Just came across this and was wondering: Does anyone still have their email domain with Microsoft?
Lots of people suggesting great ways to get around reading sheet music!

But what's a way of getting fast at reading sheet music? I picked up the piano again after quitting several years ago, and one thing I'm really struggling with is glancing at sheet music and being able to play a phrase—I need to step out one note at a time. And I'm hopeless with ledger lines, I have to stick my face close and count the lines to see what note I'm playing. Sightreading exercises haven't helped because they're either too easy (I can easily follow notes across small intervals, from my music theory training) or too hard to make meaningful improvement on (I start doing the pause-and-name-each-note thing).
The supposed purpose of this tax on expensive properties—funding homeless programs—is dubious at best considering the insane amounts of money that Californian cities funnel towards them with no real improvement in the crisis. The reality is we need to treat the visibly homeless (i.e., drug addicted, mentally ill) which would require bringing back mental institutions. But that seems politically unviable.

Regardless, I’m always happy to tax the truly wealthy more.
I’m not sure that they are that highly regarded - especially given that one goal is to protect public confidence in the police.

The criticism is pretty strong.

https://novaramedia.com/2022/11/21/why-are-we-still-pretendi...
No. It's much worse than that. It doesn't remember what it just said the message before.

The thing I don't understand about it is that it works pretty great for a while but, eventually, it starts acting erratically, forgetting things it knew, not following instructions, etc. It's not that it forgets old things or can't learn new things, it just becomes dumb.

Maybe that's what you're talking about but I don't think AGI is going to have the memory of a goldfish.
> The majority of Bitcoin mining is done exclusively using clean renewable energy sources.

Do you have evidence that over half of miners are on exclusively clean energy? That is a slightly different claim than this industry group recently makes about the overall energy mix:

"the global bitcoin mining industry’s sustainable electricity mix has improved marginally to 58.9% and remains one of the most sustainable industries globally."[1]

Regardless, I'd have to consider myself unimpressed when a) almost half of a large amount of energy used isn't sustainable b) at least some of that usage is simply pushing other would-be consumers of renewable energy onto fossil fuel sources, regardless if some of what is used for crypto is purely excess production, and c) unlike the other industries refered to in the quote, this industry's additions to society are negligible d) the vast majority of the energy burden is self-imposed. It is a very peculiar situation to feel compelled to try to defend, I imagine.

1 https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/bitcoin-mining-council-surv...
That makes sense, but [1] lists 119 songs were Michael Jackson is the writer or co-writer. So reducing him to a vocalist [2] in this context makes little sense to me.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_written_by_Mich...

[2]: I'm not trying to say that being a vocalist is somehow "worse" than being a songwriter, just that removing a skill he clearly had (writing songs) is weird.
If you'd spent 2 years researching a topic you'd likely think otherwise.
So they use cog before installing it? Apparently this wasn’t proofread.

Also, is it just me or there are currently more ways to run LLMs on a CPU than on a GPU springing up on GitHub? I have hacked my own, but my chat UI is awful, so what is the nicest, pre-packaged CUDA-friendly way to run this now?
You could just use a component library with standards.

Your argument is essentially that freedom means bad outcomes, but it actually means more possible outcomes.
I don’t know how true the allegations are, but this is a link to a Hacker News discussion about the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32257412
I've heard many an anecdote of soldiers deployed for months in male-only settings who could smell that a woman had arrived on base. They weren't able to describe what they smelled, or how they knew it was a woman, but they just knew.
Facilitating fraud != committing fraud

Most banks and payment platforms will facilitate fraud to some extent, but it’s their duty to reduce this with compliance procedures.
As a Dane this appears true on the surface but not when diving deeper. Some in Greenland might desire independence but it has neither the economy nor the willingness to adapt to actually move forward with it.
> Unless there is an equivalent LAPD initiative that uploads the pictures of law-abiding citizens with names and other identifying info to the public web

Isn't that what many mugshots are? It looks like LAPD at least doesn't dump them online like some places do, but even things like https://app5.lasd.org/iic/ or https://www.lapdonline.org/office-of-the-chief-of-police/pro... could be just as damaging unless records are pulled offline when people are later found to be totally innocent.

I notice that news organizations are perfectly happy to post names, photos, and other information about suspects, but much less likely to publish information about police officers. I can't help but wonder if something like this watch the watchers site would even be seen as necessary if any search engine could do the job just as well.
I find it pretty useful for my personal account.

I have a ci/cd machine that is only useful to have on when I'm actively working on the projects it manages, makes the difference between a few bucks a month and ~$80
Why exactly did this surprise you? Did you think Wikipedia ever had an impartial stance towards conservatives?
It's not clear to me that it's a negative review. The movie is rated as "artistically worse than a movie by Oliver Stone". Other than that, the message appears to be that the movie is typical of its genre, which is not generally considered a bad thing.

There is another message that the reviewer doesn't like the genre, but that isn't a comment on the movie.
Like Drug Wars? Have the armed people raid ware houses containing crypto miners instead of drug labs or plant farms...
Police forces in many other nations can more or less be trusted to provide somewhat accurate data. When they don't, it often becomes a scandal. In the US them not providing accurate data seems more or less the rule. I once wanted to compare the numbers of bullets fired during service between different nations. There are nations where every single bullet that has been fired during service is accounted for and categorized whether ot was shot at a person, a warning shot, a shot at an animal and then there are areas where you won't even get a total number.

If you are a law-abiding citizen that wants a good police force, accountability needs to happen. And it is totally appropriate for citizens to take this into their own hands if the police departments and the political powers can't manage to make it happen. If people see that the LAPD is caught lying about cases and numbers repeatedly without consequences, what other course of action is there?

If I were a LAPD official I would see this as a sign that the public doesn't trust my numbers and I would try my best to figure out a way to change this.

A police force is provided with great power. And with great power comes great responsibility. And that responsibility is not towards your colleagues who killed innocent people, but towards the public. If you are proven to be unable to act responsibly it is in order for the public to find measures to hold you responsible. This is — by nature — political, but I don't think it is divisive.

A responsible police force should be in the interest of every political orientation, unless we are talking about authotarian or fascist movements — and then you got an entirely different set of problems, because they don't believe in the rule of law to begin with.
There's GNU Solfege [0], but I have not really used it (I was a casual piano player that realized theory just gets in the way of fun for me). It has ear training for music patterns and has some music theory practice in it. Not sure if it has a mobile version, but it's been around for a long time.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/
It's one of the tired tropes that gets brought up every time AI/ML is brought up.

Everything we do has climate change impact. Power consumption is among the ones that's easiest to get "green", and there is significant progress specifically from cloud operators (at least Google, I assume others are similar).

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hwfjej/d_t... suggests hundreds of GPU-years for training such a model under optimal assumptions, so let's assume thousands for the new models under real assumptions.

https://images.nvidia.com/content/technologies/volta/pdf/tes... says 300 W.

3000 GPU-years at 300 W = 7.9 million kWh. This would assume that they used those GPUs and not more efficient accelerators.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11 says 0.855 pounds of CO2 emissions per kWh. That's 388 g in normal units, and in line with what other countries are reporting (Germany was 420 g/kWh). g/kWh = metric tons per million kWh. This assumes the data centers are not using "greener" than average power.

So training such a model produces ~3000 metric tons of CO2 emissions under the assumption of 3000 GPU-years (how convenient). A round trip from SFO to London in Economy is roughly 0.9 metric tons. (https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/Carbonoffset/P... Building a house (of unfortunately unspecified size) is 15 to 100 tons. (https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-co2-emitted-buildin...)

So while building one of these models does have an impact, it's on the order of other common activities that benefit far fewer people. Because once trained, those models provide values to millions of users.

Going back to the flights example, training one such massive model is likely about as bad as one larger research conference, once you consider the impact of hotels etc.

IMO the demands to justify the impact are ridiculous, coming from people who are just looking for any excuse to criticize, on par with demanding that any researcher doing any research justifies the carbon footprint of their commute as part of their research paper. Thus, it's a good thing that they didn't waste time and space in their paper addressing those claims, and we only see an early, commented out section that's equivalent to "TODO: Should we address these claims that keep getting thrown?"
> I respect people who believe money should be uncensorable.

Why? That is just another way of saying moneyed interests should be above the rule of law. What could possibly be respectable about a view this odious?
I wonder if the ‘2 counties away’ makes it the same county as that which audits the botched raid in the article.
The alternative would be to use certificate authorities (ssh has CA support) which allow to effectively have private keys at different levels and allow you to keep the root private key in a physical vault and use it very rarely to issue other private keys
The consensus is that if it's not, it's not because of the reasons Penrose gives.
It is stuck on webpack, while everyone else moved to next gen tool.

If you are new to angular, then I suggest stay away and come back in a year or two because Angular is going through a major paradigm shift. From webpack to esbuild, from zones to signals, from Rxjs everywhere to signals for synchronous change detection etc.
It's a very recent neovim feature, so it has not been around to discover for that long
This is a false dichotomy with 4 choices instead.