skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be easier to read if you'd used polarity aligned fonts. These new quadrophonic, crystal annealled, polarised Times fonts, impart legibility especially in the legato middle section of an audiophile debate, the part where the recording needle was at 90 degrees vertical before the decline into the inner track.

I only read using crystal aligned fonts. I recommend you do too. Available from bitstream, only $30,000 per letter. Ligatures not included.
Thanks for the article link. Most news aggregators these days just have a click bait title with tweets. It's annoying.
Blast from the past! I'm doing A-OK. Hope the same for you!
50% price increase on everything, unless you lock in OR unless you don't need BQ ML.

Also autoscaling, which might actually help keep costs down quite a bit but hard to say. I'm guessing most people just max out their flex slot reservations when they have them anyways.
> lots of contractors who are familiar with how to build them

that's a bit circular, no?
There's places like audio science review which are exactly that, I think.

eg their review of the Loxjie A30

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/l...
Paradoxes of the Infinitely Large
Also true, as the recent crime-fraud exception case demonstrated in one of the trump investigations this very month.

So it’s pretty narrow.
I love all the anecdotes from people about audiophiles, it reminds me of the early days of the Randi forum. But OTOH there are very real subjective and objective ways to discover the truth, which is that a LOT of consumer audio products are trash. Take Class D amplifiers, for instance. They're complete and total trash until you get into the $1000+ market. Or many popular DACs (the chip, not the integrated product) which just sound, for lack of a better term, trashy and cold. Nasty.
I went through this process once. While we didn’t send any explicit photos in, we did go in for an interview which is incredibly nerve racking even if you are a legitimate couple.

I forgot my US passport (I think - it was some doc that was optional but strongly encouraged to bring along the day of the interview). There was a quick, whispered couple bicker of “what do you mean YOU forgot it?!” Keep in mind we are sitting 4 feet from the officer. The officer heard it.

The officer looked up at me and smiled.

To this day I claim that was the moment that sealed our applications approval.

I wonder what they did with our wedding photos and photos from family gatherings.
Most of the listed features are incremental updates over the previous model; the MK3. However, as someone who's been using 3D printers for about 3 years, I'd say the biggest improvement here is the automatic first layer calibration.

Until recently (most notably until the Bamboo Labs Carbon X1) you had to spend time setting up your printer to get a good first layer. This would involve changing the distance between the nozzle that lays out the melted plastic and the bed on which the model is printed. Because this distance varies not just between different units of the same printer, but also has to change based on what material (PLA, PETG, etc) you're printing with, it needed some knowledge to set correctly.

While that process did get much simpler (with most of it being automated), it still involved some tweaking on the part of the user. That's a problem for people who are new 3D printing. It meant that you couldn't start printing immediately after unboxing your printer. It also meant that you had to spend considerable time (a few hours at least in my case) figuring out what a "good first layer" means, and then tweaking your printer to print the first layer well.

With this update, you can now start printing immediately after unboxing your printer (after some minor assembly), which is a huge thing for people who are new to 3D printing.

When I got my first printer a few years ago, I remember having to spend a couple of hours initially learning how to do this calibration, and I didn't get great results until a few more weeks of learning and tweaking.

Note that this is from the perspective of a hobbyist. People using 3D printers on a commercial scale might find the other improvements to be a big thing for their use case.
It’s built in Unreal, so a lot of C++.
Samsung features have always overpromised, undelivered. Remember the facial unlock that would allow a photo of someone to unlock the phone?
Yeah I think parent poster confused a detail or two.

20hz-20khz is the human range, more or less. For most adults it's more like 15khz.

The 44.1khz sampling rate of CD audio was chosen because it can represent frequencies up to 22.05hz (44.1khz / 2) which safely covers the frequency range of human hearing with a bit of headroom for good measure.
Sure - I agree wholeheartedly.

And I think we conduct a better service by walking back our welfare state and allowing many more people to join us.
People have different tastes, so please don't pounce on this, but I found this computer genuinely beautiful, more so than the objects which inspired it.

No, it's not perfectly functional, ergonomic, or otherwise an ideal device, but it is beautiful.

I'm usually disappointed by these projects. I was not disappointed, for once.
Ask chatgpt to implement some of the things you worked on the last few months. I was very skeptical too until I tried this.

Here are some sample prompts that I tried and got full working code for:

- "write pytorch code to train a transformer model on common crawl data and an inference service using fastapi"

- "write react native code for a camera screen that can read barcodes and look them up using an API and then display info for matched results in a widget under the camera view"

- "write react code for a wedding website"

- "write code to deploy a django website on GCP using terraform and kubernetes"

- "how do I dockerize the app, it uses pytorch and faiss, also push it to a container registry"

- "implement a GPT style transformer model in pytorch", "write a training loop for it with distributed support and fp16"

- "how would you implement reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF)", "can you implement it in pytorch"

- "write code to compress a model trained in pytorch and export for inference on iOS"

- "how would you distill a large vision model to a small one"

- "what are the best CV architectures for mobile inference?"

For all of these it gave me code that was 95% usable, all in under 15 minutes, and which would have taken me a week or two to do on my own.
I drew them by hand on a tablet (a Remarkable)
Most kids didn’t rip CDs though, they had a friend who was good with computers that occasionally did this for them.
Bill of attainder?
The difference in America is that Americans really don't want to. By the time Sandy Hook happened, Americans had already long decided as a culture that they were willing to trade the lives of their children to protect their sacred right to keep and bear arms. Hell, many are happy to, as long as the kids aren't theirs.
> USM, which is for use in YouTube (e.g., for closed captions), can perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) on widely-spoken languages like English and Mandarin, but also languages like Punjabi, Assamese, Santhali, Balinese, Shona, Malagasy, Luganda, Luo, Bambara, Soga, Maninka, Xhosa, Akan, Lingala, Chichewa, Nkore, Nzema to name a few.

I find this part to be the most impressive thing in the OP. Most of those languages are spoken by fewer than 0.1% of the world and Nzema is spoken by less than half a million people. Where are they even getting enough training data to figure those languages out?
Compare the threat of being drafted and dying uselessly in Vietnam vs now.

Compare the gas lines in the 1970s vs today.

Compare the cost of an iPhone in the 1970s vs today.
Even if no one is around, if you are assaulted, you can file a report and the assailant can go to jail - because by definition, they are now a criminal.

There is that deterrent in place, that social constract. Sure it can be violated, but your argument is along a similar line of folks who advocate for open carry.
Astronomers have linked a fast radio burst with gravitational waves
Interoperability work on top of MLS is underway.

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366250 for audio.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bofreq-cooper-more-instant-... & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420112

> The IETF had multiple prior lines of effort in this area during the development and widespread deployment of XMPP and SIP decades ago, but the nature of existing messaging implementations and the external environment have both changed significantly since then. Messaging applications now share more common content features and functionality, the MLS protocol has been developed to facilitate E2EE interoperable messaging, and regulatory pressure to interoperate has increased significantly (e.g., as a result of the EU Digital Markets Act).

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mimi/CI3z3CUPE8rrC5p4_... & https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/30/inside-matrix-the-protocol...

> We sometimes found that the various components of Matrix came together in unexpected ways that created problems, even if they were fine in isolation. From our reading of the charter and current drafts, it is likely that MIMI will need to include new cryptographic protocols (or integrate existing ones). As such, an analysis that looks at how the pieces of the puzzle fit together would be valuable. Thus, we'd like to advocate for following the path of MLS and TLS 1.3 by engaging the security, privacy, cryptography and formal verification communities.
I think that one particular subsection deserves a lot more attention:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...

>(2) INAPPLICABILITY OF FOIA.—Any information submitted to the Federal Government by a party to a covered transaction in accordance with this Act, as well as any information the Federal Government may create relating to review of the covered transaction, is exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “Freedom of Information Act”).
It doesn't really have to be general AI to iterate on the same loop as humans, as the parent mentions. Using words like "(n)ever" should be restricted to things that we've proven to be unable to be done, like the laws of mathematics or physics, not stuff that we already see is feasible today (ie, human and animal minds and physical movement). It's not a question of "some day," it's more a question of which philosophical belief one holds to make them think it could or couldn't happen. Like I mentioned, some people simply believe humans are somehow better than machines or animals, and based on what we've seen so far, that's simply not the case.
Animals also don't have the social stigma of vomiting that humans do. Sometimes they'll vomit for basically no reason at all, because there's a low "cost" to doing it.

One time my dog and cat both ate some human food which was perfectly fine for them, but the cat didn't like the flavor. So the cat vomited. The dog looked at the cat, looked at the food, looked at the cat, and then vomited also.

Then the dog finished all the food and was fine.
Yeah, a lot of the "details" are 8khz and up. A pure 15khz tone isn't fun to listen to (if you can hear that high) but if you cut off everything above 8khz (or 7khz, or etc) things will start to sound increasingly more muffled. Experiment in Audacity or such to see for yourself.
what an incoherent article. the points about child abuse and climate change came out of nowhere, and suck from the energy of their main idea. it felt meandering, and fear-mongering. i wish they'd have spent more time on "what we don't know about how AI is trained."
"Decline of Empires: The Signs of Decay": Jan 22, 2008; Chalmers Johnson.

https://youtu.be/Q2CCs-x9q9U

Apathy, learned helplessness, inaction, cult-like fervor, magical thinking, pan-colonial ambitions, and inability to fund or defend itself lead a society to ruin.

The thing is that every 8-12 generations (250+-50 years), a civilization must rework or recommit itself or it slides into decline and decay.

No rampant conservative moral panic crusade, violent upheaval, civil war, or totalitarian junta can rebuild what divides left or right, or rebalances fewer haves and many more have nots.
Big Tech Companies Are Testing How Far They Can Slash Staff – Vanity Fair
I fully admit that this country used to have that problem in the past. Here and now, I don't think nearly as much, though it seems like mass media has been doing its level best to fan the flames of a race war ever since George Floyd.

I'm not sure what part of the country you live in or what your background is, but it is my sincere belief that there are not nearly as many racists in America in this day and age as you imply. I live in a majority black city in a Deep South red state (and I myself am visibly nonwhite), and I observe nothing but pleasant interactions between people of all skin tones. It's honestly a strange difference from back when I lived in a stereotypically "coastal liberal elite" city in a blue state, where every other lawn had a BLM sign but approximately zero black people lived there. Here? Approximately zero BLM signs but people of different races being neighbors and getting along just fine.

Perhaps I'll be proven wrong, but it is my experience that outside of small pockets, there is no racism of the sort you describe, where someone may not extend private kindness to another because they're black or any other race.
So in other words, you haven't actually done this research and are talking out of your ass? Otherwise it'd be quickly pastable.
I can vouch for ASR. A very data-driven, engineering-driven view.

The site's owner has several hundred thousand dollars worth of measurement gear - Audio Precision analyzer, GRAS headphone rig, Klippel NFS rig, etc.
I agree, but they do, thus height is important. Why try to pretend otherwise? I’m still stuck on how one can defend “height has no importance”.
My HN karma is 64,000 which means absolutely nothing.
Beeper looks interesting, but I wish they made it clear it's currently in waitlist-mode, BEFORE downloading the app through their custom downloader thing that you have to run

Installed the app through the installer just to remove it again because I can't use it yet
Yep, but 8kHz is nearly twice the frequency of a piano’s high C (rightmost key). There are vocalists that can sing G10s (which is around 10k?) but they’re rare and not musically useful
This guy just won't quit. It's a circle firing squad of a mess. Even the cynic in me, who from the beginning of this affair thought he would never go to prison, is starting to gain hope that he actually will..
Rand Paul blocks the fast-tracking of TikTok ban
Worth pointing out that >90% of the communication issues he describes are about managing your ego.
And buy a film camera!
If I recall, HN intentionally avoids appealing to modern aesthetics and user conveniences to reduce popularity among a non-technical audience that could harm the average quality of participants. Whether that approach is effective, I don't know. Web design started off more technical on average, then later became more artistic. In that sense maybe the more artistic sensibility infused into a site design the more up to date and relevant people perceive it to be especially with the visual appeal marketing pushed by the big tech companies through hardware or software.

It is very easy to ruin a good thing by following every impulse with disregard or ignorance for what factors contribute fundamentally to its goodness. It happens regularly to companies, products and services around the world all the time.

That said, I also don't particularly care for the Emergent Mind main list page design. The importance of optimizing for the consumption of the information on the page seems to have taken a back seat to keeping up appearances. The scaling on a PC monitor feels oriented more towards children, like oversized at least to me. I don't understand what the icons are trying to communicate in relation to the posted link either, despite having a sense for what each of the icons are. The spacing feels like a table or grid was given a margin and let the elements land as they may instead of trying to place the elements on the page with intent to maximize the communication of their relationships, context and readability.
Lily is epic. Highly recommend checking out Rime when it's available!!
there’s nothing wrong with a persistence-centric approach like you took, but there’s also certainly nothing wrong with catering to your audience.

we should strive to provide a better gateway than we had when we were young.
I've eaten a lot of 55-day dry aged steak and it always upsets my stomach a little bit for a day or two. I can consistently count on diarrhea for a bit. Tastes great, though.

Too much Wagyu will do something similar, but its not really the same -- in that case its just mostly too much fat/oil. Even a small amount of 30-60 day dry-aged steak will do it to me and it feels different.
Sort of. Sandy Hook meaningfully changed polling. Americans broadly support the idea someone should do something. Of course, they get colder feet when it gets more specific.

Regardless, this makes it very different from a 0 suicide or 0 spyware goal. Those don't have a similarly reasonable theoretical solution.
> I don’t know at what point it stops being a photo any more.

Personally, I think it's at the point that you start using AI/ML for anything other than the parameters involved in capturing the raw image (focus, shutter speed, aperture, etc) and the parameters of RAW processing/the sorts of editing that's allowed in a typical photography competition (so things like exposure, white balance, colour adjustment, etc).
Fair, Pygmy genetics are minorly distinct. No other group is, and unless you're suggesting the urban Pygmy population exploded to account for these changes, it's irrelevant.
You’d be surprised how hard that can be. Unless you buy imported bottled water, you’re likely getting quite unregulated well water even if you buy 25 liter cans of the best brand here. Water treatment here is mere clorination and likely 90% of the population lives in places with no water supply (you just dig your own borewell).
A digital public sphere cannot exist when the entire internet is privatized and dependent on competition for scarce revenue. Every company is therefore incentivised to control what is on spaces they control and to influence discourse in such a way as to maximize profit.

You want a digital public sphere? Vote for the government to open a digital post office. Until we have the right to access, at cost, public services that do not discriminate and cannot be denied us by anything short of a court order, digital freedom is proportional to how much money you can make for someone else.
This is why this discussion is usually fruitless, it assumes a situation which never exists (this idea that people are hiring incompetent but nice devs over the reverse, or vice versa entirely). But what is a reality, is that without a competent manager, your entire team of variable competency is being set up for failure.
I think you are talking about enforcing different things? The thing to enforce, which the parent commenter described, seemed to be a 20% tax on AI profits of “big AI companies”, to be paid to AI safety research groups.

That doesn’t sound unenforceable to me. That’s just like, a tax on a kind of business.
> Even if no one is around, if you are assaulted, you can file a report

And if you are killed? There is a strong appeal to reducing the likelihood you will die.
Yes they were a huge number of election deniers for the 2016 election and a vast amount of irresponsible rheotoric around it that was very dangerous to democracy. Don't try to gaslight on this one. A lot of uneducated morons and delusional conspiracy theorists thought "Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election", fueled by dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric from certain anti-democratic election denier politicians and media corporations.
When push came to shove, how many Democratic leaders (Reps and Senators) voted against or objected to the electoral college results in 2017? It was less than 10 Representatives and no Senators, meaning none of the objections were even put to a vote[1]. That is a far cry from what occurred in 2021.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States_Electoral_C...
TicTacToes: Assessing Toe Movements as an Input Modality
Yeah. I looked at the X1 Carbon longingly and knew that with so many software features developed in such a short time, it was going to be a bug fest. That's just how software engineering is.

The Prusa i3 family may feel a little outdated, but what it lacks in cool marketing features it makes up for in amazing reliability. The thing works every single time I try to print something. The CPU not being able to address 4GB of RAM doesn't really limit what you can print, though the community sure loves to talk about it.

I am very tempted to buy the upgrade kit, but honestly, I'm not sure it's worth it. My filament doesn't jam, I don't use filaments the infrared detector can't see, I'm not in a hurry (so don't need input shaping), and my Z is dialed in. The MK3 is a great printer even in a world where the MK4 exists! I'm waiting for the Prusa XL to start shipping so I can print larger models.
This is generally my approach, not just with books but with TV shows and movies as well. Unless there's a compelling reason for me to forge on, I give something a chance and then abort early if it doesn't show a promising yield.

I also take a version of this with informational books. I read until I feel I got what I needed out of the book, and then don't feel pressure to read on if what's left isn't of interest or need.
Ask the women you know if they would prefer to be as strong as men or not, and why.
These types of arguments-- "if you actually believed X, you'd be doing Y"-- always ring false to me. If you genuinely believed that the death of all biological life was imminent and the only way to forestall it was to bomb data centers and you were a normal, functional human being who did not want to bomb data centers, you'd probably sink into hopeless depression. Which is, in fact, exactly what Eliezer has done - if you talk to anyone around him, it's common knowledge that he has been despondent for the past ~12 months or so. It certainly does not seem like a self-aggrandizement tactic.
Confused how one can come to that conclusion. If violence is not a trait in a modern society, how big people are should be of no consequence. Back in times of the caveman this was an extremely important trait because violence was an aspect of daily life that had real utility. Now, people can go their entire lives never having been in a fight.

In fact I would argue having an arms race for ever bigger humans is antisocial and detrimental... just the carbon footprint aspects alone is a good reason to discourage that. The extra stress on our food system. Bigger cars, airplanes, fuel, etc... as opposed to women dig it and you can beat people up. Really?
We've already more or less entirely ruled out genetics as a factor in cultural diversity, so there's no need to, again, try to control for it here.
> They'd have spear consisting of a pointy metal tip on a wooden stick, because that's cheap and works great.

"Cheap" wasn't always the major factor. Some spears were cheap, but others were pretty darned expensive. In wars -- where trained people fought in groups and formations -- spears just worked better than swords.

The Greek phalanx, the Roman pilum, the lances of the medieval period, early modern pike-and-shot, etc. all showed the effectiveness of a long sharp, pointy stick.

Swords have many niches, like closed-quarters combat in cities, terrain (e.g. forest or mountain battles), etc., but the spear almost always dominated for mainstream war.