skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mention this on every "audiophile" thread, but there are a lot of data- and engineering-driven audiophiles.

There are folks (and associated communities) out there with engineering backgrounds and sophisticated industry-standard measurement gear: AudioPrecision analyzers, GRAD headphone measurement rigs, Klippel NFS scanners.

https://www.erinsaudiocorner.com/

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?reviews/

I realize it's fun to dunk on all of the "crazies" who are tweaking their sound with crystals or whatever, but they are the lunatic fringe.

Ultimately it's not too different from a lot of industries. Of course, folks hawking their products make some ludicrous claims at times. Just like car ads promise you a happy life with your family and dog if you buy a Subaru or Ford or whatever, there are some wild claims about audio equipment at times. However, there's also a very solid bedrock of actual engineering going on that can be understood and appreciated. And in my experience that's how most people do this hobby.
You would be a horrible president lol
In practice, I've found that to be pretty unwieldy and difficult to use.

My general approach is to keep most application level components in the light dom for styling, and only use shadow dom for library-like components, mostly layouts for slotting light dom stuff.
manage fallout from the syrian civil war

but these people came as refugees, and the borders were opened for them.
without the war, they would not have come.

so basically, for refugees, the borders are already open, and most people who are not refugees would not come even if borders were open for them too.
A whole new dimension of almost Lovecraftian horrors opens up, and this half assed AI shit is about to permeate every aspect of technology. Imagine what'll happen to the few people that "fall through the cracks" of some unknowable edge-case in various random systems.

Toothless babies? Perhaps your likeness is "invisible" to self driving cars. No one can assure you otherwise.
Not hollow! Good luck.
Fine - a dictatorship like every other communist power is at the end
There's a YouTube video where they do exactly this. It doesn't end well for the rider.
The LLM model performance is a sideshow. They are demoing linear scaling on their "cluster on a wafer" tech (a vertically scaled single chip "the largest computer chip ever built and the fastest AI processor on Earth") vs distributed training.

They have a cloud service offering for example fine tuning and pretraining well known LLM models on their chips. (est. $40k to train GPT3 6.7B in ~11 days)
JavaScript is some of the best evidence we have that design consistency is not the dominant factor in determining language popularity.

I haven't figured out what is yet. I have a hunch that having a short path to working small and medium complexity projects is a big part of it. But I can't rule out the possibility that the most important thing is just application context... Would anybody still care about JavaScript if the browser hadn't happened?
I know some academics working on MLS and I spent some time last year trying to understand it, to decide if I wanted to work with them. I think this blog post doesn't mention the core problem that MLS is trying to solve, which is efficient and secure key management (including forward secrecy and post-compromise security, which the Signal Double Ratchet protocol does so elegantly) for group end-to-end encrypted messaging. You don't want to have a O(n^2) keys for n users to talk to each other, and you don't want to have a single shared session key that must be renegotiated among all participants every time one participant leaves or gets kicked out of the group. I think MLS can do this with O(lg n) keys and fewer key exchanges as participants come and go.
Does anyone find it strange an article about photos only has videos?
They're literally comparing it to OpenAI's open-sourced speech recognition model in the paper...

Oh and of course their model is hidden behind an API.
When people were debating the Samsung moon replacement thing I tried to come up with some examples of how this could go horribly wrong, but never managed to come up with something quite this bad. So kudos to Samsung, I guess, for doing it for me?
Am I the only one who thinks this is possibly the least appealing programming syntax they've ever seen?
I would put it as "when it isn't too tricky to do so write your program such that data flows one way".

When data flows downwards it's often simple to have the top layer own and then pass down references.

But if you start running into lots of issues doing that it's probably a fundamental issue with your architecture. So you need to either rethink it or give up and try a different kind of approach. Both are valid, but I think people who try to muddle through without either dramatic option are the ones who end up very frustrated with Rust.
Didn’t Windows have the same issue too?
Leaves you wishing you were sentenced for 3.5 years so you could have avoided reading it.......
You are hinting about an important third trait: persistence (effort). I am not the nicest person, nor the smartest, but I am very persistent. This can make-up for other shortfalls. When hiring, if I cannot find highly competent, then I will sacrifice some niceness for more persistence. Never hire people who are low effort / not persistent. Some much of office work is "following up" to make sure that things are completed -- non-managers included. People with low effort will frequently complete tasks to 80-90%, then need to be managed across the finish line.

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About: <<needing to be told exactly what to do frequently, and eating up lots of other people's time>>

I recommend that you Google: youtube casino blueberry muffin

Watch that two minute clip. It ends with this quote: <<Like everything else in this place, if you don't do it yourself, it never gets done.>>

I often mutter "blueberry muffins" to myself when it is easier to do it myself than ask someone (multiple times) to do it, and the results will be incomplete or low quality.
She just means that the chat client should perform scanning on-device.

This is why she compares it to link preview fetching.

Time to re-write that bill.
(4) is because Python interns small integers and the "is" operator tests identity, not equivalence. Any Python linter will catch that mistake.

Python does not coerce types, so it doesn't have very many wats like the ones in this talk.
> None of this matters most of the time, but yeah it's still funny.

Implicit type coercion doesn't matter most of the time? You don't often have bugs because of it?
CupNoodles breakfast ramen flavored like pancakes, maple syrup, sausage and eggs
Yep. I've seen it happen many times. (A good PM is worth their weight in gold though.)
That was Huawei though.
ChatGPT is already better at copywriting than 90% of startup founders and marketing people at big cos. You'll soon be able to let it generate 1000s of different versions of marketing material to A/B test or personalize based on user info.

Soon you'll have multi modal transformers from dozens of companies and open source projects that will be able to parse and categorize all of your financial data and they'll have all of the incentives in the world to get it down to the cost of a quickbooks subscription.
Man, I think if you think this level of precision is hard to disambiguate I wonder how you handle the notational abuse common in Mathematics.

It might not be the field for you.
Some people definitely do the hobby that way, but there are at least as many who take a more empirical approach. The hobby is divided between objectivists and subjectivists and I'm in the former camp.

The audio industry is over a century old, and we've poured zillions of dollars into it. We know (on an objective, measurable level) what sounds good.
Sounds like your issue isn't with automation, it's with the human condition. It reminds me of this passage from Schopenhauer:

If every desire were satisfied as soon as it arose how would men occupy their lives, how would they pass the time? Imagine this race transported to a Utopia where everything grows of its own accord and turkeys fly around ready-roasted, where lovers find one another without any delay and keep one another without any difficulty; in such a place some men would die of boredom or hang themselves, some would fight and kill one another, and thus they would create for themselves more suffering than nature inflicts on them as it is.

While I see some truth in this kind pessimism, I don't think it means that so-called utopia is necessarily worse than the world we live in today. I agree that human problems aren't going away, but I think we underestimate the potential value of removing the need to have a "job" to acquire the basic necessities for survival and the amount of suffering that causes today.
I'm genuinely excited to see their AR/VR headset announcement. Not so much the hardware itself, but their whole pitch.

I don't think Apple would be working on a device like this unless they had some kind of new angle for it. Apple's not into high-end gaming, and I doubt their focus will be dull virtual meetings or niche industrial applications either.

They have a plan for making this a mass-market device (eventually, when the price comes down), and I'd love to know what that plan is.
This is objectively one of the worst websites I have ever seen. How did this make it to the top of HN?

edit: Ah, I meant one of the worst articles I've ever seen.
No it wasn’t.

It recognized the moon and replaced the real moon taken by the camera with a stored stock photo pasted over it.

There was no “upscaling” involved.
> To this day I claim that was the moment that sealed our applications approval.

I believe it. There's a reason "bickering like an old married couple" is a cliche.
In the paper itself[0], they do have a couple comparisons for English-only (Fig. 2, Table 3), and it looks like Whisper has an 11.5% error rate and USM has a 10.5% error rate. It's a truly negligible difference. There's no way I'd ever pay for an API for this if I knew I only cared about English.

I know that's not the point of this model (the point is that for a lot of languages, its the only model available). But paywalling it seems greedy, you'll only extract money from those under-represented communities. On the other hand, maybe this never would have been built without the profit motive. Idk. I wish we could fund these things as "basic science research" without a need for direct profit. Let positive externalities pay us back down the road.

0: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01037.pdf
It also falls into traps of statistics. The individual will have its own bunch of likes or dislike and overall the set of them will be pretty unique.

But when you add indiscriminate averaging, well, what article describes happen. What, did they think they find one nation that hates the outdoors enough that after averaging it wouldn't come on top ?

They essentially made design by committee in 11 countries and were surprise when result was mediocre

And the complaint about cars for example, frankly most people use them as an appliance and most people are not in position to throw away some MPG or convenience just because they want the lines on outside to be different. Frankly article does that part really badly as the car interiors differ quite a bit and that is what you will be looking at when you're using it for most of the time.

And you usually need to pay both money and convenience for "pretty" in cars. If you need to fit a family and also want it off the ground more, it will be bulbous SUV no matter what designer does with it, and it will look similar if you pick color that's worst at showing the difference and outright remove some stylistic elements like rim choice

I think the amount of sameness have more to do with mediocre designers copying the good ones rather than some kind of convergence of mediocrity. I think perfectly fine designs that appeal to wider audience just need to shy away from things most people dislike, not try to design by commitee what average person does, or see what some designs got famous for then try to copy it coz that's the fashion now.
heck yeah GORILLAS.BAS was the first source code I ever saw and that’s how I taught myself QBasic, I still remember waking up at 2am because I realized how to solve the bug I was stuck on, all I had to do was move the line of code to the outside of the loop!

of course I couldn’t wait until morning but then I got in trouble because the keyboard was too loud

my game only had 5 levels so I proudly called it a “shareware demo”, I wonder if it’s still out there somewhere, etched onto the long abandoned platter
> The US is full of safe, pleasant communities, excellent for raising families, though not necessarily near tech work places. Look outside the coastal bubbles and explore a bit.

Where, specifically, and by what measures, and pleasant for whom? E.g., would they be pleasant for raising non-White, non-evangelical Christian families with one or more trans children and one or more LGBTQ adults?
I consume microbiotically rotted grape juice and sometimes cheese.
It is already law in the United States that companies may be compelled to act in certain ways during emergencies. There is no pretending, it's all there in plain writing in the USC. Look up the Defence Production Act.
Ah yes the old "give everyone in the world their own nuclear weapon" solution.
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30 legal scholars of genocide have compiled a comprehensive report explaining how Russian actions match the legal definition of genocide: https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/English-Rep...
The Japanese are also shorter and smaller than Westerners, on average. Of course they'd eat less calories. Many women I've talked to can't even find clothes in their size in America; they have to get clothes in children's sizes.

The big difference I see is that Japanese walk a LOT more than Americans, at least in the cities (which is where the large majority of Japanese live).
It's less about full trust and more about willingness to negotiate, act in good faith and take feedback from society if side effects surface. Ideally oriented towards empowering the people rather than the government.
No, it was Samsung. Unless Huawei did it too.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moo...
Good for you, perhaps you do have more knowledge than me. But as I mentioned, there are not just developers on this site, I've been doing art for far longer than I've been a developer, for example.
I have to try this. Language is similar to VB6. I've used many languages from ASM, C, and C++ to Python, PHP, Ruby, C#, and Java. However, my most productive language by far (oddly enough) was VB6. I've done some amazing stuff in VB6, including a (never released, thankfully, since Blizzard was litigation happy) Warcraft 2 clone that was complete enough to allow you to load/play custom maps.

While I suspect this doesn't have the same flexibility and user friendliness VB6 had (you could pull in the Windows API via DLLs pretty easily, including DirectX), it should be a neat little throwback, if nothing else.
I don't remember if it was here on HN or somewhere else, but recently I saw a comment or post somewhere that pointed out that AI will not kill humanity. It will merely make it easy for humanity to kill itself. It will make it easier for someone to issue a command, or press a button, or take some other action that they ought to have thought through; but the AI gave them its well-intentioned vote of confidence, and the consequence may leave none to remember the error.

The thing to remember about AI is that it does what we ask of it to do. It's not a matter of "will artificial intelligence develop a consciousness that drives it towards the extermination of humans". We don't have an Ultron on our hands. What we have before us is the best and worst enabler of human negligence. AI and the end of humanity is a matter of ensuring we don't forsake our own responsibilities towards each other. And that goes for responsibilities with potential for catastrophe as well as the mundane.
> I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done.

Like the commenter above you said; I too have a bridge to sell.
That's where a decentralized internet changes things, and honestly that's what we should be prioritizing.
>I have high hopes that my Linux desktop will be a better user experience than Windows or MacOS soon.

I guess this depends on your definition of "better". I'd say an OS that doesn't force me to view ads is already "better" than one that does.
> In many cases they are seeking to remove the equality and liberty of the trans community

Can you describe what these are? stuff that flew under the radar before aren't defacto rights.

> present them in isolation without the context of success stories

the question is was the also lack of caution in the case of success, it just happened to turn out when. The criticism here is rolling the dice in the first place, not the probability of success.
Personally, I enjoy conspiracy discussions as long as its not the same old recycled theories. In the spirit of hacker news, at the very least the theory should promote curious discussion and avoid left/right American politics.

Since the topic is OpenAI, GPT-4, I'll say that I assume this tech has been around and available to a select few for years before it became mainstream. I believe it has been used to push narratives and ideas across popular internet sites and apps, creating the impression that these ideas are popular and held by the majority (not just political ideas).
Tally is the simplest way to create forms. You can create any type of form or survey in minutes, without knowing how to code, and for free.
No it is exactly the point. Most towns and cities have bus lines even if they dont have trains. People should move to apartments and give up their suburban mc mansion. The fastest growing areas are AZ, TX, FL, the new suburbs there are vast and car centric its enabled by cheap gas and cheap cars. People just prefer that because they can.
What do you mean by "democratizing the LLMs"? There are already open source LLMs. Making Claude, GPT-4, and whatever else is being worked on open source wouldn't make them any less capable of doing harm.
Well said. Digital freedom is inversely proportional to digital fiefdom.
That's funny. Was it a point of sale system? I remember seeing some funny dev toolkits used for POS stuff...all kinds of weird ANSI fonts thrown in there too.
Boingboing has a long history
This is meaningless.

"Good guys follow rules, bad guys don't."

As if getting the infrastructure to privately build your own model is challenging for people that have the capital to spend on such projects.
This appears to have been duplicated by multiple people.
Usually auctions have some sort of deposit requirements, but where large companies are involved it's sometimes just "show us that you have at least $X in the bank" (cash or treasuries or similar) on the theory that they can be sued for specific performance if they don't pay up.
Hot take, but OpenAI's whisper was released earlier in the year and was quite impressive. They were definitely "first" - even if this model claims to outperform that one.
>ByteDance isn't under the direct authority at any given moment of CCP, but, they will, at any time, receive arbitrary orders for any particular reason, and they will follow them.

If Musk hadn't bought Twitter, we never would have been able to prove that this is also true for Twitter and arbitrary orders from the American government.
"Remastering" implies tweaking up the colors or adjusting the exposure in a way that the initial photo couldn't. This is fabricating new details that didn't exist at all.

It would be like a remastered music album adding entirely new instrumentation.
That's correct, it isn't, but the parent comment suggested Google would always have fixed stuff before it's announced by Google and that assumes a more unified organisation, a single controlling mind or else a conspiracy and that's not how it works.
Not according to the OP.
Target your LinkedIn network (or offline/email equivalent).

Let everyone you worked with for those 10 years know that you’re looking.
But that high C on a piano isn't a pure 4khz tone. There is a lot going on there above and below 4khz. You can prove this to yourself by looking at it in a frequency analyzer, or by simply listening to a pure 4khz tone and observing that it sounds a lot different than a piano. This is also why the same note played on different instruments sounds different.

If you lop off everything above 8khz, things sound "muffled", like you've put a thin blanket over the speaker.

No need to believe me, try it yourself in Audacity or any music playing app with EQ controls.
TypeScript has its own WATs too, and to me they are almost worse, because you have this false sense of security based on it being TypeScript and not JavaScript.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/MYewdgziA2CmB00QHM...
> We have eliminated the middle ground.

what would be such a middle ground?

The bespoke stuff is expensive, since there's literally only 1 customer. Think mega yachts.

The 'almost everybody can afford this' is because it's sold to everybody, and thus economies of scale _allows_ it to be affordable.

The old 'middle ground', to me, is a pre-industrial idea that locally sourced craftsman and materials can be used to serve just the local region. It no longer exists because it _can_ no longer exist (except as a sort of cottage industry, or artisanal industry which is hugely inefficient and thus barely anyone buys such things).
Yeah, sure. Food and drink, doomed industries. Absolutely.
When did you go to highschool?

I think homework overload could be part of the problem.

When I went to highschool in the
Aughts, UC tracked students rarely had homework, maybe 30 min a day, and school got out at 2:15. If you had a good job, you could get 1 or 2 hours of school credit instead.

Young family members I know now talk about several hours of work per day.

I certainly wouldn't be happy with that
The real upside of this is that it may get attention of lawmakers and our politicians. However, it is probably not even in their top 100 list of priorities
> a small completely unremarkable burger at a fast food place will be around $20-25. It will not make you full.

Sounds like they've captured the authentic San Francisco experience.
Your last paragraph is excellent. I never saw it expressed that way. Well said.
It's frustrating the discussion is not around data privacy in the US and potentially laws around privacy. If the issue with TikTok is primarily privacy could we have laws that strengthen privacy laws for companies within the US? This way a company can update its system to mitigate issues around privacy rather than a ban. This could impact US companies too, but that does not seem like a bad thing if they are forced to have user privacy in mind.
Using GPT-4 to create custom UI on demand inside apps
Send your thanks to chatgpt :)

Here are the sources-

US: US Census Bureau
UK: Office for National Statistics
South Africa: Statistics South Africa
India: Census of India
China: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Peru: National Institute of Statistics and Informatics
3CX softphone compromised by state-level actor in supply chain attack
As an infra guy, this is currently my headache for the day, HN.

It looks as though a malicious (signed!) binary has been pushed out through 3CX's update system.

The group accused of this is North Korea's Labyrinth Chollima, they are the ones who were behind Wannacry.
At least being called the "RESTRICT Act" will help it get the negative attention it deserves.
It's simple for me really. The threat of the nefarious and corrupted Chinese government lurking has caused the US government to react.

Call US government whatever you want in another conversation, but China has a direct line to every user of Tiktok, and we don't know they plan to leverage that against US interests. Their hail mary with Tiktok could cause a social collapse if they engineered it like how the Russians engineered English social media for the last 7 years.