skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jacob Collier won a grammy for each of his first four albums, has a massive following, is known for pushing the boundaries of practical application of music theory, and is well respected by musicians of every kind. There's a bit more to what makes him special than what can be reduced to a single gimmick or reductive comparison.
Reddit survived a long time with absolutely horrendous stability. They still have pretty bad uptime: 99.72 % uptime (web). Their community was very vocal about it, but they continued to grow.

I could even see it helping. When reddit was down everyone lost their shit and there would be posts "where were you during the outage of '21" and "today I actually went outside", etc.. Kinda adds to the hype.
Combined 'SuperLab' Demonstrates Unique Hybrid Power Plant
There is absolutely no clear line from the massive capitalistic society we have today and the post scarcity utopia you see coming. There is a massive, massive shift in thinking required among people with the level of wealth and power that allows them to force their thinking on the rest of us via dialogue and propaganda and also violence when the first two don't work.

Color me cynical, but I believe we're on a dead-end track and the train is running at full speed. There's no conductor and we're all just playing with our belly buttons while we wait for the end.

I believe LLM's and eventually AGI will only be used to entrench power structures that exist today. I believe, as most tools, the positive effects will almost immediately be outweighed by the negative. I believe The Road and all that type of dystopian fiction was really just non-fiction that happened to be written 50-100 years too early.

But maybe I'm too cynical. Who knows?
"Hey man did you just deploy xyz? I noticed there's some weird error prints, wanted to make sure you saw"

That sounds totally great of course. What I'm concerned about is when people think they need to get all long-winded and and jargon-y to avoid sounding "blunt". Per the example in the ancestor comment which tipped this all off (slotting your values in):

"Hey - it seems the XYZ deployment is causing some weird error prints. I think you might have the context on this - can you drive a solution?"
Everything still gets sent to OpenAI. “Locally hosted” means the UI, not the AI.
I would say that intelligence agencies, militaries, and authoritarian regimes could also meet those criteria because they operate outside of public scrutiny.
My Bambino (bought <1yr ago) came with both pressurized and non-pressurized baskets actually.
My kids love scratch. Excellent introduction to coding for kids. Wish it was taught in schools more as it helps build methodical cognitive thinking. I consider it modern BASIC.
I know what "symbiosis" means, just like I know what "alignment" means. I don't know exactly what you mean when you're using it in this context, though, like I don't know what others really mean when they use "alignment".

What would this kind of symbiosis look like?
> At the time, one could have probably gotten away most of the time with merely claiming to have published open-source code or showing off how you got some GitHub stars. In retrospect, I can't say much of my honest portfolio work did for me other than act as learning experiences. Cranking out a bunch of garbage code would have sufficed for showing that I had some "skill" for landing my first job.

That's one of the reasons we stopped considering bootcamp candidates.

> That ANSI code thing is funny as hell, though! I loathe what it represents, but admire how it proves a point by gaming the system. Also demonstrates my point that so much of what defines success in this field has been the mere appearance of even a shred of clout.

I don't know. You look at software like Quake and DOOM and it's quite obvious they were successful because these were well engineered. Same thing with the iPhone; One of the reasons it's so good is iOS and it's heritage from OSX, itself a descendant of NeXTSTEP, probably one of the most influent OS of the 90's.

Having 12'000 "hello world" projects using these joke dependencies isn't a badge of success, rather a differentiation between amateurs and real engineers. The former doesn't see anything wrong with pulling in 30+ packages just to have colored output in the terminal, the later definitely does.
We're currently searching unsplash for stock photos. I didn't find anything too weird when I tried that query, but they do sometimes feel random. We want to add multiple image providers, include generative AI-based providers.
I'm sure it varies. I'm honestly surprised that Boston is so apparently back to pre-COVID levels given that there's a moderate amount of tech (even excluding pharma/biotech) in the city (mostly Cambridge).
Russian Troops Amassing on Ukraine Border

Russia Invades Ukraine

These anti-Russia headlines are getting out of control!
"Skunk Works" by Ben Rich is a first hand account by the (eventual) lead of that Lockheed division, and he describes this in his book.

https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/...
New Law Mandates Interlocks on New Cars, but Drunk Driving Tech Isn’t Ready Yet
Note that Scratch does not require users to verify their email addresses (although some functionality is restricted), so the barrier to entry is somewhat lower.

Even for confirmed email addresses, Scratch is super lax in terms of what they'll accept. My company (a childrens' coding enrichment program) probably has upwards of a thousand Scratch accounts attached to a single gmail via "+" aliases, and Scratch doesn't care at all.
I think California just did something like this to gasoline products.
Publishing personal data is a violation for sure. There is a certain scenario where you have given implicit permission for your name to be used, but I doubt that they have it. Also, you might revoke the license of the code, though I don't have an idea if this would give you the right to send a copyright violation notice. Depending on how important is that for you, consult a lawyer to make it the right way.

Edit: I mean to revoke the license of your contributions.
Piano fingering is a very subjective matter, because every hand, finger, arm and taste is different. I doubt that a robot fingering is of any use. You have to find it out for yourself under guidance of a teacher and maybe inspiration by fingerings of master pianists written in the score. The Henle app has a feature to show them separately. They differ vastly for the same piece.
Thanks for the balanced feedback. It's not too far from the impression I got. I do take Lafont and Girard seriously and have greatest respect for them.
It's more than that, it's a full mesh wireguard with NAT punching and DNS and SSH authentication and firewalling.
In researching a sibling comment, I found a 1953 newspaper article saying "Britain Bans Old-Fashioned Blackboard For The New Colored Chalkboard" at https://archive.org/details/1953-04-11-1953-04-30/page/n167/... .

The reason given is "a slab of black on the wall has a tendency to create a dark, depressing, uncomfortable and gloomy atmosphere", and they will be replaced "with a 'chalkboard' in some one of nine brighter colors"

Amusingly, the Collins English Dictionary (3rd edition) defined "chalkboard" as "a U.S. and Canadian word for blackboard." at https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780004332864/page/268/mode... . Archive.org says it's from 1981 but I can't find a date in the book.

And in "An Assembly Collection" by Joan Hasler, Headteacher at Dover Grammar School for Girls, (1986) is reading 128, titled "Green Blackboards"

The school is up-to-date.
Proudly, the principal tells of all the improvements.
The finest discovery, Lord, is the green blackboard.
The scientists have studied long, they have made experiments;
We know now that green is the ideal colour, that it doesn't tire the
eyes, that it is quieting and relaxing.
....

I also found mention of a "green blackboard" in Comedians, a 1975 play by Trevor Griffiths taking place in 1970s Manchester (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedians_(play) ): "his room, on the ground floor, is smallish, about a dozen chipped and fraying desks, two dozen chairs set out in rows facing the small dais on which stands the teacher’s desk, with green blackboard unwiped from the day’s last stand beyond." - https://archive.org/details/comedians0000grif_p3e8/page/6/mo... .

So it appears at some point there were at least green blackboards in the UK.
Yet the reviews are pretty good. It's a good device, people just don't care about VR that much. And yes on its it's expensive.
Is It April Fool's Day?
Hi, one of the authors here :)

The demo you are watching is an agent trained from scratch with reinforcement learning. It has roughly 6 days of experience (10M steps at 20 Hz). The Javascript demo is replaying the policy open loop which is why it's not super robust to disturbances.

Re:fingering: we actually use fingering information to create a dense reward for the agent (otherwise it makes exploration super hard). It would be an exciting future direction to have the agent discover and optimize for fingering that best suits its kinematics :) And beyond that, having RL inform pianists about the difficulty of a piece or even more optimal fingering would be amazing.

We trained a bunch of these policies on roughly 150 songs (baroque, romantic, classical) and we did some analysis in the paper if you're interested: https://kzakka.com/robopianist/robopianist.pdf
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The ONLY thing that will EVER stop the cartels, and the overdoses, is LEGAL SUBSTANCE purchasing.

The few modern efforts, of say Oregon, only eliminate criminal charges for posession. This will do NOTHING to defund the cartels, or stop the overdoses due to unknown strength/dosing.
Either way he is still the guy who publicly mocked his own employee for having muscular dystrophy, offered another employee a horse if they gave him a handjob, called a cave diver who saved a bunch of children a pedo, spread conspiracy theories about an elderly man who was beaten by an intruder with a hammer....

He's not a good person.
How so? I don't follow the logic here. Do you also think that about Snowden? Pre-2013, technologists would laugh at anyone suggesting the NSA was spying on US citizens. There were tinfoil hat jokes and everything. Snowden showed it was not only happening, but was commonplace and operating on a massive scale.

Assange, like Snowden, revealed all sorts of government and military corruption which was directly enabled by things like the Patriot Act and the NDAA. So how did "his actions" make their effects "so much worse?"
Isn’t ASN.1 is a binary encoding without a universal human readable representation?
>I guess D would make more sense than E

Just learning to play the guitar myself and at least personally, have found D to be a pain in the ass of a chord shape. I can switch between A, E, and G all day long, but throw a D in there and I have to slow down and be a little more intentional. Muscle memory will happen, but for the combination of my brain and that shape, it happens more slowly. I don't think I'm the only one, either, because it was called out specifically by the guy who did the video lessons I'm using.
These are more or less the three easiest open guitar chords for a beginner to learn, all major, so not very unusual IMO.

The roots fall on a pentatonic scale which works well with basic rock music (see the referenced TNT song by AC/DC).
> You can't claim by that stat that 90% of the fentanyl is brought in by American citizens through regulated ports of entry.

They quite literally did not make that claim.
On the Blackbird site, there's a really good factual story delivered after someone asked about the slowest they'd ever flown the plane. That tale is a good read:

https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...
And yet Congress is not trying to pass a law that says it's yellow, so what is the relevance of your comment?
Hey looks very cool. Curious why you chose BASF as the example? Are you targeting engineering market in particular?
> Google denies doing it

Read their statement carefully and it's actually not a denial of the allegation.

> But Google is firmly and clearly denying the data was used: “Bard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT,” spokesperson Chris Pappas tells The Verge

* Allegation: Google used ShareGPT to train Bard.

* Rebuttal: The current production version of Bard is not trained on ShareGPT data

Both things can be true:

* Google did use ShareGPT to train Bard

* Bard is not currently trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT.

It depends on what the meaning of is is ;)
That's just habitual. Anyone coming from Python could say the same things about another language. The typing never bothered me because you learn to work with it. But there is of course type hinting now, which I barely use.
TikTok is eating Facebook's lunch. I think the US social media companies have teamed up and lobbied to ban TikTok. Too bad they can't compete and win. This is how you get disrupted Facebook.
The DMCA was since Bukkit is an API while CraftBukkit is an implementation of Bukkit. Bukkit is GPL meaning you can't make a combined work with proprietary software - such as Minecraft, which is what CraftBukkit is.
Turbo shots [0] have sort of changed the game here though. Even with the most expensive gear, espresso has typically been inconsistent because the conventional wisdom has been to grind extremely fine and pound high-pressure water over a longer period of time (~30 seconds typically). This often leads to water finding channels through the coffee puck and over/under extraction, except for the rare occasions with perfect prep that you get a perfect extraction, but it's basically unrepeatable.

The new wisdom is grinding coarser, using less coffee, and sending water through at a lower pressure. So instead of an 18g:36g shot dripping out variably in 30 seconds, the aim is something like 15:45g in less than 20 seconds.

[0]: https://strivefortone.com/2020/09/19/low-pressure-turbo-shot...
Every opinion is subjective.
RGB<->YCbCr is a linear operation, so a deep enough network shouldn't have trouble learning to do the transform if it's useful. Gamma correction might be important, though.
> But he looses interest once he sees just lines.

This hits me deeply. I do not have kids, even not married. But when/if they will appear I will manage to disallow any GUI on the territory of my house for everybody including me (I hope old Nokias will still be a thing at that time for having ability to communicate or it will not work). Then a child will look at the lines as at the most interesting thing in the house and maybe starts going a GNU/Linux hacker way as early as some greatest mathematicians have started their math careers.

I respect such thing as Scratch and any of his competitors, but let's be honest, gentlemen - games is a misusing of computer and the lines is what matters.
rudimentary (old) evolution does only care about survival

but for "newer"(?) evolution it's a solved problem. so "it" appears as if to care about other things.

it's not quite correct to contrast 'rudimentary or old' with "newer". I think it's more reasonable to think of it as more or less fundamental to life. closer or further from basis survival
You also can't know how much gets through legal border crossings. What you have posted is a non-statement
True, because many of those smugglers also smuggle military-grade firearms back to Mexico. It's very risky, but also very easy money. Sometimes there are enhanced controls to detect smuggling, but I'd bet anything they have well-bribed moles who warn the smugglers when that happens.
I wonder if you could have this where the chat just tokenizes or minifies code on the client and spits out human readable made up stuff on the other end.
> With code and art generation, a single individual has never had more capability to make something by themselves.

That is nice and all, but let me put it this way: if it costs you three cents in computing power to have AI write the necessary code for something or draw good art, you can't reasonably expect anyone to pay you more than three cents for it.

Your economic value as a worker matches the economically productive things you can do, and that's what is going to put food on your table. If an AI can do in ten seconds for ten cents a task that would take you an hour, congratulations, your maximum wage is ten cents. If/when the AI becomes better than you at everything, your work is worthless, your ideas are worthless, so it all comes down to the physical assets you possess.

And that's why it is centralizing: the most decentralized class of asset is human labour. AI has the potential to render it worthless, and whatever remains (land, natural resources) is already more centralized. There is a small number of people who may be uniquely talented to leverage AI to their benefit, but it is unclear how long that period might last.
I think you misunderstand the fundamental difference between "white" LEDs which are generally a blue LED associated with various phosphors that convert the monochromatic blue light into a mostly continuous spectrum going from blue to red, and the monochromatic R, G and B LEDs that each emit a fairly narrow band that is either red (with no blue or green at all) green (no blue or red) or blue (no red or green).

Blue LEDs are used to create white because it's easier to convert blue to lower frequencies. But red and green LEDs absolutely exist. LEDs exist for a wide range of narrow wavelengths, including for example infrared LEDs that emit at 940 nm without a trace of blue (obviously, otherwise they would be visible!).
I am a Scratch-taught programmer in that I played with Scratch in 5th grade and ended up programming professionally. It was great and I'm sure they've done a good job with it since. I'm very, very grateful.
The Washington Examiner is leaving out several salient facts.

- the Police Officer's Association address was used to ship out packages to customers in the US, and Segovia operated her drug business partly out of the office; there's photographic evidence for both, taken from her whatsapp communications (which she turned over to investigators)

- she discussed police business with her supplier(s)

- at least one of her customers died of an overdose

- after she was first contacted by investigators, she carried out an elaborate attempt to frame her housekeeper

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23732642-segovia-com...
Interview with GPT-4 Red Teamer Nathan Labenz
Many AI conversations have been floating around internet forums since the original GPT was released. As OpenAI hasn't shared anything about its training set, to err on the side of caution I would assume that they didn't filter these conversations out. If they aren't even marked as such, it may not even be possible to do. I think it would be very hard to prove that no AI conversations are included in the training set, even if it wasn't secret.
Never forget, also on the other side of the wall, East Germany the paradigm of control and spying on their own citizens.
I'd been dealing with flickering CFL bulbs for some time already. My fovea is about 10hz slower than the rest of my retina. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 58hz versus 68hz (70Hz CRT displays were a goddamned revelation for me, when I could finally afford them. Thank you Iiyama.)

Things flickering in the corner of your vision is distracting af.

But then my partner started complaining about headaches reading, but only in certain rooms in the house. I put two and two together and stopped buying a brand of CFL (I might have upgraded to LEDs at this point, I don't recall).

More recent advice was to go to the hardware store and record a slow motion video of the demo bulbs, to see if you can detect flicker during playback, but I think I've only succeeded in that one time and so I'm not sure if it doesn't work as well as advertised or if retailers have gotten better vendors.
What is your setup?
> Everyone was not treated equally by being [m]ade whole

so they were treated equitably

in what way were they treated unequally?
Because real life isn't a TV show. That isn't how national security agencies work. They don't dump raw intelligence to the public. The US knew it was Libya obviously, and the data released since then has proved that. Hell even the Stasi & the soviets knew it was Libya.

Again this isn't a TV show. No country needs permission to react to an attack against them by another state like Libya.
But for how long programming will be an useful skill? Because if it become a hobby/toy it will have to compete with other activities that are more fun/fulfilling. Or it could become part of existing hobbies eg. let's write software for onboard computer in this model rocket.
Also, now you have to buy ads for your own company not just to make it more visible than it would deserve by default, but to prevent your competitors being displayed first even if the user types your exact company name in the search field (what they are encouraged to do).
I will offer a contrarian take, not because I think anyone else in the thread is wrong, but because I think there’s more than one opinion here, and it’s not showing in the comments.

I have multiple children, and I hate (ok, strongly dislike) working remotely. I dislike the lack of separation between home and work, and how it makes my children feel like I’m “always working.”

I love the high-bandwidth communication and collaboration of in-person, as well as the way it naturally fosters empathy and community. It’s a better learning environment for most, and it makes work more fun for most.

I have been an outlier, I guess, and have only been able to find remote jobs for most of my decade+ SWE career. I have a dedicated office space and all the gear, so my dislike of remote has nothing to do with not being properly equipped for it.

I think people have a lot of valid complaints that are actually orthogonal to in-person work:

- Housing is too expensive. True! Not the fault of the office.

- Commutes take too long. True! Not the fault of the office.

- Housing units close to the office are often too small to be comfortable for families. Subjective, but many people feel this way! Also not the fault of the office.

The common theme here is that housing and transportation in America is broken. Utterly broken.

There is no technical or economic reason that we couldn’t have the majority of workplaces in neighborhoods where the majority of employees could comfortably live within a ten minute commute. And I submit that there is nothing better than getting to work together in real life while living comfortably within ten minutes of your workplace.

There’s nothing _wrong_ with remote work, and I think it’s great for it to be an option for those who want it (including all remote companies for those who want them). But remote isn’t morally superior to in-person work, despite the way many advocates talk about it. And an escape hatch from our broken cities is not the same as a solution.

It saddens me that more of us aren’t working seriously on the problem of fixing housing and transportation in the US, and instead are embracing bandaids.

FWIW I do what I can via my work with Strong Towns. If this is a cause that interests you I’d encourage you to read our material and consider becoming a member.
Pair Programming Ruby with GPT-4