skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> skeumorphic interface to things like music and synthesis

There's a lot in Rack that isn't skeuomorphic. Really, a very big lot. In fact, even the patching process is only barely skeuomorphic - it doesn't obey the laws of physics in several different ways.

Reaper has no modular environment at all, so "connecting VSTs" is not really a thing in that context - the data flow is almost always linear.
You can write kernels in a language with a GC. You just write kernels that don't allocate.
Would not gold have the superior aspect it has actual use behind its value?

Obviously the store of value part pushes up price, but there is also a big need for gold in electronics and jewellery etc. Bitcoin at the moment is largely speculation and has little use beyond that currently, though has potential to become an active currency of significance, we are yet to see that.
What makes that obvious to you? What seems uncomputable about human intelligence?
Well yes, I mean, all simulations are, right? You put as much real-life data in as you can, but everything's an abstraction unless you're the team from the Devs tv series.
How do you hedge against this if you think the Yuan will be the dominant currency? Investing in chinese stocks is obviously very risky as you can only hold VIEs and ADRs which either the SEC or the PRC could end at a moments notice.

edit: My current viewpoint is the s&p500 is enough of a hedge given that these companies are multinationals trading in many currencies already -- I'm often wrong though :)
Everytime i acted rationally i found myself on the loosing side.

I decided to act irrationally. I think we are living in a different financial system that govs would do anything to protect it inorder to avoid recession.

Acting like an idiot increases the winning chances.
That wasn't my experience. Intro to micro had the simplified model throughout. Intermediate & advanced macro are all math.

Macro at all levels is Keynesian theory plus increasing levels of math. IMO, much of macro resembled alchemy.

Several upper-level classes, though by no means all, took the assumptions in earlier classes, tore them down, and then re-built economics from there. These are assumptions like preferences being transitive, perfect information, rational self-interest, etc. Many of the claims of econ are defensible even when the assumptions are not. Game theory, for instance, is a very solid defense of economics (albeit one I don't agree with). Institutional econ, political econ & public choice are another family of approaches. Some approached like behavioral economics attempt to "debunk" old theories, though these have had problems with things like replication.

Also, econometrics is quite widespread now. Undergrads typically must take at least one semester of it, and OLS regression is essential for understanding certain papers in most upper-level classes. Econometric models are empirical and have only a tenuous relationship with the mainstream theoretical models like supply & demand, AD-AS, ISLM, or the various growth models.

It's not too dissimilar from physics (economists are infamous for physics envy), where Newtonian physics is wrong but still worth learning.
AI, when it was originally coined, was equivalent to what is meant by AGI now. Through enough hype and misapplication of the term to any new algorithm, AI eventually acquired in practice the meaning "any new nontrivial algorithm that does things that humans can perform" (until the shine wears off, in which case it's no longer AI - even A star was originally considered AI). Looks like AGI is going to go down the same path. I wonder what the replacement term for AGI will be.
> Regarding the censorship, obviously the laws apply inside Chinese territory. France is not China so the laws do not apply.

This is exactly my point! EU laws apply within the EU. The US is not the EU, so EU laws do not apply.

> Again, IANAL and this is just my superficial impression.

Fair enough, I see your position now, thank you for explaining.

I think it's a pretty terrible precedent to try and enforce laws from the visitor's country on to the hosting providers country though.

It's not that far-fetched to think some countries with poor human rights records could post some laws that would work the same way you describe, and I don't think you would want them upheld.

The only thing that makes sense to me is enforcing laws for users within their own borders, and same for hosts. If the EU doesn't like something outside of their control, they should setup the Great European Firewall.
So, why the encryption? Is someone in NK really afraid that their stuff will be stolen?

Hmm I guess the answer is in that word "steal", some Chinese supplier probably has monopoly of the NK market and is using the encryption to prevent cheap Chinese karaoke machine makers to just copy their data. (Insert the word "other" in the previous sentence.)
>> There's no such thing as "phonetically correct alphabet for English", because the diversity of English dialects

As I stated in the comments below:

"Most dialects could be considered separate languages with varying degrees of shared ancestry. For that reason, I am not including dialects in my generalization."

So, to be more precise, the Deseret alphabet was phoenetically correct for the English spoken by the Utah settlers circa 1850 to 1870.
You can't win the lottery without buying a ticket
Yes It really was and is a thing. There are lots of people on Hacker News that are not in the place of dismissing things they don't understand. And yes it was a skill that was lost. The only joke is the fact that people lost touch with a lot of ancient knowledge and think everything revolves around this so called accepted "Scientific Method" belief that has dominated our world for way too long.
Alternate explanation: there is a massive dollar shortage globally due to US based and Eurodollar banks being unable/unwilling to lend and dollars are preferentially being spent to import important goods because what else are people going to take?
Go look at the map of the L'Enfant Plan. Now compare it to a map of modern-day DC. They aren't the same: the modern city is much larger. The original plan just covers the federal district, street layouts, etc. Georgetown is just a name on the side of the plan, for instance, with no actual plan. The original plan certainly doesn't include the subway system, or Union station and all the train lines, or many many other things.
One thing I don't understand, and perhaps you could explain, is why anyone in the US would ever keep more cash in any one bank account than what was covered by FDIC insurance. It's precisely the reason I don't e.g. take my savings to an offshore bank that offers much higher interest rates. Is this just a matter of people taking trust in a bank's solvency for granted?
When every company has easy access to the entire world, or at least an entire country, the natural direction is towards far fewer, extremely well-capitalized companies eventually squeezing everybody else out. And we're seeing that in almost every industry, for sure.
Why would you want the euro to grow in prominence?

The euro is an extremely young currency which lost almost 1/3 of its value against the USD over the past two years.

…at a time when the dollar saw the worst inflation in 40 years!
I don't think "anything we do not understand" is the commonly accepted definition of the word "supernatural". It certainly wasn't the one I was using.
That isn't useful, because https://http.rip goes to a self-signed cert.
I believe the sudden dollar articles are showing up because of the Russian war and sanctions and a weaker us dollar.

Even if the demographics changes play out the issue is the growing economies are consuming out of investment and not capital, and do not run trade deficits (so the other party doesn't have Yuan saved up for example). So there is nothing to reinvest. Almost every country China trades with has a trade surplus with China. Which means everyone is buying from China and they don't save up Yuan, but save up the other countries currency.
Hence why looking at it in terms of total $ is an imbalanced metric, we need to look at how many units of trade / txns are conducted instead given the disparity in Purchasing Power Parity.

To illustrate one potent example - Bollywood is magnitudes larger of a movie industry (even adjusted for population), however the collections in $ vs ticket sales paints a very different picture.
The ol' "if you have nothing to hide" argument was flawed a century ago and it isn't getting any less wrong. Recognize that "age verification" is 100% about taking control out of individual hands and into the government's.

The only reason we do this with alcohol is because of health and safety risks. Please tell me how boobies threaten the fabric of society?
DX short funds spreading fud?
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The phenomenon you describe has a name, "demand-pull inflation." It even has a Wikipedia page.[0]

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand-pull_inflation
So when people do not understand the meaning of a word and not care about it, because they do not speak that language, the metric is useless instead of a test of "everything else but the name".

My, small but non zero, experience says the reason these speakers of other language declined to use it was because it lacked features and sometimes because "piracy is also free". They pointed the brush system was basic, PS already had effects they used a lot. No adjustment layers, styles or layer groups to be more efficient. Slow processing because it operated in full data always, while PS solved preview first and the rest in background. And many other things. The Mac ones found no issues with the windowing system (no MDI mode then, with everything wrapped by big window), because it matched more what they were used to, but Windows users found it bad because their OS is not designed for it. None cared about what Gimp or Wilber words are, it was "a poor PS clone with a croissant dog mascot".
Credit unions aren't insured by the FDIC, they have NCUA insurance.
TIL. I did not know this about M Saylor. Thank you for sharing it.

Also I think you meant to write "foreword"
Rome was at its peak during the pagan times; after they adopted Christianity things went downhill. Of course, correlation does not equal causation, but I don't see how Christians have any valid claim to moral righteousness. If any one thing could be pointed to for Rome's collapse, it's probably just corruption, which can happen to any society, and is not at all the same as "moral decay".
What was the justification for the original 1 year with no replaceable? It was so shady.
https://www.macrotrends.net/1329/us-dollar-index-historical-...
You Never See Your Friends Anymore
> Now a USB-C version that was a phone holder that also charged the phone ...

I am abruptly reminded of the PDA that was so small that it synced by fitting into a laptop:

https://hackaday.com/2021/03/11/rex-wasnt-really-a-pda-it-wa...

https://www.paullynch.org/pda/REX/
Its BitClout
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitClout#:~:text=At%20launch%2...
> I really wonder what the next AI winter will be like

Imagine nuclear winter, -50C, gray sky with barely visible sun, and robots everywhere...

Good news: it's not going to happen any time soon.
Any chance of RSS? I get all my news through Feedly
Those both support TLS, although they don't mandate it.
The model can't "invent facts" because it doesn't know what facts are. It's a statistical model that encodes information about the text it was trained on. It has no higher level abstractions to inform its output.

> I imagine that the internal mechanisms the model uses to invent stories out of thin air are different from the mechanisms the model uses to recall precise facts.

Nope! If you input "What is the capital of the United States of America?", it's probably going to output the correct answer, because the question (and answer) probably appeared many times in the training data. If you input "What is the capital of the Gronk Republic?", whatever output you get is generated via the exact same mechanism.
If you think of it more as opening Pandora's box rather than open source then it's easier to swallow.
This isn't the greatest illustration: it only goes back 20,000 years. That's only a minuscule portion of the Earth's history, and even for humans it's just a fraction of our history (humans are roughly 2M years old).

Of course, going back to the climate the Earth had in the Cambrian era, for instance, probably would not be comfortable to humans at all, but still, humans have survived for a much longer time than is illustrated here. Human civilization, OTOH, occupies about half the time period shown here.

The thing that's most important about climate change is: how will it affect human settlements where they're located now? You can't just pick up whole cities with billions of people and move them, and many (most?) of the cities are close to water.
DXY is at the bottom of 52 week range does not support this.
> those cases where the two infinities are definitely not equal to each other

It's been a while since I was doing this in a classroom, but I feel like those things you're thinking are nonuniform infinities could just as well be thought of as entities comprised of infinity and a (perhaps implied) coefficient. Divide out infinity to reveal the coefficient. (And the same for powers/logs, etc.)

In this model, infinities are indeed uniform (quite similar to a constant), though they are often augmented in any of infinitely many ways.
There was a sci-fi show in the 90s called "Earth 2" where this was the norm: marriages normally lasted only 5 years.

It actually sounds like a good idea to me.

It was brought up because one foolhardy couple in the group of characters got married, and decided to have a lifelong marriage instead of the standard 5-year term.
That one supports https too :)
I think that people should understand what this represents, because I think most HN readers (let alone everyone else) won't get it.

1. Start from the Community Edition of VCV Rack (GPL licensed)

2. Redesign the fundamental architecture to match the way most other audio applications work with respect to interacting with audio hardware

3. Implement new modules to replace the most critical ones provided by the non-gratis VCV Rack Pro (plugin version), including sync with the host, exchange audio & MIDI with the host and more.

4. Create new GUIs for the Fundamental module collection that comes with VCV Rack, since those designs are not freely licensed, even though the modules are.

5. Identify VCV Rack modules licensed under "GPLv3 or later", and add them all to the build system, frequently requiring licensing clarification from module authors since the Rack world has been, uhm, a bit, uh, loosey-goosey with this.

6. Find or implement ports of the dependency stack for Rack to WASM

7. Port Rack itself to WASM, which requires a completely new audio/MIDI backend to deal with webaudio and webmidi.

8. Identify and fix browser-specific issues

It is a remarkable effort, and Filipe receives essentially nothing for what he has done.
I really love this. Thank you.

Question: are you using ChatGPT to summarize the article and making that the title of each post?
Also movies such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit [1] and Space Jam [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KujzFdGu7gY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_muZsLBok
I really and truly hope so. I have a lot to learn about the continent, and I love it much. I've done some work on significantly reducing the experiment cost for small experiments on GPT and convnet models (WikiText and CIFAR10, respectively), and one of the big things that I thought of was how it could help Africans in AI specifically because it allows for good research test signals but isn't prohibitively expensive/slow.

On A100s this particular CIFAR10 network trains in under 7 seconds for example and the network (fp16) is <10 MB IIRC, the relative gains over other previous training speeds is even better on older cards IIRC due to it being pretty memory limited at this point. It could be used as a backbone in other networks and is nice because it is good to run experiments on and also can directly deploy at scale pretty easily. In my experience, cycle time is actually one of the biggest resources for most smaller research initiatives.

I just haven't had the opportunity to talk to anyone yet to see if there's a way that I could interface with the African AI community over it. I don't know how Colab works but they work pretty darn well in the free version of Colab, and both are annotated to help a moderately well-motivated learner pick up some of the ropes themselves.

It seems like you know a little about the space. If you do know anyone or have any pointers as to where I could/should look to talk to people about this, please do let me know! I think OSS can do a lot and would love to give a bit to the community, for sure.
No... What led you to believe that was the case? You're way, way off.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2008/kru...
When Hinton saw me out, the spring day had turned gray and wet. “Enjoy yourself, because you may not have long left,” he said. He chuckled and shut the door.
Starty McStartface
I think the people in the mansion are the ones that can help you with jobs and investments.
Its all about knowing the right people.
It's been 24 hours and I still can't login via firefox on desktop.
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This is about market share in central bank foreign reserves, but a lot of context is missing. Which central bank reserves changed?

It wouldn’t be surprising if this were mostly China.
They're doing all this to prevent... console jailbreaks? I would have expected some kind of national security use case.
Roland is a Japanese company.
I've genuinely never gotten any flack about the whole imessage vs sms thing, but I've also thrown in the towel for one particular reason: OS updates. Most Android manufacturers only give you 2 major versions, maybe 3 in the best case. With Samsung being the only one I know of giving you 4. iPhone supports major OS version updates for a lot longer than most any android phone.
polygamy?

Take a moment to think about history of US statehood. The Mormons, chased off Eastern settlements for their polygamy, settled most of the mountain West, declared governance, then watched big mining operations all around them get cut off from their territory and turned into full-fledged states, while they were not admitted to the union for decades.

It was a time of shared culture that is unrecognizable from where we stand today, and they absolutely didn't want to give statehood to polygamists...
What if it's really, really good and isn't boring, though? And feels soulful?
What do you mean? It's their server, their service.
We will all find out soon enough. Speculating on this is a waste of time.
AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
I actively avoid group chats in general, but most everyone I know uses SMS for group chats.
On a Pixel or something else?
> Adams was asked during the press conference if AirTags work with Android (they don't).
>"Why would anyone have one [an Android phone]?" Adams responded.

Solid point
“G” means general. If it can learn to drive a car, build a car, sell cars, write poetry about cars, and teach a class about the history of cars, then it’s scratching the surface of AGI, because there’s more to life than cars.
You mean freemasonry, right? (Please tell me I'm not about to offer philosophical opinions about something that turns out to be a higher level of Discord membership or something.)

IMO yes / no / in between, mainly depending on your personality characteristics.

First, if you are interested in it, this tells its own story about energy, learning capacity, etc.--they are available to you and this is worth notice.

However, I'd add that it's important to ask what specific aspects are most interesting to you, because it's also possible that there are better memberships or simple habit-changes that are possibly even more beneficial with less of a waste of time. A society is not an individual, so you will always stand to lose some vitality via the aspects of that society that require your attention yet do not reward your personal interests or goals.

Second, symbolically it can tell you something about yourself. For example, it could be as simple as, "I learn faster and with more passion when I am learning about obscure topics." This kind of thing is DEFINITELY worth knowing about yourself, it's like finding a real life powerup.

Third, it is an objective ethical structure. It could help you find objective reasons to enact an ethical structure for which the rationale has been lacking in your life. "Mr. Millionaire, I'm giving you back your wallet full of cash which I found on the street not because I'm a total idiot, but because I'm a Mason!" There are really some people who need this kind of blame-structure to support them in living to what others would consider a basic level of life ethics, so great is their natural tendency to listen to e.g. cold, hard, situational logic.

Finally, it could reward you with easier access to aspects of life that are harder to achieve otherwise. For example, let's take the second point above--you are amenable to the obscure! Ah ha, so logically this tells us that within the masonic order of things, you may benefit from a faster path to welcome & full fellowship. If you previously found general types of fellowship or even friendship difficult to achieve, now we can make the argument that they will be much easier and even natural.

These are just some thoughts on the matter and as someone who is no longer part of an organized belief society-system, I would conclude by saying: Always leave space for alternatives and don't shut yourself in. Good luck.
Serbo-Croatian dialects have something like 20 million speakers in total.

It seems to be mainly about whether the widely adopted orthography was specifically designed with phonemicity in mind, and whether enough time has passed since then for the pronunciation to diverge (e.g. note Korean - Hangeul was perfectly phonemic when originally designed, but it isn't anymore after >500 years of language evolution). Modern orthographies are more likely to stick for longer though because speech is much more uniform today thanks to universal education and mass media.

It also helps when the government steps in. Serbo-Croatian is this way thanks to the efforts of Vuk Karadžić and Ljudevit Gaj being adopted by the corresponding ethnostates as official. Turkish Latin orthography was literally designed by committee to pursue a political goal, and then heavily enforced top-down.