skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most vinyl records are sold as vinyl + digital anyway.

The appeal to the vinyl is the ritual that we kind of lost buy going digital. I've also gone back to start reusing CDs, at least the little I kept. I donated most of my CD collection when I moved country and kind of regret it.

People keep talking about quality to praise digital media. But most people saying this listen to music through crappy bluetooth speakers nowadays. There is a very small amount of users still using decent hi-fi equipment.
Bing originally intentionally undid some of the RLHF guardrails with its system prompt, today it's actually more tame than normal ChatGPT and very aggressive about ending chats if it detects it's headed out of bounds (something ChatGPT can't offer with the current UI)
Do vinyl and CDs of the exact same album have different mixes? I find this very hard to believe, or the amount of human involvement must be very low -- software automation. My point: In 2023, what record label could defend the cost of expensive audio engineers to remix an album just for vinyl. The realized, absolute profits on vinyl must be tiny at this point. And when I wrote profit, I do not mean profit margin, which will be very large on small sales revenue
Is it just a European (UK & France I'm most familiar with) thing that supermarkets sell alcohol? Seems weird to me when they're separate shops, but I'm realising it is perhaps most of the world?
i checked their GitHub repo and looks like the project is dead, any update from anyone working on it?
Of course they don't. About half of my modest modern vinyl collection were gifts.

It's also a collectible, meaning lots of people buy for reselling, and lots of people treat vinyl the same way as Lego or comics, never taking it out from the wrap.
Why? Most people older than 40 got a record players decades ago and still own it even if it is barely used.

People who don't move on a regular basis don't really take the time to assess what it is worth keeping or not.
Yeah, for one of the startups I founded, my mantra was "build a great business and a great product". But I didn't think I had the bandwidth to do both, I wanted help on the business side so I could focus on the product, so I hired a team to "build a great business".

But I wish I had read the bits about cofounders and exec teams.

The number of pitched battles I had about management processes in my pre-revenue, pre-customer, barely-there startup took so much of my time, while I was just trying to get the product out the door so we could sign people up.

I definitely chose the wrong parters... and it definitely sunk the company.
Isn't that a repetition? Predictions based on assuming a perfectly understood relationship that led to 6 degree predictions, combined with no reduction in CO2 growth and yet a much less than 6 degree rise = way off base. What else would you call such a prediction?

BTW I don't think many people were actually predicting 6 degrees so this is a bit academic. 6 degree rise sounds more like the IPCC's discredit "business as usual" RCP8.5 scenario. Most models predict a linear-ish trend of about 0.25C per decade, as you'd expect given their underlying premise that warming is all driven by CO2 and CO2 increases more or less linearly:

https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/CMIP5-90-mod...

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Edit: actually Hansen was predicting in 1988 a 6-7 degree rise by 2050 "if we do nothing", that's clearly not going to happen given that since then it's been about 0.5 degrees and CO2 levels have continued to climb inexorably.
If you tell it it's wrong, it often comes up with a better answer on the second try.

It seems like you could maybe automate that. Let it spit out its first draft of an answer, have the framework tell it "please correct the errors" and then let it have another go and only present the second attempt to the user.
Some devices don't have the UI for side-loading apks (TVs etc.). You can download apks from the publisher's website, 3rd party stores like F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid, or use Yalp Store to download directly from Google Play.
The vinyl record is a physical NFT for these buyers. It’s a way to support the artist, it’s perhaps collectible, and (unlike a digital NFT) it looks and feels nice.
Read in context it's a pretty reasonable offhand example.

> Avoiding global variables is usually considered good practise, and some systems ban them for other reasons anyway (for example, Rust doesn't allow global mutable state as it wouldn't be able to prevent races accessing it from multiple threads).

Rust does avoid global variables. You will very very rarely see a global mutex in a Rust library, and only occasionally see it in an application. (The most recent time I saw a Rust mutex was to implement string interning in wasm, a platform without atomics. So it's basically free).
I also thought of poker, but I'm not sure exactly if there's a connection here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_theorem
> All mails sent to gmail were silently dropped

This used to be a cardinal sin for mailserver operators; mail should always either be delivered, or result in a non-delivery notification ("bounce"). Dropping mail on the floor was a no-no.

Then along came gmail...
GPT-4 is pretty clearly not just public data + public papers. It's a lot of optimizations and other things on top of what is itself a lot of optimizations and other things that led to GPT-3.

We're going to have to wait and see if OpenAI has a moat. You could have argued in 2001 that Google had no real moat. All they were doing was indexing public data with an algorithm they'd already published in a research paper, after all. But it turned out to be a deep space with an endless potential for optimizations and improvements, combined with the need for great expertise in scalable computations and ad optimization that other companies just weren't able to catch up with even after trying hard for years.
Yeah neural nets are amazing compression algorithms since the best way to get the gist of something is to actually understand it, then algorithmically generating the data. Like a calculator having a near infinite compression ratio because it can do math instead of keeping a table of all possible inputs and outputs.

Same goes for human brains I suppose, we can only remember as much as we do because of the effective compression our understanding allows for.
Agreed! Had good success doing this with a toy mapping web app. Serializing polylines with Protobufs significantly reduced payload size compared to a JSON `[number,number][]` and as it was HTTP I could offload onto a CDN by setting cache-control headers.

Developer experience is also much nicer. Instead of repeatedly writing JSON serializers/deserializers on the backed + fronted you get them generated for free. I know there's various open API/json schemas code generators but for me i'd rather use Protobuf's at that point and get the benefits of a strongly typed schema, schema evolution, reduced payload size so faster experience for the user, cheaper bandwidth and cheaper storage if you currently store opaque JSON blobs in the db.

JSON API's are api's in debug mode.
But how do you know it's wrong until a human tries the output
The real communication skill for a physician is to be able flex the style, information content, and level of detail to the patient with whom they are meeting. The patient in this room is an engineer, the patient in the next room is elderly and has mild cognitive impairment, etc. As impressive as ChatGPT is its domain, I don’t see it “reading the room” in this way anytime soon. And as a human who enjoys interacting face to face with other humans from time to time, I hope we keep it that way.
Is there a bot writing these comments, I’d say everyone who used ChatGPT 4 had to know this by now and takes this into account ?
I’ve been running Linux for over 10 years on contemporary dell, Lenovo and Apple laptops. It’s fine.
> It just can't handle it suddenly.

I think there are factors there that is going to cause permanent reductions of production capacity in many economies, though:

1) Demography: Boomers have started retiring in large numbers, and a lot more retire in the next 5-10 years. There are not enough young people to fill all of the openings they leave behind. Also, work participation rate among young people is falling for various reasons. Unlike their parents, the boomers have a lot of saved up wealth and less of the frugality of those who remembered the 30s, meaning many will continue to have high levels of consumption into their retirement.

2) Reversion of globalism: Covid made many realize that global supply chains are fragile during emergencies, and many countries are re-shoring essential and strategic production, such as medical supplies, chips/electronics and agricultural products. The cost of this improved resilience is lower efficiency.

3) Increased world tension: With the invasion of Ukraine and the possibility of war between the US and China over Taiwan, world spending on armaments is going up, taking production capacity away from consumer goods. The same tension is already causing reduced trade.

4) Populism/socialism/environmentalism: There appears to be a surge in populist, socialist radical environmentalist sentiments in many places, with demands to "tax the rich" and other actions that will make investments less attractive.

In sum, I think these factors will have noticable effects on the supply side in many years to come, causing inflation and/or interest rates to stay elevated for 10 years or more.

Unless there is a sudden surge in automation, of course.
Starlink sats don't stick around for multiple millennia. Their orbit degrades quite fast. You need much higher orbits for such longevity.
Your experience matches mine. Everything I have asked is usually _horribly_ wrong, and even asking things in a different order makes it completely change its responses, even for otherwise binary questions. Even the "snippet" part of a Google search with the same prompt normally contains enough information to contradict it...

I'll also note that when there was hype around Stable Diffusion, one of the images shared around was that of an astronaut riding a horse. If you actually run Stable Diffusion with its default tuning and ask for that prompt, you will get 6 images, of which 5 of them are outright disasters (horses with 6 legs and going downhill from there), and then the 6th image, the only one which could possibly pass as a decent result, is the one that everyone shared and reshared and hyped. Usually other prompts give even more terrible results where there are 0 passable images without extensive tuning. Stable Diffusion now is acknowledged to actually be crap --despite the hype-- and I supposedly need to try the next best thing, whatever that is. But I find myself facing the same situation with ChatGPT 3.5, and now with ChatGPT 4, despite the fact there is no "next best thing", and I don't even know how they could even possible try to fix the problem of it being just wrong.
Agreed. I saw lots of really really questionable people not get laid off. It seemed to depend much more on business unit than job performance. Though once you are already in a business unit that is being cut, maybe it is performance related, not sure.
I think there'd have been confusion either way, with people expecting to put the URLs into a browser rather than a social app, especially as there's no uniform way of recognising that they're Fediverse-related without visiting the URL first, so I think having an indicator of that there is worth it, but e.g. the masto.ai/@mg style URL are a lot better than the masto.ai/users/mg.

The webfinger support also potentially enables some cool functionality by letting users use the same handle for multiple services. That said, I'd love to see someone set up a webfinger service that 1) lets people bring their own custom domains, 2) shows a linktree style UI if you hit host/username, 3) optionally redirects or transparently caches certain settings, 4) offer to transparently redirect requests to the user page a given resource based on Accept: header where possible (e.g. ActivityPub/ActivityStreams technically expect 'application/ld+json; profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" ' with the caveat that the "profile" bit is likely to be left out by a lot of clients)
I keep saying that Google's plans is to bring ChromeOS everywhere, and the folks shipping Electron apps are doing nothing short than helping Google achieve that goal.
This laptop actually has a pointing stick with three mouse buttons above the trackpad, which is nice. (Dell calls it Dual Point instead of TrackPoint.) It's a shame that Dell no longer makes any laptops with pointing sticks and that the ones they did make used Intel instead of AMD Ryzen 4000+ processors.
It seems I'm the only one that didn't know of the AT protocol and Bluesky. Any differences to Mastodon?
It could be the view is rendered on mouse event, which would mean rendering with fluctuating 125/250/500/1000 fps during view movements.
Or the IT Crowd version https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg
Unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738763
Is there something about the premise of the study or its method that you feel are not good?

After reading the article, what you wrote doesn't seem to make much sense.
Big fan of this tool, I use it any time I'm doing presentations or writing a document that requires a recording of my Android's screen.
> the EU has repeatedly doled out fines in the billion dollar range which is enough to even hurt big corps for non-compliance

Wrong. Unless the fines are larger than the profits made from the illegal practices, they are just cost of doing business.

> I've honestly never once seen someone advocate to ignore legislation intentionally

Of course not. There is usually a complex system of plausible deniability in place that executives use to cover their asses, while everyone involved silently understands what is happening.

Do you seriously think that the people who designed the "defeat devices" revealed in the context of the emissions scandal believed they weren't breaking the law?
> Vinyl isn't about crackle or warmth.

It kind of is because you don't have an even frequency response throughout the vinyl. The closer to the center, the less high frequency response you get. Also higher frequencies in general require the cutting needle to to move faster and can introduce unpleasant distortion into the record, so you might attenuate higher frequencies on a vinyl record that you wouldn't need to for the streaming/radio/cd mix.

> It's about the fact that vinyl physically cannot support a super compressed mix.

This is false. Vinyl's physicality limits its dynamic range. If you have too high of an amplitude the cuts in the vinyl will be deeper and depending on the track could lead to the needle literally jumping off the player creating skipping. A super compressed mix doesn't create issues, a heavily limited one does. Clipping and brickwall limiting create problems for vinyls and introduce unpleasant distortion. You can still have a very compressed track on vinyl.

If a vinyl mix ends up with more dynamic range than the CD mix, it's because it was an active choice made by the mixing/mastering engineers, not because vinyl can't handle compressed mixes. In fact due to avoiding limiting as much as possible, you'll encounter plenty of cases where there is less dynamic range due to added compression to bring out the detail in quieter sections.
Structuring information is one of the ways that your work is read and understood by your readers.

This should be a priority unless you’re writing is just for social status, funding or compliance reasons, surely?
If you want to:

A) use the latest hardware

B) spec it down to the kernel boot parameters

C) enjoy great support

I can cheerfully recommend http://emperorlinux.com/ which has been a vendor of the finest nerd gear for a very long time. I've owned two.
Well, for starters, Musk? As an investor (rather, lead capital provider) in a non-profit, he was blindsided by the decision entirely.

And before anyone criticizes me for defending his viewpoint, let's assume this: if Musk's $100 million investment were to be replaced by 100k HN users investing $1k each into a non-profit focused on safe and "open AI", do you think they would be uniformly happy about this decision?
And does not require a rooted phone
This exactly
I want to discuss this issue:
Neopotism
Sitting in a bus is still sitting, offering no health benefits vs sitting in a car (arguably, it's even less healthy when crowded). If the topic is health, the opposite here is walking, or (to lesser extent) cycling.
There's a lot of trains in Switzerland so there's a lot of apartments by tracks. For the most part, the apartments are just built well.

Plus, the trains and tracks are very well maintained, so they create a lot less noise than you may be used to.
I don't think it's immoral to steal if you need to.
Any Turing complete computer can generate the Mandelbrot fractal. You don't need a complex computer to get Turing completeness. In fact, Turing completeness is notable for showing up even in extremely simple systems.
Bluesky/ATProtocol sites prefer to use Federation over Decentralization, so it feels like this is slightly missing the mark by attacking a strawman
It would need to be a significantly larger box for that. And require a field of solar to run. It would also cost a few orders of magnitude more than just a starlink terminal would.
It seems it gives more accurate and emphatic response. I would guess the physician just needs to double check that what the LLM says is medically correct, reasonable and ask the right questions from the patient and the LLM.
Whenever I play music for myself, I care less about convenience and more about the overall emotional experience.

Vinyl means many things to me. It’s a reminder of my father’s collection, a memory from a visit to some new place that had a record shop, the proud of owning something tangible from an artist you love.

The premise is not rational at all to me.

However I have also spend a lot of time (and money) obsessing about the quality / condition of the vinyl, the cartridge setup and matching to the preamp and the overall turntable setup.

That part is a rather good mix of theory and manual adjustments, and honestly makes for a fun hobby on top of record collecting or music listening.

But yes vinyl can be frustrating. Receiving a poorly pressed disc only to have to return it kind of sucks.
Cost to use openAI is also pretty low compared to hosting models
>iodine adds a bad metallic taste

"Iodized salt in the U.S. contains 45 micrograms of iodine per gram of salt." [1]

There's no way anyone can taste that. If the iodide ion even has a distinct taste independent of its cation.

[1] https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-q-...
> we did double confirmation

"Double confirmation" is spammer-speak. The correct formulation is "confirmed opt-in".
Has Microsoft actually dedicated a lot of work to Rust in vsc? They haven't contributed significantly to the rust-analyzer project, which owns the vsc extension.

> The following companies contributed significantly towards rust-analyzer development: Ferrous Systems Mozilla Embark Studios freiheit.com

https://rust-analyzer.github.io/
> spicy pillow

British English speaker here. I've not come across that expression before. The "pillow" part seems obvious, but not "spicy". What am I missing?
Show HN: pg-force-execute – Run a PostgreSQL query even if blocked
It doesn't need to be lossless to be useful. A lossy LLM can just throw all the redundant stuff away and focus on the actual information in the text, instead of the text word by word. It wouldn't need to keep dozens of languages around for if it could translate on the fly. And it wouldn't need to keep a full text when it can just have the raw facts and generate the text on the fly.

Not sure what the state of the art is with LLM text compression, but with StableDiffusion compression ratios of up to 155:1 have been achieved[1] compared to 10:1 for JPEG.

[1] https://pub.towardsai.net/stable-diffusion-based-image-compr...
Why the down votes for this comment?

My Android does have that option, under: Hotspot and tethering > Allow clients to use VPNs.

Note however, my ROM is based on LineageOS, probably the reason why not everyone got it?
Might I guess that the albums are either Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin? Even when I listen to those two digitally, I like to see the album cover. That has been ingrained as part of the experience for me.
Show HN: An AI-powered to-do list that completes itself
Heya!

Worked on this recently in a hackathon of a to-do list that can do itself. Would anyone be interested in trying it out and giving some feedback?
You don't need to, you always tell it it's wrong.
I always tell people that if they want learn more about the hype to just try and use it to do actual work. Almost no one ever does, but when they do it becomes almost immediately clear how limited it is and what it is and isn’t good for.
okay that’s just because you’re not good at using the models.

Obviously you have to play around with them and figure out how to prompt & tune them.

Once you do that, you can get pretty amazing results.

I make do a bunch of social media graphics and stable diffusion + midjourney has been insanely useful.
Ask HN: Can I work on solo projects as a freelance dev?
Hello everyone,
I am a writer and I am looking for an occupation to support my creative endeavours.
I know some coding basics and I enjoy it so I thought I could test if this gig works for me (coding projects for people).
My requirement is that I would like to work totally solo on the projects, and start from scratch.
Is that easily possible?
if yes:
What can of projects would these be?
Can I do these projects with self taught knowledge?
Where can I find such projects?

Thank you very much, and any other tips or advice is welcome :)
In my new house with underfloor heating, an air source heat pump was installed that turned out to have a controller that switches it on and off over 80 times per day which reduces its lifespan significantly. I decided to see if I could improve on this so I started reading lots of papers regarding temperature control.

Since this is a tricky problem to solve, I built a quick fix solution while I work on the "real" version. The quick fix measures the average indoor temperature in the house using zigbee sensors and uses a number of weather forecast APIs to calculate the amount of heat lost from the house in a day based on the difference of outdoor / indoor temperature and the amount of solar irradiation. It runs at midnight and creates a 24h schedule based on the forecast energy price and expected COP. The heat pump is controlled with a relay from an ESP32. The algorithm/app runs on a raspberry pi and is written in Rust.

It worked surprisingly well last winter with some tweaking needed during very cold periods. And the heat pump only switches a few times per day now and makes very long efficient runs, theoretically greatly increasing its lifespan and simultaneously reducing my energy bill.

I'm still planning on building the better version I had planned based on a thermal model of my house, but that will require more studying and now that the quick&dirty version works so well the pressure is off a bit.
It also has to flex a bit with a diagnosis, "it's aggressive and terminal cancer, you should do up a will and enjoy your next couple of months", "it's broken, you need a cast" and "it's seems like nothing, take some paracetamol and come back if it's still the same in a week or gets worse" all arguably call for different communication styles.