skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can probably do that now. the problem is you'd be surrounded by very rich people, or very poor people.

and it'd be even worse if you were the guy fixing the rich peoples' boats, or whatever.
As the years go by, the entirely different OS for tablets vs laptops which at first seemed like the only route to get a quality experience seems like a huge misstep now the tablets all have keyboards and trackpads stuck to them when used for work.
Though, if you had been writing them all down, you would have a useful searchable wiki or ticket system by now.
Yes. The software will not receive updates forever. The Ipad will not receive updates forever. One day, this software will force the user to buy more Apple devices to continue using it.
Clearly, the technology for making things out of ...ferrous metals...is beyond the ken of ...Americans.
In the US, the majority of K-12 public education is funded by local property taxes with state taxes making up most of the balance.
We've become the terrorists we feared in the 2000s.
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> outside influences radicalizing people

Outside of where?
ImageBind: Holistic AI learning across six modalities
So is this "you buy it, you can now use it on MacOS and iOS"? Or is this one of those stupid "you buy it, and then you have to buy the for-iOS version separately a second time"?
How does Logic compare with AUM?
Liquid helium wouldn't be a barrier to being used on key individuals (say leaders of opposition parties in some large authoritarian-ish country). The training would be if it requires cooperation.
World war one rifles coated in cosmoline are just as ready to shoot today as when they were stored in a barrel 100 years ago.

Take a look at the availability of the mosin nagant rifle.
> skeptical about Logic's ability to be a full-featured DAW

It won't be full-featured - it doesn't have to be to make a huge impact. For example, as a new platform for live performances, it will be pretty awesome.
Its the fomentation of hate, fear, and protracted power struggles.
I would assume more people using Final Cut Pro will use a keyboard case, but for mobile music production, it there may be more people willing to go without the keyboard case, particularly if you are mostly using it to noodle down ideas, use the on screen instruments, etc.
There seems to be a divide between people who find the extra level of abstraction with a keyboard/mouse to be a problem. I don't understand it either, to the point where I see people try to flex with a room full of synthesizers, I just roll my eyes as I pull up my favorite VST
A subscription for Logic is nuts. It's already $300 software for the Mac. I would be fine paying another one-time fee if it meant I had it forever on my iPad. It really is stellar software, as evidenced by it's two-decade presence in the industry, but to move to subscription feels very... un-Apple (at least in this Professional Media Software context).
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The medium is the message so I don't think you'd have a McSweeney's for GenZ. GenX was the -zine generation, so satirical papers and magazines were kind of your thing. Millennials got a bit of it, but we were mostly a blogger generation. Zoomers are more of a Twitch/Vlog/YouTuber generation. The sense of humor seems to mostly be short form, Vine style content. Check out ProZD sketches on YouTube for a good example.

We all seem to like podcasts though, so it's nice that something unites us.
That isn’t what Occams Razor means.
So we get manufacturing back in the US. Win-win!
Yeah, this is pretty obvious federal overreach.
People work for a corporation, but a corporation is not a person. It is a legal entity that exists separately and distinct from the people that work for it.
Is it actually a race?

What if we didn't win? Is there anything wrong with coming in second? Or is there reason to think it's winner-take-all?
So they generated all of them, as MIDI sequences, and stored them on a hard drive.[1][2] Arguably, all those are now public domain

Not really though. If this were accepted as a creative work, then it also violates the copyright of every modern song. But, as exemplified the the story in the OP, where the author gets the idea from is really important. So, you could look a jury in the eye and say you were just browsing through a hard drive full of melodies and picked one that seemed good, but that likely isn't going to fly.
I also don't blame them for being invite-only and have no intention of begging people for an invite.

But, the inability to check any post by people already there is absolutely unacceptable. Not being able to verify a screenshot of public figures is just a huge no-no in my book.
I think Gary Shteyngart (a Soviet emigre to America who has the perspective on both countries and can find eerie echoes to the dying days of the Soviet Union in his experiences in the modern US) has a similar style to DFW in many ways. I particularly recommend his Super Sad True Love Story set in the near future, as Infinite Jest was.
anything can be weaponized, john wick kills people with a pencil :)
So if one can't find bread, one should go for cake.
Might Asimov’s laws of robotics suddenly become relevant?

It’s surprising to me how AI seen in sci-fi that looked completely out of touch with how computers work has started to seep into our reality.
Agreed.

It might help the mental health of the parents, and increase interaction with their children, if they cut back on their social media use themselves. It would definitely serve as a good example. (I realize I'm saying this via a social media channel while being a father. I get that it's not easy. I am also aware I'm committing hypocrisy.)

My wife and I promised each other not to "share" much (and absolutely no photos) about our child on the Internet (even as the child, getting older, has started asking us to "share" things). I think not being able to use my child for sweet, sweet Internet points was useful in helping me disengage from the least rewarding, most mentally taxing social media (which, for me, was Facebook).

I caught myself replying HN comments during evening read aloud time. I decided to start using the dedicated e-reader, instead of my phone, so that it won't happen again.
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Wistia Alternatives? They Keep Raising Their Prices
Can anyone suggest Wistia alternatives that they have had success with?

While we have no objections to Wistia raising their prices over time, when we originally signed up many many years ago, there was no charge on a per video uploaded basis. Now, they are requiring $0.25 per month per video, i.e., $6 per year per video. We hosted lots of videos (usually short, low views). Because of this, the charges for us get very expensive especially relatively to how often they are viewed.

We've tried to speak with Wistia but no real progress. They do clearly have us at a disadvantage because we would have to move videos out but we are reaching the point that it makes more strategic and financial sense to do that rather than pay Wistia so much more money.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
More and more it seems the country is too corrupt to fix this problem. When will Americans realize they are not living in a democracy?
I absolutely love Ableton for all my electronic work. Whenever I am composing with virtual instruments (Kontakt, etc) though, Cubase just works better for me (even though it is a beast).
Unfortunately, non-functional front page (where you can't do anything other than input your email) seem like an email-harvesting scheme to me... It doesn't matter if it's legitimate or a scam, it's what it feels like...
How is it in a wheelchair or pushing a pram?
> many many people feel coerced into a narrow range of job options

And many many people will feel that way under socialism because, for example, any form of freelancing is typically forbidden. Would you consider "he who does not work, neither shall he eat" a form of coercion?

> robbed of a significant part of the value they produce

So I joined a startup, but it failed in a few years. Apparently I created negative value and still got paid for it, therefore I robbed someone. Then I joined another startup, and it succeeded. This time someone robbed me. How exactly does socialism solve this weird robbery cycle? Ah yes, there are no startups in socialism. You can't be robbed if you have no wealth.

Maybe it's time for lefties to stop viewing every business interaction as "robbing", every salary as "slavery", every cheesy comment as "rape" and every disagreement as "genocide"?

> As for the "Gulag" America has a larger proportion in prison than Russia

Whataboutism isn't productive, America is not the only capitalistic country in the world. Also comparing US prisons to Gulag is laughable.

> Most mass immigration is coming from people fleeing dictatorships and / or poor third world and often war-torn countries which are far from Socialist

Here comes No True Scotsman. Isn't it a funny coincidence, that socialism and dictatorship usually go hand in hand? And what are the examples of countries that are close to Socialist?

> European countries with Socialist policies

What an obscure way to say "capitalistic". You do realize that none of them are even considering abolishing private ownership? And didn't you just say that Russia and China are far from Socialist? Well, those European countries are even further.
Doesn't stop the ads, doesn't stop the searchjacking and something keeps turning it back on.
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I've seen it takes weeks to get a DNS record configured in a large org. I'm talking something that should be simple, like adding a CNAME or A record for a new site.
The Emacs of text editors, Emacs itself, has a core written in C, not Lisp.

The scotsmen are looking pretty sparse by your threshold (;
I did a search but didn't look closely enough, so I had taken the jar comment to mean "mere container". Thanks for explaining.

I'm not sure I like the metaphor because everything in the jar is doomed, there are no opportunities for the alternatives to arise that the jar must choose between and no circumstances where that choice then affects the survival of the jar.

Because I recognize that many are uncomfortable with the idea that things without brains might make choices, I was trying to speak in a way that let "choice" be a stand in for a scenario where selective pressures on some group of species cause an adaptation in some other species which benefits the survival of the initial group. "Intent" being added by the storyteller (me) to help with the explanation, but without importing any claims about cognition.

I was avoiding taking a stance about whether the ecosystem makes a choice in the more traditional sense, with cognition in the mix, because I don't have any evidence of that, and I probably never will.

But you're taking a stronger position. You're saying that it absolutely does not have the capacity for intention. That strikes me as unknowable, how can you be sure? Presumably this:

> because ecosystems tell no stories, we can only ascribe stories to them

My dog tells no stores, but I think it's reasonable to talk about her intentions. When I'm playing a game against an adversarial AI and it attacks or defends, it's reasonable to talk about its intentions.

We are the storytellers, we get to decide which part of our stories are the setting (emergent phenomena) and which parts are the characters (intentional action).

They're mutually exclusive for any given story. But you can always tell a different story where the white blood cell is no longer an emergent phenomenon of the immune system but is instead a defender of the realm. As long as the stories are helping you make falsifiable predictions at the end of the day you're still going science.

> Even if you didn’t mean it literally, it is a turn of phrase which encourages in others to see something in the natural world that simply isn’t there.

As mentioned, I was avoiding taking a stance about it because panpsychism is out of scope here, but I did mean it literally.

Science can't even establish an objective understanding of human intention. Some would say all phenomena are emergent phenomena and the notion that intention is a delusion. I'm not one of those people, but that's where stasis among cognitive neuroscientists is.

We're nowhere near where we'd need to be to assert that a complex system does not have whatever it is that we do, we can't even be sure that we have it.

That's why I want to defend my habit of treating things like ecosystems as if they have intentions, we can't know objectively either way, so it's fair game for creative explanation. It's also more fun.
> You may be skeptical about machine-written work at first, but once you see the software rearranging familiar-seeming paragraphs into different orders and changing a few words, you’ll realize it’s a suitable replacement for your favorite authors, who can now rest and starve.

Fear disguised as as smug misunderstanding isn't a good look. I liked the AI salad lady piece better and it was actually funny.
This is in reference to specific kinds of activities not the overall political system. People will call unusually restrictive librarians fascist. It’s just how languages evolve over time.

Fascism: “2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

It also mentions the the first definition which you’re thinking of is usually capitalized.
> I wonder if any schools are thinking about legal jammers or even building new classrooms that are effectively large Faraday cages?

Some US districts used to jam, but the FCC doesn't like it. Something about blocking devices capable of calling 911 is the main trouble, I think.
I accidentally dropped my new (at the time) Pixel 4a and broke one of the camera lenses a day before I needed to fly out to India (from Dallas).

If I had an iPhone, I would roll up into an Apple Store and get a new device on the spot, no questions asked. It would fully restore a backup of my old phone within a hour, and I'd forget it ever happened.

But I had a Pixel.

Google doesn't have Google Stores (they did have one in NYC, but it was mostly a pop-up to show off their stuff staffed by contractors), so I was relegated to their chat support. They told me I needed to take it to a local UBreakIFix to get the lens repaired. Since it would take them two days to get the part and replace it, I landed up buying an iPhone instead.
>Writing a tool to inspect websockets, isn't one of them.

What kind of developer makes a blanket statement like that? There are all kinds of situations where debugging is more like detective work. When you discover the problem, then you have the knowledge necessaryto actually write the test that fails and which you can then make succeed.
I don't think you can feature-cram your way to profitability. If you have a great product with loyal, paying users, and are still not profitable, then maybe the product isn't the problem. Jamming chat into your product is not going to make you profitable. Adding annoying notifications is not going to make you profitable. Moving all the buttons around to make a new UI is not going to make you profitable.

Marketing has the four P's. Software companies seem to just focus on changing one P (the most expensive and disruptive to change) and hoping for a miracle.
Fix your damn database!
I'd never heard of McSweeneys, but in general:
The cynicism around tech discussion has become really tiring for me to read lately. I need takes that require effort, and being a sardonic smear across these topics seems easy for anyone. Ironic, especially given the take of TFA.
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It is important for me due to the new accessibility engine. FF didn't have much news in that department the last few years and I'll be checking the difference the next few days.
Making an exception to limit a musicians choice of what to do with their property would just be anti-musician.

I.e. musicians should be able to pass on their assets like anyone else.

Creating rat’s nests of laws to fix things in ways that are not thoughtfully deep and wide only further separates the rights of the rich, who can afford legal strategists to dodge narrow scope laws, from everyone else.

What is needed are judicial judgements that uphold sensible outcomes, and provide relief (and deterrence) against frivolous speculative litigation.

The need for an open system of informed human judgement, to settle fuzzy boundaries based on relevant particulars, is one of the primary purposes of a judicial systems.

Micromanaging laws introduce massive opportunities for gaming and unintended harm. And create parasitic constituencies that become devoted to maintaining Byzantine situations.
The 6 modalities that the model are images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and motion data. Thermal and motion data completely caught me by surprise.

Huge step towards laying down the framework for AIs that understand the world around them like humans do.

Incredible work by Meta AI, and glad they're open sourcing their work (code and weights https://github.com/facebookresearch/ImageBind)
> Also, the kids are _in school_, their social networks are sitting in chairs, walking down the halls and eating in the cafeterias all around them.

In my experience, not really. Many young people these days are extremely online, chatting with people from all over the country & world, in addition to their local friend group. It's pretty wild.

> 45 minutes without checking instagram won't kill anyone.

Hey, see, we're already converging on a compromise solution :) The OP of this thread started with confiscating the phone for a full day, here we've reduced it to just in-class sessions. It's a tough problem! I don't know the answer! I don't think anyone does. What rankles me is people jumping to, "it's just a GameBoy/Snake, just shove it in a drawer for 8 hours," as the OP of this thread did. That stance is completely divorced from the real world.
If you told me the Guardian was mostly AI generated after being trained on progressive writings and WH press releases I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest
Oh, I'm sure he has some influence in things, but isn't this about as useful as someone paying the NFL to make Bud Light the official beer of football? When the other side of the deal wants yuan, yen or euros, you're not going to spend much time thinking about what the President of Mexico says.
I remember there was a time when Google Maps android app refused to work when location was turned off, not location history - just location permission for the app. In those cases I would just allow location permission, look up what i needed and disable it again.

Nowadays it lets you use itself without location permission.
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What makes you think we haven’t?
For anyone interested in the Kotlin side of things:

Kotlin has a great compat with Kotlin/JS[0]. they also have Compose For Web which is more WASM based[1] though its marked as experimental

[0]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-overview.html

[1]: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-wasm-examples/tree/main/com...
You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain why there's a murder problem in a country with a boatload of guns, lax restrictions on violent media, and a culture where infringing on someone's right to do anything can be interpreted as "totalitarian".

No foreign influence required.
Bluesky is going to be successful because of its current state of being invite-only and sponsored by Dorsey. It's essentially the new blue checkmark: an indication that you're part of the group of "always-online Twitter powerusers". Once Bluesky opens up people will join because they either want to be part of that group or the people that you'd follow on pre-Elon Twitter are part of that group. Technology has little to do with it
Very strange, it would appear the data is from this report: https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SI... (pg. 8)

The accompanying text is “Due to the ambitious chip manufacturing incentives offered by other countries’ governments and ongoing
consolidation in the industry, the share of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the U.S. fell by more than 10
percent over the past 8 years.”

This leads me to think that these figures represent "the share of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity broken down by region" ??? (In this context the Taiwanese 0.00% fig. is correct.)

My bad. :( Somebody should inform Statista!

The actual figures are:

U.S. Japan E.U. Korea Taiwan China
46% 9% 9% 21% 8% 7%

That's from pg. 3 of the same report.

Wow, China's such a threat, no wonder the U.S. has to sanction them up the wazoo. Interestingly the U.S. has troops stationed in Korea, Japan, the E.U., and a small presence in Taiwan (but sells them a boatload of arms.) So the U.S. controls or has troops in countries which control 93% of the global market share of semiconductors – and yet despite this dominance sees China as such a threat that it is trying to strangle its semiconductor industry in the cot.
I am not a fan of satire because it mocks the truth, but I am a fan of the truth that is insinuated by it. Zeller nailed it with his ChatTCM.

"You may be skeptical about machine-written work at first, but once you see the software rearranging familiar-seeming paragraphs into different orders and changing a few words, you’ll realize it’s a suitable replacement for your favorite authors, who can now rest and starve"
What counts as a mass shooting? The definition varies
For a feature-equivalent X-ray, yes, but a basic cast list, etc, should be doable.
Compared to the Nest ones about 7 years ago, I wasn't blown away by Ecobee. However, it'll probably be what I get when Google bricks my Nests.
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I wonder how well the "find users who are who they say they are" is going to work once the test server starts federating. They've got this whole platform now with users who never got the brief on federation and its implications, so it'll be interesting to see what will happen once they unleash federated identities on the unsuspecting masses.

BlueSky is already worse because you can't just link to public skeets, you need to be in the special club to see the stuff people post. Sure, you could use some kind of external service that parses the underlying data, but what user is going to use that?

I'll happily stick to Mastodon until the people I follow all disappear to nostr or BlueSky. I might give running a BS server a go, but with the utter lack of documentation there is now I'm guessing that'll be in a few years at the earliest.
> In all cases except one, the feature seems to be working as intended:

This is not supported by the article text.

>To test Google’s privacy promise, I’ve been running an experiment. Over the last few weeks, I visited a dozen abortion clinics, medical centers and fertility specialists around California, using Google Maps for directions. A colleague visited two more in Florida.

In about half of the visits, I watched Google retain a map of my activity
"buildings that are within half a mile of a major transit stop."

Relevant to people commenting without reading. The idea here is to nudge cities away from car-dependence, and parking minimums are one of the worst culprits for embedding car dependence.

"A similar story has played out in Buffalo, New York, and in Seattle, Washington. Most new homes being built in both cities would have been illegal under their old, pre-reform rules."

One good way to increase housing supply is to make it not-illegal to build homes. This is great!

If you want to learn more about how parking minimums affect cities and towns, and the people living in them (or not living in them since it relates to housing), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking is a great read.