skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I see a bigger recession as the world changes and the US doesn't have as much a hold on the top spot, plus there's AI that will impact a lot of tech jobs, and basically the most numerous ones (which are not FAANG or star developers, but corporate coding drones that could be changed to 1/5th the manpower + AI in a 5-10 years).
I doubt anyone who spent a lot of time with Epstein didn’t know. I’m sure many didn’t participate, but everything I’ve read suggests Epstein was practically radiating his obsession with young girls.
I'm not aware of any HW sequencers supporting microtonal scales. If you're talking about MIDI sequencing I don't think that's baked into the standard: As far as I know, MIDI doesn't have a concept of scales or tuning. Notes are sent as values ranging from 0 to 127 and it's up to the receiver to interpret that - usually by assigning equal temprament notes to these numbers (this is, I assume, how the Korg *logue synthesizers implement their scales - by interpreting the note values differently)

Things may improve if MIDI 2 ever becomes widespread. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

When sequencing monophonic sequences, one might be able to work around this by adding a MIDI processor into the signal path that prepends certain pitch bend messages to certain note values - but I can't say for certain how well this work, I never tried it.

Here's a link with some ideas (and scripts) to implement microtonal synth voices with today's firmware version of the deluge:

https://forums.synthstrom.com/discussion/comment/16257/#Comm...

Hope that helps!
eBay dropped RSS a year or so ago. It was handy for getting Buy It Now items before anyone else even got their daily email search results.

Reuters had RSS but dropped it a few years ago. There are a few news sites I'd like to have RSS but don't.
I think I understand, but I also saw a comment above that specifically says (having done 3 iterations)

The resulting distribution is not equal to random()^3, because e.g. the probability that all 3 random calls give you a number <0.5 is only 0.125.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954931

Any thoughts? Am I mixing up two unrelated things?
you could load that size in memory these days in a consumer machine let alone a server .

AWS these days have 24TB RAM servers available on demand . 100 GB data in even dozen different formats require just regular database .

A data lake just for generating reports on 100 GB of data which are going to be used by very few and built by even fewer seems overkill .
early 90s, and i don't think xterm's sixel support is nearly that old
>First of all it's not well understood how infants are so able to learn languages

It's not well understood sure but the brain is evidently playing a crucial process. Children learn to speak languages at about the same time with the same milestones occurring at roughly the same ages. Not to mention the fact that despite wildly different cultures and situations (some cultures don't attempt correct their children ever, some cultures don't speak to babies), children learn language just fine. Controversy on exactly how much aside, we're obviously predisposed to it.

>But the whole point of the discussion it seems to me is the question of exactly how humans are not starting from scratch, i.e why do we learn so much faster, and how could we apply the answer to current techniques in machine learning?

The closest biological equivalent to a parameter in an ann is a synapse. Well humans have about 100 trillion synapses. We already know that the higher the parameter count, the lower the training data required. a 50 billion parameter model will far outperform a 5 billion one trained on the same data. and a 500b one would far outperform that 50 billion one.

Economics limits how far we can go and i'm not making any declarative statements but who's to say that's not the issue ?

ann and whatever the brain does diverged in details a long time ago. It's cool to speculate and all but any special insight on the brain would have little implications on the future of deep learning. That's just not what drives architectural advances.

we could have expert level machines in a couple years but any approach trying to copy the brain is decades if not centuries away. That's how little we understand. and how little impact that actually has on the DL of today.

Current LLMS are actually nowhere near the scale of the human brain, either in parameters/neurons or training data (all the text we've ever trained an LLM on would be dwarfed by all the data humans perceive). as well as not having the headstart the human brain has. It's kind of a bogus comparison when you think about. You could easily make the case that LLMs are far more effective.
Your example declares one variable of type "pointer to int" and sets it to some arbitrary value. You didn't dereference anything.
Much Like Stallman keeps finding out, not knowing enough about something is going to get you into trouble.

If you're a parent, read these comments and understand better.
>I don't use ad blockers

I can't imagine living in this world, even if Firefox might have some built-in measures.
The source is me: I go outside where glaciers were and they're not there anymore. This is not something that's been up to debate. What do you think is causing the sea levels around the world to rise? Have you seen the news about Greenland, Antarctica, and the North Pole, recently?

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-finds-some-iconic-...
I think part of the controversy is that Stallman is known for being an uncompromising absolutist on open-source. So people assume he has the same attitude towards his terrible ideas.

Stallman’s ideas on open source are well thought out, and vigorously defended for decades.

His terrible ideas are neither well thought out, nor extensively defended.
Whatever TS Eliot got up to
If you sell them it gets more complicated because your broker is for some reason forbidden from reporting the correct cost basis even though they know it.
It’s pretty good at getting the grammar right. My guess is that it would be good at checking yours. The prose it produces isn’t great.
> i.e why do we learn so much faster

A pretty obvious difference is that these models are still nowhere near as large or complex as a human brain. This network has 15 billion parameters, whereas a human brain is estimated to have 60 trillion neuronal connections. Additionally each neuron, of which a human brain has around 90 billion, can fulfill many more roles than a "neuron" in a language model.

Apples to oranges, but there's a pretty obvious complexity gap.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7197787/

This study from 2020 found an 89% increase, which is a large effect size, but it’s still just 1’s of people per 100,000 more getting cancers. It’s not a massive public health hazard. War is complicated.

Regardless the effects are highly localized. You’re fine if you’re not nearby.
They probably could block yt-dl (or at least create an annoying cat-and-mouse game for them) if they really wanted to. They probably just don't care enough, or figure there are enough positive benefits to allowing it. Some people (including other content creators) will always have a legitimate need to download YouTube videos.
Agree.

Imagine if he started a fire? What about if someone was injured in "rescue" efforts?

At minimum there's a bunch of junk in the wilderness that needs cleanup up. Definitely needs to pay for costs + interest.
>> As trees grew in the cleared lands near roadsides, kudzu rose with them. It appeared not to stop because there were no grazers to eat it back. But, in fact, it rarely penetrates deeply into a forest; it climbs well only in sunny areas on the forest edge and suffers in shade.

Last time this article came up, I realized how much of my impression of kudzu was visibility bias.

You see a ton of it from roads.

You see very little of it inside forests, where there are not roads.
They might be referring to single-use lenses.
Garmin also doesn’t expect users to change the batteries on their smart watches. Not sure if they’d sell you one or not, though.
Albuquerque has been doing this since 2007.

“More ambitiously, however, the Water Authority in 2007 initiated a pilot program for aquifer storage and recovery, in which a small amount of San Juan-Chama water was released into the Bear Canyon arroyo and tracked to see if it reached the aquifer. Results were positive, and the Water Authority is moving forward with plans to recharge the aquifer on a larger scale.

We will be using direct injection as well as infiltration to get the water into the aquifer. We hope to put up to 40,000 acre-feet back into the aquifer in the first couple of years. After that, we will continue to add purified San Juan-Chama water to the aquifer primarily during winter months when demand is low.“

https://www.abcwua.org/education-23b_Recharge/
If you look at the Wikipedia entry you cite, the very first clause of the first sentence is:

"The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages"

That is the normal understanding of "dark ages" among historians.
Can we please ban this kind of comment on HN? Anyone here who is curious could have used chatgpt for themselves. This doesn't really contribute anything. Since the OP can be assumed to not know what he's talking about (since they had to use chatgpt to explain) we can assume that they also could not fact check chatgpt's answer.
You don’t need to reveal 20 years of experience. You could talk about how many years of experience will satisfy them. If they ask for 5 years of experience with some tech stack talk about stuff you did with it 7 years ago and onward. Be vague.

A person of less experience will get the job and be paid the same as you anyway.
Just does not support dependency tracking. That eliminates a huge chunk of make's usefulness right there.
Thanks. 3.3 million views in 4 weeks for a book from 1985. Gives me hope people are thirsty for quality.
Is there any reason to think the immunity would last? Like is there evidence in animals? Because the one mRNA vaccine we gave had in people did not provide much immunity past three months. That was in environment of virus mutating, but so will the flu.
> the Wrecking Crew made most of the great US pop/rock albums of the late 50s and 60s

as it happens, that movie is my Substack post for this Friday, complete with YouTube playlist for all the music mentioned.

I just, this afternoon, talked to an old friend who played in a jam session with Hal Blaine!
random(random()) seems to have the most even distribution. Idk why?
"Misunderstanding is the foundation of human discourse."—Jacques Lacan
No I haven't! Good?
If only healthcare made actual sense and applied science to the entire UX of healthcare, not just the treatment research.
Sounds like you've found what is effective in your own workflows. Thanks for sharing your experiences! I think this is the most important point: whatever needs to happen for you and those who relate to your philosophy to deliver value is good. Don’t feel obligated to listen to my insanity.

IMO I suspect we as an industry haven’t spent enough time considering the role of automated tests in video game software. I worry that it’s been written off for so long that it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. Since there isn’t tons of time spent thinking about testing whenever anyone attempts it they run into issues. When seeking help they are told tests are a waste of time. They do waste time because the “what is effective” patterns are still being discovered for as complex of software as games.

Maybe I am actually just not a good developer… But I really think there is something worth exploring.
The descriptions of stereograms and Magic Eye pictures as being a single image, but with one copy slightly offset from the other caught my attention. It says the 3D image you get from even random data is the result or artifact of our own visual processing. This is precisely how so-called "binaural beats," work, where instead of images, they are slightly offset tones, one played in each ear, and the mind gets clipping and feedback effects by trying to reconcile the otherwise inaudible differences in the offset tones.
Unfortunately, ten years have passed and yet it is far from outdated.
Agree on Goldratt, and the book his daughter wrote and recently released, called 1) "Goldratt's Rules of Flow." Theory of constraints is a rich subject with heavy roots in industrial engineering. Look for Don Reinhardt's 2) "Principles of Product Development Flow" as the gold standard. Also most all of Edwards Deming work touch on systems thinking from the industrial engineer perspective. See 3) https://deming.org/. Additionally, see books like 4) "Systems Thinking and Other Dangerous Habits," and 5) "Team Topologies" as examples of why legacy management are probably doomed if they don't learn how to scale teams via a coherent system. Finally, Senger's 6) "The Fifth Discipline" is total classic on why we need to shift our legacy management mental model to an organizational system that is continuously improving via systems.
I’m not the GP, but already Elixir can already accomplish compile time text processing with metaprogramming (like it does for inline html templating for ‘heex’ functions and files) and it’s not a huge stretch for it to be able to call a JSON parser on any string knowable at compile time and convert it into a type. That it hasn’t been done yet is probably because no one has deemed to worthwhile to implement. It does sounds cool though.

Metaprogramming is also why generics aren’t really needed in Elixir or Erlang. All specializations boil down to their reified types using macros
You are 100% right. Server was pegged at 100 and the family (me) were complaining about email not working (who runs their own mail server any more). We needed to shed load. Some things went to GitHub pages (https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling) and the rest turned into simple content loaded by that. There were some more complexities because of SSL and old OS but it works. Things have evolved since and will continue to evolve but expect the original wiki to remain accessible in some form.
I used to think I got the occasional Flu, until I actually got it... I was 30 then and it felt like I was dying!
Companies have to operate within the regulatory framework of the countries they provide products and services.

In parallel they can influence for change.

This means that a company / CEO might be loudly outspoken on an issue in some locales but have to be more strategic and nuanced in other countries.

To cast this as hypocrisy is disingenuous on the part of the publication.
It's what the UK does too - I never had to file anything for taxes if I only had reported salaried income. Even stuff like interest or investments is mostly automatically handled, you often need to be doing something a little unusual in that area to require anything.

And even if you did have some side income to report, the HMRC website had most things in a pretty easy wizard-like form, similar to turbotax or the like, with the things they already knew about pre-filled.
I'd say the relevant part is here:

Meanwhile, Musk defended the decision. After blogger Matthew Yglesias accused Musk of complying, the billionaire CEO lashed out at him.

"Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias?" Musk shot back. "The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirely or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?"

Others didn't see it that way. Famed journalist Kara Swisher, for instance, had harsh words for Musk.

"There is only one [brain] falling out of one head and that's Elon's," Swisher tweeted in response to the exchange. "Being a persistent quisling to authoritarian governments upon which your other businesses are dependent has a very Vichy France vibe,"

People can make up their own minds. Nobody really suggested what he should have done, and imp it looks like a lot of armchair quarterbacking. At least she watched Billions it seems.
The interest rate is not high enough to beat inflation. Generally speaking the interest rate has to be at or slightly above the inflation rate minus the desired inflation rate for the amount of time it takes for it to start coming down. Right now they are just chasing inflation rather that combating it. Chasing inflation will eventually lead to a currency collapse and a reissuing of the national currency. This has happened before. Too bad, Argentina has a fundamental problem that they have never addressed. That problem is what they need to fix. If they don't there will always be a never ending cycle of inflation and currency collapse.

I don't know enough to know the problem but I suspect the problem is related to lack of independence of the central bank to protect the Argentinian peso. It's easier, at the moment, to issue more currency rather than to deal with whatever economic problem pops up. A central bank that's not independent will always do what's politically desired which always leads to currency issuing, therefore inflation.

It's sad. The country has so much potential that they can not take advantage of due to the never ending economic problems.
Thank you so much for this, especially for allowing custom LLM calls to allow testing of local models.
> we used to live malnourished, with stunted growth, women dying in childbirth to bring 8 kids into the world half of whom would die in childhood...

> We're doing pretty well.

You know it's interesting to think about who is doing well and who is not thanks to global industrialization. In the last 50 years "we" in the OECD countries simply moved our polluting industry to poor countries, where people have had their ancestral farm land taken by governments and replaced with polluting factories. This has left many of them with few opportunities other than to work in dangerous factories while living and raising their children in toxic wastelands.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...
Ok, please don't accuse those you disagree with of arguing in bad faith. Maybe a few do, but I think most don't, and it's not good for productive discussion.

I honesty believe that people who argue against worrying about AGI risk do so because they do not think it is a real risk, and think that it distracts from more important things. I disagree, I do think the risk is real, but I don't think that you have a hidden agenda in dismissing it. We all want humanity to have a good future, to solve problems and to not have people suffer, right? It's normal and ok to disagree about things like this, especially when predicting the future is so hard. People even disagree a lot about problems that exist today.
The mRNA covid vaccine nasal trials are going very well, so I would assume a similar influenza vaccine might fare just as well. As to the why, there are few barriers to getting a flu shot, but these barriers definitely cut down on vaccination rates. If you take needles out of the equation, the whole thing becomes easier. Heck, I could see people being able to self administer a nasal spray.
Your observation reminds me of a fun 2010 interaction between Vice and NYT illustrating some tension then between the two outlets that is featured in the documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times. (David Carr and Shane Smith would later laugh together about the exchange during a panel at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit in 2014.) Excerpt: https://youtu.be/iLmkec_4Rfo Full: https://hoopladigital.com/title/11049551
One of the Reaper devs once said on their forums (or maybe it was KVR) that they never want to add anti-piracy measures to Reaper because it's just a cost-center for development with no real payoff. It can potentially hurt paying customers, and it almost never converts pirates. If someone doesn't want to pay, music software is easy to pirate. If it's somehow not easy to pirate (Cubase was crack-free for several years), there's so many competing products with the same utilities, they will just pirate one of your competitors.
"choose models with special versions of protected microcontrollers"

I don't see how this is helpful advice.

The whole point of the article was how the look and feel of a legitimate hardware wallet was cloned.

Under these circumstances there is no way to tell what is in the device(clear housing perhaps?). all it has to do is act like the real device. It does not matter how good your security chip actually is if all I have to do is copy the correct interface.

Unrelated: the use of that particular version is a strangely shoddy mistake. It should have been very easy to use a version string that exists. In which case that version would never have been skipped??? perhaps at one point that was a real version and trezor pulled it due to it's use in a batch of clone units.
It comes across as extortion. "Pay us money or we'll put up a sign saying you're a bad person for...doing exactly what the Inernet designed for." Surely this will kill their SEO as well.
You know those bills that summarily end with "and for other purposes"? Well...

Worth noting that the GOP-led House is trying to silently kill this with haste (along with funding for IRS enforcement) by burying defunding language in H.R. 2811 (a.k.a. the House's proposal to raise the debt ceiling) § 251 under a backhanded title named "Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection"[1]:

> The unobligated balances of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for activities of the Internal Revenue Service by paragraphs (1)(A)(ii), (1)(A)(iii), (1)(B), (2), (3), (4), and (5) of section 10301 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022”) as of the date of the enactment of this Act are rescinded.

The $15 million budget mentioned in the article was appropriated[2] by § 10301 p. (1)(B) of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and will expire at the end of this fiscal year:

> TASK FORCE TO DESIGN AN IRS-RUN FREE "DIRECT EFILE" TAX RETURN SYSTEM.—For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service to deliver to Congress, within nine months following the date of the enactment of this Act, a report on (I) the cost (including options for differential coverage based on taxpayer adjusted gross income and return complexity) of developing and running a free direct efile tax return system, including costs to build and administer each release, with a focus on multi-lingual and mobile-friendly features and safeguards for taxpayer data; (II) taxpayer opinions, expectations, and level of trust, based on surveys, for such a free direct efile system; and (III) the opinions of an independent third-party on the overall feasibility, approach, schedule, cost, organizational design, and Internal Revenue Service capacity to deliver such a direct efile tax return system, $15,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2023: Provided, That these amounts shall be in addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes.

What the GOP really wants to quietly snuff is the IRS's enforcement budget...something about IRS examinations and collections having very real capacity to deliver positive revenue increases for the Treasury[3], and higher-income taxpayers facing the largest increase in audit rates[4].

Alas, games will be played[5].

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2811...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ169/PLAW-117publ169.p...

[3] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56467

[4] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444

[5] https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542
Seal – A Search Engine Abstraction Layer for PHP
After 6 month of work I'm happy to announce the first release of the Search Engine Abstract Layer for PHP which provides support for Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Algolia, Opensearch, RediSearch, Apache Solr and Typesense. It also provides packages for the following PHP Frameworks: Laravel, Symfony, Spiral, Yii and Laminas Mezzio Framework.
He doesn't have to be a worse person. He just has to be a worse public figure.
Robert Lucas, Economist Who Won 1995 Nobel Prize, Dies at 85