skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is interested in a good book (in French) about the history of music electronic music (mixed with the history of electricity, recordings, and music itself) I recommend this book I enjoyed very much :
https://www.amazon.com/fous-du-son-Laurent-Wilde/dp/22468592...
Ah, they’re all grams here, but that still might not be enough precision on a small device.
Two uncontroversially useful C++ features (nullptr, typed enums) entering C is a great thing.

I really wish C++ had Rust style enums. Having to implement them with flags in C++ is a bit of a chore.
Sales tax is very regressive. I'd rather see income tax raised. But honestly, property tax does make a lot of sense. I'd suggest a property tax exemption for all properties that are used for community gatherings, which includes open church services, but also other clubs and organisations that bring people together. I think that's justifiable, and it frees churches from their most unavoidable tax costs.
i did see people use the double-width and double-height fonts custom splash screens for logins and app startup and stuff

they were novel but they weren't actually good. that goes double for sixel: it was pretty cool to see the system manager loading a color image on his vt340+ but we're talking about a postage stamp per second. you could see the individual color planes loading

the vt340 was a misguided engineering dead end. i think even the vt100 was a mistake, given that they had to put an entire computer inside of it to make it work, and it would have been a lot nicer to rethink how terminals could work in light of the new possibilities opened up by vlsi

which, of course, is how we got not just supdup but the apple ][, the commodore 64, the hp-41c, the macintosh, lantastic, netware, doom, etc.
>now as a society we uncover problems, we fix them. We're doing pretty well.

Doing pretty well?

Doubt if the parents of all those severely deformed thalidomide-affected babies, or the babies themselves, would agree:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
Also NYC has city tax roughly between 3% & 4%.
What kind of market share though? Creators aren't going to move to a platform whose viewership refuses to pay a subscription and doesn't watch ads.
> wfh expenses

Was that ever deductible? You don't get the home office deductions unless you're self employed.

> cash charity donations

That basically isn't deductible for anyone anymore since nobody itemizes.
wow, we went to "we need to do it or people will die" pretty quickly there. XD
Smith was born in 1969, and being in a punk band was counter-culture right up to the point in the late 90s when Americans in the mainstream started to reuse the word (when grunge was being replaced) for bands that clearly weren't punk.

Aside from that, what does age have to do with being counter-cultural or not? The word you're looking for in your example is "new", or possibly "trendy".
Gates met with Epstein repeatedly, in-person. He visited Epstein's home, he flew on Epstein's jet, they about Gates Foundation deal.

Gates knew Epstein from earlier so likely would have known about the conviction. Also, it sounds like relationship soured in 2014.
I worry about be one of those. what is it about RSU compensation that is commonly misunderstood?
Thanks for asking -- among the more recent I'd suggest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35116604

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34882140

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790548

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34700099
Well, not me; I moved the modifier key to a foot pedal.

("It's free real estate..." ;) )
Ideally it’s a functionality of the wallet, but I think only bitcoin armory has this function.
It's still a uniform distribution of points, it's being warped by converting to a non uniform space and back to a uniform space.
According to EPFL, hosting that enemy of liberty ex-NSA Technical Director Brian Snow in June 2014 was totally fine, but hosting RMS is just a bridge too far.

"Values".
I call Bothsidesism. There's only one side that are political terrorists. Only one side has consistently blown up the economy and budget. 25% of the current debt is from Trump's tax cuts for the 1%. Only one side tried to overthrow the government, and won't back away from the big lie. It's exhausting. It would be one thing if anything they wanted was based on facts, or logic, or something. But no, it's all nonsense, just more weaponized propaganda from the billionaires. So yes, I think that side is deserving of a $1T platinum coin, and the 14th amendment, and oh so much more.
> Of course CAs revoke certs all the time.

What is the exact reason on why they revoked it? What part of the exact clause did the CA specify that they violated?
I meant in a SQL context. I don’t want to manage extra binaries to deploy by environments. Specially if the same result can be archived via standard SQL
Headline is only 20% words.
You don't need "CBDC" for that, you're describing the current European tax system with a VAT. All business invoices are sent through the tax office, but you get paid to do it.
Maybe they don't want to deal with IRA withdrawals?
3dfx Interactive
What's "responsible" about putting the breaks on technological progress, when that technological progress has statistically-positive net QALY effects?

Let me give a concrete example: what would be "responsible" about doing a 10-year FDA trial to approve a novel anti-cancer therapy, for a cancer that currently has no existing treatment?

Even if this novel cancer treatment killed 50% of the people treated, if the rest went into remission, that'd be 50% more people who would be not dead at the end of the treatment, than if there was no treatment. We'd still be better off approving it immediately; and every day we'd delay to be "responsible" would be lives lost that could have been saved!

Obviously, no real technology kills 50% of people while preventing the other 50% from dying of some horrible disease. But real technologies might do things very analogous to this. For example, the Haber-Bosch process. Contributes to global warming; but also enables 10x as many people to have food to eat.

If you don't see how PFAS are an example of this kind of "benefits in lives saved outweigh whatever risk" technology: what chemical do you think is used in the lining of IV tubes to prevent the growth of bacterial biofilms? (This is the likely highest lifetime source of PFAS exposure for the average person. But it's also a necessary one!)

And, in fact, why do you think the contact lenses are using PFAS? Same idea. The benefit (not potentially getting a bacterial eye infection) severely outweighs any potential risk. PFAS in your eye could mean that your eye is slightly — in a way that's hard enough to measure that we haven't yet noticed it in clinical practice — more likely to get [some disease we aren't aware of] over the long term. But putting a contact lens without PFAS in your eye, means that your eye is quite a bit more likely to get infected, and need to be removed, or possibly even transmit an infection right into your brain!
Ask HN: Best Realtime ASR/TTS for LLM Projects?
Hi HN,

I'm experimenting with adding voice to an LLM project I'm working on. I need accurate ASR and TTS, both as close to realtime as possible, ideally able to stream partial results.

I've tried searching online for the best options, but just seeing SEO spam or outdated results.

I'm open to using a cloud service or self-hosting an open source model, just want the best possible speed/accuracy.

Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations?

Thanks!
If I remember right, the median age of people who have sex before the age of 20 is 15 years. (where I live)

It is one of those slight odd statistics, especially if it is similar in places where the age of consent is 18. It does however explain why there are so many different age of consent, and why it is hard for law makers to fix it to a number that make people happy.
Successful flight trial completion of unmanned aerial vehicle, MAGMA (2017)
The BIOS (or UEFI) is not used by most OSs which aren't DOS. The compatibility comes from the standard peripherals (DMA, PIT, PIC, FDC, 8042) and PnP interfaces like PCI (as well as standardised interfaces located behind them, e.g. USB OHCI/UHCI/EHCI/XHCI, SATA BMIDE, LPT, VGA, etc.)
> Bruh we're not going to have glaciers in like 5 years.

Do you have a source for that? The predictions I remember are much longer.
Any actionable advice here? Are there any safer contact lens brands?
I'm from Argentina.

Buying dollars outside the pittance allowed by the government is illegal, so that's not what we are using to buy bread either.

The people selling bread don't know what crypto is so yeah, you will use fiat for "last mile" payments most of the time.

However, crypto is being broadly used here, I know people who have been receving 100% of their salaries in crypto for years now.

Most of the people doing freelance work will resort to some type of cryptocurrency, otherwise when you get paid you automatically lose 50% of your money. The banks, on behalf of the government, will take your USD and give you ARS at half the real exchange rate.
That seems to be true in my case, the first decade of my career was spent in cube farms and cramped offices. I learned a lot and made a few networks, and now I’m at a fortunate point where most jobs are available to me with a phone call if my current job sucks. Especiallly when I’m asked to RTO.
Add Patreon + Merch sales. You know, where they interrupt the song to pitch stolen t-shirt designs on their shopify site. Yeah, if you're just making YT content w/ patreon support and stuff you might be able to crack $5k/mo if you're decent at music theory. That's a lot of hustle. Where-as you used to be able to record a master, work your shitty job for duplications, go tour clubs and spots selling t-shirts you designed and your album to your audience as well as on your online shop. Now, you can just sit in your bedroom, where a mask, start up twitch, and let AI generate beats while you look like you're DJ'ing.
He convinces many people that some business models are unethical. People who benefit from those business models feel like he's taking money out of their pockets.
to become a word, it has to be overheard and learned from context by third parties
I haven't seen a single credible claim that Gates participated in anything inappropriate. The biggest red flag IMO is that his wife divorced him over it.
> `random(x)` made me think x was the seed.

Fair, but that would be bad design in my opinion. In general you want the random() function to be usable multiple times to get the same sequence after setting the seed once, and not have to specify the seed every time.
Reddit supports RSS by appending .rss to a sub-reddit's URL: eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.rss
That was extremely sad event for a relatively short period of time and small percentage of American families, but it certainly isn't worse than the average child or maternal mortality rate of the 19th century.
When I used "virgin" LLama in a chat context, the results were very inconsistent and useless. It would output repeating phrases (even with 2.1 repeat penalty) or many emojis.

Vicuna was better, but still had an "openAI" personality to it.
Hey man, relax, AGI and one-way tickets to Mars will save us!
I believe they meant that they wish whatever method Biden chooses is affirmed by the courts when the eventual case challenging it comes. Some believe the debt limit is unconstitutional due to the 14th amendment which states, "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned." I think it is a shaky argument, but I'm not a constitutional lawyer or any other kind of lawyer.
Last I heard they were supposed to be gone by the year 2000.

Edit: nevermind, it was actually just 10 years ago that Antarctica was supposed to be entirely ice-free in the summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsioIw4bvzI

I'm sure today's models and predictions are 100% accurate and undeniable, though. "Bruh."
At this point it seems like everyone is suspected of participating in it. It doesn’t seem like a high bar to cross anymore.
>Look i'm not going to say the transformer is as efficient as the brain but you are not starting from Zero.

Still, we can rewrite the parent's argument as:

If we train an AI on the amount of non-code-related dataset (writing read/speech heard) I've consumed, and then add to it all the amount of code-related writing/speech (coding book, coding lessons taken, code and manual pages read, man pages, etc.) I've consumed, would it even remotely as good as coding as me? Or even as good as itself is now?

I'd guess no. It's less effiecient, and thus needs way more coding dataset to get the point of coding than a human. Which brings us to:

>Your brain is baked with millions of years of evolution with specific areas already predisposed to certain types of processing before you ever utter a word.

Isn't that the whole point the parent is making?

That our advantage isn't about dataset-volume, but architecture.
Permissively licensed would imply non-copyleft to me. That means only licenses like Apache or MIT would be allowed to be train on, but not licenses like GPL.
To some extent, this is true of many things where you do work in advance and then try to sell it. That’s just what a lot of business is. In this case I assume the author got a lot of feedback over the years in the form of ‘I’m a programmer and I liked your article and I always wanted to learn mathematics and never learned how’. And, like, that sort of thing doesn’t mean writing a book on the topic would be successful, but it does seem like a bit of a hint.

I think in general the answers might be something like ‘look for clues’ or ‘try to get feedback on whether the idea is good early’ but I also think a lot of the time it’s just people writing books they want to write or that they guess people will be interested in. But I’m definitely guessing and I don’t really know.
100GB ? You could store that in RAM easily these days .

I would say no for anything less then 50-100TB today.

We do have to keep in mind she was fired in 2018 and this was probably few years before that .

Keeping 2015 as the reference frame a bare of minimum of few TBs to consider any lakes or puddles
3.5 does indeed suck.

4 is good but you still need to use it properly
AI alignment solved. Yud can finally rest.
Is it possible to offload some layers to CPU and still train in a reasonable amount of time?
I'm pretty sure that I could package up all of my used contact lenses over the past decade into a single jam jar.

If we consider the cases as well, I might need to go up to say, a gallon bottle of milk.

I'm deliberately overestimating here by the way.

What is the waste problem here?
So, we’re talking about a model that takes an input audio and returns a Bark history prompt, not text -> Bark semantic prompt, right?

If so, yeah, I agree that’s tricky.
For what it's worth I've been following your comments and I find them very thoughtful. I too am kinda skeptical about LLM being the "thing that starts the exponential phase of AGI or whatever. LLM is very useful. I use it daily. My partner even uses it now to send emails to a non-profit she manages. LLM's have their use... but they aren't AGI. They aren't really even that smart. You can tell sometimes that its response indicates it has absolutely no clue what you are talking about but it made up some plausible-sounding bullshit that gets it 80% right.

Especially with the latest iterations of ChatGPT. Boy they sure kneecapped that thing. It's responses to anything are incredibly smarmy (unless you jailbreak it).

LLM's are gonna change quite a lot about society, don't get me wrong. For starters things like cover letters, written exam questions, or anything that requires writing to "pass" is now completely obsolete. ChatGPT can write a great, wonderful sounding cover letter (of course, given how they kneecap'd it, you can pretty easily spot its writing style)...

Anyway. I think things like ChatGPT are so hyped up because anybody can try it and discover it does many useful things! It's the fact that people cast all their hopes and dreams on it despite the very obvious limitations on what an LLM can actually do.
Just observing myself and my friends and family. It makes sense, that repeated exposure causes more allergic reactions as my immune system is exposed to more and more allergens, and gets more incoherent.
I do this as well. I do almost all of my writing in coffee shops or any place that will let a dog with a laptop hide in a corner. I'm When I'm able to leave the house, I'll hang out somewhere. Writing doesn't have to happen. Tonight, I'm on HN instead of prepping my D&D game. :)
It's not free, but Syntorial is exactly what you want.

https://www.syntorial.com/

I don't know a suitable tool for mixing/mastering except many years of trial and error. Lots of things exist to get you the basics and aware of what all the major tools do, but nothing I know of (yet) really teaches you how to put them together to make a great mix nearly as well as making 100 bad mixes first.

I can't remember the speaker, but I watched a lecture (probably a decade ago) where the speaker said you could give the same project file to a great engineer who is only allowed to use the volume faders, and an amateur who is allowed to use any software tools and any expensive rack hardware. And the great engineer will make a better mix 100% of the time. I very much believe that statement is true.
Asbestos shouldn't be compared to leaded gasoline imo. It's quite safe and inert if you don't physically disturb it.
"Three recessions happened in that three decade period" three recessions that barely affected coding jobs and coding job demand, so there's that. The impact of layoffs at those cases lasted hardly a year or so. Developers found jobs very soon after the dot-com boom or 2008 just fine.
I realize it is primitive today, but how is it eventually going to be different or better than aporia, arize, arthur, dioptra, evidently, gantry, graphsignal, guardrails, metaplane, superwise, uptrain, whylogs, etc. ?

A comparison table on your site would help.
I'm doubtful that using anything other than REP MOVS for copying was ever slow enough to require making a decision on. Perhaps for extremely tiny copies, but I do wonder if the original decision was based on skewed microbenchmarking.
I too use Make to install `node_modules` and `.venv`.

It is very convenient never having to ask oneself "Is my node_modules up to date?" after pulling or switching branches. I'll just let Make figure that out.
> You do get something for that, but it is surprising (to me anyway) for example how similar the percentages of GDP spent on social welfare are between the blue U.S. states and Australia, and how much more the Australians seem to get for the money.

Most social welfare programs that people can get in NY are niche. You generally have to meet certain demographic requirements. It also takes years of paperwork and waiting to get into anything if you aren't a single/battered mother.

I paid well over 40% of my income in taxes and had no hope of ever accumulating any assets or meaningful retirement and zero safety net if anything went south for me. My friends in Denmark and Sweden only paid a little bit more for what is effectively a cradle-to-grave nanny state. And they all manage to own their apartments.
Yeah, neither assumption makes much sense. Seeding should be a separate func, and range random should take two args. Just for some reason seed is the first thing that comes to mind.

But now I see this page has editable code and whatever language it's in does have random(x) taking one arg. So fair enough.
You are narrow minded. They're a wide swath that's shallow.
What I gather is he has some very unpleasant opinions, but is very open to discussion and correction.

I don’t know or care a whole lot. He isn’t exactly active on issues outside open source.

All I need to hear from him is “I may very well be wrong about this, but I just don’t care enough to argue” and he’s off my mental sh*t list.
If the goal was to reduce bots, then one would limit write access rather than read access.

The limits are in place to force users into a twitter read experience where they can be monetized.

It has nothing to do with bots.
True.

I do, however, like having some of the amenities of a task runner without bringing in the "cruft" that's suited toward incremental builds. I like using Just (https://just.systems/) for those cases.
Or you just aren't doing sports / physical activities.
sixel was more relevant then than it is now because a vt340 was still cheaper than a pc with a vga in it and the cpu time to decompress even a gif with lzw required a quite noticeable wait; jpeg wasn't even in the picture

now, if you want to display graphics from a remote server, your choices include webp over quic, jpeg over http, and h.264 over ssh, and raw pixels over x11, possibly lz77-compressed by forwarding over ssh -XC

sixel is an obviously terrible choice compared to any of those except that it forms part of your shell window, which is a pretty big plus; but i agree with you that in this day and age we should be able to come up with something better
I can only respond anecdotally but from where I’m sitting, the DIY music world has never been larger or more diverse and younger people are a huge part of that. Friendly digital recording, platforms line SoundCloud, YouTube, and Bandcamp, plus the magic of internet communication platforms have broken down so many barriers. There’s a micro-sub-genre for every mood, combination of styles, level of production, topic, and day of the week. I’ve been performing and releasing music for 20 years and I’ve never seen so much happening at once.
"The original Remove Richard Stallman post contained leaked communications from a private mailing list. In it, the author quotes an email from Stallman where he explains that Marvin Minsky likely wouldn’t have known that the woman on Jeffrey Epstein’s island was coerced:

…the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

A paragraph later, the author summarizes Stallman’s view as:

…he says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”.

This is the opposite of what Stallman said, but this lie was repeated by the press. An article in the Daily Beast said:

Stallman wrote that “the most plausible scenario” for Giuffre’s accusations was that she was, in actuality, “entirely willing.”

An article in Vice spread the same lie:

Early in the thread, Stallman insists that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked.

There are two possibilities here. Either the author of the Medium post was not capable of correctly parsing the sentence, or she didn’t care about truth and was leveling as many accusations as possible in the hope that one would stick. In other words: she is either foolish or malicious. The same goes for the writers of the Vice and Daily Beast articles. To describe what they did as journalism would be an insult to journalists."

"By satisfying the mob today, we are sacrificing our future. That’s the real risk."

https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stal...
I was about to say, one of the big things we are learning is that what we see as merely a respiratory disease is actually a much more generalized attack.

This is why we are seeing things like a 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer if you get yearly flu shots. Short term you can feel bad from the shot but long term you are much resilient to the actual Flu's impacts. It looks like this could be the same with Covid.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/flu-vaccines-linke...