skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Infinite music is interesting from the angle that the music that we value is connected to our cultural and social experience. How can we cherish a song that has never been heard before and will never be heard again, which means it is deprived of social context that would give it meaning?

One answer would be to create music that shares its roots with music that the listener already knows. This music could be enjoyable, but you can't exactly sing along to a melody you're hearing for the first and last time, so it has more limited engagement potential. This is an approach to composition that you learn when you study chord progressions and other elements in music theory, and it's what I'm sensing when I listen to the MusicGen outputs.

To draw from greater cultural context, you can incorporate folk and popular melodies that are widely known. Musicians love this trick. "Immature artists copy, great artists steal." MusicGen seems capable of doing this, too.

To promote a novel melody as something that listeners deeply cherish, or to innovate at the level of the theory, the social context has to be built up around the content after it's generated. E.g., when introducing a new song on the radio, a common trick is to play it between songs that are already popular; building up co-occurrences with songs that already have cultural significance. My challenge to Meta would be: can you use your platform to transform some of the model's novel outputs into familiar popular music? It would be an important cultural milestone if an AI-generated melody became a familiar tune that would be played in the café, recognized, and enjoyed.
Yeah, I'm not sure cities should be legislating you to behave in a way that you personally prefer. They should be legislating things that are beneficial for the city and aren't preferable to people.

Also, cotton bags emit about 7000-10000x as much CO2 as plastic bags, while the re-usable bags made from recycled plastic are in the hundreds - you can actually break even on CO2 with those bags if you are careful with them and make sure they don't break before the ~300th use.
New York City, which is implementing this, is a bit of a weird case in that it actually sits above the counties, not below them. New York's five boroughs are technically five counties.
I was working for a big non-tech financial company when covid hit. The biggest issue with going remote was this inertia in how the company worked, and a push back by higher levels who did not want to change things. So you got more and more meetings and booked calendars. Even though we had more productivity as shown by number of deployments a day, the company leadership did not want to remain remote and pushed return to office. But the big problem was that as it was a campus, with teams across multiple states, if you did have a meeting there was a good chance that you had a meeting online anyways, so that aspect didn't change.

The good things of in person working is comradery, problem solving speed, etc. But most large companies are not designed to work towards this in the first place.
> It still has the advantage of a much larger memory pool.

I wonder if given roughly equal power to the GPUs in current gen consoles (PS5/XBSX), it'd yield some advantage in porting console games since those consoles also have a large shared pool of memory (16GB), and neither AMD nor Nvidia want to give up using VRAM as an upsell.
The problem, in my opinion, is that many companies tries to do work the same way that they would do it in office, when working remote. I don’t think that work.

The way of working need to change, the way people communicate, how they measure progress, etc.

That is my opinion. I do not believe in going back to commuting to offices like before, I do believe in changing the way we work.
We have Bayesian formulas to scalarly determine "strangeness".
A large number of people you meet, from all walks of life, will admit that 4chan is a guilty pleasure. At least I’ve met a ton and none of them were right leaning to say the least.
> accumulate locally

Is that an option in AppEngine? The memcache docs seem to indicate the free tier has undocumented eviction policies.
Speaking as someone who despises Tailwind, my impression is certainly that HN generally likes it. It is amusing that somebody else gets quite a different impression. Shows how biased human memory can be.
If power utilization matters, then a more 'efficient' device, that takes longer might actually use more power overall - esp. when you factor in the lighting, Aircon etc that might be needed by the human operator who is waiting for the workstation to finish computation.
Yes, this I have heard, but http://locahost:8000 on Safari is not a great way run to run a quick check of a web page.
great question - something i've been thinking about a lot.

my framework is,

- moderation needs two levels (top level and grassroots)

- top level - has to come from communities that are not in an "accepted" list which shouldn't be allowed to form. (the usual suspects like hate speech, CSAM). one way to think about is having community server owners "stake" some sort of investment and risk losing it in case communities on their servers get banned. this would happen for instance if you run a server for this protocol, and someone on your server creates a community against policies set by the protocol steering committee.

- grassroots level - moderators are those who actively contribute to the community, can be elected, have audits on their logs, and can also be incentivized for their work (eg, given a "salary" every month) through that staked fund we talked about earlier.

ultimately, no one is doing any of this free and we should assume that monetary incentives in some way that are aligned with the community's have to be factored in.
Subconscious, but true: it will impact the feeling your viewers get when spending time with you.
Every week now there is a new AI thing and we are all worn out from trying to continually ascertain what to think about them.
I find the self-serve UI and overall experience with GCP to be superior, so to me it’s a bit like the premium you pay for a Mac over a PC. Granted I never needed or wanted to speak to a human, but their infamy in that respect deserves a special nod of acknowledgment.
Even Android smartphones will give pre-debayering raw data from the sensor if you use the appropriate camera app. (There are quite a few cheap ones where the OEM debayering filter is just horrible, and the sensor is actually capable of much better quality.)
The only bridges approaching that length over water are causeways. The harbor is too deep for that, and again a causeway would not permit shipping traffic.

It would also be a massive eyesore
Meta: When I clicked the bloomberg link, Safari asked me: Do you want to allow downloads on "news.ycombinator.com"?

I clicked cancel, clicked the archive link, worked fine, clicked the bloomberg link again and it loaded fine with no request.

Did this happen to anyone else?

Seems suspicious.
Bookmarked.

I added WebRTC support (audio, video, chat) to my already existing application a couple of years ago and felt the technology wasn't exactly ready for primetime. To me, it felt like the out of the box developer experience wasn't exactly great.

I am only saying this because I got to see exactly how much effort is required to get things going. Your work is greatly appreciated
> Interesting, this does sound a bit like clean-room reverse engineering which is a tried-and-true method for reproduction without breaking copyright

To me, it seems obvious that if the developer read the code that's getting replaced and reproduced its behavior to the T, by reading it and running it many times... that's the opposite of a clean room implementation. What do you think a dirty room implementation is then?

I'm not saying you are right or wrong, I'm not an IP attorney and I think IP is really boring. I can see how if a developer at a giant company rewrites open source X in Swift, C# or Golang in order to exploit it commercially, there could be a cathedral of opinions that would support, "Okay, this is what is meant by clean room." In the same way that BigCo developers work with their attorneys to file patents for ideas they saw elsewhere and didn't invent all the time. It's one of many possible beliefs about IP, and it can even thrive in reality, but it doesn't mean it is a correct one.
His criticisms of leftist activism in the 1990s is that it will always seek to control and exploit technology to implement their ideology so followers of his anti-tech movement should not rely on them. He then rants against 'green anarchy' claiming it is a kind of naive forest worshipping cult that also should not be included in whatever anti-tech movement. It is a small part of his overall manifesto on who you shouldn't trust to join a specific (terrorist) movement and likely came from his time in academia.

It's definitely not the standard fare you would find on those 2 sites you mentioned just a brief 'don't trust these activists they want the philosopher stone for themselves'.
How are they doing it is the question? What's the set up?
This is not what I recall which was strong resistance to raw blockade.

Well, it seems it did not last.
No, I mean actually bet your life, say put your little children in the back and send them to some destination because you seen Tesla videos on YouTube.

if you won\t do it for a randoms destination, on what would you risk your children life, on some white listed high-way? which one?
React is also pretty much finished. I have not experienced breakage except in some exotic functionality. The churn comes from switching to hooks, but that can happen gradually and is not strictly necessary. Oh, and of course library authors like to break stuff, but that is not on React itself.
Sorry I do know what you mean. I meant a natural disaster unrelated to climate change. Such as huge earthquake.
For them purposely asking stable diffusion(not ok) for an image vs iPhone image processing(ok) would be your baseline for distinguishing. Picking at small details seem like a nice way to waste time, you just got to keep it simple
It's interesting. I assumed at least their power consumption should have been much better/lower than an avg orthodox desktop setup of current days.
Mass migration to Statin Island, Brooklyn, and Flushing.

I've been interested in cities with rail trails and the like. For example, San Antonio with the many mile extension of the Riverwalk along the San Antonio river and Atlanta with the Belt Line have created non motorized vehicle corridors through the respective cities which have spurred incredible amounts of mixed use development for miles on each side of the walking, peddle biking pathways. The most expensive real estate butting the pathway with bars, restaurants, yoga studies in the lower levels of the new buildings and with less and less expensive real estate pushing away from the sides of the path ways out words. Rather than having concentration of wealth at a circular center, the concentration is linear which has a side effect of having lower income house available in closer proximity to the wealthy areas.
> one in a thousand

That's probably way too high of a threshold. Many standardized tests lump everyone who is in the top 5-10% of ability, as long as they prepare sufficiently well.
I meant that every cancer diagnosis is done by a pathologist who describes the looks of the cell/tissue and is trained to assign a cancer classification to it. This is currently changing to genetic testing where the underlying mutation (that is causing the tissue changes) is identified. AFAIK the tissue classification is still the gold standard for most cancer types, but I am positive that this will be completely replaced by the new methods. Medicine will not put the cells under a microscope anymore but into a DNA analyzer instead.
Have you tuned your workstation for power efficiency?

Dropping cpu and GPU frequencies even a few % might have a significant impact.
If you want safer vehicles across the board, get rid of cafe and other efficiency regulations.

At this point in the current regulatory framework, safety and efficiency are in direct competition.
I think 3.3% of all Canadian deaths were from MAID which is around 10000 deaths last year.

Im worried at some point in the future this will become the practical alternative to spending money on social support safety nets like food banks and homelessness resources.

It will be marketed as the "compassionate solution".

If you dont work really hard at your job to stay employed the alternative is no longer food stamps and homelessness, its "compassionate death".
There is a distinct competitive advantage to be able to express your thoughts in writing so that it can be digested async without your intervention. Most founders, managers and of course, leaf workers, don't have this ability. We rely on others to help us clarify what we want to convey.

Honestly, I feel that being able to access a global workforce and needing to create processes that can be followed asynchronously and distributed is a major plus for a startup, even an established company. My gut feeling is that companies that operate like this will be more efficient and scalable, but only time will tell if this is true.
Definitely improbable
I'm absolutely not a productivity system person but there are a few Getting Things Done suggestions that resonate with me (even if I don't always follow them).

If you can do something quickly and have the time, just do it.

(Also appreciate that certain things may lead to other things and that your 5-minute task may be opening up a can of worms. But if it's an expense report, probably just do it already.)

Break projects into actionable sub-tasks. Now, mind you, I may not be sure about one or more aspects of the project--and even if I need to do it at all--and find it's OK just to let it sit on a list even if that's somehow taking up brain space.

Separate calendar and to do list. (I do list rough to dos in my paper weekly calendar but don't list them on my electronic calendar unless they really have to happen on a particular day.)
I use a variation of this I call now-and-next: write down a “now” task and “next” task, do the “now” task, switch “next” to “now”, write a new “next” task, and repeat.

My spouse saw me doing this and adopted the technique. When things get overwhelming, we say: “let’s now-and-next it”.
All all the M2 variants just Apple going down the binning path because of yields?
So some community member doesn’t feel like it is worth their time and in turn they go somewhere else. And they write a blog post about why in case anyone else would find themselves in a similar situation.

No debts are left on either side.

But they should (according to you) have “stayed away from OS”? Why?

They did things and then they stopped. They didn’t owe anyone to begin with, and they don’t owe anyone now.

And yet they should have “stayed away”?

This absolutist “no one owes anyone” gets hypocritical really fast when you at the same time try to judge someone for doing, well, basically anything. Because they don’t owe you are anyone else anything (by your own logic).

So how can you possible judge them?
That's actually why it's urgent to set this up outside of government, like the browser CA system, and develop methods to issue verification of "human" while preserving other aspects of anonymity.
It just raises an enormous barrier of entry to access the market.
> is a tired refrain.

Only non-poor people can say something as reactionary as that. Or people who are not friends or relatives with poor people. A populist backlash that will bring some of the middle-class egoism down is long over-due, and not only in the States.
Because consumer ISPs generally don't have great routes between them and sustained gigabit uploads probably don't always work reliably because of overbooking with consumer lines, you'll probably be better off setting up an SFU on a cheap (temporary) cloud server somewhere.

Not sure why you think that? Maybe on cable modems, because DOCSIS is highly asymmetrical, but on FTTH GPON et al (pretty much the only technology which supports gigabit upload; docsis gigabit upload is extremely rare), there is no reason it couldn't saturate upstream at 1gigabit+. If anything, consumer ISPs are usually way more contended on the downlink side than the upstream side.
Not sad just annoying
> the fact is that less people take the IIT-JEET (a couple of hundred thousand)

This is factually incorrect, or maybe you are referring to JEE-Advanced. The top of the funnel (i.e., JEE Mains), is over 1MM out of which about 25% qualify for JEE-Advanced.
Is it similar to what Rust does?
It is an unnerving situation for founders, because the product might sell if you just added a critical feature, focused on a specific segment, changed the pricing model, etc. You could be one step away from success. Or you might not. It takes luck, pluck, and faith.
Why do businesses keep raising their prices? – CNN Business
> honking

May I assume that you haven't used a desktop from some year equivalent to whatever Mac you use? Because modern desktops are far from "honking."

I have a 7950x (the high core count desktop offering). AMD require (sans one brand) water-cooling for it. That means you get big quiet fans, which are far less "honking" than the tiny loud ones that are in laptops by necessity. In fact, due to the nice large radiators that liquid coolers have the fans don't spin at all the majority of the time.

When I do need power, it's on-tap.

My 6900xt is big honking during gaming, but you can get real quiet $300 GPUs. Or just use the integrated graphics and enjoy the quiet liquid cooling.

> big

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-ITX
> It would be an important cultural milestone if an AI-generated melody became a familiar tune that would be played in the café, recognized, and enjoyed

New generative music benchmark - popularity.
> Serverless Streaming - WebRTC is P2P

As I understand webrtc, it describes the connection wrapping and the streams / negotiation, but not the discovery part. Which means it's about as p2p as http - if you add a way to find the endpoint and open sockets, you can make peers talk.

Is there something more in the OBS implementation that makes it more p2p? Am I missing something?
> One thing I really appreciate about Debian is that when a new stable release comes around, I can just upgrade and be reasonably sure nothing bad will happen.

That's good feedback and I've heard it from other people. Personally I've never been able to dist-upgrade Rapbian or Ubuntu without breaking the OS.
Recently discovered city pop thanks to an NTS special. So dope
I am so glad I don't have to make predictions about the Apple AR. Whether it succeeds or not, I think its future will be fascinating.

I find the Apple AR most like the iPhone launch, not in that it is a probable success, but that the iPhone at launch was more a platform for apps and a blank slate. It wasn't really until app developers took the platform and ran with it that people even knew what exactly it was capable of.

I think the Apple AR is in a very similar place. It has an extremely capable processor, and a platform for building apps. Now, will the collective consciousness of app developers find the use cases I can't live without, or is the platform too flawed and too expensive. I really can't say, and I can't believe anyone that says they are sure one way or the other.

It will be interesting for sure, and I'm tempted to try to find an niche app to write myself.
Secret courts violate all laws....
I guess the assumption here is that the founders are correct in wanting to do this, because it improves overall productivity. Further, an assumption is that founders, being highly motivated and data-driven, are probably correct in this belief, and the bottom line will bear out their decision in the long run, despite any argument from their employees. But this does not match my experience with founders, who are not wiser or less biased than most people, and who make bad guesses frankly all the time.

If there is new data about remote work that makes this a rational decision, so be it. Absent that, this is just as consistent with the hypothesis that management wants people in the office so they can be seen to do their job, regardless of the actual effect on work.
The computer identifiers on the claimed "M2 Ultra" devices claim to be Macbook Pro 14" devices

I think you're confusing Mac14,14 which is the internal designation for the Mac Studio with a MacBook Pro 14". The leak if anyone's interested: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/21305974?baseli...
It just means the overhead is smaller for the feature set it offers. It’s not faster than bare MJPEG over UDP, but not way slower than that either.
Without addressing the actual money involved this will be not complete:

> EU students: €19,000 for 3 years

> Year 1: €3,500

> Year 2: €7,750

> Year 3: €7,750

Repaying such amount is not a very big deal
So Rust's ipnsort is actually one of the better sorting implementations across a variety of input sizes. Faster than avx512 sort on small arrays, slower on mid sized arrays, and almost the same on large ones.

The avx512 sort seems like a questionable choice given it requires specialized hardware and is not the best option under many real-world conditions.
People don't disagree with him because he was a convicted terrorist, they disagree with him because of the specific things he did to be convicted of terrorism. That's reasonable (correct, even). People might know or not know each opinion he expressed, and might reasonably agree or disagree with each one, but that's not the same thing.
> it doesn’t even matter how smart you are

If you care about being "happy"? Sure.

But plenty of things require a bit more than "a surprisingly low threshold". You're not going to be Jeff Dean (for example) if you're just "smart".
See, I've seen this stated many places but never explained. How exactly does the money made by derivative bullshit go into valuable, passionate, art projects and not either directly into pockets or into the next billion dollar derivative bullshit thing?

Generally, the bullshit costs way more to produce and market and advertise. And at least on paper, a significant amount of the money made is only recuperating costs for the 3 hours of incredibly CGI it took to make a 3rd 'ant man' or a 4th 'jurassic park'. The majority of actual indie art films cost ridiculously less than that because they're filming a movie, not a commercial.

Anyways, my opinions aside, are there any articles with cited money trails that prove that billion dollar blockbusters actually fund valuable art and not just executives yahts?
I do something similar to this with my dead simple todo list. there is no TODO section a MAYBE section a DOING section and a DONE section, only one thing ever in the DOING section until it is crossed out, if you come across some rabbithole add it to TANGENT section and resist urge to do it, once you are done with your task pick another one from MAYBE. It sounds dumb because it is basically the same thing but TODO sections stress me out and bring about that foreboding feeling that you will never get it all done, and they always grow never shrink. A lot of times i’ll look at the MAYBE section the next day and some things just aren’t as important as I thought or somebody else did it. Like I said dumb and simple but thats why i like it.
I get the same feeling every time I buy into the AI hype and try it for myself.

On stuff like art it's hard to judge objectively, but in things like code it's much simpler. Don't get me wrong there are cases where I find generative AI useful - but the hype machine and the unedited whole solutions are just straight garbage.
I have a minimum of notifications turned on. I'll sometimes be in a work group chat for a customer meeting or something. But otherwise push notification traffic is pretty low. And sometimes I'm polling a lot but I can turn that off.
I've been using OBS since it first came out (11 years ago?) on just a 2012 MacBook. Never had a single issue.