skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We" doing some heavy lifting here
A decent 4090 GPU alone is over $3000 in Australia - that’s half the price of a Mac Studio with Ultra - just for the GPU.

Then you’d be looking for a 24 core CPU, 64GB RAM, 1TB PCIe 5 SSD, mainboard with 6x thunderbolt ports, a silent cooling setup, high quality case that is both small and all the gear while running cool. and if you’re stuck with MS Windows - an Operating System.
There was a thread about "why is async in Rust useful" because it's not better for latency or throughput, and essentially the answer was "because you can't cancel threads immediately". If you need that, you need an event loop (async). If not, threads are the best and always have been.
I kinda wish for a mix of todo/calendar system where I could say, for example "remind me of this maintenance task in 6 months" and it would disappear out of anything directly visible for that 6 months then pop up in todo list without due date, as just a thing to do.

Calendars are good for stuff that needs to be done at this exact date and hour but not great if it is just some routine maintenance task that can be easily shifted a month in any direction (say "replace oil and filters on car")
It is entirely explicable why anyone is talking about Christie this week and not last week.
NJ Transit allows kids under 11 to travel free with a fare paying adult on weekends and holidays. MTA charges them $1 but makes the discount always available.
Ah, the Royal "We".
Transit is completely feasible without subsidies if the transit company owns the land near the stations, which generate generous rents.

Of course if the land is owned by other people, the increase in value provided by transit should be recaptured through a Land Value Tax which is then used to fund the transit.
Every ‘it’ is the same.

Ethical behavior is erring on the side of caution in the face of uncertainty, ambiguity, or doubt.

That’s what makes it ethical behavior.

Giving unnecessary credit is not unethical.
Are there any best practices around commit message content?

So much is documented using Merge Requests / Pull Requests now, but that content lives outside the git history. Is anyone moving info from Merge Requests into commit messages (stuff like peer review history, code review history, linkage between design and code)?
I tend to feel better in semi critical situations due to that. Less friction, higher focus. Some people are even addicted to these because it feels like a healthier deeper challenge.

ps: and in an extrapolated variant, i remember reading an article about vietnam us army vet saying they can't live in society anymore because was has near zero ambivalence and they prefer it.
Review of industrial society and its future
Thank you for such detailed analysis! Just curious to know which version of x86-simd-sort did you benchmark: release v1.0 or the top of main current branch? (I'm the author of x86-simd-sort).
Belief among workers that in-person employees will enjoy better opportunities
Given that the replacement will be free, doesn't that make your case harder to make?
I get that. It was not those purposes that I wanted to question, but rather just the one near the top of my question, namely demand.
It’s going to kill the city. It’s just going to push businesses out at a bad time.

This doesn’t have anything to do with traffic - it’s a way to try to extract more money for the MTA. Money won’t fix the MTA’s money woes; the unions will just slurp any available cash.
> Trains for local transportation make no sense.

Plenty of people take trains for local transportation every day.
SO content is NOT public domain. It is CC BY-SA (some version).

This requires attribution.

> Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Additionally, the province of code on Stack Overflow is not always clean. It is quite possible to find code on SO that was originally under a GPL license without the necessary "this is GPL code" (and really shouldn't be on SO because of license laundering in the first place).
Agreed,

I just posted my first video

Let me know how you guys feel about it
https://youtu.be/PU75M0QkwTQ
I installed it and everything went surprisingly fine and easily. It used about 8GB or VRAM max on a nvidia A30 and takes about 30s to generate 10s of audio. The max duration seems to be 30s in the frontend but the quality is a lot lower.

Mixing genres do not really work and the model doesn’t seem to be trained on band names. However it does perform well to create music using existing styles.

I generated some Eurovision crap and minimalist techno that were very much believable. But mixing death metal with lofi ambient isn’t the best, nor the epic progressive rock guitar solo I asked.

I think the examples on the website are cherry picked but with some experience in prompt engineering and many tentatives, it should be possible to generate great samples.

It’s also excellent at generating boards of Canada like music. The audio artéfacts, the low fidelity, the weird sounds, the detuned synths, this model does that very well and it does sound great to me.

Thanks a lot to the authors.
How many bytes is substantial?

Or is it percentage based?
yes, that's why some people hear ringing after using them...they "cancel" the average noise but might be worse for transients, ultrasounds, and air pressure to the ear drum
You really think traffic is filled with 5 people in a car? Try looking around in a traffic jam, it’s like 95% 1-2 people occupancy. At 5 people, just paying the congestion charge starts to make sense. Also you could always split the difference, driving some of the way and parking along the PATH line, ie at Harrison parking is $10-15 per day and PATH fare is $2.75 per person, it’s still possible to get in cheaper and faster by public transit even in contrived situations like this.
Obesity in a world where you could diet and exercise is still preferable to starvation in a world without easy access to food. At one time it was a sign of wealth and privilege to be able to afford enough calories to put on any weight at all, and enough leisure time to not have to work it all off through brutal, constant labor.
Like I said elsewhere, what you’re proposing is geopolitically impossible. And the type of overprovisioning need to even come close to solving means you are wasting the vast majority of your power. Ironically, this gives you basically free energy for hydrogen production, rendering all of your counter arguments against it invalid. It’s just a doubling down of the same delusion idea you’ve been peddling for multiple posts now. It’s time to get real.

Not to mention no one has ever built a ocean spanning HVDC line, nor have you seriously calculated how much resources it will take. The alternative is already proven to work and has no such problematic weaknesses. Your opposition to it is just stubbornness.

Finally, as fuel cells are electrochemical systems, they will continue to reach higher efficiencies, eventually approaching 100%. Even now, SOFCs can exceed 70% and even higher if waste heat is used to power a gas turbine. By the time you get around to building the HVDC system of your dreams, the efficiency of the alternative will render it obsolete.
Yeah. Pretty sure the "magic" of DCA is just the magic of compounding. To be fair though that is one of the most powerful things in finance.
Trademarks and copyright have entirely different purposes. Corporate logos are often both.

A trademark is a brand, it identifies your work. Apple puts its logo on its computers to show that they made them. Because it is a registered trademark, you can't put the Apple logo on your own computers because it will mislead people into thinking they are Apple products. However, it doesn't prevent you from using the Apple logo in any other way. You can make artwork featuring the Apple logo if it is clear that Apple have nothing to do with it. If you keep your trademark registered and actually use it, it will never expire.

Copyright is about protecting the work of the artist or the company that commissioned it. For example, making a nice logo is hard work and you want to be compensated for it, so you may want people who use it to pay you, that's what copyright is for. The Apple logo precise shape, colors, etc... are covered by copyright. It means that you can't reuse the art for any reason without permissions, so in that way, it is a stronger protection than a trademark. The idea of a bitten off apple is not covered by copyright however, copyright doesn't cover ideas, only actual work, so if it wasn't also a trademark, you could have put your own drawing of a bitten off apple on a computer you made. Copyright doesn't need to be registered and expires after about 100 years.

The third category, also different, are patents. Patents protect inventions, I don't think it makes sense to patent a logo, but I can imagine a tiling shape being patented. Or more precisely, the practical application of such a shape. Patents need to be registered and meet certain criteria, they expire after 20 years.
>It's funny that German, and Italian researchers and car makers had the early lead on self driving tech and then lost it by shelving the tech. Oof.

Actually a very common occurrance. I don't think FSD on todays level was possible in '94 and the projects failure was inevitable unless it had been continously funded for at least 15 years more.

>innovation only happens in the EU as long as it's government funded and as soon as the funding stops

Seems like a bad example. Funding stopped because the technology didn't work.
Not to defend the other poster but the numbers you listed in the article are for India.
How about building something that’s good for the planet?

Or something that significantly reduces people’s living costs?

Or something to increase equality and equity?

There is far too much priority placed on making profits in tech and not nearly enough doing what’s actually good for people.
In the end that sum it takes energy during gaming is meaningless. I spend more on coffee while playing than to electricity.
System security doesn’t care about your feelings — any rogue program, or even an npm install can encrypt your whole drive, or install a keylogger.

This is not true of android and ios.
Thanks. You should reply to ben_w on this topic. That person is oblivious to the challenges of his HVDC dreams.
From some cruising on Wikipedia, apparently all his correspondence is available University of Michigan's Special Collections Library (over 400 letters), though the identity of the people won't be unsealed until 2049.
> I'm willing to admit that I'm missing something here, but I'd love it if someone could enlighten me.

It's basically the same as with Midjourney. Before Midjourney I'd have to spend quite some time organizing with some human, explaining what I want, licensing terms, etc only to have to wait a significant amount of time for an image that I may not like.

With MidJourney for just a very small amount of money I can instantly get images that are exactly what I want, iterating extremely quickly. Just the fact that I don't have to deal with another human saves a massive amount of time.

TL;DR

1) Faster

2) Cheaper

3) Often closer to what you want, because you quickly iterate and can get hundreds of variations
I sorta hope they find some streets or avenues to convert to bike lanes. I do sorta feel like having a congestion fee without much added ways to get around for pedestrians leaves the typical person unchanged from this.
I remember in the 90s a classmate in my junior high lived across the street from the house that Ted grew up in (evergreen park, il). When all this was going down he mentioned how before it went public that there was a suspicious amount of people visiting that house and removing things in boxes (I guess Teds brother owned the house and still had his writings in the attic).
I think decentralization is important.

Many centralized forums these days have their own "narrative". It could be of a political or economical nature. For example, each moderator on Reddit is biased towards what should and should not be published on "their" sub-reddit.

Here on HN unconventional wisdom is not welcomed either. Posts get easily downvoted to the bottom and then visually suppressed, hinting other readers: "hey, look, this opinion is not important, feel free to either ignore it or downvote". This visual suppression is, imho, a subconscious manipulation. Why nudge readers toward a certain direction? Let everyone decide on their own.

The current standard is "agree with me or you’re a white supremacist tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist and a nazi". Alternative opinion is akin to a crime.

Twitter is moving in the right direction (unconventional wisdom). There are very few bots left (barely see any). Irrespective of your political spectrum, nobody's going to ban you. Everyone is welcome on the platform. Twitter is about to start sharing ad revenue with content creators, which is a fantastic move in my opinion.

Lack of moderation brings everything into a balance – a self-organized chaos which is the closest thing to what our everyday lives are.
Sadly, it seems that for one to be taken seriously as a thinker, it takes minimal coherence, median compatibility of ideals with the readers and maximal violence in advertising yourself.
Sir Jack, WSB trader identity revealed: ex-Google ex-Stripe Kevin Xu
I don't know what you see on your end, but I can.

https://imgur.com/a/KtWvoec
AWS is great.

Gotta check out FBA/Amazin Marketplace to find all the nasty on Amazon.
Sure, but for inference it’s much easier to work in lower precision. Training with very low precision is also possible, but is often more tricky due to numerical stability.

A lot of work is going on in 8-bit inference and even 4 bit inference. So, models that need 64 GB in FP32 can do with 16GB VRAM in FP8 or INT8, which is well within the realm of consumer NVIDIA cards. And the latest NVIDIA tensor cores will absolutely destroy Apple Silicon GPUs or the Neural Engine in 8 bit.

So, I don’t think it’s really a strong argument. And as someone who is a Mac user and a ML practitioner, I’d be very happy if they started supporting eGPUs again.

Apple Silicon has many strengths and the GPU core are fine for many ends, from games to graphics apps.

But let’s not pretend that Apple is beating NVIDIA at their own game (yet). That day might come, but currently it only leads to disappointed users in ML forums who were hyped into thinking that their vanilla M2 MacBook Airs can almost compete with a 4090 in training a deep transformer model. (Yes, that happens.)
This is super cool, but there's enough YouTube enhancer extensions now that I'm starting to wish someone would build a standalone browser-wrapper YouTube client that has them all baked in to help keep extension load in my main browser down.
I've seen my org send a silly amount of silly questions that were obviously our fault to AWS support and they always took it in stride. We very rarely needed to follow up with our client executive (but they always offer to jump in if necessary). When we did have serious issues, we had no problem scheduling time with the executive managing the product and the engineers that wrote the code.

Meanwhile we can't even get Google to answer an email about serious incidents that were very obviously their fault, much less assign a dedicated human point person (hell with AWS, we even had several backup contacts assigned to cover for vacation time). We were important enough to be featured on their client success frontpage, but that didn't make a difference in support quality we received.

I can't imagine why anyone would risk their business with GCE. Especially since it tends to cost more than AWS these days.
I wondered why the hell people find that as a surprise here and figured out that is because the syntax for examples is not documented in [1] how to write a documentation part but instead in [2] "how our testing framework works"

- [1] https://go.dev/blog/godoc

- [2] https://pkg.go.dev/testing#hdr-Examples
As has been demonstrated multiple times, “more eyes” is a fallacy.

There have been plenty of malware on perfectly open source and often reviewed repositories.
>Wow this is more than good enough to use for background music in video games, stores, commercials, etc..

Hard disagree, and lack of copyright due to not being produced by a human becomes an issue for many video games, commercials, etc.

>You really could have super dynamic music in a video game for instance that changes based on the time of day, environment, situation, mood, etc.. all combined.

You don't need this IA for that at all.

>Combine it with a LLM DJ and you could get some fun radio stations.

You could also not, and you wouldn't know until it failed to produce anything interesting. A whole radio station filled with grocery store background music? oh wow I can't wait for the fun.

and you're not likely to make any money doing it, so what's the point aside from showing the human portion of music is missing in everything you suggested.
There are still a number of discussion email lists around. Riseup hosts a bunch of them for example:

https://lists.riseup.net/www/

One issue is that many email providers aren't really maintaining their system and can't always reliably send mail in the ways needed for spam tracking, even though DMARC is over a decade old at this point. The large providers seem to randomly classify mail as spam at times, which also doesn't help.

I've been thinking that an email client focused forum might work well, where you effectively get a new account for a particular site that can only be used to send "email" within the forum, but you can acess the list over IMAP/JMAP or webmail on the site. This also means you don't need to have an existing email account that you don't mind the address being public, although on the negative side it would attract a bunch of spam that would currently be filtered out by most email providers. Additionally, there could often be a small privacy loss contacting a particular server for messages (the server sees the times you check for messages similar to visiting a website but unlike real email), although I think many email providers can pull messages from IMAP on a schedule (but then you get the random spam classification issues again). Moderation and anti-spam tools and notification options are the main issues I can think of with this idea and would need some work.

The closest thing currently that I know of is public-inbox, which it sounds like it will expose archives over IMAP among other options, but not in a way that lets you post.

https://lwn.net/Articles/748184/
which killed the stage star!
Sorry for digressing but having a formal tone comes off as predictable and like you've used AI to help you type. The best manipulation tactic when "responding to someone being dumb" is making the response sound like it came from an actual human and not from a professor or robot. And most UFO sightings are classified because other countries will assume that we are lunatics. America must keep the image of "we are strong and intelligent" to the public. Even hallucinating a weird tiktac in the sky without documentation is a UFO due to the acronym meaning Unidentified Flying Object. It's Unidentified. Doesn't mean it's an angel or alien, one could obviously be sleep deprived yet write about it like crazy, it's a flaw of entitlement. People assume they'll be the first to see it, so they start seeing things.
> I’m disappointed he projects some sort of idealised aloof moral superiority on anything non human

I see no evidence in the podcast transcript of Singer making such a claim. What exactly are you basing your assertion on? Quote the transcript please.
It's not that there isn't enough electronic music being made, it's that every new track that lands on soundcloud is a drop in the ocean of mediocrity. There is _too_ much, and 99.9% is just boring to listen to, because it sounds like everything else. I listen to a LOT of electronic music (and have, since the mid 90's) and just don't have the patience anymore to sit through hours of average material to find one or two truly inspired artists.

I doubt I would turn to AI much for anything other than background noise while focusing on work. In fact, that sounds like a perfect use case for me. "Dear GPT, please compose a four-on-the-floor downtempo progressive track with soft pads, no vocals, and zero goddamned fake vinyl noise that runs for two hours straight..."
Doesn't P2P always require some kind of discovery mechanism unless peers know each others? For example for P2P file sharing with Torrent files, a central server (a tracker) that list the current peers?
What is different between this and WebRTC? It's only partially decentralized but we still call this P2P, in both cases.
It's a type of a fork but not the kind someone would expect after reading the headline.

The FAQ has a similar description, but doesn't make the assertion that it's not a fork, which I disagree with:

> Gren started as a fork of Elm. This is mostly considered to be an implementation detail, a way to speed up initial development.

> It's not a goal of Gren to replace, or stay compatible in any way with, Elm.

https://gren-lang.org/book/faq.html#what-is-the-relationship...
I’m not aware of any definition of accident that says personal injuries have to occur. But sure, you can replace accident here with collision or contact events. Also, airbag deployment doesn’t automatically mean there are injuries either.

Point is these types of events are not being reported by Tesla, while every other company testing self driving technology (specially ones that have CA DMV permit to do so) are reporting them.
I'm wondering to what extend these benchmarks, especially the GPU benchmarks, are really optimised for the specific Apple M2 architecture? And to what extent the high GPU-GPU bandwidth is benchmarked, this also influences real-world performance.
My favorite is Unamused Face + Face with Party Horn and Party Hat.
Ditto for free coffees, stuff on the house, half-price Tuesdays...
I would have agreed till recently. I ran Manjaro without a hitch for a long stretch of time, maybe 7 years. Then one day the hybrid laptop would not recognize the external monitor. I spent quite a bit of time debugging it, and finally concluded I was done with Manjaro. I entered a distro jump journey I hadn't done since... forever. And after about 2 days of fulltime work (more or less) sacrificed to testing distros, I realized nothing would prevent problems like this one from appearing again. I cannot waste days without my main machine being operational.

I bought a desktop, and forgot about that laptop.

But my trust in linux got dented there. I'm happy you have had a good run, I did too. The risk is too high for me to jump into 'debugging linux problems' mode at a random time. I cannot afford the disruption and downtime.
You are right the initial kick-off point was an attempt to port fluxsort for a stable sort in Rust, but that quickly turned out to be unfeasible because Rust implementations have way higher requirements in terms of safety. The user can modify values during a comparison operation, leave the logic at any comparison point via an panic (exception) and the comparison function may not be a total order. Together these effects make most of the code in fluxsort useless for Rust. I had been working on ipn_stable and ipn_unstable to completely different implementations. ipnsort, previously ipn_unstable started off with the pdqsort port that is the current Rust `slice::sort_unstable` and from there on I iterated and tried out different ideas.
a need for that? i suppose, but i wouldn't call it a court

why can't all of this secrecy stuff be done behind the scenes, then brought before a real court once finalized? federal courts even have some layers of secrecy so i don't see the issue with implementing the plain-jane judicial system here