skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very similar in spirit to how mp3 patents were worked around back on the late 90s / early 00s.

Of course copyright and patents are different beasts, so this similarity is probably legally insignificant.
Cool. Please do share when you write up about your experience with the language and ecosystem. Positive or negative, it'd make for a good read.
Ancient stones removed in France to build new hardware store
IITs signal a combination of high IQ and great work ethic. People with that combination, as a general rule of thumb, do well in the professional world. But they should not be confused with Einsteins.
The “poors,” as you so delightfully put it have nowhere to park in those parts of Manhattan. So they won’t be going there (leaving aside deliveries and taxis, but then the fee is a cost of doing business.)

The group this will hit the hardest are those with de facto immunity from parking tickets. Cops, teachers, members of certain trade unions, and so on.

However, lest you worry too much about these folk in light of automated speed and red light cameras they’ve taken to obscuring their license plates or buying fraudulent paper plates on the internet. Of course nothing is done about these effectively untraceable vehicles.
Technology killed the video star that killed the radio star
Fair enough.

I misread your comments because I'm too triggered by people stating their emotions as if they're arguments.
There were some Rust WASM frameworks that used similar concepts, I particularly liked yew. However yew has recently chosen a path more towards "magical" features instead of the simple Elm-style architecture. Don't know enough about the other ones to comment.
I don’t know if gwern realized how powerful his model was. His examples are underwhelming, because you have to prompt it in a certain way to get it to generate chords. He was showing me samples and they were neat, but boring.

One day he posted something that sounded pretty amazing, and I was blown away. “More like that, please.” It had chords in it.

He didn’t pursue it past that. I did. So it’s possible that no one is aware of how crucial the input format actually is to the success of the music that I was able to produce.

(And “produce” is a fair description here — choosing the instruments was really important, and the model didn’t do it. It wasn’t as easy as press a button. It felt like I was suddenly a 15x music producer, since I made all those tracks in one night. Such is the power of ML.)
Sorry what I mean by this is that once I see it’s gaining popularity I’ll invest in a mic
Why shouldn't it be possible? Screen share on a Zoom/Teams meeting is basically a stream with sub-second latency.
I personally reply to customers inquiries on a very famous AWS product where the client was asking why the execution was interrupted after the timeout they set themselves expired and why it was a timeout error.

I am an engineer working on such products and it was a routine on-call shift where I got this kind of question.

Admittedly we should have this cover by our support engineers, that are very very good, but this one slip through and I took the time to answer such query.

I am not a fanboy or anything, I could not be further from a fanboy or a blind fan.

But after working on AWS, I do suggest it as very sensible choice. Again, not because it is my employer but because they really take care of operations and customers.

Screw ups can happen but they are very rare in my experience.
I would expect that if X was 1 then there would almost never be a single image that contributes more than X%.

So you'd have to make X=0.0001 or something, and then what? Pay them all a fraction of a cent?
Yeah, I mean I get the rationale, but at that point you're pivoting from "we're combating clear hate/misinformation" - which can perhaps be readily justified to a reasonable impartial observer - to "we're combating speech/expression that we think is harmful", which in many cases cannot. In an era of high partisan hatred (ie. today) this will lead to community splintering.
Ymmv. I found a bug in their CA/PKI service, sent an example in and got a callback and feedback from a knowledgeable engineer who wrote me a workaround and put in a change request. I think the bug was fixed in a few weeks.

My team works with lots of companies, Google is one of the better ones in our experience. AWS is also excellent. I’m told Azure is good, but most of my experience with Microsoft is with enterprise product support, which is awful.
Yeah, adding another engineer to the process would probably make it "cleaner" if you thought the other party was motivated to want to sue you.
It's very different goals, the Tesla approach is more of a hack, which is to release things, without any liability or guarantee "we quickly hacked this together, good luck, if you die or get injured this is your problem!", and Mercedes is delivering a product that only support a few features but do it well, and they put their responsibility on it.
most connections today are subsecond... a second is a lot of time.

also this is probably only taking California as the whole world, like everyone does.
> but it’s really difficult to say “this group of neurons does this specific thing and that’s why this output was produced”,

That's because that's not how brains work.

> though OpenAI did make some progress in getting GPT-4 to explain what each neuron in GPT-2 is correlated to

The work contained novel-to-me, somewhat impressive accomplishments, but this presentation of it was pure hype. They could have done the same thing without GPT-4 involved at all (and, in fact, they basically did… then they plugged it into GPT-4 to get a less-accurate-but-Englishy output instead).
People spend years of their life going under 40 on the highway in LA. This seems huge in socal.
Barack Obama murdered hundreds of innocent children via drone strikes he ordered or approved. Donald Trump continued the process, killing hundreds more. Both received widespread support from millions of citizens.

Our society already celebrates mass murder of innocents, and those who do the murdering. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
How has it been going for Purescript since its creator and maintainer Phil Freeman stepped down?
WebRTC attempts to set up a direct connection between the streamer and the receiver so packets are being sent over directly. This doesn't always work out, say if there's bad connectivity (e.g. NAT) somewhere so the connection uses a TURN server or if there's a conference call situation where an SFU is involved, but usually it works.
Do we know how his views changed, if at all, over the years?
I find the article quite informative. Yes, M2 and the other chips are completely different products with different goals. If one wants to say that something completely trumps the other, it will be wrong.

But here is what is visible:

The M2 core is probably in the same ballpark as Zen 4 core, likely a tiny bit below. That may become very tiny if Zen 4 core runs at lower frequency to equalize the power. This doesn't account for the AVX512 of Zen4.

24 M2 cores manage to beat 16 Zen 4 cores also at lower power, but these are different products. Zen 4 does scale to far more cores, 96 in an EPYC chip. AMD and Intel have far more investments in interconnects and multi-die chips to do these things.

The M2 GPU is in the same league as a 300$ mid-range nVidia card. It is not competitive at all - Apple produces the largest chip it can manufacture to go against a high margin smaller chip that nVidia orders.

Again all of this doesn't mean each product is not good on its own.
Where are these poor people who truly need to come downtown by car parking?
Mostly hobby,

More like an impact teaching a new skill or just showing something cool related to tech
Decide if you want to try to generate revenue at some point, or if you are just doing it for the fun or passion of it.

If the former, you'll need to play the YouTube games, invest time in editing, improving technique, studying analytics, sticking to a schedule.

If the latter, post videos, have fun, hack at it... but don't expect more than 100 views on a video.

It can be fun either way, it really depends on your outlook. Cracking into a YouTube career is difficult, and soaks up so much time you'll find yourself wondering what happened to all the actual dev work you wanted to highlight in your content! Most of us who have had success learned a lot of tricks, but also have had a TON of luck.

Besides already being very wealthy, there's no guarantee you can get views or turn things into a full time gig. I spent two years saving up as much as I could consulting before I went into content creation full-time.
The secret is D's existence.
The average speed driving in Manhattan is something like 7mph. There is not enough space for cars. Congestion charge is such a no-brainer easy solution here.
i use obs exclusively for your sharex use case.
Kanye West was drugged by his Personal trainer Harley Pasternak who has connection to Canadian Military where he talks about using mind-control drugs on soldiers.

https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/did-kanye-expose-holl...
Interesting you mention MKUltra as one of the reasons claimed for Teds "extreme" personality is because he was unwillingly drafted into and forced to participate in MkUltra.
Dude. There is a difference between a bomb that has significant ability to kill and destroy and sample code.
> signaling incorrectly while staying in a lane that curves slightly

This is super annoying, but the most recent FSD update seems to have mostly fixed that.

It's still pretty crappy in a lot of other ways, but at least that improved.
> I think about cities that have implemented taxes for disposable plastic bags. I find it somewhat hilarious how many people consider these policies to be anti-freedom government money-grabs. They make a libertarian's blood boil!

> Even assuming those folks are correct, it doesn't really matter, because these taxes are incredibly effective. It's eye-opening to see how a nearly insignificant tax (literal pennies per bag) changes the behavior of everyone.

I am a libertarian-minded person who takes issues with these taxes and related plastic bag bans. My gripe is that the alternatives to plastic bags are pretty much universally less green, and both plastic pollution and total CO2 spent on grocery bags go up when a bag tax/ban enters. Flimsy plastic grocery bags get re-used as garbage bags. Paper bags, and god forbid reusable cotton bags, emit much more CO2 per use than single-use plastic bags, even if you re-use your paper bags a few times and re-use your cotton bag 100 times. They make no sense, from an environmental perspective.

They are effective at changing behavior, which could be what you mean by "effective," but they do not change behavior in an environmentally positive direction.
There’s already an endless supply of elevator music and things to sample.
Mercedes can’t indemnify you. Local police and prosecutors make those decisions.
That's a reductionist moral framework you have.

Are we not justified in killing Hitler to prevent the suffering of millions?

I think Ted is wrong, but I also think your counterargument is ridiculous.
>> There is no evidence that a runaway artificial intelligence is even possible.

In the space of a century or so, the humans have managed to take rocks and sand and turn them into something that you can talk to with your voice, and it understands and responds fairly convincingly as it were a well-read human (glue together chatGPT with TTS/ASR).

Doesn't seem like a big stretch to imagine that superhuman AI is just a few good ideas away, a decade or two perhaps.
I think you gave them an existential crisis.
Or you just don't bother shopping in stores and just order from Amazon instead? Or you take the train/drive to somewhere where they still have free bags?

Since the area where I live put in a paper bag fee and banned plastic bags a few months ago, I make far fewer shopping trips and I definitely don't go on a random shopping trip while I'm out walking because I'm not paying the bag fee as a matter of principle. Every single additional barrier you put up to people shopping in physical stores whether it's a bag fee or "you must wear a mask to shop in this store" or whatever just drives more people to online shopping and accelerates the death of physical stores.
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Most programming work is still text editing with various amounts of debugging, refactoring, and autocompletion.

It is not obvious to me how an AR interface would make a difference other than more virtual screen real estate. You would still need a way to enter text, build code, run tests, etc. This means a keyboard and pointing device (mouse, trackpad, etc.) are still needed unless something else can do it better.

Granted, for the same cost as the Vision Pro you could get several large, high resolution monitors and have lots of screen to work on.
I consider nuclear fusion for energy production highly speculative too, meanwhile our houses burn.
That nice bag also accounts for >300x more CO2 than the plastic bag it replaced.
> What would be more interesting is to see how Nvidia's laptop cards fare here though - they're constrained to much lower wattage (80-120w) and would make for a much fairer fight against the ~200w M2 Ultra.

Doesn't look like Apple offers Ultra in a laptop - just the Basic, Pro, and Max.
Don’t take his comment personally..
not sure why people are so surprised he got some things right or was at least able to create compelling arguments for this ideas, the guy was a legit genius. Got into Harvard at 16, youngest math professor ever at Cal Berkley at the time he was hired
Isn’t it illegal to have a bomb intended to maim or kill?
Hey! Emscripten port works (it will be merged somewhere soon, and we anticipate a release later this year), the next thing to target is "pure" WASI.
Yes, ECL runs fine on OpenBSD (as well as on Windows, Linux, other BSD, haiku, iphone, android and - in a branch - wasm).
I assumed that was in the context of the US. Country governments in the US vary a lot in how powerful they are from being mostly a judicial unit or organization to being pretty powerful (e.g. parishes in Louisiana).
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This distantly reminds me of the Jonathan Coulson / Glee situation that happened a few years back.

Basically, a recording of his came out that had the lyrics to "Baby Got Back", but against music that was entirely fresh and original. And then later, Glee had a scene with a (really weird) a cappella group that did a cover of Coulton's recording - his music, but with the Baby Got Back lyrics.

The show gave Coulson zero credit, didn't ask his permission, didn't give him any compensation, and I believe didn't give him any notice ahead of time. (I'm typing this all from memory, so I'm sure I might have some details wrong, but that's the thrust.)

So the question is, should they have? It turns out it depends entirely on how the creation process was described.

There's an old songwriting exercise where you take a song, and then write entirely different music for the lyrics, and then write new lyrics for the song. Presto, it's a whole new song, and there's nothing wrong with that songwriting process. You can do the reverse where you write new lyrics for the old music, and then new music for the new lyrics, too.

Coulson could have easily written that new music for "Baby Got Back", and then written new lyrics for it, and copyrighted the song. And then, I'm not sure, but he possibly could have then released the version with the "Baby Got Back" lyrics as a joke/parody of his song, and it still would have been his song. But since he released his version as a cover of "Baby Got Back", all Fox had to do was "steal" his version, pay the royalties to Sir Mix-A-Lot, and cut out Coulton entirely.
RMS it's the antiUnabomber. Ted was afraid of tech. RMS wants you to dominate it. As Kubrick did with 2001. You need to dominate the machine, not the other way around.
Well given that they're not engaging in the defense which is in the title of the organization, they must be offensive - there is no third option.

Point being that we already invert terms like "defense" to mean "offense".
Realistically, the CIA will not release full details on MK-ULTRA for another couple generations, so we will never get official confirmation of the alleged names in our lifetime. There is a starting list here under "Notable subjects", although presumably there are subjects that were just vanilla murderers and subjects that tried (and hopefully succeeded) to live a normal life[1].

When this information is finally released, the people around for that will say "wow, the CIA used to do some real evil stuff against our own people, good thing they would never do that these days!" as the CIA carries out some absurd level of evil that makes MK-ULTRA seem like a fender bender.

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[1] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/project%20mk-ultra%5B15...
Do you have a train station in front of your house and any target destination you can imagine wanting to go to? Because most people don't.
> "during the period western communist parties suddenly became rabidly pro-nazi."

Please could you provide some reference?
So, in the absolute best-case scenario cherry-picked from thousands of videos, Tesla's system is capable of going twenty-five miles without making dangerous mistakes.

I agree the comparison is laughable.
ELM is great.
So where do people go if they like ELM and want that type of thing, but sustained?

If everyone is leaving all languages, based on the flurry of these types of posts, what is left? What language/platform do we use, if everyone is leaving everything because of some X?

Sounds like open source is fragmenting. And what will we be left with? The big corp backed platforms, that have marketing departments, and product managers, and support departments. .Net, Java, etc...
> Because we like music for the fun of making it, and the shared emotional connection felt with the artist... I don't know what the point of machine generated music is.

Bingo.

This is a fun toy, but in terms what it means, you may as well ask an AI to pray. It's completely hollow in terms of the actual experience.

This could make suitable filler for idle games, ads, aquariums, and elevators. Not much else. Perhaps at best, a producer could use this to fill in the instrumentation behind a singer, but I have a feeling it's not there yet.

> The promise of automation was to have machines do the things we don't want to do, so humans could have more time to do things we enjoy... Instead, we are automating the things humans enjoy.

Damn. Never looked at it that way. It's still enjoyable to do these things, but perhaps less lucrative. I don't know, do professional musicians like arranging elevator music? I'm strictly an amateur who has never made a dime performing, so I really don't know if that would be joyful, soul-crushing, or somewhere in between. I just know what it means to me, and like I said, you may as well ask the machine to pray for all I think this amounts to.
Goal is to build online presence and create impact.
Rationing by payment is only one strategy though. Choosing that strategy brings in wealth disparities. So it is fair to bring it up when that is the chosen strategy.
All the stats that we self-interested humans care about anyway.

The stats on the planet we live in are bad and getting worse. There is 30% more carbon dioxide in the air now than when I was born.

All the improvements in gender equality mean nothing compared to that and the trend behind it.
Just an anecdote, but I test drove 3 different kinds of Tesla (S, 3, Y) and the EV6 as well, and I found the lane keeping/cruise control in the EV6 to be substantially better - I think the EV6 has more and/or higher def cameras, although the S I drove had HW4, it was soon after they were introduced and it's possible the software has not yet been optimized for them, and radars to detect cars which Tesla has removed. For some reason, the Teslas seem to lack object permanence, so cars around you will flicker in and out of existence, that doesn't seem to happen on the Kia. I also learned that Tesla actually has completely different code for the base-level TACC (traffic aware cruise control) versus the $15k Autopilot option. I assumed they were mostly the same with features turned off for TACC, but afaik they're completely different code.
The quality of what gets promoted and tops the charts has declined, but there is a lot of good music produced today.
Hey, I'm one of ECL maintainers. If you have some questions I'll be glad to answer.
> would make AR coding more productive than simply on a monitor

One obvious thing is much more space. I.e. unlimited number of extra monitors, or entities which work as such.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447 (April 9, 2020 — 732 points, 431 comments)

I was surprised this is only the first reposting—I thought for sure I had seen it more often than that.
> In my experience people who claim they are libertarians are against all forms of government regulation and taxation.

> But it doesn't really matter to me if my characterization of libertarians isn't 100% accurate because I have no respect for anyone who calls themselves libertarian in any way.

Tell me you've never spoken to a libertarian without telling me you've never spoken to a libertarian.
Extensive discussion (434 comments) when this was first published.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447
It's worth sharing Scala.js which has https://github.com/PurpleKingdomGames/tyrian, an ELM-insired library for the UI.
AMD and Intel are jacking up the default power settings to absurd levels because it gives marketing bigger numbers to to throw around.

You can drastically reduce the power you supply to desktop chips with BIOS settings. You'll generate far less heat, can use a smaller power supply and form factor, while still getting great performance.

If Intel/AMD get to a level where their chips rival M1/M2 while power throttled, things get interesting.
Sisters with Transisters Review (2021)
Is 1) actually clear though?

I'm unaware of it ever having been tested and upheld in court in a SoT situation. And while it's easy to argue that it should be upheld because that's what the license says, it's also just as easy to argue that it shouldn't. Because it's easy to argue that a chain of derivation loses all meaning under copyright law once there are no recognizable elements of the original work. Quite simply, making a claim of copyright infringement requires elements of the original being used. If no original elements exist, then no license can bind, no matter what path it took to get there. Just because you put something in a license doesn't mean it's enforceable.