skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many of us (myself included) have become accustomed to being able to find or identify just about anything with the right software, tools, or community. But there are just so many recordings out there like you mentioned - demos, one-offs, etc. that only one or two people would even be able to identify.

Despite the reach of global communication, there's a good chance those people never find out that others are searching for this info. They may not even be alive anymore.

A year or two ago, some friends and I had the theme of "rare or weird songs" for a monthly "bring your own music" listening party. Since the previous theme was "songs from your childhood/youth" and I like to throw in a bridge to the previous theme when possible, I brought in the recording of a practice session I did with a band back in college around 2000.

I'd since digitized the cassette tape and probably have the only copy of this recording in existence. The band played one show and it was generally just a fun project among friends. We never recorded a proper album, only set up a tape recorder during one practice session as we ran through the whole set.

There must be hundreds of thousands of similar recordings out there from bedroom projects and bands-that-never-were.
There actually are...

"There are far more of these tablets in existence than I could have imagined. In fact, between half a million and two million cuneiform tablets are estimated to have been excavated in modern times, of which only approximately 30,000–100,000 have been read or published."

https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/special-collections-unbou....
To all of you saying this is a GPL violation, I highly doubt a company with the size and pedigree of Red Hat doesn’t have lawyers that thoroughly understand the GPL. I’m not a lawyer, but the way I read it, yes this is against the spirit but not the law.

That being said, I feel like GPLv4 will be here any day now to close this loophole, like they did with the anti-Tivoization clause for v3.
> SUVs make the world dangerous and scary for people outside of cars: pedestrians, cyclists, other small personal vehicles users.

Unfortunately the way a lot of American culture works means that this is actually the desired outcome. Cars today are basically advertised on their pedestrian killing prowess and, unsurprisingly, have even been used as weapons of terror quite frequently recently.
I stopped with reviews a long time ago, but not for fear of cancellation, but rather - they seem to have a habit of removing honest reviews, and it just wasn't worth the time to leave them just to have them removed.
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That podcast does have an interesting explanation of the idea, and Max Weber did provide interesting insights into it. But the governments exerting monopolistic control over violence (to differing levels at different times and places) goes back basically as far as organised society does. The legitimate claim to violence in self defence is just as ubiquitous and has always been at least philosophically at odds with the claim of the state. With that contention arise from the fact that a claim to violence in self defence must either arise from a failure of the state to perform its duties in upholding law and order, or a failure of the individual to follow the law. With the potential for controversy arising from the fact that it’s largely the state who gets to decide whether it was at fault, or if the individual in question was.
A PC running Linux or a Mac, a File browser that can connect to NFS, and a Text editor.

A raspberry pi running Linux, Apache and NFS.

Straight up HTML, no CSS, no JavaScript.

because Keep It Simple
Oracle did its own storage on block level devices (disk partition) as far back as 2000. I don’t know if it still does it.
Managers are fundamentally involved in signaling -- arguably a primary job function. Signaling statuses up, signaling messages from leadership down.

They probably 100% agree with WFH, or hybrid, but their job is to signal, and those RSUs depend on their willingness and ability to conform to corporate culture.

In other words, they hate it too but like $$$$
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Hey, you must retain the rare talent capable of developing military-grade trash cans at all costs.
Love the pun/typo of descent there. Trying to learn about Unicode does feel like you are descending into the trenches of meaning. In ways you probably don't want to.
Go to real court and take depositions.
PRNG, should stop posting while asleep
I can't wait for some regulation that forces these megacorps to explain why they decided to ban you.
https://twitter.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960
So this is just a wrapper around the NCERT website?
Some price increase after that would be completely fair and reasonable, because it is harder and more expensive to produce. But 165×? Colour me skeptical on that. At $50k you can hire a craftsman to custom fit something (at a $500k income a year they'd have about a month for it).

There's also some foresight involved here. I used to work for a company that delivered computers for industrial applications such as ASML and FEI (lithography machines and electron microscopes). They had very precise requirements: "we want Intel Xeon 5119 Rev 3 CPUs for the next 4 years, not Rev 2, not Rev 4, the revision shall be 3 and 3 shall be the number of the revision. Revision 5 is right out". The same applied with mainboards, memory, etc. There was also an entire testing procedure involved for many of these things and not all components passed.

So, we charged them more for this then $random_person buying a component, obviously, but we also talked to them beforehand and knew roughly how many units they expected to sell, overbought components in bulk beforehand before they were EOL, and sold the rest afterwards fairly cheaply (because by then they were pretty old components). The volumes for these kind of machines is low (on the order of dozens or hundreds a year) so this was all practical. We made a fair but far from exuberant profit from this.

I see no reason why this couldn't have happened here: "oh, your trash cans are going EOL; we expect to need 40 of them in the next 30 years, please produce them before you EOL them".

I don't know which party failed on this part, but someone did. Possibly both. Even ordering two new-price trash cans leaves you with 250 of them at the old price. Storage isn't free either so let's assume 150 of them.
A station wagon solves the same problems. People just think they're lame.
Try again. https://twitter.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960
The Titanic wreck wasn't found until 37 years ago, so that doesn't make sense either.
My 2014 truck has solid axels and body on frame, but the suspension is a million times better than the 70's International truck I was in when I hit my head on the ceiling as it went over a speed bump at a reasonable speed.

Coils on all four corners and I'm sure some better engineering helps quite a bit.
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My experienced is that people whom are hesitant to call out nepotism are usually direct or indirect beneficiaries of it.
On a related note, is anyone aware of good resources for using LLMs to generate user analytics queries on the fly where the LLM has schema/domain context?
Think OP may be talking about arbitrage and making a "made for adsense" site. Attract clicks via cheap ads, get ads with a higher CPC for a more generic term. Just presuming.
i'm only left wondering at what level of amazon has this pettiness occurred
You raised your shield to defend the people who have all of the resorces to defend themselves. Are you sure this is the best way to spend your time?
This might be a naive question, but here me out. Do we really know what the difference is between statistics and the capacity to think? Is "true understanding" rather a continuum of sophistication from a simple adder to Albert Einstein?

My point here isn't "if it quacks like a duck...", but more so that while we are talking about intelligent apparatus we should be comparing apples to apples, and not say "this is a mere engine and that is a living brain".
> I think a lot of the younger generations wanting in-office work comes from living alone.

lol young people in 2023 can't afford to live alone.

even entry level FAANG salaries in NYC or SF mean you're still living with a roommate if you're anywhere near your work campus.
Looks like it's stuck in Google's release review process. Author hopes to publish this week, per https://github.com/MAGVIT/magvit/issues/2#issuecomment-15981...

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Lijun-Yu commented Jun 20, 2023

I hate the delay in the code release due to company review policies... but hopefully it will be out this week during CVPR.

The initial version will live at https://github.com/google-research/magvit (not yet online as of 06/19), written in Jax/Flax. We are also going to release model weights trained on non-proprietary datasets, along with generated samples, so long as they're approved.

I'm also happy to help with any potential Pytorch reimplementations.

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It will deter other people from criticizing them though.
In your opinion, do they have to say a racism or merely think it to be worthy of being locked out of their home?
This echos my thoughts precisely. I clocked up a lot of hours 2004 to 2009, and more casual for a couple of years after. I feel you have to really commit to this game to get the real fun out of it. And sadly i don't have entire nights free to dedicate to games any more...so I'm done with it. I still miss it, even now...but i know that ship has sailed.
? What is a "racist doorbell claim"?
On the other hand Street Fighter VI is the perfect example how to reinvent the genre. The new campaign mode is really good and makes the game 100x better than any other previous title. Honestly japanese studios has an insane year in 2023 (Zelda, RE4 Remake, FFXVI, Armored Core VI, Street Fighter VI etc.)
There are two things. One is reinsertion or lazy promotion as you described, which is used to keep popular objects (reinserted objects have the bit reset to 0, so it won't be infinite loop). And it performs fewer work than LRU because many hits on a popular object result in one "lazy promotion".

The second is quick demotion which uses a small FIFO to filter out most objects that are not requested soon after insertion in the cache.
>What makes them tourists and not explorers?

Paying $250K for a ticket. If I buy Carnival cruise trip, does that make me an explorer?
Just buy Flavacol
Not really. Stuff gets played on the radio all the time by obscure musicians.

Example: I played (along with a few others) a tune once on BBC Radio 3 for a program about the blues. Since I just gave the lead sheet to my fellow musicians before the recording and none of us (or the song) were ever credited, there's absolutely no way that anyone could track down what that song was, who wrote it, who the musicians on it were etc.

I mean: I literally couldn't do it myself and it was my song and I played on it.
What you're saying is a bit like offsetting your footprint. Ideally we should rather have very low consumption. Partly agreed on throing away, a car is not thrown away frequently, even if it's an EV, it has a large footprint from its maintenance and all the services and infrastrictures dedicated to cars, 25% of our cities space. Same for a swimming pool, for a tourism boat, planes etc..
There are an infinite number of sentences which describe what "being red" is, most of them have never been written.

Redness is not in the structure of those sentences. And there will always be an infinity of sentences which are True but cannot be infered by an LLM -- but can be so, trivially, by a person acquainted with redness.

In any case,

I'd need more time than I have at the moment to seriously state Hyp1 for your case -- but atm, I can say that because the data itself has the property, Hyp1 becomes much harder to state and the argument much subtler.

Since what is a "statistical distribution" of "ordinals" anyway? And how much memory is required to represent it? My sense is this distribution has highly redundant features which will be trivially compressible without learning any "sorting algorithm".

At a quick glance of your article it feels like you havent formulated Hyp1 correctly -- P(CorrectSort | f(HistoricalCases)) is perhaps arbitrarily high if some statistical f() can be chosen well.
I see this as a potential step toward a "universal translator" type of project that can take any unknown language and translate it, with some level of accuracy, to a known language. Such early stage projects will be of dubious accuracy, but once the methods are improved, this could take over machine translation in general.
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For a first approximation, you can assume A->B and B->A travel times are equal.

And because optical links are used, the asymmetry is mainly due to the wavelength difference which is known.
You wonder how many games are genuinely fun, and how many are marketed well and cause a network effect.

Are you trying to approach entertainment as if there is some objective measure of "fun"?

And how is this issue specific to games? Aren't movies, TV and books all subject to your same concerns?
I like to find local places that roast their own beans and try them out.
I agree. Will consider adding that.
> This clearly violates the spirit of the gpl, but it is not clear whether it violates the license itself

The courts will decide, if the issue ever gets presented to them. But even if the (e.g) American courts reach one conclusion, the (e.g) German courts may reach the opposite one.

Red Hat’s problem is it only takes one jurisdiction to rule against them, and then they have to comply - unless that jurisdiction is so unimportant to their business that they can just walk away from it.
It can be good! That said, as someone who has spent time in the five sided puzzle palace I would argue the time has long passed for a harder look at how the dollars are spent and how procurements are happening so we improve the process, open to more domestic competition and open ourselves up less to single points of failure for our key defense elements (see F35 program).

“Do more with less” during the Obama administration / Afghan war was a test of this and the things that got cut were the innovative programs while inefficient tent poles remained.

We should reform now while we have the budget so we get more good public innovation and can actually cut effectively and have that muscle memory in leaner years.
> Buy a plastic trashcan... head down to your local hardware store...

It's for a highly specialized 707 airliner. It'll be metal, rated for fire resistance if someone sneaks a smouldering cigarette into it, wheeled for servicing, lock into place during flight, etc. You can't buy it at Home Depot, and intelligence agencies are constantly making smaller and harder to detect devices for bugging items.
I'm a "heat kernels to just below popping and then pop" fan, since trying this method a decade ago. The goal is to get all the kernels to pop in a relatively short window, so nothing sits there to burn.

Method:

- Prepare: Measure out 1/3 cup of popcorn and have a serving bowl ready.
- Add high temp oil to the pot. I use 1-2tbs of coconut oil.
- Place in stock pot along with 3 kernels over medium high heat.
- Cover with a kitchen towel (to let out some steam during popping, don't want a soggy popcorn).
- Once the kernels pop, immediately dump in the rest of the kernels (I usually do 1/3 cup, whatever the instructions recommend).
- Immediately take off the heat and shake gently to the count of 30. The kids love participating in the count.
- Put back on the heat and shake a little to make sure the kernels are evenly distributed.
- Once the popping slows, immediately take it off the heat and dump into a serving bowl. This prevents burning.

This method works great, rave reviews from the family.
Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
Yes but you also don’t want to operate so close to the safety margin. If you need to travel to 3800m, you design a sub to safely withstand 1.5x that. And then agreed that yes it should not implode right if it were to reach that depth. At least this is how I remember learning it, which I admit was a long time ago.
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That's why comparing defence budgets as a measure of a country's military capabilities is so problematic.

Yeah, Russia has a defence budget 12 times smaller compared to the US, but that means that Russia can now afford to only pay ~$4100 dollars for a trashcan and still be America's equal in terms of "PPP" defence expenses.
I haven't tried TJs, how do you make your coffee?
If an American company (sorry if being US-centric), check the manufacturer's website. For example, I needed a replacement lid for a KitchenAid food processor. On Amazon it was being sold for around $14-15. At KitchenAid it was $5 and free shipping. Amazon deleted my review for mentioning this.
Any favorites that sell online?
Is anyone else using an internal wiki engine like Outline or Wiki.js, for their company or community?

I am stuck self-hosting Outline because it has the most intuitive navigation and wysiwyg for non-IT people.

I wonder if any better alternatives appeared since then.
Yes, by changing the words

The whole point is that irrelevant word permutation should not "turn on" or "turn off" this capacity.

That you can "prompt engineer" your way to the answer shows that the prompt engineer knows the answer and can "use the right search terms" to find it.
I had a 1984 Cherokee with the four cylinder 2.5L engine. Reliable is the last word I would have ever used with that AMC vehicle.
Logitech is a reputable brand making reliable components, not like those Chinese weird brands.

It is battle tested by being used by so many people around the world.

I don't understand what you imply by "3rd party". 3rd party in relation to what exactly in this context?
sure buddy, trashcan costing as much as building a custom car
Buying the 10 year and hedging all risks down to the two years is equivalent to just buying the two year.

I think most other banks tried to get interest revenue from something other than going turbo long long-term treasuries? Or just accepted lower profit?
Totally agreed. After an initial 30 min interview, I then spent something like 12 hours working on an atypical (for me) take home project. Actually really loved the challenge and learned a lot along the way and was excited to discuss it and learn more.

Got a "Thanks, you're not moving on" message and that was it. Man, the rejection is totally fine, but I really do wish they could've spent a few min just explaining some details. I've gotten more thoughtful rejections from just cover letters and resumes, not to mention public PRs in strangers' repos.

After spending so much time, it just feels like a betrayal of some unspoken developer ethos (vs say talking to a generic HR screener). If you're going to make someone code for you for hours and then dismiss their work, please at least tell them why in just a few sentences. You don't need to comment line by line in a code review, just general thoughts like "better code org" or "poor architecture and readability" or "better tests would've caught this major bug" or whatever.

In my case this was a small company I was super excited to work for, and waited more than a year to finally have a chance to apply for (once my current job ended). It was definitely disheartening and makes it hard to want to try again with them in the future.

But, you know, the other side of the coin is that maybe they're just getting swamped with so many applications they can't take the time to thoughtfully answer each one. I imagine I'm competing against a horde of more qualified ex FAANGers right now and maybe they're too busy trying to decide between the top 3 or 4 vs the long tail of hundreds of us who failed the take home. Who knows...
For me Safari seems to be working fine, except some broken styling. Will try to explore more and fix what I can.
And then the Durham report proved that the majority of Mullers findings was based on evidence that was known to be fabricated at the time.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/special-counsel-john-durham-rep...

When was the RNC leak?
I see a people riding their libertarian hobby horse of blaming the government for overspending, but only yesterday it turned out that a few devs managed to raise $50M for a glorified terminal emulator.
People have been drinking tea for 4000 years. Yerba mate and guayasa have also been consumed for a long time, possibly even pre Incan so caffeine has been consumed for a long time.
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Yeah, I bought a pound (or a kilo?) and it will last me the rest of my life.
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> When you're just a small renter, it's fine for when the handyman doesn't show up the apartment keeps flooding

Not to overly quibble but it really isn’t. If we let the small renter get away with such egregious behavior the bigger renters will take note and do the same
Sure there is. Anyone who has served an had to fill out an Equipment Repair Order (ERO) has seen the every day screw or bolt that costs over $150.

I was really annoyed by this at my shop and asked S-4 (supply) why this was. What it comes down to is that when military vendors sell a plane, radio, tank, etc to the military they aren't selling one product. They're selling a product list (called an SL-3). Each product on that list must be specified, routinely tested (eg: certain amount each batch), and then manufactured. As time goes on, the screw is used in less things that are in production so the batch sizes for production are reduced, which inflates the overhead test cost. A lot of products have pretty interesting test standards; for instance we had a truck that after every significant change had to be blown up a minimum of four times. The base truck was $400k and then the equipment inside - which was the actual configuration that was being tested - cost millions per vehicle.

I think the military could benefit from part standardization and longer lifetimes on component production.
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> There's two hypotheses for how LLMs generate apparently "thought-expressing" outputs: Hyp1 -- it's sampling from similar text which is distributed so-as-to-express a thought by some agent; Hyp2 -- it has the capacity to form that thought.

There's also another hypothesis: Hyp3 -- that Hyp1 and Hyp2 converge as the LLM is scaled up (more training data, more dimensions in the latent space), and in the limit become equivalent.
Both of you seemed to be talking past each other. You were saying RedHat can stop selling to someone. They were saying RedHat can't stop a customer from redistributing the source.

If I understand correctly, both are correct. Though, I imagine it just takes one customer to share the source under their GPL rights to open Pandora's Box.