skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In their example audio clips they have a "perfect for the beach" audio track. With your understanding of the NC license, would a resort or private beach club be able to play a similar generated music track at their poolside bar or something along those lines? Their primary intention of the bar isn't to play the music, its just an additional ambiance thing; they're trying to sell drinks and have guests pay membership fees, people aren't really coming because of the background music.

I realize, this isn't legal advice, YMMV, etc.
I like beef more than I like cows.
A rebuttal:
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/26/about-that-scary-evs-co...

tldr: lots of shady figures went into this to make EVs look as expensive as possible and ICE vehicles look as cheap as possible. Garbage "study".
Yes, I think so. I found this article surprising, I often hear people say that the upfront expense of an EV is worth it because of how much you save on fueling/powering.
Why are all these materials confirmations coming from Chinese speaking scientists? Do scientists in the US not do materials science so much?
The author has latched onto one problem with traceroute, that hosts do not reliably generate the ICMP error. From that one thing (that everyone halfway knowledgeable in networking already knows) he generated a huge diatribe.

It's obvious that the author means "not real" in the same way that i = a[i++] returning a particular value on one C compiler is "not real". There are no engineering requirements anywhere which give you specifics that you can rely on.

Yes, traceroute is "not real" in a similar way.

What it means is that you probably don't want to be writing an application in which you run traceroute and have the code making important decisions based on what is scraped from the output.

Traceroute gives real information though: yes, that host #5 you see in the list really did drop the TTL-dead packet and sent you the ICMP notice. Yes, the repeated listing of hosts 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10 .. almost certainly mean they have a routing loop between them.

My argumentation is that people have to investigate and predict the behavior of systems that are not specified by any engineering requirements. For instance, we have meteorologists who predict the weather, imperfectly. The weather doesn't come with a metrics API and reference manual so meteorology isn't real. And look, it's often hardly better than a wild guess more than about 4 days out.

Maybe traceroute is like a weather radar. It tells you there are some droplets in the air out to the northeast, about 15 miles away. Maybe it's rain, maybe not; or is it a swarm of locusts? Those radars are useful nonetheless and pretty real.
> I'm billed $.07 per kwh. My model 3 LR has a 75 kw battery, so to charge it from totally empty to totally full would cost $5.25

You're assuming 100% charge efficiency. I don't know what your actual home charging efficiency might be, but users seem to be reporting in the 80% to 95% range, with more in the 90s than 80s. So your actual cost could be $5.50 to $6.50. I'd guess that charging efficiency goes down as the battery gets older, but I have no evidence for that.

$0.07 per kwh also seems unusually cheap; where I am, costs are closer to $0.15 per kwh. So $11 to $14 per full charge sounds like a more realistic estimate for me, which still beats gas, but not quite as handily.
Intrusion-wise I agree, those communication channels are more "pull" than "push"

Even though the search engine is ad-funded (I don't know any free search engine) and can be more or less intrusive (IE. Duckduckgo is not)

Which channels have been intentionally nerfed?
I use https://audiobookstore.com/.
> Finally, a way to fulfill my childhood dream of composing a symphony of rubber ducks honking.

Samplers have been around since the 70s.
I am not sure what they're referring to with that post. The kickstarter sells a personalized signed copy of this boom at about twice the price.
Just a word of caution that Wikipedia entries around LK99 are unusually poor at this point in time. The citation of an attempt to publish it in Nature in 2020 is completely made up when the original Korean only mentions in passing a completely different paper that was withdrawn from Nature at the time. I hope the understandable excitement around this new invention will allow for a correct eventual accounting of the events.
It's not just away from home. Where I live, electricity at home is $0.72/kWh during peak hours.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950836
You are assuming 100% efficiency in charging, probably 85% would be more realistic. Not a deciding factor at .07 kWh, but something you would feel at .50 kWh.
PG&E is charging between 31c - 45c /kWH in CA depending on time of day, season, etc (https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra...)

so about $7.75 - $11.25 for that 100-mile fillup.

I try to charge during the day when solar covers the charging need, that comes with its own issues too tho.
Even in Phoenix during off-peak hours (on-peak is between 4-7PM) it's ~$.11 (without fees, this is the USA after all).

But... I just looked at my last bill. Apparently Mid peak is $.58 / kWh at SoCal Edison.

Even the cheapest time, Super off peak is $0.33333 / kWh which is more than Peak Usage in Phoenix, which ends up being $.29 / kWh.

I didn't know it was that bad.
It is also certain that many branches of many families do not exist because of the war.

Blame those, who started the war, instead of those, who ended it.

Defenders can use anything, including weapons of mass destruction, to defend themselves. Attacking to with intent to kill even one person is crime.
It sounds cool in theory, but in practice, it's just another tool wielded by the powerful. In practice, it's used most heavily for stuff like forcing people to express support for unjust wars, or to be quiet about a powerful person's abuses. Go to any conservative community and you can see the effects of what you're describing.

> Instead of blaming food deserts, lack of nutritional knowledge, lack of time to prepare meals, and so on, what if the blame went directly to the parents who are letting their elementary age children graze on a party sized bag of Doritos?

Most people who would be in any way affected by a society-level shame campaign already feel that way. You're talking about small pockets of communities that aren't fazed by mainstream society's norms. Mostly ones in small-town conservative areas that are heavily shame-based, but just about different things from what you care about.

So it seems it's not more shaming that you want, it's just that you want everyone to be shaming people in line with your personal system of morality.

Edit: also relying on shame for enforcement will ultimately just reward the shameless.
The worlds best scientists don’t even know how to make room temp superconductors but this one person on HN is certain that purity doesn’t matter.
If there's something Elon will abuse, it's people without lawyers.
Presumably he left for a reason.
>I've worked at an Adtech company. It was great. The people were fantastic and diverse.

Thanks for sharing your anecdote, but the same "fantastic and diverse" people you worked with could still be doing morally and ethically questionable things to get their paychecks.

>The actual 'tech' part of Adtech is actually really interesting and also challenging.

Atomic bombs are also "interesting and challenging" to make, that doesn't mean that using them is a good thing.
Usually doesn't even get that far because IRS bribes parents with a small deduction if they voluntarily get a beast number for their child.

A motivated person could set up an LLC and do everything through that EIN. But few are motivated to protect their privacy.
As a Quad G5 owner, might I recommend OS X "Sorbet" It's an unofficial merging of OS X 10.5 with PowerPC builds of 10.6 components. Even on ancient G3's it out-performs both 10.4 and 10.5 in benchmarks
Yes.. tbh I just skimmed through the text without parsing it, maybe my brain saw "versatile and extensible" and said "This is just marketing blah blah...".
Why not use your experience and expertise to join the conversations and offer corrections to the misunderstanding?

From my perspective, this is easily the lowest SNR comment on this post.
strange they fail to mention a diesel truck is going to cost you a lot more than a gas one.
The fact that failing to update some Notepad functionality could leave the system "unstable" says a lot about the engineering culture at Microsoft, I guess.
I'm in Idaho and if you do a ToU plan, that's the the off peak number. [1]

EVs make a TON of sense here.

[1] https://www.idahopower.com/accounts-service/understand-your-...
> Software is an infinite candy bowl. Taking candy out of the bowl does not take any candy from the person who made it.

Software is not a finite candy bowl. It is also not an infinite candy bowl. It's not like physical goods at all, not even like physical goods that can be magically cloned. It's just different, entirely.

The incentive and value structures around data creation and use just can't be directly mapped to physical goods. You have to look at them as they actually are and understand them directly, not by way of analogies.

Why do people make software and give it out for free? Is it purely from the joy of creation? Sure, that's part of it. The desire to make the world better? Probably some of that too. Are those forces enough to explain all open source contribution?

Definitely not. Here's one quick way to tell: Ask how many open source maintainers would be happy if someone else were to clone their open source project, rename it, claim that they had invented it, and have that clone completely overshadow and eradicate their original creation?

If the goal was purely altruistic, the original creator wouldn't mind. More candy in the infinite candy bowl, right?

But, in practice, many open source maintainers strongly oppose that. There is a strong culture of attribution in open source, largely because there is a compensation scheme built into creating free software: prestige. One of the main incentives that encourages maintainers to slave away day after day is the social cachet of being known as the cool person who made this popular thing.

> Imagine if this was the physical world, and you had a machine that could end world hunger. You could copy food like you could copy and paste information on a computer.

Analogies are generally bad tools for real understanding, but let's go with this. Let's say this machine took fifty years of someone's life to invent, toiling away in obscurity. Basically, an entire working career spent only on this invention with nothing else to show for their adult life.

If, at the end, no one would ever know it was you who invented it, how many people would be willing to sequester themselves in that dark laboratory and make that sacrifice?
Why would you charge during peak hours?
The overnight electricity rate in Ontario, Canada can be 2.9 cents/kWh, and the price of gasoline is about $1.50/litre ($5.70/gallon). So it's over 10x as much to drive our gasoline vehicle as it is to drive the electric one. A lot over 10x, in fact, since our gasoline vehicle doesn't get anywhere near 50mpg...
Challenges to mandatory facial recognition for air travel
Related: NYTimes did a bit more elaborate piece on it last week

Launching a Time Capsule of Human Creativity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972129
I think there is a strong case for that, companies concern themselves with governance constantly and I would agree that there is less to be concerned about there. It seems like governance problems have been pretty well worked out over time and there is a good process for that even before the focus on ESG.

E and S are where many draw their political divides so I would tend to agree that is where many of the problems lie within ESG.
Gas prices for most Americans (pretty much all outside of the west coast) are significantly lower than $4.50 per gallon.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GASREGCOVW

But it really depends on type of vehicle and type of usage.

Lots of start and stop miles, and electric might come out ahead. For example, family with kids that need to drive to various places.

Lots of short drives, but not a lot of total mileage, gas might still make more sense. For example, retiree or spare car.

Lots of long commutes at highway speeds, gas might still make more sense.
They stopped sounding the alarm because they largely won that battle: The previous electronic voting machines everyone objected to had no paper trail and there was no way to verify that they were trustworthy. Modern electronic voting systems count paper ballots, and a recount can verify them by hand.
It seems likely. Given that the copper atoms prefer to form a non-superconducting material, it makes sense that there would be regions where the energy is just right to form the correct structure, and you get the incorrect structure everywhere else.

Given the way crystals grow, it then would follow that you'd get discontinuous crystals or grains within the material.

If we're taking bets, my money is on this exact thing happening. It'd explain the inconsistent results we've seen so far.
Did they change the base model? If not, then the audiocraft_plus, is based on audiocraft, and it creates music of length close to 5 minutes.

I don't know if audiocraft_plus incorporates all three modalities of the release, MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec. It uses MusicGen for sure, all four models, small, medium, large and melody.

https://github.com/GrandaddyShmax/audiocraft_plus
> Police here are not interested in justice, and this is trivial to prove based on their behavior.

Is it? There are bad stories, sure. Horrible ones, yes. Police officers who should be in jail for life - yes!

But there’s also a tons of good stories, that just don’t get reported, because they don’t generate outrage and clicks.
Pollution cuts have diminished “ship track” clouds, adding to global warming
My question is also broader than LK-99, and my point still stands.
> KORSHING: That shows at any rate that the Americans are capable of real cooperation on a tremendous scale. That would have been impossible in Germany. Each one said that the other was unimportant.

Say what you will about the US, and it certainly has its faults, but the Americans, both the private sector and public sector, have certainly figured out how to coordinate with others towards a goal.

The ability to coordinate with others seems like a more valuable quality than virtually any other in a serious project, in my experience.
This sounds like a hack job article by some consulting firm hired by an O&G think tank.

Will look at the numbers more closely later. Skimming through it, the numbers don't look right. Also oddly enough, they somehow equate electric trucks as equivalent to ICE trucks in terms of cost to recharge/fuel up?
The math on my bolt euv is way way in favor of the grid at home. it was 3x cheaper to use the grid than my 25mpg car last time I calculated it and I didn't use 100% efficiency of charging either.
Always funny to see OOP being thrown around like it's some sort of bogeyman. C++ is OOP, so is Rust (minus inheritance), yet both are as fast or faster than C.
Actually 26 states (most) have a billing option which provides cheap overnight rates for EV owners. For me, that means $0.01/kwh.

It seems like business insider's analysis lacks crucial nuance to how things actually work.

In a reality which exists beyond napkin calculations, our 2 EV household, our monthly electricity bill just hit its peak of $185 due to this heatwave. During March/October, it goes down as low as $50.
Wow, this is so cool! xD I think this is the strongest usecase for AI I've seen so far. I'd love some more details on how you made it - how are you handling the speech to text? It's so clean, I was amazed it could understand my stuttering mess lol.
This matches my experience with our two EVs.

One thing to add is that range increases a lot when driving below 45 mph. For city driving we get a lot more range for the same cost.

Switching from a minivan to a Nissan Leaf for around-town driving was a huge cost savings per month.
Similar experience here. I got absolutely ridiculous numbers of spam calls up until maybe early 2022? Now I get almost none in comparison. Like 2-3 a month as opposed to tons every week before.
Nah, this is just the modern tech playbook:
First you open source stuff, then you can monitor all the related development happening and whenever you see areas of interest/popularity, you simply clone the functionality or buy out whatever entity is building that interesting stuff.
I seriously doubt the police ever publish stats on seized property they were forced to return because no crime was committed.

Most of the time, the people who are robbed by the police can't afford or don't know how to get their property back.

https://archive.is/o7xdQ
So you can show that authors are getting less money in this environment? And, despite me being able to trivially show that I paid less per book than any offered alternative on the table, with the exception of the library, you claim I'm getting a raw deal now? We can even add in performers and others doing the recording to this question.

Obviously, I only have the numbers on what I paid out. If you actually have the others, I'm game to hear what those numbers are. And no, you can't just say, "they would have gotten a larger cut in the other marketplaces," as I am literally asserting that Audible is the largest marketplace because they grew it. A smaller cut of the much larger marketplace is the point. (And in real terms, the cut is smaller for Audible, too.)

It is funny looking at the benefit of libraries to customers, as guess who is also trying to kill library's ability to loan out audio books? (They already have to do some silly license purchase shenanigans.)

Again, if you are worried that they will "turn bad in the future," realize that I can change my mind in the future and agree they are bad. Right now, most evidence is that they are instrumental in growing the market.
Did you actually read the article linked? There was no mention of margins. I question the motives of your comment. It reads like big tech bootlicking.
I do like that a lot (CE3). Seems smart.

Is there a way in the stripe dashboard to see my chargeback rate? I think I’m closer to .1% than the .75% you said is a problem, but hard to know 100% how you are calculating it on recurring revenue.
Commercial art and Art are not the same thing.
U.S. public libraries do not give any royalties to the author when lending physical books, so in that sense "borrowing" the book from the Archive is not different than borrowing it from a library. There is indeed a trend of treating ebooks differently, but I'm not convinced that's a good idea---it seems like yet another example of strengthening the position of copyright holders over the public.
Still a good idea for eg parking tickets (I don't think they meant to offer a defence of CAF).
Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that paid preparers can only e file if they are using a commercial software package that supports it such as Lacerte.
"Twittarians" sounds lofty, a knowledgeable group. "Redditites" sounds like a mob, possibly armed with sticks. "Coinbese" sounds... like a mindless herd? But "Hackeronis" is just patronising, considering their audience why are they not simply "Hackers"? That can't be a bad word in their context!
Huh. I had no idea. I learn something new every day!
We're still very early in the process.

1) Deploy caller ID signing. <--We are here.

2) Deploy policies to make inter-telco tracebacks easier and increase liability for carrying too much spam.

3) Drop unsigned traffic and shutdown spam friendly portions of the PSTN (analogous to open email relays).

4) Use the tracebacks and KYC to deter robocalling operations from getting onboarded and ban current customers who are robocalling. And keep them banned when they open new sockpuppet accounts. It'll never be completely eliminated.

5) See 4.

Two-thirds of PSTN traffic is unsigned.
https://transnexus.com/blog/2023/shaken-statistics-july/
Not looking but this does look like a lot of fun! And it makes me think raising chickens would be doable for me.
I don't. I'm responding to the parent's comment:

> However, charging away from home can get expensive. During peak hours, it's possible to find charging for $.50 per kwh.
Yeah it does. If you do:

x = dd()
print(x.tyypo.a.b)

you'll get "DotDict()"

The problem is that an object can't know whether you're getting a node that you're later going to assign a leaf to... or whether you're getting the node because you want to get the node.

x = dd()
x.a.b.c = "Foo"

is equivalent to:

x = dd()
y = x.a.b
y.c = "Foo"

So "x.a.b" can't raise an exception.

Now, it's python, so you can do unholy things to make pretty much anything work. But I think it would be ugly.
I didn't know the source code for ysflight was ever published. That's great news!

Is the source code for Tiny Combat Arena released too?
As someone who also works professionally in this field, I'd be curious to know what you find problematic about my comment. I'll grant you that I may be over-simplifying a bit, but it seems appropriate in the context at hand.
Same here. I keep it in my briefcase inside a leather sleeve.

Very handy even when a laptop is out or during a board meeting.

Somehow for me using a calculator like that, rather than having to use screen space, or a phone …. Makes my workflow better.
It's probably RDD (resume driven development). It's always fun to rewrite in the latest new hype, and I don't have anything against Rust - I think it's great in the domains it is targeting.
Very cool. I think this is an interesting benchmarking task for a language model (as well as the practical uses). I tried the same thing some time ago, just on a random snippet of tesseract OCR. I had a Vicuna model (I forget which) that failed miserably, and chat GPT did it flawlessly. I did not have any hallucination problem with chatGPT.

It sounds from your writeup then like llama2 (which one) doesn't work well enough without some guardrails but it's possible to make it work? How would you rate the performance overall?
Anyone who works with music software, to this day, deals with the pain of physical hardware keys. A few of the software players are moving from that to cloud based drm… which is at least less annoying since it doesn’t tie up a previous USB port.

It’s called iLok.
Most materials are not superconductors at 110K. If this one is, it is possible Koreans did not fake room temperature results but rather their sample is slightly different for some reason, maybe pure luck, maybe some part of process that they didn't clearly define or that their precursor materials have certain impurities.
The costs listed in the BI article don't seem to actually match those in the report as far as I can see. e.g. they say charging a Rivian at home for 100 miles would cost over $17 but in the report they list the cost of home charging a luxury EV at ~$12
Value types are in the works for the JVM.
Yet another article from The Guardian to convince you that the media and the government would never lie (most certainly not when your health is at stake).

Everything is a conspiracy theory unless it is proven true (happening a lot these days).
I’m just glad we’re past the point of 80% of fiction being narrated by Scott Brick, the most boring and monotone narrator ever.