skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Osmose looks great but don’t seem to be for general sale?

I suspect this sort of expanded polyphonic aftertouch will become commonplace in the future - my first exposure to the world of synths was via the relatively cheap/affordable arturia minifreak which provides poly aftertouch which seemingly until recently was rarely available or was v expensive. Seems like a very natural progression for keyboard hardware - although using the extra modulation effectively seems to be lagging.

The Osmose seems to have spent a lot of effort on this aspect. Curious how you use it? As a live solo instrument? Looks like trying to exploit an instrument like this using a traditional DAW would be a nightmare.
My biggest frustration with Google Maps is its insistence on always showing me Marx's grave. I live in North London, and whenever I plan a photography trip Google always shows me that genocidal maniac's grave. Oddly enough if I zoom in more it disappears. The Germans are much better at it. They just made a car park over Hitler's death location.
I disagree. A monopoly stifles innovation and consumer adoption. It's not "fine".
But they did reveal their synthesis process, they just didn't explain it very well and there seems to be some random chance involved.
Nope! It’s an interesting and informative mistake.
Only if we ignore the Switch, and its sales.
> The biggest theft use I see locally these days of the modern Limes and Birds is using the batteries for charging shit at homeless encampments.

Okay, I'm German, so no idea about homeless encampments because we simply don't have these in large scale, but how does that even work? Like okay, you rip out the batteries, but then what? You'd still need some sort of voltage regulator just to power a device, and that hasn't even included recharging the batteries.
I bought the interview pack on Leetcode.
> my gums are now close to perfect.

Do you mean that your gums were shrinked and then growed back to their full height? Or that they were sore and not anymore?
Fwiw, I’ve been using Elixir professionally for 5 or so years and even created a few open source libraries. Never once had to touch Erlang.
Not at all, as it doesn't cover all CUDA use cases.
I wondered about this, but I don’t know either
I agree on the .goog, .gle, etc.. but not on Android, YouTube, Gmail....

If companies consolidated at that level, you'd get notified by pepsi for a recall of tostitos... Or Aquafina bottled water.

I think if the general public can identify it as a specific product line, it's fine to have that as a communication domain (and that domain should be the source of news for that product)
> How many people bought or used a tech product solely based on the CEO of the company? Virtually none

A lot bought it because of some decisions made by the CEO. They likely wouldn’t have bought it if he hadn’t made them (of course it varies a lot between industries).

By how much would you say a famous actor/athlete increases the revenue 10/20/50/100/1000%? A CEO can do that too.
Nonsense. Regulation rarely works retroactively. Their model is trained and they have the money to license incremental data going forward, potentially exclusively.
I love this list. One thing I'll add is I like to avoid using S3 or google's cloud storage AT ALL until I have > 30 GB. i.e. with google free tier of their compute engine you get a 30GB hard drive, 1GB ram, and two AMD EPYC 7B12 2250 MHz processors. So I make a fake bucket system using those free 30GB:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/tree/main/filestorag...

All the code I write is in bucket form, ready to flip a switch and use real buckets but 100% free up to that hard drive limit.
Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin Scooters in Seattle
Wow, I’d love to have that explained in more detail — since I hear it all the time. Any source or write up?
Tell HN: '' in Vim moves cursor to recent line
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(It's two single-quotes, not a double quote.)
I did that once and the data center burned down. Sure I could have the service spread over several centers and build distributed backups etc.

In the end self hosting and self managing is a money / time trade off, especially for a side gig I’d us SAS and managed solutions. The one thing one has to make sure off is to not get locked in with a particular provider, so knowing how to do everything yourself is a very valuable skill.
Maybe for some software, but rarely for anything involving hardware unless you're dummying it up on an Arduino. The hardware platforms I've worked would handily incinerate my entire household net worth in a year or so and relentlessly consume full time attention.
It’s too bad that transducers were created long after clojure’s inception. Can you always replace a lazy seq with a transducer? Could the language theoretically be redesigned to replace all default usages of lazy seqs with transducers, even if it were a major breaking change? And have lazy operations be very explicit?
Intel Computing Improvement Program
That's of no benefit to me. Quite the contrary.
Ok, then make the maximum wealth you can accrue $3M. You can live a very nice life on that.
> So there are rules in Germany that all pork sold has to be save to eat raw.

Are you sure about that? Supermarkets do sell Mett and normal minced pork separately with the latter usually having an indication that it is only to be consumed cooked.

This would match the Wikipedia article you linked which mentions that

> Unless pre-packaged, the German Lebensmittelhygiene-Verordnung ("food hygiene/health directive") permits mett to be sold only on the day of production.

> I hold that even in the absence of specific regulation, the German market would provide Germans with pork that's safe to eat raw. Companies would just put a little sticker on their meat that tells you, that it's safe to eat (and normal existing rules about truth in advertising would make sure the sticker is trustworthy).

Yeah fuck that. Companies regularly make a mockery of any truth in advertising laws - something being proven misleading in court and something misleading actual customers are very different things. Food safety is not something you can leave up to for profit corporations.
How's that gonna work when they need to update their model? Also, how would they compete with companies like FB that have an insane amount of conversational data, or Google, a company that literally indexes the internet?
Yes, and from day one Opera (when it was still called Multitorg) used it to give us something like "tabbed browsing". I think that was in the mid-1990s ;)
> It's very hard for a layperson to research DA candidates and...

True. But in a world where the elderly Secretary of the Methodist Ladies Gardening Society has no problem keeping track of donated funds and flower bulb locations and volunteer weeding in her 3-ring binder... it would be incredibly easy for a few people who actually cared to keep track of DA behavior, year after year, as a side hobby.

Bottom-end web hosting is ~free, to make that information available to the public.

Yet ~nobody seems to be doing that. Are the police and DA's quietly shutting them down? Perhaps...but 10000X the quantity of hot-headed political attack material is freely available on the web. And it's hard to assert that those police and DA's are every-so-quietly and -competently doing that by night, while regularly bungling similar work by day.

Or...is the problem that the modern version of "caring" about such such police and Prosecutor incompetence and misconduct is 100% performative activism, and 0% interest in taking any action which might lead to "positive" change? It's not like that behavior isn't seen on other issues. Lots of well-to-do liberal neighborhoods will poll as being very strongly in favor of (say) affordable housing for less-well-off people. But if there's any hint that such housing might appear near their precious neighborhood ...yeah. Don't expect them to behave the way that poll suggested they would.
Yo dawg I heard you like web apps.
I use a RAM disk to hold my work related source tree on windows. Some 30000 files. Then I can do global search (find in files) on all files in a matter of seconds. Doing this on a fast NVMe without a RAM disk would usually take few minutes.
We have very different perspectives of frugality. My first impression was also, "that's a lot of ingredients".
Oh but they do pay. They pay their own time to gradually train the model and feed their data. There's no such thing as "free".
You got the street - the treat is some yummy meds.
Nice to see a C64 emulator in there, pretty fun!
Depends how you measure “earning”. If we look at Google’s stock price and growth in relation to its competitors he possibly cost significantly more money to the company than he was paid.
I think your examples are more amenable to replication than you assume:

> Where are you going to get the budget to build a second LHC solely for replication?

In cases like this you could simply have a second, independent team time-sharing the LHC and using it to replicate experiments run by the first team. (And vice- versa). It’s not a perfect replication but it’s probably still an improvement over the “just trust me bro” status quo.

> How are you going to replicate a long-term medical cohort study which has been running for thirty years?

Run two independent studies in parallel from the beginning.

> What about a paper describing a one-off astronomical event, like the "Wow!" signal?

There was a ton of effort invested into trying to replicate that observation! Since nobody else ever managed to do so, we can’t draw any conclusions from it.

> What if you research the long-term impact of high-dose radiation exposure during Chernobyl?

That doesn’t preclude replication unless, for some reason, you’re the only researcher researching the long-term impact of high-dose radiation exposure during Chernobyl.
What history of security problems?
For those trying to figure out where this is -- https://goo.gl/maps/YrDfWjCJt1aZFYNV7

It is connected to the old Goldman Sachs HQ in Manhattan (85 Broad)
> This only really works if the product is cheap and most people can afford to try lots of competitors, or if the consumer is sufficiently knowledgeable.

It also only works if there are lots of competitors. With tech that is often not the case. You probably only have a handful of consumer printer manufacturers to choose from and if all of them decide to pull the same shit (because its more profitable) then you're SOL.
Is there any research that actually confirms it? I mean it is the prevailing sentiment on HN, and my own gut feeling - but it might all be just a confirmation bias and/or good old nostalgia (somehow everything was better in the past).
do you think of that when you type npm install? :)
Even a part time engineer on loan is probably more time than some dude's weekend.

But i think part of it is how fast things can be scaled up. Corporations can go from the tiny to large scale fast of things look good. It takes a lot of time for open source to build momentum.
And all the pictures have things like street signs and traffic lights and fire hydrants which people have been helping locate with recaptchas.
Whether or not there is shovelware in frontend development is irrelevant: jQuery provides little to nothing over regular vanilla JS nowadays.
I do something similar when going around and about in the UK (and to a lesser degree Malta when I happen to be there). I like to visit random places, seeking out locations off the touristy paths. One particular search has helped me over the years: "pubs near me".

Local pubs, even those part of a large chain, tend to give a nice feel of the region and the people who live there. And you can learn interesting details about the local history.
They are open to anyone, see under “delegation rules” towards the bottom of https://www.nic.at/en/good_to_know/legal-backgrounds/domain-...
>“Because the chip it is running on doesn’t have native base-10 math”?

Base 10 fixes exactly zero of the problems with floating point.

Decimal floating point exists as a standard already. It is even part of the upcomming C standard.

But again decimal arithmetic is just as weird as floating point arithmetic. The change of base s irrelevant, except for a few niche applications.

>The consequence of this is much heavier than any benefits of base 2 FP.

Totally false. Decimals don't fix floats. They are just as weird. Changing the base is irrelevant to the inherent properties of floats and using base 10 instead of base 2 just means that with a very high chance you get something even worse.

If you do not understand the basics of floating point arithmetic you should not be programming software. Tough world out there for people who refuse to learn, I know.
That depends. I would probably be labeled as a "China apologists".

It depends on what opinion you want.

Overall China/Taiwan relations? US's role in this? Historical opinion dating back to 100 years of humiliation? China's Civil War? Human psychology? China's perspective? US's perspective? Economic competition? Propaganda on both sides? etc.

There are a lot of people on HN who read a Wikipedia page, reads pure anti-China mainstream news, and then thinks he/she knows what is right or wrong.

But I think you're only looking for people to say "China bad" right? And then if they counter with something, you'll just say "but look at this documentary", right?

In my opinion, the most grounded and logical response in this thread is from @brmgb.
Spend money on licensing deals, lock out the competition. The value of the LLM isn’t up to date data, it’s the concepts of extracts. There’s very limited value in a large amount of crap if chinchilla is to be believed.

I don’t think stack overflow is all that valuable once your model has access to github due to their good friends at MS.

The money in proprietary AI is on the top end now, open source / edge is destroying monetisation on the lower end. Top end means high quality domain specific data.
I'd say that paying for work product instead of time and materials for very small projects to test things out is smart way to begin.

But longer term I've found that serious professionals tend to skew more to billing for time rather than per-project (I'm not saying there aren't exceptions), because they've at some stage come across scenarios where clients scope a huge project with them, and all the friction is backloaded towards the due-date as the client and team begin arguing about whether the spec is delivered or not.
There are 2 problems here: validation of your self-image and the acquisition of resources for living.

I can see your argument about the first problem, but the writer/artist still needs to find a way to produce things that others will trade for energy, food, healthcare, housing, art supplies, etc. I've always wanted to be a musician, but unfortunately, I didn't have the means to do that without paying customers and I was never good enough to get paying customers because I'm not good enough. Thus the parent's point about needing to be rich for that.
How does it compare to other similar tools? Is this like https://filebrowser.org/features?
Their main priority wasn't necessarily website traffic but spam-letter signups. A lot of words and effort to avoid facing the truth: nobody signs up to spam letters unless tricked/coerced into.
Ruby Conference 2008 – What All Rubyists Should Know About Threads [video]
May be a weirder question to ask, but curious about the Delaware LLC decision. If I was creating a C-corp, Delaware makes sense, but for an LLC it feels weird unless the author is in Delaware. I also don’t see any cost for registering as a foreign LLC wherever they are located, so maybe they are in Delaware.
Asianometry just released a video on the history of superconductors:

https://youtu.be/wUczYHyOhLM

It's a nice primer on the topic as he touches on LK-99.
How about the free GitHub issues instead of Linear. Also Bugsnag's free tier is more generous compared to Sentry.
China knows that and doesn’t want to annexe Taiwan through violence. They would much prefer Taiwan to join with minimum damage. That’s always been their play book.

It is flexing right now because one, there might be a window of opportunity as the US is modernising its navy, two, it’s a way to keep Taiwan under the current status quo at time when American diplomacy has stepped up its own aggressive posturing towards China, three, it’s useful for Xi internally.

China is not trying to redirect Taiwan output to the mainland. As I said, Taiwan is right next door and already has a mostly integrated economy. They want to fold the island into China proper.

Taiwan is not and never was an economic annexion for China. That’s not the point. If you start from there, you are doomed to be wrong.
This is a perfect example. In the real world, some placebos work. You take them, believe that they will work, and they do. Fantastic! Your problem has been solved, you share your story with friend(s), the cure spreads based on how well it works for them.

It's only in academia that they must instead work in a sterile environment that some person who has never stepped foot off a school campus thinks is "more authentic" for them to be seen as legitimate.
If you're looking to run Llama 2 locally via a CLI or REST API (vs the web ui this article highlights), there's an open-source project some folks and I have been working on over the last few weeks: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama

More projects in this space:

- llama.cpp which is a fast, low level runner (with bindings in several languages)

- llm by Simon Willison which supports different backends and has a really elegant CLI interface

- The MLC.ai and Apache TVM projects

Previous discussion on HN that might be helpful from an article by the great folks at replicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865495
Is it one-dimensional (linear) or two-dimensional (planar)?
That's just a win-win situation, you're using their services for free because it helps you, they use your interaction to improve the model; the model is still free to use.
...also more to your point...I guess if no labor was worth money, it would mostly just spell the end of money?
It's a legal grey area, generally. It's not uncommon for companies to utilise special-purpose vehicles/strategy bankruptcies to insulate themselves from the financial fallout of their actions, though.
Why is it necessary for other labs to produce the material themselves to verify the claims? The original authors claim they produced some superconductive material, can't they simply offer their samples to other labs to verify?
You're a bit blind to it, but yeah, we are. Patience for ESR ran out over his calling all black people criminals, claiming all women were chomping at the bit to toss around fake rape accusations, and blaming homosexuals for HIV, etc., etc. That's bigotry whether or not you agree with his premise.

Show me a time when the open source community was ever okay with that kind of bullshit.
> The boards, the CEOs, etc. these are not positions that truly need talent and shrewdness these are positions that exist for people to aspire to.

And yet depending on who’s the people in these positions are the company might earn up to hundreds of billions more or less over a few years.

The decisions Pichai does or does not make clearly can cost/bring in more than just 200-300 million.

> These can all be replaced with collective bodies coming from the firm itself.

Companies run by committees are generally notoriously bad at innovation (just look at Europe..)
I know, because they tried to sell it to me when I was at a megacorp, they resell the real time location and local data correlated to user characteristics, as data service to large discrete customers. This includes constant real time information about where people are traveling to, businesses being frequented by demographics, with a sophisticated query interface for asking relatively complex questions of maps derived data. It has some differential privacy layers but we suspected it could be attacked to suss out individuals with sufficient care and effort. Our impression was “holy shit that’s creepy” and it convinced us to never put our sensitive workloads or data in any Google product, cloud or other.
but user don't need anymore a paint, a notepad and a clock...
Oh. It is hard to get which comment is satire and what's not over text, given there are people who'd actually share the opinions one could think would be satire.
It's fine if you don't want to call it a waste of bandwidth, but bandwidth is definitely still used because browsers don't share caches between domains https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/say-goodbye-to-resource-ca....
Same here. I've been using a desktop with 4GB RAM (considered low-end these days, many phones have that), but no swap.

Doing so for years. No big issues other than the occasional website (scripts, use of top-heavy web frameworks or whatever) causing runaway RAM usage. Local apps (including some older games, electronics design stuff) run fine.

Most sensible argument for using swap I've seen is a memory leak on server hardware, where having swap keeps the server at least running, buying the admin time to figure out what's going on.

On my PC, if an app leaks memory, I want to see free RAM going down to the point where something will crash - asap (no swap). Giving me a good sense which app (or website) was the culprit.

Not (with swap), the whole system getting slower & slower, but with a delayed fuse & much fuzzier clues about which app caused the problem.

Pick workflow + OS + apps such that working set fits RAM in the machine, and be happy. If needed, change OS / apps / workflow, or add more RAM.

Not: take app that needs 16 GB to run acceptable, run it on 4 GB machine, and use swap to somehow make it work while the user experience makes you cry.

So, imho: no need for swap on modern machines. Unless (maybe!) it concerns an internet facing server & uptime is critical.
Probably because 99% of normal people "don't refill their water bottles" (and surely not off of water fountains), just buy bottled water and/or drink when they stop at cafes and restaurants?

Not saying it's good. In fact, it's quite bad and harmful. But it just is.
I miss the original NASA World Wind (back when Google Earth was also a free desktop application). We've fallen a long way, baby.
This is absolutely perverse and messed up... but I sort of love it. Amazing, and fun, piece of work.

Ivan, I think you may be the sedmaster. I haven't had to use it seriously in more than 20 years but back then I did remember use it for modifying install scripts on the fly for an application installer on Solaris. There was a fair amount of headscratching involved. Practice makes perfect, I'm sure, but this project must have taken ages.

Thank you for sharing!
But whoo boy, those breaking changes when the author(s) decide to re-architect (i.e. rewrite) the next version.
I still don't understand why more languages don't have doc tests.
Then why to publish a paper at all?
uBlock Origin is the correct one.

I'm on firefox with uBO and have no video playing.
If we doubt the legitimacy of basic claims like a fair setup of magnets, then there are much easier ways to create a fake, like just tie something on top of it.. but why would we doubt the legitimacy of reliable institutions?
I disable that as it takes too long. I want the character now in approx the same time it takes to type another character. Nice option to have for some users though, I guess.