skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's entire books and blog posts and youtube channels that go into all of this. Music production is all about creating a "space" and a lot of what producers do is create the illusions that sounds are coming from particular places, and that sound like they're from a "big" source or whatever.

A common thing to do is to pan a synth to one side, then add a very short (milliseconds) delay panned to the other side, which makes it sound like a very large sound played from a large distance away.

Another is stacking up a bunch of oscillators that are slightly detuned from each other, which again, makes the sound "big", because it sounds like many sources playing together, rather than one source.

Just using a "reverb" is generating an illusion of being in a large, echo-y space.

I do think that most producers don't really think of it as creating illusions, and more as making "cool" sounds.
Good luck making it through voir dire.
Still simpler than rust.
Americans live it every day...
I wonder how fast is enough? I'm using 9 year old Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz.

I think this machine will last another 9 no problem?
Technically, he was disowned for a) plagiarizing a ML paper badly, creating the "complicated doors" meme b) taking money for an online course that he blatantly misrepresented and c) doing both a and b at the same time and therefore getting too much heat to ignore.

He did not get as much heat for just peddling AI snake oil. Atleast AI scrutiny has evolved since then, and I'm surprised this is the first time I've heard about Siraj in quite awhile.
BTW, the quake won't be that strong at Seattle and Portland. The subduction quake could be up to magnitude 9 but that is off the coast and over the mountains. I have seen estimates of magnitude 7-7.5 shaking in Portland. However, it will be 5 minutes of shaking which will liquefy soils.

The result is that most buildings in Portland will survive. Only unreinforced masonry and liquefaction areas will have serious damage. The quake is survivable, the problem is infrastructure wasn't built with quake in mind.
A considerable portion of what made Go popular are things related to development and deployment, in addition to Plan9 derived standard library expanded with various everyday-useful modules.

The fact that you quickly got a static binary that just worked even if you removed GLIBC, that the standard library provided a way less broken network interface by default instead of BSD Sockets ("Revenge of the XTI" it should be called :D), that the language was garbage collected, and that said standard library:

- made UTF-8 default and norm

- provided bunch of often needed things like sensible HTTP client & server

- a reasonably good multiprocessing with syntax sugar from the language

All of those meant that a lot of what, for various reasons, people would be writing in Python previously for various "ops" support programs etc. would suddenly a way better experience with Go.
Almost everyone will get covid, symptoms or not, especially in China after the lockdown, and especially because their vaccines weren’t very effective.
> Is a straight up death count not enough for you?

As opposed to what? And on what timescale? How can you be so absolutely sure that the numbers are what you think they are? That the counter-factual would have absolutely produced the death tolls you think they would? And how can you be so sure that the deaths that did happen weren't just more spread out and delayed, rather than averted? And at the end of the day, how can you be sure that suicides, and other missed medical procedures and tests won't result in greater long term deaths and suffering than would otherwise have been.

In short, you're way more sure than you should be. You don't seem to have an ounce of doubt that you've assessed the situation correctly, or have been misinformed intentionally or otherwise. You have the faith of a true believer, rather than the measured skepticism of a scientist.
The original link works fine with no login requirement or anything?
In general, it's pretty hard to establish that an algorithm is "not useful" for a particular discipline.
The US was doomed due to obesity rates.
I was told that there has been a massive construction boom in recent years to build housing developments specifically for Americans who want to live on the Mexican side and commute, and the COVID era brought unprecedented interest. If this was already trend, it seems to have accelerated.
That's the wrong question. It should be asked as "Why is the Moon upside down in the Northern Hemisphere?"
You assume that lockdowns actually work. We have three years of evidence to suggest otherwise. And if that isn’t enough there is this gem of a study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2130424/

Turns out that even after seventeen weeks of complete isolation in Antarctica you can still catch the common cold…

So yeah… you can’t stop Mother Nature no matter how hard you try.
Hackers Trick AI with ‘Bad Math’ to Expose Flaws and Biases
Pink Floyd - Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (1970) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7pkOZ5n6PQ

John Cage - 4'33" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4
If all your friends jumped off a bridge...

No mom! I'm afraid of heights!

But anyway, I won't buy a vehicle with a subscription based feature list that isn't something like a concierge service. If it's in the vehicle, I've already paid for the gear. (This changes once there's a community of moto hackers that can disable the lockouts... ish)
Judge clears way for $500M iPhone throttling settlements
It of course includes all of the art I make myself, which I make available for free to all under either permissive or copyleft licenses.
Technically, there was no "collusion" because that is not a legal finding.

What they found was that there was no "Criminal Conspiracy", but instead it was characterized more like Trump and Republican's were 'willing dupes', which isn't illegal.

There was definitely Russian involvement, and money. Remember all the Russians that were found guilty and deported? Do you think they were fake people? Didn't happen? Or just random innocents deported un-fairly?

The 'news orgs' went out of their way to white wash the Mueller Report. It wasn't the other way around where the 'news orgs' were over-hyping something that wasn't there.
Note that when generating the CA certificate and key, the default openssl.cnf has the line

basicConstraints = CA:FALSE

This must be changed to TRUE. Android will not accept a CA certificate that does not include this line.
You are delusional if you think corrupt policing only happens in America.
interesting, I couldn’t find it under any of the feature descriptions.

edit: Found it inside github issues, weird to omit this from the feature list.

Back then, I chose SAB specifically because of this feature.
I think Intel will be fine. Their far future is probably based around fabbing mid-range chips for other customers, which should be pretty lucrative (with or without Samsung as a competitor). Maybe they'll rekindle their RISC-V research once their ARM partnership winds down, or double down on their GPU line. They have a lot of options right now.

> Perhaps there's a future where an Intel/AMD consortium could take on the dominance of Nvidia in the GPU ML space.

The thing that is cementing Nvidia's dominance is industry hostility. If you could ship a truly cross-platform GPGPU driver to every modern device, CUDA would be a harder sell. Instead, the best you can get are intermediary libraries like ONNX that do their best to cherry-pick and expose common and accelerated operations. CUDA eats it's lunch in featureset and optimization.

To fix this, you have to bring Microsoft and Apple to the table too. It is purely a matter of investment and cooperation, neither of which seems to exist right now.
No problem there's always Yandex, WeChat, AliPay, Weibo, Baidu...They seem more aligned with Tory values anyway.
I suspect it's just an issue of phrasing.

Plastic bags were adopted in favor of paper largely because of cost, but companies also asserted moral superiority because they truly do use fewer resources, vastly less landfill. Especially when they are reused as bin liners or to pick up waste, plastic bags are vastly more environmentally friendly than any option.

To match one-time use plastic bags:

- polypropylene bags (most of the green reusable bags found at supermarkets) should be used 37 times

- paper bags should be used 43 times

- cotton bags should be used 7,100 times

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-reuse-bags.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37085062

The majority of the time, it was identified as "aurora" in CloudFormation templates. 5.6 hit EOL in February of THIS YEAR, aka 2023.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/upgrade-amazon-aurora-...

So… that would make it the majority of time, wouldn't it? Why does this upset you so?
> Because if their kids don't have screen time, and they get bored and complain, they could hire a dozen people to entertain their kids and look after them (and while the number is probably not that high, they do, actually, use that type of solution). Whereas for me giving kids device time is a practical solution, without those resources: it keeps them entertained, while I work to make money.

That's one of the problems with the way we life our lives imo. The fact that we need those devices to manage having our children around should tell us something is wrong.

(I'm not saying I'm in any way not affected or better or anything)
Seems like a very extreme outlier…
I get Docker-actual reproducibility with Fedora Silverblue and toolboxes. Enter one of my Arch/Fedora containers, install Calibre without affecting the host. Even better than Nix because I can test custom distributions, rather than each environment simply being another NixOS.

In fact, I've departed from vanilla Silverblue, as now my base image is an actual, bona-fide Docker container as well.

I feel like the immutable Linux OS is the pragmatic approach, whereas NixOS is the pure, ideal way that requires a lot of changes to tools and workflow to work. Maybe even in this case, worse is better.
You talk to the agent ultimately for whatever they are gatekeeping: a refund for example, or your data, or a physical visit to fix the street side of your internet connection.
Yeah, I mean a fully vertical taskbar. It’s more efficient for widescreen monitors, as you waste less horizontal space.
Some of the things that people found confusing in Go (GOPATH etc) are due to the fact that Go's native environment is Plan 9, down to using Plan 9 libraries and compilers before the full self-hosting rewrite was done
It took me ages to settle on how to fill in those two fields in websites. I have five names, four of which are family names. To identify me, you should have them all, but that division, first and last, have literally no meaning for me. My literal last name is a name that's so common here that I share it with the current president, a number of sportsmans and local celebrities, and probably half the people living in the same region as I. If that's what you're asking for, well, I can give it to you but I already know it's worthless.
I'm new to nix/nixos but gradually building up my environment.

it's like having your whole OS in git. it's amazing. want to try out some nightly build? no problem.

on most computers (personal, home computers) the various lib dirs get scary after a while. repoquery can help, but is kind of a hassle. if some executable `foo` depends on some specific behavior in some version of some library, it's fine. that weird library can stay in place, I can try out nightly's of foo, can always rollback to the system that used to work, and can flip to the new foo when it's ready.

I think it's a good practice to wipe and re provision from time to time to make sure provisioning and backups actually work, but like, you can screw around with _crazy_ things and not really have to worry about having to rebuild the whole thing. (well, I haven't yet) I still will, because that's how I am. but I can do it when I feel like it, not when I fucked up. it's so easy to un fuck a nix system.

I guess the big caveat is, this is a hobby. I haven't used nix for work. Back in the day, I did support docker in production when the kernel patches were coming pretty quickly. Finding the right balance of patch level, and libc version, that would support docker, and the other stuff that needed to run was a pretty complicated dance, and missing a step would be, not great. Knowing what I know now, even as a hobbyist, I probably could have made my life a lot easier back then.
They’re the police. See any of a huge number of articles. It’s nearly impossible to go after them for shooting someone in the back.

This is far more tenuous.

All this is, sadly, is now an emotional bullet point in a future civil rights suit.
... ish? There's a lot of furniture that's bolted into Julia's runtime in terms of task management and so on, that isn't really like a Lisp runtime? It doesn't have that same "It's Turtles All the Way Down" self-consistent vibe that a Lisp has.

On paper Julia looks like a great piece of kit. Once I worked in it professionally for a couple months, it started to leave a bad taste in my mouth.
What's that chart measuring? Energy due to gate capacitance? Power in divided by transistor count and frequency?

Almost a decade and a half is quite a while for this sort of thing, has it actually started on the same trajectory?
Too Many Airplane Systems Rely on Too Few Sensors (2019)
The only reason? Tech people here have some very self-flattery view. The main reason, and I wouldn't call it the only reason, the phone being an essential item is because it meets the needs of average consumers, not just for the tiny tech population. If a website is what everyone wants, then trust me it will be front and center in any phone ads, not the camera.
thanks for the note; i've made the suggested correction

i agree about the registers and rst instructions

i don't see how octal could be obsolete; computers still use binary, and octal is just as useful for doing binary arithmetic as it ever was. as you point out, it's considerably more useful for instruction sets with 3-bit fields. moreover, the great advantage of hexadecimal was that bcd was easy to read, but that stopped mattering around the time the 8008 was introduced

i'm interested to hear if your experience differs, but i think it's a lot easier to do mental arithmetic in octal than in hex; it's a lot easier to remember 5 + 6 = 13, or figure it out if you forget, than d + c = 19, and both the addition and multiplication tables are one fourth the size

as far as i can tell, octal just went out of style. if anything, hexadecimal became obsolete, because its killer advantage went away, while its drawbacks remained

arm leaned into the hexadecimal wave and designed their instruction set to be easily readable in hex. we probably don't have to worry that a possible wide adoption of risc-v will initiate a transition to base 32, though; its instruction formats, while much simpler than thumb, resists any such easy numerical readability

btw, i don't remember if i ever told you this, but thank you for xfractint
The undocumented instructions in the 8085 were described in detail in Dr Dobb's Journal shortly after announcement of the 8085 (with no mention of the "new" instructions).
This generation of Intel CPUs is essentially more E-cores, higher clocks, and perhaps an updated DRAM controller which is guaranteed to work with higher-clocked RAM. I don't find any of this particularly compelling, and would probably wait for the next generation, which is supposed to represent a much more substantial upgrade. I would also like to see more processors offered with just P-cores - I would rather buy a $200 CPU with 8 P-cores than a $250 CPU with 8 P-cores and 12 E-cores (I understand that others may have different needs).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802...
This whole affair really puts the phrase "Try that in a small town" into perspective.
Just in case you hadn’t seen sibling, ExplorerPatcher also seems to support it, just for some reason they don’t advertise it ;)
And that is because we can but bigger workloads in the cloud at more economical prices for those rare times you meed it and most of the time we are thin clients to the web, or running simple UIs. Gaming excepted.
"Personal website" doesn't mean and has never meant that you're the only person who can see it.
I assume the cops will just seize the stuff as "civil forfeiture" and sell it off (without wiping it). Sounds like a perfect way to doxx and victimize people you don't like.
Please don't call it "western". Most Latin languages, the majority of the western culture, don't have just two names. This is exclusively Anglo-Saxon (or something), not "western"
It certainly doesn't absolve us- we should try to do good when possible. Should you recycle that aluminum can? Yes. Should you not throw trash out your car's window? Also yes. I was just trying to point out that the more extreme people among the movement to minimize carbon footprint are missing the bigger picture, and us as individuals are not going to be able to move the needle in a significant way, even with mass action and inconveniences.
If the vehicles were actually autonomous they wouldn't need a network connection.
I don’t understand the example either.

I’m not sure how much more one can address an argument than agree with it completely, which is what the girlfriend in the example did.
> If I had to bet, it's probably because raids against people expressing wrongthink are absolutely A-OK around these parts

Even if that's the angle, I don't get it. She exposed right-wing politicians and suffered retaliation by those right-wing politicians. How can this be evidence of a far-right affiliation?
For your company you have a lot of smart people other than coders. And Notes had a rich collaborative set of intrinsically that you could hip out work flow applications like an accountant with spreadsheets. And built in security and auditing and all that. And since you had the ability to craft tools to fit the exact situation, automation of processes went so fast and was done by people familiar with the business side of the process. We did have a Notes team that would do apps for teams that couldn’t but also had a rich ecosystem of business line apps that were so much better than spreadsheet apps or Access apps.
Nope, in Texas it is also illegal to murder a baby. In fact, murdering a baby is more illegal than killing a fetus.
Momento Mori. Remember death.

Long tradition, we have plenty of oddities to remind us of our too soon coming time. Chandeliers made of skeletons, for example. These things left after death aren’t worshipped but rather a reminder of death to spur people on to using their time remaining wisely, which I think brings down the creep factor but yes, weird to modern sensibilities for sure.

Haven’t read this website but here are some pictures.

https://www.swedishnomad.com/sedlec-ossuary-bone-church/
Yes. It's hard to believe this paper just came out.

It reads like it was written 7 or 8 years ago.
I don't think anyone said or implied that at all.
The fringe ideas about herd immunity and the Great Barrington Declaration go hand in hand.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/521159-dozens-of-publi...

The Great Barrington Declaration was indeed the actions of a few nutcases and was not supported by science. Furthermore, many signatories were venturing way out of their lane/expertise along with, likely, a majority that were not even real/certainly not remotely close to being an expert:

"While the authors' website claims that over 14,000 scientists, 40,000 medical practitioners, and more than 800,000 members of the public signed the declaration, this list—which anyone could sign online and which required merely clicking a checkbox to claim the status of "scientist"—contains some evidently-fake names, including: "Mr Banana Rama", "Harold Shipman", and "Prof Cominic Dummings". More than 100 psychotherapists, numerous homeopaths, physiotherapists, massage therapists, and other non-relevant people were found to be signatories, including a performer of Khoomei—a Mongolian style of overtone singing—described as a "therapeutic sound practitioner". An article in The Independent reported that the false signatures put claims about the breadth of support in doubt. Bhattacharya responded by saying that the authors "did not have the resources to audit each signature," and that people had "abused our trust" by adding fake names."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration#S...
Is there a particular fine tune you would suggest starting from?

I really wish there was (maybe there is?) a 7 or 13B (or 70B) version with extended context (at least 16k) and function calling support ala OpenAI.

Both exist on their own, I don't know of a combination.
There are volumes written on these topics (many of them a long time ago), but they bring up a lot of existential questions about - in this case in particular - free will, which quickly spreads to the more philosophical theologians and lawyers.

Scientists of the simpler sort (or who have a position to lose) tend to dismiss the implications of these big, controversial questions and put their heads down in the equations.
Yep, I was wrong about the source DB in retrospect, but that other guy just seems to want to argue with straw men. Takes all kinds, I guess.
What if you're born in a poor country? Just keep trying?
Very interesting, so you’re basically saying that a proper technique could potentially predict a papers chance of being successfully replicated?

If so, could be great for the field!
Don't think anybody even implied such a thing.

I'm not sure what point you're making.
Typically I see that response as a reactionary take from the right when they feel like their 'right's are threatened when someone in a minority is successful. I'm not sure if that is what you are implying or not.

You're arguing about us individuals down here working for a living.

I think the point is that in Capitalism, the money flows to the top, the top then has the money, can pay off the government, sway officials, and get 'un-equal' advantages. This then destroys democracy, because the rich can buy the power and votes don't matter.

It's about rich and the rest, not black/white, left/right.
Some major universities are putting their classes online. (Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford...)

I've watched the lectures for a couple of courses (for free). It was a good experience. The signal to noise is exceptionally high.