skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though as an end user I love open source - I love it because it’s free, but you’re not going to necessarily build a business off people who like free stuff unless it involves monetizing them another way (ads, getting them to give you labor for free, etc).

Open source aside I wish there were some improvements on doing a highly available self hosted setup. I’m talking plugging 5 machines into a router and power and it just works. Auto healing, redundant backups, etc.
Modern social media is designed to be addictive. Addiction means the habit far outlives its usefulness, to the point where it's detrimental. Most human activities aren't like this. You can get addicted to just about anything, but a few things are way more common.

Social media can also be used for good reasons like you described, and that's how I use it too. I still think it's a net negative on society, though. It's just too good at taking away human interaction and doesn't provide enough in return, the way most people are using it.
Based on this feedback added a lifetime license option.

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All articles presume that the audience has some knowledge going in, but I have no explanation for why dye needs definition but the even more specific FD&C dye doesn't. (shrug)
I wonder if that has to do with anticheating mechanisms having to do a lot less work on a wine-based windows system than a full blown windows install.
> It was fancy alright

I don't want to overdo it with high-falutin' theorizing, but I think your firm's definition of "fancy" might be missing some crucial aspects, or maybe "fancy" isn't the right term. Maybe it was "flashy," or "gaudy," or "decorative"? Maybe it was "branded"? Or did it actually offer sighted users a more effective UX?
I'm pretty sure it's not. Maybe you wish it was, but it's not. C is still commonly used as a "lowest common denominator" language, and other languages often use bindings to native C libraries. This is still very common, and well supported in almost all modern languages (sometimes even completely embraced by some implementations, like cpython). Even Signal has official C bindings (libsignal-protocol-c).

To reiterate my point, one may hope that C goes away, but objectively, in the foreseeable future, it continues to be a backbone of most software.
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AI will have on artists the same impact that Spotify had on the music industry that is, it will kill any revenue flow for anyone outside of the publishers and big artists/players.

then resell the output for $$$ on something like Splice

This is silly. The USPTO and Courts have repeatedly stated that AI-generated media is not subject to copyright protection, so there are no licensing revenue opportunities for the big publishers/artists/whatever. This means: AI-generated content is not protected by copyright, so anyone can use a piece of AI-generated art however they want without a license and unless the law changes AI has no value to the content industries.

EDIT: Also, the USPTO has noted that the use of AI-generated content in a work will mean that the entire work will be presumed AI-generated except for the portions the content owner can demonstrate were generated by humans. The backend costs of maintaining AI-supplemented works will almost as expensive and burdensome as the costs associated with patents.

Also, I think people on HN have a very glorified view of how much money musicians make from streaming or cd/album sales: basically zilch, unless they're popular enough to be in repeat on the radio. Most musicians made their money from performing: generally a little bit from ticket sales or venue incentives (like % of booze sales) but the real money for the performers was from the sales of band merch, which is why it gets pushed so heavily.

At the end of the day the model itself is going to be basically irrelevant, while knowing whose works were actually used to train it being the truly differentiating feature.

Yes, by lawyers, when they sue the owners of the AI model for copyright infringement, because this would not be a use protected by fair use doctrine. This will actually make human-generated works more valuable because now every work used to generate an AI work is now worth at least $75,000, even if its market value would be significantly less (or even commercially worthless) today.

Due to the costs associated with licensing of human works, if AI-content becomes a thing, it will probably be more expensive than hiring a human to do the same thing, because the model will have to account for the cost of paying a license fee for every work that was incorporated into a specific output.
To a first approximation, all human languages need to express similar things.

If you want to eg talk about the past or future, you can put the markers for the different times into your verbs (like English or German do with grammatical tenses) or you can put those markers into other parts of the sentence (like English or German also do).

Eg in colloquial English you can say 'tomorrow I go to the market' and be well understood. Even if in print you would put it as 'tomorrow, I will go to the market'.
Hopefully one day we will be advanced enough to start transforming the desert. It's not an easy task and I don't know enough about science or economics to say it's definitely feasible. It's just a hope.

And if people would hope for that then they would be willing to improve existing small towns too.

I don't like this trend that we all move to major cities and compete for scraps of lands and housing.
> America’s model is where the UK, Canada, and other subsidized healthcare systems are going

Well there are other ways to scale - look to China' system - which has a massive throughput of patients in large regional medical centers - primary doctors there see like hundreds of patients a day - but don't do anything but recommend and if you can't get it resolved, they have an escalation mechanism where you see more and more specialized doctors (same day) until you either stump the most specialized docs or they have an action plan for you.

So you could automate the work away or you could create a system that scales through production-line efficiency.
I'd love to go Linux full-time on my gaming machine, but for now VR (Beat Saber, primarily) is keeping me tethered to Windows. It's no fault of Valve's, though… the blame falls entirely on Facebook for insisting on their proprietary Oculus client, not supporting Linux with that client, and not doing anything to make that client work with Proton/WINE.
Wouldn't that just lead to the brands themselves being sold off or licensed? Or, if such things were prevented somehow, many sorts of things being terribly confusing.

Like, needing to go down to the "Yum! Brands" to get take-out, no not the pizza one, the chicken one. Other chicken one. Reverse-mergers would be a nightmare too.
Yes - it hurts you, but it kills the bee. Honeybees don't want to sting you, but will if they need to.

Note also that the "continuing to pump venom" is why you shouldn't pinch a stinger to remove it - scrape it out w/ a fingernail or other item to avoid injecting yet more venom into the sting.
(These extremely slow updates thing has been going on for many years now. So many lifetimes wasted.)
is ray tracing also unsupported on linux?
I got rid of windows decades ago, so Steam has been the number one cause for my drop in productivity the last few years. And I love it.
So many tools just for one website
Innovative sustainability at its finest
"People looking for open-source solutions are not looking to spend money, it's usually the opposite."

I don't think that's true. In previous positions where I've had significant influence on budget spend I've still favored open source solutions because they make more sense from a risk point of view: should the vendor fail, the product has a solid chance of continuing to be useful.
I like the little joke post that had a menu that let you choose between 'Traditional' and 'Simplified English'.
Thanks!

OpenAI embeddings are 1 per request payload, right? Have you hit any rate limits doing that?

We have a performance budget of ~1 second for the generate-index-search pipeline, which may or may not be feasible. I discounted OpenAI because it seemed like we're guaranteed to hit the rate limit if we flood them with concurrent requests for embeddings. Typical corpus size that we need to work with is 20 concurrent documents ranging from ~100kb to ~2mb. Chunking those documents to fit the 8k token context window balloons the request count further.
If you’re a citizen of my country and do that then you’re one of the reasons I’m paying out of my ass so you can be a vegetable in a hospital. So please don’t do that. And I support criminalizing such reckless behavior because the only other alternative is that you end up disabled on the street because I shouldn’t pay for your selfish macho stupidity.
I've used linux as my desktop for 2+ years.

The games I play like CSGO work very well*, you have a steamdeck so you know how game support especially with anti cheat is.

However, I've had many bugs.
Nvidia on linux is painful. Just linux things - I get a bar at the top of the game when starting sometimes and have to change my resolution back and forth to fix it, I've had to restart pipewire to get my audio to reappear, I've had to replace pulse with pipewire (mid game).

Linux is not smooth, ESPECIALLY with nvidia. If the games you play are well supported, use AMD graphics, and doesn't tinker with their system at all, on a very stable OS - maybe you could call it stable?

Also if you want smooth - for the love of god don't use a rolling distro. If you check the arch wiki you'll see various nvidia/steam/wine/proton issues occur every few weeks. Many completely break playing games for several days unless you downgrade packages.

tl;dr - I would not recommend linux as a desktop to anyone who doesn't mind having their nose in their terminal desperately trying to figure out why you have no audio while your friends grow tired waiting for you.

The steamdeck specifically is very well managed by valve and I'm incredibly impressed that they made it work so well.
One day you might want to transcode - compression artifacts may well not be audible in normal use, different compression algorithms drop different bits though and so the result of transcoding between compressed formats is quite often an audible (even to my distinctly non-golden ears) loss of quality. Thus FLAC (as a reliable lossless format) - or even WAV (I chose to take the 2:1, 3:1 compression of FLAC over WAV personally).
Maybe tone it down a little and reply to what was _written_.

Go read the link provided.

> a felony conviction of *any* type.
> How would you create a non-strong monad in Haskell, and why might you want to, or is it impossible?

I think the article implies it clear enough that it's impossible. Even if your monad has nonsensical (but lawful) semantics like `Proxy t` it's still possible to use it with `strength`.
BTW the `strength` function is called `sequence`.
Gaming on a Linux laptop with AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU was pretty good for the 2 months I did it. Not great but definitely good. Biggest problem was with a AAA game on launch day. It actually worked decently, but had a crashing bug that was quickly fixed, and the performance was never as good as what it was once I switched back to Windows and ran that game. Another game had an issue with connecting to multiplayer games that I never resolved, but otherwise worked as well as Windows (for single player.) Everything else I played seemed basically the same as my experience in Windows.

Longer version: https://www.retorch.com/blog/linux-mint.htm
I keep windows for 1 reason: call of duty. all those games with kernel level anticheats have trouble running on linux apparently :\
Everything and everyone that doesn't align with your thinking MUST be a bot.
I can, the moment I realized it's not about any technical problem, about energy or about the environment. It's about sin, penitence, redemption, guilt, shame, lack of self-awareness and too much free time.

There's always been people with those kind of needs and impulses, and they had non-civilization-destroying outlets to safely discharge them. Now we don't. Ah well, it will work out or it won't, one way or another Darwin will collect.
A lot of people simply don't have a dominant hand. They're typically grouped with the people for the hand they write with, but that's a pretty incomplete picture. I suspect your friend who "switched" never had a dominant hand in the first place.

I'm one of those folks. I write left handed, but other stuff tends to be mostly, but not completely, right handed. This is mainly since there's a small advantage to right handedness (baseball gloves fit, mouses are there, guitars are right handed by default, etc.). There's a lot of randomness: I eat right handed, except when using chopsticks (left-handed), including long cooking chopsticks, but tongs (which have a similar purpose) are with the right hand.

Assumed unrelated, but responding to a different part of your post: I can also read and write in mirror image with little loss of speed. I've never thought of that being particularly special. I just started randomly taking notes in mirror image in high school out of boredom (and right-to-left is slightly more comfortable for lefties).
Year over year we see the same discussion: one side say we can’t get to environmental goals without a lot more nuclear. The other side says renewables will be enough if we just [insert trending unproven excuse].

Anyone watching it closely can tell the pro nuclear argument is being proven right over and over and renewables are aways “a few years away”. Why continue insisting on the same error over and over again, with the proof in front of their eyes?

The major mistake was made 10 years ago by not building better and modern nuclear plants to replace Diablo and increase capacity. If this continues we’ll likely see the US entering an energy crises or going back to burning fossil fuels in a few years.
Don't use dating apps, then. Not everything needs to be an app.
Per the wiki:

> Adaptive, i.e., efficient for data sets that are already substantially sorted: the time complexity is O(kn) when each element in the input is no more than k places away from its sorted position

In fact it’s often a sub-sort of hybrid sorts, like timsort:

> If a run is smaller than this minimum run size, insertion sort is used to add more elements to the run until the minimum run size is reached.
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> if Apple could get over their stubbornness and work with Valve

Maybe Value should give more an 10% of a thought to the Mac and make Steam not be terrible on the Mac first.

They don’t care about the Mac. They only care about Linux because it lets them ship the Steam Deck and have a hedge against MS.

The Mac is worse than an afterthought.
It's the freemium model, which has always required a sufficient conversion rate from free to paid to work.

That doesn't mean you should ignore what your free/OSS users want though. Today's hobbyist OSS user may be hired at a big company tomorrow and introduce everyone there to your product.
>Should my work back then be continuously rewarded if that company still uses that design, unchanged, and still generates revenue from it?

I believe so but for a different reason. I think a model where you are paid very little but remain the owner of your code, a hit and miss where you gradually accumulating income over many years, could work wonderfully if you also remain partially responsible for maintenance. The revenue shared should go up for every hour of effort but be a fixed part of earnings a bit like stock options but with various safeguards build in. If the company goes bankrupt at 1% of the [say] 30 year period they should pay 99% of the agreed upon salary as if a normal job.

Over the 30 years one could agree to pay many times that amount.

I've previously called it a priest hood where each monk maintains a specific module or library. The less work they do the better the results.
>I don't think it was usually worth it for them to pay us as much as they did.

Do understand that, most businesses have zero way to actually hire competent employees outside of their areas of expertise. So if a bread factory wants a CRM spun up to manage their sales and orders, they don't know where to start in terms of finding that sort of talent, and a consultant is a far, far safer option for realizing their goals. The realization of a goal holds nontrivial value, which is what a consulting firm is billing them for.

Could they do it cheaper? Yes, absolutely, but, they'd also need to get lucky, and, understandably, luck isn't really something most successful businesses are willing to leverage.
Or, maybe, Munger figured out that what was viewed as obviously correct wasn't actually correct, and created a unique design to explore the possibilities when the obviously correct thing was removed.

The rebuttals to his design are basically just "every room needs a window", without any real justification. Do you think he didn't think of that? That he just forgot to put windows in?

My dorm at college had windows, and they were entirely worthless. There were 2 windows, 2'x6', frosted glass, and they could open about 3". I don't think they added much to the room
I agree with you, but the main problem is that illustrators are under-appreciated. We are in a world where management with no technical knowledge are having too much power and stealing paychecks.
Neurology and Nuclear Warfighting
Or by 24 thousand pairs orbiting 1 time per second, or by 24000*365*24*60*60 pairs orbiting 1 time per year.

> Also, gravitational waves don't redshift the photons, they change the length of the path the photons take.

Yep, more length to travel - larger wave length. :-/

> And as LIGO, NANOGrav etc., are relying on a prediction of the exact same GR equations that also lead to the big bang etc

I had a discussion about that recently. I have no power to repeat the discussion. You can find it in my comment history.
Thank you for your comment! Iteration is in the works right now.

I wrote this script at the weekend:

Load["./bus.jpg"]

In[Detect["person"]]
Greyscale[]
Endin

Show[]

In[] is our iterator (which came from "in a folder", which was the original use). I'm adding data types. In the above program, In[] is iterating over a Detection object. Behind the scenes, each bounding box is selected, the nested statements (in this case, Greyscale[] are evaluated), then any transformations are applied to only the regions in the bounding box.

Thus the impact is:

1. Load a file
2. Find all the people
3. For each person, turn that region greyscale
4. Show the resulting image

My rationale for implicit state (I haven't heard that term until now -- thank you!) is that it may be more intuitive for a beginner. Maybe that will be wrong, but I'm eager to experiment!

(I am beyond elated to be on the front page of HN!)

(edited to get the code snippet and list formatting right!)
Just to be clear, the restriction is with ANY felony conviction.
It's a theory, an alternative explanation, we are allowed to have those without evidence and it's OK to have multiple competing explanations.

A better question would be: Why are you so desperate to believe one thing or the other?
and solarpunk ! But I can more easily picture a biopunk horror film than solarpunk horror. Gimme Cronenbourgeois slime.
Much of it does work. Indeed, there is plenty of scientific medicine in Europe which works which isn't used in the US (ammonium bituminosulfonate comes to mind).

Here's a problem:

- You can only bring profitable things to market.

- Anything used in the EU, China, or India for more than 20 years cannot be patented.

- Processes like FDA approval costs $$$

- If you receive FDA approval, you'll be undercut by vendors selling for commodity prices

There are other problems like it. Overall, the set of common medicines available in the US, China, and the EU differ quite a bit (e.g. you can't buy basic American antihistamines like diphenhydramine in Chinese pharmacies).

Really, the best way to solve this is public funding:

- Provide research grants for universities to run traditional medicines through RCTs, see which ones work, and publish results.

- Find some way to run the ones which work through FDA without private funding.

That could separate the good from the bad. My hope is a summit like this helps do that.
It's an immutable law of the universe that consumer computers will always take at least 30-45 seconds to boot. If yours is faster, wait a few years... the developers will allow enough regressions to slip in that it'll go back up again.
> Similarly English has rules about the order of adjectives (Clifford is a big, red dog, not a red, big dog) and the presence of those rules didn't simplify the vocabulary.

The rules do have at least two functions though:

First, they increase redundancy without noticeably decreasing expressiveness. That's good for communicating in noisy environments. (I suspect the same can be said for your example of Romance language genders.)

Second, and less important: by deliberately breaking the adjective order in English you can bring special emphasis on specific aspects of your description.
The majority of disabled people would much rather work a significant amount, but employers will turn away a hundred willing disabled employees over spending even ten bucks on accommodating their disability. I have a dwarf friend (his preferred terminology) who has a chemistry degree, and had to interview at fifty different places, including ten interviews at the same place where many of the managers knew him by name and wanted to hire him, before he finally got a job. This insanity included a previous place that he interviewed at that explicitly told another company not to hire him because he requires accommodation.

That accommodation? A fucking tall stool for the lab bench.
You're describing commercial tech companies in a capitalist economy. If you were familiar with other industries I'm sure you'd see similar themes, it's just you're exposed to techs evils by your proximity to the field (my assumption ofc!).

To add some hope, work backwards and think of a field that needs technology. Do those companies seem so bad as well?
You're already gaming on linux with Proton on the deck. That's pretty much the experience you can expect.
Kullback–Leibler divergence
A "female" is a biological sex category for all kinds of animals. It has little to do with the allegedly socially "constructed" concept of "gender identity".
The majority of flavors, fragrances, medications, and synthesized organic chemicals of all purposes use petroleum as a precursor at some stage of their manufacture.

It's a very cheap source of hydrocarbons and doesn't at all mean there is petroleum in the product.
Oh hm true - I guess I meant tobacco. Whoops!
$4400 per seat (of which $1000 is annual fee) for a windows-only product with zero job postings?
I enjoy travel, but prefer trains and boats over planes. So I stick within Europe. Haven't even done as much of that as I'd like recently.
I don’t have much training but it is not that difficult to spot AI arts which is pretty repetitive. The first couple are awesome but it gets old really fast.
> For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the ''traditional elements of authorship'' are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user.

This seems perhaps easy for the simplest cases, but what if the prompts get much longer? Where's the dividing line? Even in music production, the machine can be instructed to generate a semi-random-sequence following some loose constraints, would trying a bunch and selecting one be authorship, why? What if this is repeated for several parts? Again, where's the dividing line?
There has to be UBI for A(G)I. Period.