skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. Is anyone working on computers that handle the amplitudes directly? Are there research-level examples of such a computer or are we not there yet?
> how do these people who "get it" find each other?

Jokes.

Assholes tend to make jokes at other peoples' expense. If someone else joins in on the off-color jokes, then you know they are the same kind of asshole you are.
AI art can’t earn copyright, judge rules
Ah yes, I totally want to find the love of my life and start it off with a lie about my age.
"glitch" as if the destruction of twitter wasn't the plan all along.

Look at where the money came from, countries where twitter was used by dissidents to coordinate resistance against "democratic" quasi-dictatorships, where people used their voices to discuss and assemble their voting power.

A few billion dollars to get rid of that and also buy a lightning rod to take all the blame (elon) for you is chump change to maintain the status quo for decades.

And it's not like Elon is blameless either. In 2016 he was a mere puppy of a billionaire, with barely $11,000,000,000 to his name, and now 7 years later he has $220 billion. A 20x multiplier in 7 years. Is there anything or anyone that has gotten that much richer in that time frame in human history?

So what now? Where does everyone go now that the bullies have papered the town square with worthless money and then burned it to the ground? Do they all fracture and splinter? Do they vanish into the wind? Do they go back to the way things were before they had a chance to get better?

I don't know. Just let this serve as a reminder of what it costs to sell your soul.

Elon has so much money, the only thing he can't buy is peace. And the former stockholders of twitter wouldn't have been able to sell out if twitter hadn't sold out to go public in the first place.

Whatever actually becomes the new thing should keep this in mind. It should be like the internet archive, non-profit, user supported, maybe with a storefront or something, possibly federated to prevent any one person or group destroying it the way Myspace and Twitter were.
It's not so much the linear problem (if you give everyone X some arseholes will get X). I can see the logic in things like UBI.

It's more like the exponential effect. Here in the UK social housing is never reassessed. So we have people who were given a 5 bed house for tuppence rent in 1970 because there was plenty of housing and they had kids. Now they're single and don't need it. But they aren't required to move. Meanwhile we have families in 1 bed flats desperate for a really home.
I don't think it was intentional market segmentation, just poor planning: the whole heterogenous cores strategy seems to have been thrown together in a hurry and they didn't have time to add AVX-512 to their Atom cores in an area-efficient way (so as not to negate the point of having E-cores).
I'm going to change your life: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

It's a bookmarklet that gets rid of sticky elements. It nukes those stupid fucking headers and footers and kills most cookie banners and "give me your email" type pop-ups. Works in every browser (I use it in Safari on iOS and Firefox on desktop). I almost reflexively go hit this bookmarklet on every website now. It makes the web so much better.
That didn't sell well enough (to people who use a computer 8am-5pm), so now the sales pitch also includes eye fatigue and "improved visual performance", whatever that means.
Hey if you're willing to pay that upfront I'll spin up a plan for it and send you a link.
The biggest question to me is how much labor is only driven by business model not actual needs.
12.5 inch Linux tablet, SUSE going private, 30 years of Debian, and more
> I'm a little confused as to why anyone is still using it, why people are still defending it

Coca Cola is also bad for you but most people will still drink one at a picnic.

If you drink coke everyday, that’s probably bad for you, but swearing off coke (or the govt banning coke) would be wtf on the other end of the spectrum.

Treat social media like coca cola
Previous discussion (2012):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208
Would it really be simpler if there were a language where the grammar were that you only say one word and one word only, but all expressions require you to memorize a dictionary of a billion words because they’ve decided they want their grammar to only be one word utterances?
I used Ubuntu and even Debian for many years. I strongly disagree with you, actually I find Arch significantly more stable than Ubuntu. At least in Arch when dependencies are broken, both X and Y are swiftly upgraded.

At this point, I'm also tired of convincing others that linux package management is broken beyond repair. Until you experience my pain, you won't be convinced. I understand many people will never be able to sympathize with my pain but all I can truthfully and honestly say is that I'm a very experienced GNU/linux user, I used all kinds of distros from Ubuntu to Fedora to Arch to Gentoo and, no, it's all a complete and utter mess when it comes to dependency management. I end up spending hours every month fixing broken versions. The sweet spot is using pacman for very basic things, and AppImage for everything else. I don't care about memory efficiency, I want `MuseScore4.appimage` to contain everything about the app, I want it to behave exactly the same every single time I click on it. No, I don't tolerate even the slightest behavior difference, I do not want glibc to upgrade from x.y.z.t to x.y.z.t+1 because it causes insanity when t+1 causes a behavior change in some random software synthesizer I happen to use. I know that this probably doesn't make sense to 99% of users, but maybe I have a special case. Case in point, in the year 2023 while trying to ship a lot of work I'm producing, a single update broke tons of my workflows, and I finally decided that anything not frozen in AppImage is cursed. If it doesn't work you, I respect your patience and expertise, I just hope some people can understand the pain other users go through.

I have a degree in CS, I write code full time, I manage linux containers in my day job, and I still can't manage the mess I have at home in my local Ubuntu/Arch installs. I don't know how people who don't know how to code do, but all I know is that I'm done spending hours at a time on fixing glibc at this point. I just want to work on my hobbies, thank you very much.

EDIT: And before people come here, no, OSX and Windows are even worse. I won't consider using them either.
I hope you'll forgive me for a bit of a self promotion here, but I think I have an interesting example of SD 1.5 (what most people are familiar with and what most models are based off of) vs SDXL.

Before Phony Stark shut down the Twitter API, I was running a bot that created landscape images with Stable Diffusion v1.5. Its name is Mr. RossBot [1]. Check out the Twitter page for some examples of the quality.

This weekend, I finally updated the code to get it running on Mastodon. In the process, I updated the model to use SDXL [2]. It's running the exact same code otherwise to randomly generate prompts.

The image caption is a simplified version of the prompt. e.g., "Snowcapped mountain peaks with an oxbow lake at golden hour."

Behind the scenes, a whole bunch of extra descriptive stuff is added, so the prompt that SD v1.5 / SDXL get is: "beautiful painting of snowcapped mountain peaks with an oxbow lake at golden hour, concept art, trending on artstation, 8k, very sharp, extremely detailed, volumetric, beautiful lighting, serene, oil painting, wet-on-wet brush strokes, bob ross style"

Anyway, I feel like the quality of SDXL is sharper and it just nails subjects a lot better. It also tries to add reflections and shadows (not always correctly), whereas that didn't happen as much with SD v1.5.

I'm pretty impressed! Especially because Stability.ai had released an update model of Stable Diffusion before SDXL: SD v2.0 and SD v2.1. The results (IMHO) were absolute garbage using the same prompts.

[1] https://twitter.com/mrrossbot

[2] https://botsin.space/@MrRossBot
Yes, adding music/audio features is definitely in the plans, but currently the goal is to keep the app as simple as possible.

The focus now is to simplify sharing, so it works seamlesly.

And it kinda works already - I capture more moments with the kid - and my wife can preview it on her device after the sync happens.

But it’s not perfect yet, of course.
Here to point out (friendly) a typo - their markup is 13% higher now
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> The field is just too young with too many things as of yet untried

The field has been around since the 50s with various summers and winters, with each summer having people saying it's now too big to fail, with ever increasing resources and time being spent on it, only for it to eventually stagnate again for some time. If there is one field in computer science I wouldn't call "too young", it would be AI. The first "true" AI winters happened in the 1970s/1980s, and second one in the late 1980s. You seem to have missed some of them by a large margin.

It's the natural movement of ecosystems that are hyped a lot. They get hyped until there is no more air, and it goes back into "building foundations" mode until someone hits gold and the cycle repeats all over again.
bf, in one sense "growth comes from innovation" is [trivially] true inasmuch as you can't accumulate an Industrial Revolution's worth of capital without it being invented first, but yeah, no quantitative data for anything more substantial there

The bigger question is whether he's mixing cause and effect, and it's actually "innovating economies don't shrink [at least not in the medium term]"
For as long as I can remember, I've always been drawn to islands, especially the most remote ones on our planet. I've spent hours scanning Google maps for tiny specks of land and spent more hours researching them, often uncovering their rich histories in the process. These are some of the more obscure islands that I find interesting.
At least that's what https://github.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Convers... links to

Realtime Voice Conversion Software using RVC : w-okada/voice-changer
>for this company you can see that their colorants are for things like bath bombs, soaps, makeup, etc.

I can highly recommend Mad Micas. It's one of my favorite vendors in this space. Super friendly with hand written thank yous for every purchase.
If traditional medicine worked, it would be called medicine
The facts have yet to be determined.

It's possible the paper did break some laws.

The odds don't look good that they did (vs other motives), and even if they did the warrant and seizures were likely illegally extensive, but it's a possibility.

Either we care about actual facts and laws, or we judge that on the basis of who the accused is.

The correct action would be to:

- Support the paper financially so they can fund a robust defense

- Continue to press for an investigation into the original warrant and seizure
I’ve had Instacart shoppers who clearly were not who they claimed to be either.
Did the person that created "Moneyball" understand baseball? Would you expect someone to be able to leverage those concepts without understanding what they mean or the insight in how to interpret what they say about the player?

This is a similar thing. If you have the ability to understand how to interpret the metrics, the metrics can be useful. If you can't interpret the metrics, you will use them poorly and the result will not be a better organization.
> 1: rentals are often as much or more expensive than a mortgage (the problem is the down payment)

Not now, no.

You have to compare the money you would spent on the down payment (and excess from mortgage) to the returns you would get from investing that money directly.

And as I said, the only reason mortgages are so cheap is due to the massive, massive amount of government subsidy in favor of owners - if owners were remotely exposed to the true cost of borrowing, it would not even be particularly close.
Those exist. They send you weekly messages like "Try talking to your spouse!" "Try playing a board game!" "Have you considered wine?"
I am sympathetic to that view, however, I have no desire to "punish" the authors for choosing to use a CLA in this case. I am not going to waste the time of multiple people at my day job to get this approved, however. Nor do I want my mental health called into question at work, which would be a predictable result of making such a request.
I slightly misinterpreted the following from the article:

> We decided to assess social media use across four platforms for three reasons. First, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook were the most popular social media platforms among college students at the time of our study design (Perrin and Anderson, 2019).

This is telling us that they designed the study at a time when a 2019 report on social media usage was the most up-to-date available. I misread initially, thinking that (Perrin and Anderson, 2019) was the study design they followed, but it is actually this:
Perrin, A., & Anderson, M. (2019). Share of US adults using social media, including Facebook, is mostly unchanged since 2018. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/share-of-u-....

I get that they probably didn't feel like revising their design in the fall of 2021, but this would have been the right thing to do, given trends in social media use in young people at the time. It is odd that this 2023 paper doesn't even mention TikTok. Its exclusion, justified or not, is a limitation worth noting.
I'm not sure what you're claiming here.

Namecheap has asserted continuously that they do not front run domain registration, and they only charge premium prices for domains when the registry demands it.
You think economists don't study policies and their effects on innovation from monopolies and intellectual property rights?
I like DTDs. For all their weirdness, they solve a problem rather simply. Reminiscent of BNF. (Altho admittedly they are clueless about namespaces and other fancy bolt-ons.)
I meant KINDS of jobs.
I honestly wonder if people would consume the music they know is AI generated. And by "honestly", I mean "I don't really know but I want to."

I've been watching videos of Guy Michelmore in youtube. Not because I will ever write any orchestral music, but because I like his energy and envy his shed. Would I bother if Guy Michelmore were an AI?
What if the “placebo effect” is just regression to the mean? (2004)
What's the not-exactly-public-system here?

I assume its a one of the commercially available services that collect this information from the governments and sell it back to governments and non-governments, alike.
If it had nothing to do with their business, why did you even tell them about your side project? I would've just kept my mouth shut.
The problem here is that it's really artificial scarcity. The true value of the names is negligible because there are plenty of good names that aren't actually in use, but they are registered.

It's like selling access to sunlight. There is more than enough to go around until some jackass puts a massive wall in the sky and wants to charge money to remove it.
Interesting idea for sure, but how do you distinguish between users successfully starting a relationship and those just not using the service anymore? Can I say "I did not find a relationship with that person and I'm not interested in looking again for a while"? If so, what would stop people from saying that even if it's untrue?

Also, it means zero monetization for people looking for single encounters and/or flings, which I would bet is a meaningful portion of Tinder's income.
> This seems to clearly contradict your claim that the newspaper was using public records.

The affidavit specifically alleged "identity theft". That is, at best, a stretch. Under Kansas law it seems "obtaining personal information" might qualify but if they already had the record and were verifying it, what have they obtained? What's done with it matters too. It's one story if someone gets your PII for material gain (eg taking out a loan in your name) vs publishing that vs passing the information on to the police.

Also remember that the license record may not have been obtained illegally either. We don't know the true source.

You go on to mention DPPA. I'm not sure a County Sheriff is in any kind of position to investigate a Federal crime.
$5.43 -> $6.11 is 12.5% increase, not 1.13%.
Everyone overlooks the fact that it will still take someone (i.e. a graphic artist) to produce great AI imagery.

First, AI generated art is random and disposable. Yes, you'll get a great image that you can use once, but then what? You can't build a campaign on it.

Second, AI generated art can't be copyrighted, so knockoff competitors are free to use your AI-generated marketing images.

At the very least, you can seed the AI with a paid graphic artist's work (seed-based AI images can be copyrighted). But that artist will do it better than your unpaid intern.
Same as all the junk food being owned by just 2 or 3 players in actuality. The vertical integration must be excellent for supply-chain dominance.
I do. Oklahoma had the same issues and weren't saved by being part of the larger interconnect.

It's just not politically expedient for news corps to elevate these stories.

Hating on Texas gets clicks.
This is a great comment. The world (at least the US) has changed and IRL interactions are more fraught than when I was dating. So glad I'm married and don't have to go back to the scene. Especially your point about the danger of flirting. The difference between flirting (wanted attention) and creeping (unwanted attention) is entirely in the mind of the recipient, so you don't know which one you have done until they respond. I'm sure this causes people to play it cautiously.
Luckily we get to find out through a natural experiment as structural demographics and globally declining fertility rates compress the working age labor force cohort.

We should be judicious about where this aggregate effort gets spent before terminal decline in labor output (leaving potential future productivity gains as out of scope due to them being in the “hope” bucket).
"Study 3" was September 2021 - May 2022:

> Our data came from a larger project investigating college students’ lifestyle and well-being. In this project, one hundred and seventy-one college students (102 females; Mage = 19.24, SDage = 2.68) participated for partial course credit between September 2021 and May 2022. For our purpose, we focus on the longitudinal component of this study, which consisted of two parts: a baseline lab session (Phase 1, N = 171) and two follow-up weekly surveys (Phase 2, N = 160; Phase 3, N = 160).
Try the nRF Connect app! I was amazed at how much info devices are spewing info all around me every day.
In all of these conversations no one is mentioning income inequality. I see housing unaffordability to be symptom of this. The transfer of wealth to the highest income Americans has been constant for the last several decades. We are now seeing the impact of this. The significant number of Americans don't have meaningful savings. How can they be expected to afford a house?
Wake and Light Therapy
I don't know if this meets the "recently" criteria, but:

Bought 22.11: Both sides used a RE Agent. Locked 30 yr fixed rate mortgage at the then-highest rate in at least a decade (7.375%). Put 20% down. The house we bought was the one and only house in the area that I was hoping would go on the market (I had identified it as such perhaps 4 years prior); I had a Zillow "watch" on it, and was doing an initial walkthru of the house within a few hours of getting a "new house on the market" notification email from Zillow). So this was truly a "lightning strikes" situation; we would not have pulled the trigger on any other property, especially at that then-peak interest rate. Also, even though this property is (IMO) very desirable, we were able to ponder whether to go ahead with this buy or not for over a week before making a slightly-below-listing-price offer, with no offers preceding ours. I attribute this lack of competition mostly to the peaking mortgage rates (plus the property price was near the high end of the market). So peaking rates are not bad in all respects.

Our former house was sold 23.02. Both sides used a RE Agent. Our mortgage on this house was 2.625% 30 yr (20% down); the only sad part of this pair of transactions (which happened in SE AZ) was walking away from this mortgage. The buyers' offer was all cash, above listing price (there were others matching this description, all on the first day the house went on the market). We owned this house for 2.5 years, during which it appreciated (after all expenses) 33%, which was much higher than I expected.
That is not what is happening? There are soo many niches and subgenres these days, and it is evolving year over year.
General Relativity is a mathematical model. Model needs mapping between physical world and model.
> Spotify basically killed any money coming from the physical distribution - Worse than piracy

Any sources for this?

I'm of the impression physical distribution is on the rise compared to the earlier days of digital music. This has nothing to do with Spotify, and all about the digitization of music itself.

Anecdotally many people I know now purchase merchandise and media as a way to support an artist they like, rather than listen to the music they make in a physical format.
> Most economic growth comes from innovation, not the accumulation of capital or labor.

Economic growth is subjective in ways, but over previous long horizons, this is obviously true.

If you took 10B pre-industrial humans and had them work 24 hours a day 365 days a year - their production would be pale in comparison to what we currently produce.

At some point, when you get close to physical limits, and you start having vastly diminished returns on technological improvement, or when most innovation is not going to the benefit of most people - it would be debatable.

Maybe you want to argue we're headed into that future.
Scrolling through the decisions since Ginsburg was replaced with Barret, the cases that dealt with police have gone as follows:

* Lange v. California (police in hot pursuit of a suspect conduct warrantless entry) 9-0 in favor of the suspect

* United States v. Cooley 9-0 that tribal officers can stop non-natives on tribal land. Technically pro-police, but this really isn't so much a police issue as tribal sovereignty issue.

* Taylor v. Riojas 7-1 correctional officers did not in fact hold qualified immunity

In general, recent SCOTUS decisions have generally tended to land in favor of criminal defendants with regards to 4th Amendment violations. However, where SCOTUS has tended to land strongly against criminal defendants is in regards to post-conviction reconsideration, e.g. something like https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/court-blocks-pathway-for-....
CBDCs Are the Ultimate Corruption of Money
Seeing that this was put together by one of the co-authors of the recently released MLS (Message Layer Security) spec and backed by an EU funding grant are both interesting tidbits that got me more interested in this.

This would indeed allow for a very different internet and would provide some viable options untethered to big tech as it exists today.
Littercoin – Cryptocrap for Cleaning the Crap