skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Audio is definitely editable. While generative audio is new I am hopeful that a host of interesting applications will emerge (audio2audio etc.) within its ecosystem. Promising signal separation (audio to STEMs) and pitch detection tools already exist for raw audio signals. If you want to force Stability to focus on symbolic representations (such as severely lossy MIDI) I hope you can instead first try adapting to tools that work fundamentally with rich audio signals. Perhaps there will be room for symbolic music AI and perhaps Stability will even develop additional models that generate schematic music, but please please don't sacrifice audio generality for piano roll thinking alone. LORAs will undoubtedly be usable to generate more schematic audio via the Stable Audio model -- I imagine they could be easily purposedly to develop sample libraries compatible with DAW (digital audio workstation), sequencer and tracker production workflows.
He goes so far above and beyond his corporate duty to kowtow to CCP

That's even worse than this one (edit since url is cut off Taiwan should be special admin region like HK) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/10/taiwan-el...
> Real Sudafed is to a first approximation available to everybody.

I didn't actually know this, and it's good to know. That said, I'm not certain that most people are aware that it is available without a script. Maybe I'm wrong.
Just went on a deep dive into Murfie, and I want to ask if your ok? The whole situation seems genuinely miserable, I don't know if I'd be able to stand it. Your dedication is incredible
Not really, a 13B 4 bit fits in about 8GB of RAM. But you have to factor in the unified memory
aspect of M series chips. Your “vram” and ram are from the same pool. So your computer shares the same pool to run the OS and application hence why you can only load a 13B 4bit for 16GB RAM.
from article:

Before our evolutionary ancestors had a brain—before they had any organs—18 different cell types got together to make a sea sponge. Remarkably, some of these cells had many of the genes needed to make a brain, even though the sponge has neither neurons nor a brain.

In my neuroscience lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, my colleagues and collaborators discovered this large repository of brain genes in the sponge. Ever since, we have asked ourselves why this ancient, porous blob of cells would contain a set of neural genes in the absence of a nervous system? What was evolution up to?

The sea sponge first shows up in the fossil record about 600 million years ago. They live at the bottom of the ocean and are immobile, passive feeders. In fact, early biologists thought they were plants. Often encased by a hard exterior, a row of cells borders a watery center. Each cell has a tiny cilium that gently circulates a rich flow of microorganisms on which they feed.

This seemingly simple organization belies a giant step in evolution. For the previous 3 billion years, single-celled creatures inhabited the planet. In one of evolution’s most creative acts, independent cells joined together, first into a colony and later into a truly inseparable multicellular organism.

Why did this porous blob of cells contain neural genes? What was evolution up to?
They really aren't. It's very typical that the next gen 'normal' model is more or less the last gen pro.
Karma can be an ideal solution for communities seeking an alternative to the traditional money system. But members of such a system can also be companies or projects. For example, an open source project can accept donations and pay developers in karma, who can then exchange this for, say, locally grown vegetables and fruits in a community using karma.
It could be considered a fact that you can be experiencing some emotion. Our scientific ability to read brain's inner functioning isn't quite there to measure it objectively, but I find that plausible. Measuring changes in your heart rate, face flushing, breathing and on are definitely objective facts.

More to the point, our potential ability one day to objectively say "this person is experiencing loneliness" doesn't strengthen the importance of the feeling, so whether they're "facts" or not isn't really relevant.

I'd try this instead:

Feelings are just feelings, and don't have to be anything more than that. Observe them in yourself, but choose what you do about them.
Off-topic, but your username reminded me of the episode of The Office (yes, the UK one, it's the only one that exists) where Neil (the manger from the Swindon office) brings in a home baked cake. Everybody loves it. David said "I prefer a flan"
Seems very serious. Real-estate bubble can't go on anymore and CCP seems to be letting it crash
It's ok. It's not outside the safe operating space for billionaires.
It doesn't sound terrible. This is what we do at work for large configs that non-programmers touch, except it's Google Sheets instead of Excel. It works, and they'll often refuse to use anything else.
>And most people don't have a good answer to the question: Poland is a state for ethnic Polish people, Spain is a place for Spanish people, Japan is a place for Japanese people; why can't there be a country that's for Jewish place? Why is a country for Jewish people somehow illegitimate?

I think the point is that those countries you say are "nation states" are in fact turning away from being nation states, or already have. Most of Europe learned from the 19th and 20th centuries that nationalism (despite being very romantic in many ways) ends in disaster. I am from the UK and it cannot be said to be a nation state, if it ever was. My country is full of people with immigrant backgrounds from all over the world with full citizenship rights who are a million miles from being "ethnically English" or "ethnically Scottish". As it should be.

So yeah in my opinion, an "English nation state" is undesirable. I don't want it. I'm glad we're not one.
> What if Neuralink actually happens, and Musk suddenly has chips in the heads of real people?

Yeah, that actually sounds like a more dangerous threat than AGI to me. Maybe all that AGI alarmism from Musk is just to divert the public attention from what's the real danger (ultra-wealthy oligarch psychopaths running our society).
I'd be good for that, but those situations generally end up being more expensive than just buying a month.

Not only that, it's trivially easy to have a single poorly choked device blow through a cap. (e.g. one laptop decides it wants to download paath updates...the Tier you have is $60 for 25gb or $80 for 100gb...or, you know, $150 for uncapped starlink.)

The amount of brainspace required to have reliable internet access in an RV is crazy....and it won't be cheap.
What makes you think they care? They don't sell their spyware to anyone who might use it against Russian officials, which tells you a lot.
It doesn't reduce the sinus inflammation. At least for me all I end up with is a still congested, but now watery nose.
> another country that is obviously an aggressor.

If you are not an American then it's quite obvious who is an aggressor in many, many invasions through the 20th (and now even 21st) century.

Care to imagine that same statement but with US?
BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes [pdf]
> Is there such a thing as a cheese-free quesadilla?

Such existential questions occupy my nightly ponderings and soul searching.
> I never feel quite at ease with sets being some universal foundation

That's not a big issue nowadays since there is univalent foundations, which is based on ∞-groupoids instead of sets.
IMHO manufactured panic. psyop
Ah yeah, that's fair. I just reread my reply and realized it came across as much shorter than I intended, sorry for that. I wasn't trying to be an antfucker.
If you walk up to the pharmacy counter at any Walgreens or CVS, literally the first thing you're going to see is a shelf of decongestants.
pretty much, yeah
> One way to think about "tables" is that they have an array part and a hashmap part.

But why conflate the two? There's no benefit to this, only drawbacks.

> The # operator works on the array part simply starts counting from the first index and stops counting when it reaches nil.

That's obviously not the case, as can be seen from #a returning 4 after setting a[4] = "w", even though a[2] == nil. There's no simple logic behind the # operator's behavior, it's an unintuitive mess.

> Your complaints sound a little bit like you wish Lua was a little bit more, but it kind of has a design goal of being simple language you can embed.

No, a simple language doesn't have to be inconsistent.
The reason they specified sparsely populated areas is that Starlink is designed for sparsely populated areas. In a denser area the performance would drop drastically because you'd need far higher satellite density to sufficiently distribute the load.
I would be interested to see how this compares to something like msgpack [1] in performance and final size of the binary. Msgpack has been my go-to for binary serialization for years due to how simple and fast it is, and how easy it is to make it work with native Clojure data structures.

[1] https://msgpack.org/index.html
It’s a superset of JSON with an isomorphic binary encoding, additional data types (blobs, s-exps, timestamps, symbols, etc.), better number handling, annotations, and the ability to pre-share symbol metadata for more efficient binary encoding (similar to how protobufs encodes fields, but optional).

You can write Ion by hand (like JSON) and share it without a schema (unlike protobufs). There’s fewer ways to express values than YAML, but more data types.

Having S-exps is convenient for writing DSLs in a data language that’s easily readable from other languages.
Pretty much what is destroying the notion of 'sports car' and 'supercar' Enthusaists don't want to admit a family SUV can now blow them away on the road or the track -- so you have to fallback on things like 'feelsome'. its a huge sore spot in the community
Sets being the foundation is a historical accident. It is convenient and well-studied, and if you can encode your objects and axioms in set theory, you have a sure footing (at least as sure as it gets) with respect to consistency.

Otherwise, of course, lists, graphs, etc. are all objects on their own and exist independently of any encoding as sets.
I'd say you're spot on except for point (3). There's a number of crdt and event log approaches that, when combined properly in order to preserve user intent, can solve almost all merge issues of applications that do not require strong consistency.

> 4. What happens when the user has millions of items?

Partial replication is a problem I haven't seen many people solving but it is definitely the next frontier in this space.
Until very recently, drivers license numbers were effectively public in a lot of states (they're deterministically generated from public information).
The perspective is not naive. I have been writing frontend code for 25 years and been a full time JavaScript developer for 15 years. The single greatest human problem I encounter in this space is insecurity and a variety of compensating or masking behaviors. That insecurity is almost universally the result of poor preparation.
What would you suggest? Just JSON everywhere?
Congrats on reaching Early Access. What networking framework did you use? I am exploring Unity’s Netcode for GameObjects package, does Godot have a similar package that developers can use?
FWIW, I took that from the official press release from house.gov[0], not this publication.

[0]https://oversight.house.gov/release/testimony-from-cia-whist...
It's not quite that bad, the vast majority of people who work on a Marvel project at a vfx vendor will get a credit, though often in a huge bank of names. It's true that the ordering is driven by historical considerations which is why vfx credits typically aren't that high.

I think the issue with credits is nothing to do with the storage, it's to do with the impact of the run time of the film.
I do think this is debatable, but we find Dan, readying a shotgun, saying "well do you have any better ideas?" and Eddie says "the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people."

It is true that Jamie Lee then sees the news about the report, and they all kind of have a collective realization about it. I think it can be argued that they all played a role, but if you have to pick someone, I'd argue that Eddie's line is the beginning of the idea.

Actually, reflecting on it further, I think that if this were real life, I would personally give them all credit, but it being a movie, I give Eddie's character the most, if not all, the credit.
I mean, the reason they keep the database is especially clear here, right? They're just trying to enforce a rate limit. It's the most obvious public policy response you can have to "a drug that in small quantities is a useful decongestant, but in moderate quantities or above is an ultra powerful stimulant whose abuse is ravaging parts of the country".
A prediction made seven years into the future, for a service which didn't exist then, only off by an order of magnitude doesn't sound too bad imo.
I'd half expected it to be abandoned, but it has kept a steady pace of development in the past years based on the GitHub stats
My psychiatrist still has an Earthlink email address. I started seeing him in 1991 and we still talk 30 minutes every 4 months just for lulz.
Yeah, even if we assume the decision is coming from a complete sociopath, there's still, somewhere on the line, someone saying 'look, are you sure about this?'

These companies are heartless.

People in the chain, much less so.
For me, the act of writing is the most useful part. Because most of my ideas are not very good, reading is much less useful.

Because my heuristic for good ideas is actually acting on the idea, reading is even less useful.

For me good ideas are actions not ideas so to speak. YMMV.

Good luck.
Well, there goes my defense that I couldn't know the law because it was copyrighted and I didn't have the money to buy a copy of the law in order to know what I could and could not do.
I know of a couple places that are using starlink as failover because they're only serviced by a single ISP. Makes sense really, and cheaper than 4/5g failover.
> The #1 tip though is that you're writing a game, or an engine, not both.

Most of the people who follow this advice will never ship anything. Stop worrying and do what you want. It's okay to reinvent the wheel if you want to learn how to make a wheel, or if you just find it fun.
They're just going to say "no", right? They're not going to "automatically make you a drug trafficker". They're just trying to enforce a rate limit.
> Then comes FCC approval for the full sized constellation which is about 5 times as numerous as their current constellation, which itself only is about half filled.

SpaceX has launched just under 5,100 Starlink satellites to orbit, of which a single digit percentage have either been deorbited for testing, failure, solar storm knocking them out, etc. Their current constellation total size is approved to be around 12,000 satellites. They've been working to get additional approvals up to 42,000 satellites.
At least general programming languages like Python or JS are well-understood by many programmers. More than makes up for not being as specialized as a DSL.
There's gotta be a point where the cost of running enough fiber drops below a sufficient amount of starlink capacity though. Hard to say where that number is though.
This is pretty late, but - does this completely kill Unity web? I mean, if every visit to a web game is an "install" there's no way games are making enough to cover that scenario. I guess caches could mitigate this somewhat.. but a viral spike in traffic would become a huge financial liability.
Nice project. A low DA capacitor Cf in parallel with the gain setting resistor Rf can average out more noise if needed. It can even deal with the mains noise if that remains an issue. Another potential improvement: addition of an optical chopper wheel to deal with the entire system's 1/f noise. The downside is this would require higher sampling rate which would then get demodulated + filtered externally. Would also limit Cf to higher frequencies.
OneWeb might be more suitable for this. At least their biz model is based around doing things it, while Starlink is direct-to-consumer.
Such a good comment and totally spot on. Yes, most people with the skills to build a modern day VB6 would not want use it
I figured the last themed coins were just to get people to hold some money out of circulation. Drop in the bucket, I'm sure though.
I have problems with people who act as if .net wasnt running well on Linux.
Make that C++ developer's day by pointing out that YAML does support inheritance: https://dmitryrck.com/how-to-use-inheritance-in-yaml-files/
> But doesn't make the check particularly elaborate or beautiful!

I think GP is saying it's beautiful precisely because it needs such a simple and not elaborate test
Large Language Model for Science: A Study on P vs. NP
Wouldn't real hackers post evidence and not just claims?
The Palestinians were/are already there. The Israelis have as much right to that land as modern day Anglo-Saxons (i.e. English people) have to North-West Germany and Jutland, i.e., none. Having said that, just as I support the continued existence of any other country, many of which were built on conquest and colonisation (e.g. the United States of America), I support the continued existence of Israel, but it's a very difficult to argue that the expansion of Israel and the colonisation of the Southern Levant by Jewish settlers was justified or morally right, just as it's difficult to justify the Anglo-Saxon conquest of what became England or the settlement of the Americas, whilst not believing either that the US or England should cease to exist.
"but I know prolonged no distance (touching skin) exposure to wifi RF antenna will burn you from the inside out."

Uh? I've never had that experience, any WiFi stuff I've used uses trivial levels of power.

I'd suggest you read my post on microwave radiation, also the one where I have received RF burns whilst working on transmitting towers where the radiated power was between four and five orders of magnitude higher than WiFi equipment.
Just triggered a resend!

We're using NextJS + Vercel for the main app and langchain + Pinecone for the AI retrieval!
I don't think gamedevs specifically care about C#, it's more like "not c++" but also not as slow as other popular languages.
> is a boon

A boon is a good thing. I think you meant a problem?
Didn’t prevent people from getting meth, but did allow drug companies to make millions selling a useless compound. I doubt that was the intent of the legislation.
I'm always kind of puzzled by this question. There are like 7-8 billion humans. Millions of ships, planes, farm machines and other equipment.

Expansion will happen in all direction at the same time, in all market. In very poor country a single village might share one antenna. All the way to very expensive antennas for military aircraft.
Exactly – unintuitive, inconsistent behavior like this is why I wrote "braindead design decisions around arrays". I know of no other language that managed to get something as simple as arrays quite as wrong as Lua did.
In my ideal world all system utilities (and many applications) output relational tuples, and the shell includes a relational algebraic query tool --equivalent to SQL, but with a more composable syntax. Instead of awk'ing and grepping, we'd be doing Restrict, Join, Union, and Project on the output of anything, and there'd be no need to be dumping into a separate database system just to be able to have access to the kind of recomposable, queryable, consistent, discoverable information management that is every user's right since Codd first penned “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.” in 1970.

Sorry, old-man-me is feeling unwell today, back to bed to take a nap.
Great!

> mostly

It seems like all of your writing is devoted to AI these days, if we only count
guo.io and ignorance.ai . Do you use other spaces?
Warren Buffet has stated the markets should be open only one day per year before. I can't find his exact words though.

It would equalize the field. However it also means unexpected expenses cannot be handled. Furnace breaks, even though you have plenty of $$$ in stocks you are unable to get it fixed. (I know a retired person who was forced to buy a new car with cash because the bank didn't accept their > $million in investments as proof they could pay for a small loan)
A grim report about climate change in Ontario was kept quiet for 8 months
There's an additional consideration regarding the price, that poor places can probably share one terminal among one or more villages, thus distributing the cost.

Another possibility is distributing costs by using Starlink as backhaul. India for example already has very cheap high speed mobile data, so a telecom company could spread out the costs of terminals and service (maybe even get a better deal for bulk usage) while simplifying and strengthening their own infrastructure for remote or disaster-prone areas.

Plus, for SpaceX, any point where a satellite is inactive is money left on the table, so they should have significant price flexibility for places which can't afford the current service fees but can afford something that is more than the cost of bandwidth at the downlink station.
Interesting idea to use the energy absorption to mitigate storm damage.
Hah, there's an entire comic series: https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/

I love how she trades the huge Bash manual for the brain interface, or distracts the sniper with "bad UI design". The world is grim and surreal, perfect setting for the story. There's a statement somewhere in there.
This is part of why I bought a Starlink dish and put it on the roof of the house I'm doing a full rehab on before the siding was installed. It will give me dual homed internet for when the crap local ISP has issues and a hedge against a single ISP with spotty service.

Ironically, in doing this, I have managed to meet and convince a project manager of a new ISP to add our neighborhood to the list to places to pull fiber to, but it will likely be about a year out.
Something tells me there is more than just a government owned database involved. Likely at least one third party vendor system... Not to mention every pharmacy chain probably stores or at least transmits it through one their own systems.
Hacker: "Ugh, I just lost my laptop. Can you reset my password?"

Helpdesk: "Sure!"

Hacker: "Thanks! What mail server should I use again? And what's the VPN IP? I need to RDP to fix some kind of outage."

Helpdesk: "[redacted]"

Hacker: "Thanks so much! Have a nice day!"
ChatGPT Designed This Pedal
The world is a bit different this time around.

Local-first / desktop apps were really easy back in early 2000's and before since users pretty much only had a single device.

Today, users have many devices with many different storage and compute constraints. They also expect their data to be available on all devices and, to top it off, be able to invite outside collaborators.

Handling this heterogenous landscape of devices and collaboration is much simpler in a cloud model. Trying to put more data and compute locally suddenly means worrying about a multitude of device profiles and multi-way sync.
I’ve been thinking about doing this, but then reminding myself that this is not a wise use of my time lol. However, this looks pretty nice. I might have to do it.

Thanks for sharing your setup, I’ll be stealing some ideas.
$89 USD for a perpetual license for a GUI database management tool? That seems pretty cheap to me.

We used to use Sql Server Management Studio with Red Gate SQL Prompt. That auto-completion / sql refactoring tool cost $200 a year per seat, and even that was worth it.
I get it. I just find it frustrating, and I'd like to know that my PII was removed after the rate limit period.
Alternatively, inaccessible law should be unconstitutional and unenforceable.